Re-posting, just in time for the holidays.

I am a former children’s librarian—and of course a mother. I can’t resist: If you are a new mom, here are my top ten must-have picture books, if you had to choose—which I hope you never do.

Top Ten Must Have Picture Books

	Date	Title	Author	books sold
1	1955	Harold and the Purple Crayon	Crockett Johnson	2,000,000+.
2	1969	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	50,000,000+
3	1947	Goodnight Moon	Margaret Wise Brown	48,000,000+
4	1985	Good Dog, Carl	Alexandra Day	2,000,000+
5	1938	Caps for Sale	Esphyr Slobodkina	2,000,000+
6	1960	Green Eggs and Ham	Theodor Seuss Geisel	200,000,000+
7	1940	Horton Hatches the Egg	Theodor Seuss Geisel
8	1963	Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak	19,000,000+
9	1964	The Giving Tree	Shel Silverstein	10,000,000+
10	1940	Pat the Bunny	Dorothy Kinhardt	11,500,000+

                          What would your top ten be?

                     
                   Baby ready for more ‘storyline?‘

	Date	Title	Author	books sold
1	1972	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Judith Viorst	4,000,000+
2	1939	The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes	DuBose Heyward
3	1960	One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish	Theodor Seuss Geisel	6,000,000+.
4	1973	Curious George	Margaret & H.A. Rey	25,000,000+
5	1922	Velveteen Rabbit	Margery Williams	1,500,000+
6	1984	Angelina Ballerina	Katherine Holabird	19,000,000+
7	1974	Where the Sidewalk Ends	Shel Silverstein	11,500,000+
8	1941	Make Way for Ducklings	Robert McKloskey	2,000,000+
9	1986	Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg	7,000,000+
10	1992	Rainbabies	Laura Krauss Melmed

What would your top ten books for baby be? I would love to hear from you: