**Please share with me the titles/authors of books that you love. I would like to set up lists of books that others recommend on this website. There are so many wonderful books in the world, and it is always great to have more sure-fire titles to search out. Please use the Comments Page. Thanks!
--The Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace are my absolute favorite children's books. I adored them as a child and adore them as an adult. The ten books in the series were re-released a few years ago, much to the delight of devoted fans (yes, we sound crazy, with our listserv, two societies, websites and conventions, but we are nice crazies!). For the record, the book titles are:
Betsy-Tacy, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Betsy-Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, Betsy-Tacy Go Downtown, Heaven to Betsy, Betsy In Spite of Herself, Betsy Was a Junior, Betsy and Joe, Betsy and the Great World, and Betsy's Wedding.
--Because of Winn-Dixie and Tiger Rising (both by Kate DiCamillo), and now a third: The Tale of Despereaux
--The Watsons
Go To Birmingham, 1963 and Bud, Not Buddy (both by
Christopher Paul Curtiss, who we got to hear, meet and have sign
our books-- he's fabulous!) 
--Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away (Elizabeth Enright)
--The Little House on the Prairie series (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
--The Harry Potter Series (J.K. Rowling)
--The Birchbark House (Louise Erdrich)
--The Melendy books by Elizabeth Enright: The Saturdays, The Four-Story Mistake, Then There Were Five, Spiderweb for Two
--Series of books by Anne Pellowski about several generations of a Polish-American farm family: First Farm in the Valley, Winding Valley Farm, Willow Wind Farm, Stairstep Farm, Betsy's Up-and-Down Year
--Adopted Jane (Helen Fern Daringer)
--Ready-made Family (Frances Salomon Murphy)
--The All-of-a-Kind Family books (Sydney Taylor)
--All About Alphie (Shirley Hughes)
--Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
--Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
--The Princess Diaries series (Meg Cabot)
--Freaky Friday (Mary Rogers, the first author I ever met, at age 11)
--The Miss Piggle-Wiggle books (Betty MacDonald)
--A Wrinkle in Time (Madeline L'Engle)
--Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
--Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials series: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife,and The Amber Spyglass
(This list will grow as I think of titles)
