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Recommended Reading List

Books to Excite, Teach and Encourage Young Readers

By iParenting Staff

From the smallest personal beginnings to the largest human triumphs, why are we here if not to dream? As you open this Dream Chest, you're whisked away on a colorful journey of a lifetime in which the young discover all the possibilities within themselves and adults are reminded that their best can be just ahead. Remarkable illustrations, inspiring quotations and a beautifully resonant story reveal with each reading. A celebration of living and dreaming, this is a book to treasure, to share and to give as a gift – for everyone, at any age, who dreams.

I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting off a Little Self-Esteem (Joanna Cotler, 2002) by Jamie Lee Curtis

Celebrate liking yourself! Through alternating points of view, a girl's and a boy's, Jamie Lee Curtis's triumphant text and Laura Cornell's lively artwork show kids that the key to feeling good is liking yourself because you are you.

Miss Rumphius (Puffin Books, 1985) by Barbara Cooney

As a child, great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age and do something to make the world more beautiful – and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

Possum Come A-Knockin' (Dragonfly Books, 1992) by Nancy Van Laan

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