You’ll be unsurprised to learn that a certain boy wizard made our list. But read on and you’ll also find some lesser-known gems that we’re betting your kids will want to pass along to their own children one day.
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Our experts
• Peter Glassman, owner of Books of Wonder, and its staff
• Leonard S. Marcus, children’s-book historian and author of Minders of Make-Believe
• Beth Puffer, buyer and manager of Bank Street Bookstore
• Jon Scieszka, the Library of Congress’s National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature (and author of one of our new classics)
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