The Year You Were Born 1949: An interesting factual book on the year you were born 1949.

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The Daily Mirror is Britain’s best-selling post-war newspaper since the 1970s since it was established in 1903. Through broad journalistic content, including photographs (something many competing titles didn’t utilise), advertisements etc. the Daily Mirror provides superior insight into the past. Following his best-selling 2003 debut “The Kite Runner,” Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini penned “A Thousand Splendid Suns.” The story, which focuses on the relationships between mothers and daughters, has been adapted into a play and feature film.

Children learn all about what grown-ups do all day, from building houses to growing food, in this beloved book by Richard Scarry. The story takes place in a place called Busytown, filled with fun animals who work in just about every possible field.This novel follows the remarkable life of Susie Parkington, a powerful, intelligent, and wealthy old woman who is determined to keep her granddaughter unspoiled by the family’s wealth. The 1944 movie adaptation earned Greer Garson an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. After learning about how the swallows travel from South America to California each year, a young boy grows a small garden to provide sanctuary to a returning family of birds in "Song of the Swallows." The book is sprinkled with Spanish phrases and offers young readers an introduction to Latino heritage in California.

In this spy novel, a Soviet mole has risen through the ranks of British foreign intelligence. It's up to George Smiley to figure out how to catch the traitor. The novel is loosely based on the Cambridge Five, the high-ranking British intelligence officials who were exposed as double agents in 1950s and 1960s . "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" was turned into a 2011 movie, which starred actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, John Hurt, and Tom Hardy. Author P. D. Eastman teaches young readers about playing, working, and being on the go through a group of dogs that drive in "Go, Dog. Go!" DreamWorks is working on a TV series based on the book, and it's scheduled to premiere on Netflix sometime in 2020, according to Penguin Random House. Dubbed by Elizabeth Bird of the School Library Journal as "one of the most divisive books in children's literature,""The Giving Tree" explores the relationship between an apple tree and a boy as he grows up. The story has a variety of interpretations, with some believing that it represents the relationship between nature and humanity, and others who think of the story as a symbol for parent-child relationships. This is the final book in Stephen King’s “Dark Tower” series, which was inspired in equal parts by Robert Browning’s poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings,” and Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Western classics. The 2017 film adaptation failed to live up to expectations despite considerable star power from Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. The first title in "The Chronicles of Narnia" series, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" takes readers into a mythical world with talking creatures that four English children discover through a magical wardrobe. The book has themes of Christianity, but is more than a "strictly allegorical" story, writes Meghan O'Rourke of Slate.One of the bestselling kids' books in history, "Charlotte's Web" explores life and death on a farm where Charlotte the spider weaves phrases into her web to help prevent Wilbur the pig from being slaughtered. According to Joey Lanzendorfer of Mental Floss, author E.B. White based the novel on a real farm in Maine.

John O'Hara's best-selling drama follows a socialite in Pennsylvania who is remarkably in tune with her sexuality, which causes issues in her marriage and her place in society. J. K. Rowling's debut novel and the first in the Harry Potter series follows a young wizard as he learns about his magic skills and enrolls at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was republished in the United States a year later as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," and has since been translated into more than 70 languages. Kay Thompson's "Eloise" traces the adventures of a young girl who lives on the top floor of New York City's Plaza Hotel. Fans of the popular story can now stay in a real-life version of Eloise's "pink, pink, pink room" at the hotel. More than 75 Mother Goose nursery rhymes come to life through award-winning illustrations by Tasha Tudor in "Mother Goose." The 1944 picture book earned a Caldecott Honor for its art. Thornton Wilder’s best-selling novel set during the Great Depression follows George Brush, a traveling textbook salesman. He’s a religious convert determined to lead a good life, and his travels take him through a more secular America. This book is considered a picaresque novel, just like Voltaire’s "Candide."The town of Midnight Cove is plagued by humans who turn into beasts that kill normal human beings. Those who survive band together to stop whatever is causing the phenomenon.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar" follows a tiny caterpillar who eats through a series of vibrantly-colored foods, wraps himself in a cocoon, and eventually transforms into a beautiful butterfly. The book's striking visual style and timeless theme has made it an enduring classic, with nearly 50 million copies sold as of 2019, reports Ashley Fetters of The Atlantic. The beautifully illustrated picture book "I Talk Like a River," based on author and poet Jordan Scott's own experience, follows a boy who stutters and struggles to communicate, which leaves him feeling isolated. The boy's father ultimately helps his son change his perspective and find his voice with comparisons to a river's movements. In this thriller, a successful and experienced British spy wants to quit his career but takes one last assignment to become a double agent. The author portrays western espionage as morally inconsistent with western democracy and values.

Abel's Island" is a story about a mouse who gets stranded on a desert island and works to find his way home. Tim Curry voiced the protagonist in a 30-minute animated film from 1988 that's based on the book. A toy rabbit becomes real through the power of a young child's love in "The Velveteen Rabbit." Margery Williams' 1922 book has become a classic and is regularly ranked as one of the best books for children.