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Plenty of Options: Kid-Friendly Coffee Table Books

Plenty of Options: Kid-Friendly Coffee Table Books

Behold the enchanting artistry of books that can be loved by both grown-ups and their offspring.

May 19, 2024
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Open this email in a browser to see the whole thing, if you can. As the name suggests, there are plenty of options in here! 🙃

Welcome to a new series we’re calling Plenty of Options where we’ll pick a category of stuff and share way too many options. We hope you enjoy this overabundance! Today we’re diving into the strange literary niche of kid-friendly coffee table books.

We like to take an expansive view of what constitutes a children’s book. Here is a sprawling list of books that were written with kids in mind and a few that may not have been. These are books that we like, too, many of which have pleasing covers and/or artwork. These are books that we can leave out on the coffee table in our homes for anyone to peruse at any age. Look. During a time of life with small children when you will most certainly read the same terrible book over and over for what seems like an actual decade, it’s nice to pepper in a few that everyone can enjoy. Or try to, anyway.

Places to browse and shop for books: Oly Oly Oxen Free Books, 50 Watts Books, Laguna Vintage, I Know Alot of Things, Kids Book Recs, My Old Books, Press, Children’s Book Club, and

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And now, plenty of options in absolutely no particular order:

Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell & Christian Robinson

Seeing Things by Joel Meyerowitz

All Kinds of Cars by Carl Johanson

Tomi Ungerer Treasury by Tomi Ungerer

Willy O’ Dwyer Jumped in the Fire by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

Inside Outside by Matthias Arégui & Anne-Margot Ramstein

Cat’s Cradle by Ron Spillman & Jack Ramsay

Swimmy by Leo Lionni

Colors by John J. Reiss

All the Animals Were Angry by William Wondriska

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