My Favorite Children's Books

Heather Idoni's personal recommendations for the best children's books ever written.

Five WONDERFUL, 'must-have' picture books (in MY opinion!)

My favorite recommendations for my local customers.

To make this list, a book must be tried and true. My boys love these!

This little-known author wrote some fabulous historical fiction.

A work in progress!

Exciting, engaging - and often obscure - stories from America's history.

Great 'short read' living narrative style topic books that my boys loved!

Delightful, vocabulary-building fiction stories to read aloud to the whole family!

About a 3rd to 4th grade level -- or GREAT for evening read-aloud stories.

Wonderful biographical and historical fiction readers - kids 'fall in love' with history early!

Excellent early readers - kids learn about different science topics with these engaging stories!

Engaging, exciting, and sometimes little-known stories from American history.

Wonderful living narrative stories from history and also exciting biographies.

Lois Lenski wrote wonderful regional historical stories about children all over America.

Only well-researched biographies by the best authors - high school level.

Awesome series of "decisive events in history" - high school level.

Good companion books to the Landmark series - only a few overlapping topics/biographies.

About the same reading level as 'Childhood of Famous Americans' but preferred to that series.

Exciting biographies of famous persons from U.S. and World History.

Exciting American and World Historical fiction stories for both boys and girls!

Incredible historical fiction series based on real events - mostly U.S. history.

Incredible "living" math books give an introduction to diverse mathematical concepts.