Favourite childrens books (and authors)

I mentioned in a previous post that Mem Fox is one of my favourite authors: and in response, Awareness asked if I knew another book, The Kissing Hand: I do, and love it too. So, as one of two proud parents of two proud owners of hundreds, perhaps thousands of childrens books.

I'm going to list a few of them: I'm not saying that they are necessarily favourites, but that they are ones that come easily to my mind. I'll try and add authors later, and perhaps even some more books too! If I name two books by a particular author or illustrator, take it as an endorsement of all their other books too! In Mem Fox's case, consider it as an especially enthusiastic endorsement that I name three!

Koala Lou, Mem Fox and Pamela Lofts
Wombat Divine, Mem Fox and Kerry Argent
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, Mem Fox and Julie Vivas
The Kissing Hand, Audrey Penn
Big Mama Makes The World, Phyllis Root and Helen Oxenbury
Slinky Malinki, Lynley Dodd and Mallinson Rendel
Hairy McClary From Donaldson's Dairy, Lynley Dodd and ?
Zen Shorts, Jon Muth
Peg and the Yeti, Kenneth Oppel and Barbara Reid
Peg and the Whale, Kenneth Oppel and Terry Widener
Stephanie's Ponytail, Kenneth Munsch and Michael Martchenko
The Paperbag Princess, Kenneth Munsch and Michael Martchenko

More to come...

Yours, in libris interruptus,

N.

P.S. Thanks for some extras in the comments! Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak are all well liked in this house too --- but they are better known, at least in the US than some of the ones above.