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From KQED. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. So here's an excerpt from one of my favorite books to read aloud to my kids, because I still remember when my teacher read it to me.

As he was crossing Strawberry Hill, thinking of some of the many, many things he could wish for, he was startled to see a mean,

hungry lion looking right at him from behind some tall grass. He was frightened. If he hadn't

been so frightened, he could have made the lion disappear, or he could have wished himself safe

at home with his father and mother. He could have wished the lion would turn into a butterfly,

or a daisy, or a gnat. He could have wished many lion would turn into a butterfly or a daisy or a gnat. He could have

wished many things, but he panicked and he couldn't think carefully. I wish I were a rock,

he said, and he became a rock. Can you guess the book? Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig.

So, of course, it made me smile when I found it on the Atlantic's 65 essential children's books.

We've invited three of the editors who selected the books for the list to join us and tell us which ones made the cut and why.

And we want to hear which ones you'd put on that list. You can tell us by calling

86673786 by posting on Discord, Blue Sky, Facebook, Instagram, or threads at KQED

forum, or by emailing forum at kQED.org. Boris Kachka is senior editor at The Atlantic, Boris. Welcome to Forum. Thanks for having me. Maya Chung is also with us senior associate editor at the Atlantic. Hi, Maya. Hi, thank you for having us. Glad to have you both. And also glad to have Emma Serapa with us, another senior associate editor at the Atlantic. Welcome, Emma. Thank you for having us.

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