Childrens

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age 12. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses that sometimes exclude young-adult fiction, comic books, or other genres. Books specifically for children existed at least several hundred years ago.
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Paola Santiago and the River of Tears (Paola Santiago #1)
Elatsoe
Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch
The Forest of Stars
Thirteens
A Place at the Table
Beetle & the Hollowbones
Lumberjanes, Vol. 15: Birthday Smarty (Lumberjanes, Vol. 15)
Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero
Queen of the Nile (Cleopatra in Space, #6)
The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth
I'm Not a Girl
Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon
Maud and Grand-Maud
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    The One and Only Bob
    Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #14)
    Ghosts
    Splat the Cat: I Scream for Ice Cream (I Can Read Level 1)
    The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)
    Diary of Steve the Noob
    Pax
    Wiggly the Worm
    Karen's Roller Skates (Baby-sitters Little Sister Graphic Novel #2)
    Bedtime Stories for Kids
    Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries #9)
    One Bad Apple (Diary of a Minecraft Zombie, #10)
    Fish in a Tree
    Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleCharlotte's Web by E.B. WhiteThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
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    Charlotte's Web
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
    Where the Wild Things Are
    The Giving Tree
    Green Eggs and Ham
    Matilda
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
    Where the Sidewalk Ends
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
    The Little Prince
    The Secret Garden
    The Cat in the Hat

    C.S. Lewis
    Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about bein ...more
    C.S. Lewis

    Erma Bombeck
    When God Created Mothers" When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love ...more
    Erma Bombeck, When God Created Mothers

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