"How to Eat Fried Worms"
"Fat Men From Outer Space" and any other Daniel Pinkwater you can lay hands on.
"Alice in Wonderland"
"Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH"
"The Book of Three" (Lloyd Alexander)
"The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book" (Particularly if you get the Chuck Jones Cartoons of Mowgli's Brothers, The White Seal, and, most particularly, Rikki Tikki Tavi to go along with them. They're almost word for word Kipling.)
The Narnia Books.
(Man, I loved Incredible Mr. Fox. I Still get that Rhyme about "Boggins, Bunce, and Bean" stuck in my head 30 years later.)
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