I’ve been having fun recommending books to people who ask for specific recommendations in the Read Aloud Revival Facebook group and the Ambleside Online Facebook group as well as on my Facebook feed. I thought I’d share some of the requests and recommendations here, just for fun.

Request: Favorite living books about seeds, trees and/or early botany for children ages 7, 5 and 2.

Suggestions:
More Potatoes by Millicent Selsam.
A Tree Is a Plant by Clyde Robert Bulla.
Mighty Tree by Dick Gackenbach.
Seeds and More Seeds by Millicent Selsam.
How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan.
From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons.
The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller.
Plants That Never Ever Bloom by Ruth Heller.
A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry.
The Plant Sitter by Gene Zion.
A Seed Is Sleepy by Diana Aston.
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever by H. Joseph Hopkins.
The Poppy Seeds by Clyde Robert Bulla.

Request: LONG picture books or beginning chapter books for a three year old who will sit and listen for an hour at a time.

Suggestions:
Obadiah the Bold by Brinton Turkle.
Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel.
Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik.
Billy and Blaze by C.W. Anderson.
Yonie Wondernose by Marguerite deAngeli.
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey.
Mother West Wind’s Children by Thornton Burgess.
All of these books, except for the one by de Angeli, have sequels, so if you like the first one there are more.

Request: Books for a five year old girl in first grade, but reading at about a second grade level.

Suggestions:
Amanda Pig books by Jean Van Leeuwen.
Mr. Putter and Tabby books by Cynthia Rylant.
Thimbleberry Stories by Cynthia Rylant.
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner.
The Secret of the Rosewood Box and other mysteries by Helen Fuller Orton.
The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case by Alexander McCall Smith.
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie de Paola.
In Aunt Lucy’s Kitchen (Cobblestone Cousins) by Cynthia Rylant.
Those last three were suggested by Heidi Dunbar Scovel who blogs at Mt. Hope Chronicles, a wonderful resource for good book suggestions.

Request: Good books for young (8 and 9 year old) Harry Potter fans.

Suggestions:
The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson.
100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson.
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Stewart.
Redwall series by Brian Jacques.
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster.
The Return of the Twelves by Pauline Clarke.
Tom’s Midnight Garden by Phillippa Pearce.
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner.
The False Prince by Jennifer Neilsen.

Do you have any reader’s advisory requests, for adults or children? Bring it on. I really enjoy suggesting and pushing books.