Guest Post by Austin Author Chris Barton
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I can’t promise that the titles on my list for Modern First Library will sound as fresh to parents on their twentieth reading as they do on their first one.
But in putting my list together, I strove to remember how fun it was when the words in a picture book I read to my sons felt better and better coming out of my mouth with each reading — and how lousy it felt when a book wore out its welcome for me long before the boy in my lap grew tired of requesting it.
So here’s my list — eleven recent titles, because I just couldn’t keep it to ten — and what I love about each book, and why I think its readers will keep happily coming back for more.
Big Snow
by Jonathan Bean
Farrar Straus Giroux
You won’t…
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