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児童書
絵本
The Eleventh Hour
by Graeme Base
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
by Judi Barrett
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
by Bill Martin, Jr.
The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
by Helen Oxenbury
I Spy
series by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick（言葉がないから）
GOING-TO-BED BOOK
by Sandra Boynton
The Hat
by Jan Brett
Extra Yarn
by Jon Klassen
The Jolly Postman
by Allen and Janet Ahlberg
Interrupting Chicken
by David Ezra Stein
How to Catch a Star
by Oliver Jeffers
Library Lion
by MIchelle Knudsen, Kevin Hawkes
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
by William Steig
How I Learned Geography
by Uri Shulevitz
Flotsam by David Wiesner
Are You My Mother? By P.D. Eastman
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? By Steve Jenkins
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Miss Spider’s Tea Party by David Kirk
Olivia by Ian Falconer
Ox Cart Man by Donald Hall
Is your Mama a Llama? – Deborah Guarino
Mama, Do You Love Me – Barbara M. Joosee
Picture books by Bill Peet
児童文学（SFや冒険／スリラーを含む）
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
A Separate Peace (1951) by John Knowles
My Side of the Mountain (1959) by Jean Craighead George
Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958) by Philippa Pearce
The Adventures Of The Bailey School Kids by Debbie Dadey
The Ink Drinker by Eric Sanvoisin
The American Girls series by Valerie Tripp and other authors
Classic Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
The Absent Author (A to Z Mysteries) by Ron Roy
CAM Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds by David
A. Adler
The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy (Book 1) by Dori
Hillestad Butler
Nancy Drew: All New Girl Detective by Carolyn Keene
Poppy(The Poppy Stories) by Avi（同著者の他の作品を選んだため）
Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror
by Chris Priestley
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien（最後まで悩んだ作品）
Wayside School series (同著者の Holesを選んだため)
The Wind Boy
by Ethel Cool Eliot
Tatsinda
The Blue Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
Esther
Max and Ruby series
Each Peach Pear Plum
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke（この本から洋書を読み続けるようになるほどの魅力はない）
Leon and the Spitting Image by Allen Kerzweil
Monster
Z for Zachariah – Robert C. O’Brien
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, Ruth Chrisman
Gannett
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds
Forever . . . by Judy Blume(Blumeは、小学生用の本を選択したので）
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Anna and French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Feed by M. T. Anderson
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Interrupting Chicken
by David Ezra Stein
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs(素晴らしいクラシックだが、絵のみで文章がないので、この本には不適切と判断）
Ella Enchanted
by Cail Carson Levine
The Maggie B by Irene Haas（絵本）
Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Cuyler, S.D. Schindler
Dav Pilkey（Captain Underpants シリーズ）
The Thief (The Queen’s Thief, Book 1)
Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
Big Red by Jim Kjeilgaard
Emily Windsnap series by Liz Kessler