Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday on Stories By Gina. Thank you for joining me for another Top Ten Tuesday with The Artsy Reader.

Today’s Tot Ten Tuesday Theme is childhood favorites. I’ve loved books for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, my family used to bring a laundry basket with us to the library to carry our books home. Each week, when we brought them back, the librarians marveled that we had actually read all of them.

When I began looking up books for this post, I was overwhelmed with memories of reading these books: by myself, with my family, at library story times… It really is amazing how books stick with you your whole life. I had a hard time cutting this down to ten… we’ll see if may be a few more than that.

So let me share some of my favorite childhood reads with you. Maybe you will go on and share these beautiful books with your children.

Wuzzles Collector Series

Sweet Pickles series by Richard Hefter

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff.

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

Pony Pals series by Jeanne Betancourt

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

Golden Filly series by Lauraine Snelling

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (I wanted my daughter to have a copy of this book so bad that I ended up buying her two copies!)

Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

Corduroy by Don Freeman

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

Mushroom in the Rain by Mirra Ginsburg

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

The Mitten adapted by Jan Brett

The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder