Starting a family library These titles, recommended by the Association of Library Service to Children/Association of Booksellers for Children Joint Committee and BlueSuitMom mothers are excellent choices for getting your home library off to a good start: Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary , Philip D. Eastman Webster's New World College Dictionary The New American Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form Roget's Twenty-First Century Checking Your Grammar (Scholastic Guides) , Marvin Terban Everything You Want to Know About Sports Encyclopedia , Neil Cohen, editor Dictionary of Nature , David Burnie, The World Almanac and Book of Facts American History Smart Junior : Exploring America's Past The New Way Things Work , David MaCaulay and Neil Ardley 300 Incredible Things for Kids on the Internet, Ken Leebow The Children's Book of Virtues , William Bennet The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud Aesop's Fables , Aesop Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen From Sea to Shining Sea, A Treasury of Folklore and Folk Songs, Amy Cohen Random House of Poetry for Children, Jack Prelutsky The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein Email this story to a friend