Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Max in his wolf suit sails to the island of the wild things; ten sentences and every child knows them.

A mouse invents a monster and then meets it; Donaldson and Scheffler's rhymes.

Read the classic novella The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Find the fairy-tale treasures under the trees and remember where they were.

Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver and the map with an X; every pirate cliche starts here.

Down the rabbit hole with the Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts; nonsense with logic underneath.

Whitewashing the fence, the cave and Injun Joe; Twain's boyhood on the river.

The four March sisters through the Civil War years; Jo the writer.