Recs if you like Winnie-the-Pooh...

Bears in all their shapes and forms and across genres (this includes sentient teddybears and memoirs). If not friend why friend-shaped?! As long as the bear is plot or character relevant the book can land in here. Feel free to recommend books to be added (maybe also tell me why you think the bear functions as relevant for the story). We bear bears!

All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.

Classic novels for your (inner) child, with some modern staples in the mix. For reading yourself, reading aloud to little ones, and for those learning to read. Suggestions welcome, as always!

Books with maps or other helpful charts or illustrations, an offshoot of my Paper for the Win list.

I will update this list frequently! Recommendations welcomed.

Titles with full character's name. I haven't read all of those books, and I'm open to suggestions.

Books which have songs/poems in them (including musical notes in the context of playing music)!

this includes books with short or long segments of songs/poems as long as it's not the main content of the book!

Suggestions are welcome, focused on fiction!

The BBC’s 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time as published in May 2023.

So many childhood books, so little time, feel free to comment suggestions

Books taught to (or enjoyed by) a K-12 student in the American school system.

Simple, easy-to-follow stories to have on in the background to help busy brains get some rest!

In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books.

a collection of four of the most popular books from each of the last twenty decades. I used the goodreads “most popular books of x decade” lists to find these. I tried to incorporate a mix of genres, so these aren’t strictly The most popular books in each decade, but a selection from the most popular the list may have removed the chronological order from these, but I have a shelf where everything is in order if you’d like to see it that way!

Cozy and fun fantasy reads

I remember building my vocabulary with the help of these books and also childhood favourites