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Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White
On Chip Kidd’s Book List
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A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas
On Victoria Meyers’s Book List
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The Velvet Room
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
On Lisa Jenks’s Book List
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Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
Dr. Seuss
On Alexa Hampton’s Book List
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Horton Hears a Who!
Dr. Seuss
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The Black Corsair (Il corsaro nero)
Emilio Salgari
On Cleto Munari’s Book List
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Curious George
H. A. Rey
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Curious George Rides a Bike
H. A. Rey
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It’s Like This, Cat
Emily Cheney Neville
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Winnie the Pooh
A. A. Milne
On Maira Kalman’s Book List
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Max in Hollywood, Baby
Maira Kalman
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What Pete Ate
Maira Kalman
On Isaac Mizrahi’s Book List
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
Crockett Johnson
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Tintin in Tibet
Hergé
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A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
Nathaniel Hawthorne
On Dominique Browning’s Book List
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Tanglewood Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Missing Boy
Joan Dell
On Margie Ruddick’s Book List
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
On Sagi Haviv’s Book List
On Deborah Sussman’s Book List
On Angus Hyland’s Book List
On Maira Kalman’s Book List
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
On Eric Owen Moss’s Book List
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Beyond the Pawpaw Trees
Palmer Brown
On Margie Ruddick’s Book List
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Miss Piggy’s Guide to Life
Henry Beard
On Jonathan Adler’s Book List
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Les contes du chat perché
Marcel Aymé
On Pierre Bernard’s Book List
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The Red Shoes
Hans Christian Andersen
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