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BKLYN BookMatch 2016 Challenge: Read Through the Decades - Children's Books

Challenge yourself in 2016! Read a children's book from each decade from 1900 to the present day. This list was created by librarians with the Brooklyn Public Library as a 2016 Reading Challenge. Would you like your own personalized list of reading suggestions? Visit BKLYN BookMatch here: www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/readers-advisory

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The tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter.
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1900s (published in 1902)

The wind in the willows
Kenneth Grahame ; abridged and illustrated by Inga Moore.
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1900s (published 1908)

The secret garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett ; illustrations by Robin Lawrie.
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1910s (published 1911)

Millions of cats
by Wanda Gâag.
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1920s (published in 1928)

Hitty
Rachel Field ; with illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop.
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1920s (published 1929)

The country bunny and the little gold shoes
by Du Bose Heyward ; pictures by Marjorie Flack.
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1930s (published 1939)

Thimble summer
written and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright.
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1930s (published)

Make way for ducklings.

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1940s (published in 1941)

The little red lighthouse and the great gray bridge
by Hildegarde H. Swift and [illustrated by] Lynd Ward.
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1940s (published 1942)

Harry, the dirty dog
by Gene Zion ; pictures by Margaret Bloy Graham.
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1950s (published 1956)