I just added 24 books to my list of books read. It feels like cheating since they were all picture books meant for kids. If you haven't guessed, I'm taking a book on library materials for children. If the list were primarily for counting how many books I read in a year I wouldn't have added them, but that's only a secondary purpose. The main purpose of keeping the list is so that I can go back and look to see what all I've read. For this class at least keeping track of the picture books makes sense, so on the list they go.

Edward Ardizzone's Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline, Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon, Virginia Lee Burton's Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, Laurent de Brunhoff's The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant, Marjorie Flack's Angus and the Ducks, Wanda Gag's Millions of Cats, Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings, Watty Piper's The Little Engine That Could, Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit, H.A. Rey's Curious George, Gene Zion's Harry the Dirty Dog, John Burningham's Mr. Gumpy's Outing, Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Donald Crews' Freight Train, Don Freeman's Corduroy, Pat Hutchins Rosie's Walk, Ezra Jack Keats' The Snowy Day, Steven Kellogg's Pinkerton, Behave!, Leo Lionni's Swimmy, William Steig's Slyvester and the Magic Pebble, Rosemary Wells' Morris's Disappearing Bag, Brian Wildsmith's Fishes and William's Doll by Charlotte Zolotow.

I remember a few of them from childhood (though think a few may have been later editions with different artwork) but definitely not all. Too bad I didn't start keeping a list 20 years earlier.
posted by kristin at 4:54 PM