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Madeline, by Ludwig Bemel-
mans (The Viking Press, copy-
right 1939)

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"My fa-
vorite chil-
dren's
story be-
gins, 'In an
old house
in Paris
that was
covered with vines, lived
twelve little girls in two
straight lines...'
`Madeline always was a big
favorite in our house because
that was my wife's mother's
name. She died many years
ago, and my children never
had the chance to know her,
but the book always had a spe-
cial resonance because that
had been her name.

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Family Entertainment Colum-
nist, The Detroit News and
author, Kids Catalog of
Michigan Adventures

Richard
Scarry's
Busy,
Busy
World, by
Richard
Scarry
(Western
Publishing, copyright 1965)

And lots of bear stories:
Paddington, Winnie the Pooh,
Corduroy

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(810) 477-4040

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"I also like It Could Always
Be Worse, the story of a
man who complains about
how difficult his life is until
the rabbi tells him to bring in
a cow, then a chicken, then
a goat into his house. We
would always talk about that
in our family. Whenever
things got really rotten we
would say, 'It could always be
worse."

"We loved reading Richard
Scany's Busy Busy World to
our oldest son, Jordan, now a
sophomore at the University
of Michigan. Each night my
husband, Steve, and Jordan
would visit a different country
and read about an idiosyncrat-
ic animal and his silly adven-
tures. Jordan's favorite
characters were an Israeli
bunny named Shalom and an
Austrian bear cub named
Schtoompah.
"When my 16-year-old
twins, Andrew and Garret,
were small, we were into