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Lilith
11-21-2003, 04:11 PM
What is your all time favorite kid's book? I am working on a ppaer and was curious. I know many of you are voracious readers so what book did you love as a child or do you love now?
WildIrish
11-21-2003, 04:24 PM
I've always loved "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silvestein, and "In the night kitchen" by Maurice Sendak
Lil, just read this recently because of the author but check out Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Lilith
11-21-2003, 04:37 PM
Eros~ I just bought one of his kid's books called The Stardust I think
WI~ Excellent choice. Silverstein ranks with Mr. Rogers and Jim Henson in my men I dig list.
Stardust wasn't really written as a kids book, just a fantasy story. The one's he's (Neil Gaiman) written specifically for kids were Coraline, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, and Wolves in the Walls. Stardust is probably more of a young adult and up story.
Lilith
11-21-2003, 04:56 PM
I bought it for my oldest kid cause I remembered you liked that author. Is it good?
gekkogecko
11-21-2003, 05:48 PM
"Fox in Socks" is a good one, along with the sequel, "Oh, Say, Can you Say?" Then there's PD Eastman's "Snow", which is great if you read it in bed to your partner, and replace every instance of the word "snow" with the word "sex".
paprclphd
11-21-2003, 05:49 PM
I loved Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss. Classic!
All time fave? Hmmmmmmm... I know Goodnight Moon is a contender. It just brings to mind a warm, cozy, and loving home.
celticangel
11-21-2003, 06:02 PM
all the "Enid Blyton" books!
naughtyangel
11-21-2003, 08:28 PM
Hmm, depends on the age-range you're looking for. My 2 all time faves to read to my little one are Goodnight Moon, and I'll Love You Forever (Robert Munch). Growing up, I loved the Chronicles of Narnia series and Anne of Green Gables :)
Where the wild things are .... (I think that's the name of it) and my other favorite ... (I never can remember the actual name of it ... I just go into the children's book area and tell them it's the book that says ....) "love you forever, my baby you'll be" (or something like that :)
Lilith
11-21-2003, 09:12 PM
Seuss is a classic of course!
Fzzy you and naughty angel are speaking of the same book!!! How cool! If you like I'll Love You Forever you should check out his other books. They are hysterically funny; Mortimer, I Have to Go, and Thomas' Snowsuit.
skyler_m
11-21-2003, 10:16 PM
I have to agree with Aqua on Goodnight Moon. But there's a book that we bought for my daughter when she was about a year called "Guess how much I love you". It's a story about a father rabbit and son rabbit trying to out do each other on how much they love the other one. great story
Lilith
11-21-2003, 11:05 PM
to the moon and back:D
Stardust is great...it was originally done as a storybook with pictures..but those editions are usually hard to find around here.
jennaflower
11-22-2003, 12:02 AM
Where the Wild Things are...
I read it all the time as a child..... and it was the first book I bought for my son after he was born :) Just something about the simplicity of that fantasy...
Lilith
11-22-2003, 12:08 AM
'do not go, we'll eat you up, we love you so' :p Great book Jenna!
Steph
11-22-2003, 12:25 AM
Any of the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, the Judy Blume books, Animal Farm, Tolkien . . . :)
Maybe a bit old for the range you're looking for . . .
I love this thread ... whenever one of my friends or family has a baby, I skip on buying baby clothes or such .... instead I buy 3 great kids books ... the 2 I mentioned usually and another one ... but not having kids, I don't always know what to get as the third book .... so this is great to see all the other possibilities!!! thanks Lil!
nikki1979
11-22-2003, 05:57 AM
where the wild things are , a light in the attic (shel silverstien ) and my all time fave is the narnia series by cs lewis now thats a great series, i still read it
~nikki~
Lilith
11-22-2003, 10:31 AM
Steph~ I am looking for all types of kids books! (gonna teach K-12th grade) Judy Blume got me through puberty:D
fzzy~ I do too. There are some excellent books that can even be specific for the way a child comes in to a family. I bought a book for a couple who recently adopted a baby girl from China, My Chinese Mamma Loves Me So was excellent!!!
nikki~ I have never read The Chronicles of Narnia I really should!
LixyChick
11-22-2003, 01:43 PM
I used to have the Donna Parker Mysteries series! Oh, I loved those books!
Nancy Drew was a close second for me.
Wish I still had Donna Parker!
Slow Ride
11-22-2003, 02:18 PM
My favorite book as a child(I'm amazed that I can remember back that far)was "Blaze and the Indian Cave"
BTW,,,,,,,,,,,Blaze was a Horse........I've always loved reading about animals !!!!!!!!!!!
Lilith
11-22-2003, 03:50 PM
I remember reading a Blaze story Slow Ride!!!
Slow Ride
11-22-2003, 05:41 PM
*LOL* I thought I was the only one that read it
Eliza
11-22-2003, 07:41 PM
Two of my all time favorite boks as a child were:
The Trumprt of The Swan by E.B. White
and The Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. In fact...I think I'm gonna read them again.....
Great Thread Lilith... I love that I'll Love You Forever Book too. I'll usually buy that for any of my expecting freinds.
~Eliza
dicksbro
11-22-2003, 08:22 PM
"Bambi" was my childhood favorite and still at/near the top of the list. Some of the Dr. Seuss books now compete ... especially, "Green Eggs and Ham." :D
Glyndwr
11-22-2003, 08:39 PM
Paddington Bear by Michael Bond
Sugarsprinkles
11-22-2003, 08:56 PM
Although I love to read, I can't recall any particular children's book that I had that I read more than once. I did enjoy the Mary Poppins books and the Dr. Doolittle books. There wasn't as much great children's literature "way back when." When I was in High school my very favorite book that we were required to read was Catcher in the Rye!! I enjoyed it so much I ended up reading the rest of J.D. Salinger's books.
When my kids were young I encouraged them to read and out of three boys, two are voracious readers. The other is my sports nut and never has read as much as I would have liked him to.
When they were still of an age where "Mommy" had to read to them we enjoyed, Are You My Mother?, Because a Little Bug Went Kerchoo, There's a Wocket in My Pocket, Where the Wild Things Are, There's a Monster at the End of This Book.
My oldest son especially liked Chronicals of Narnia, Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry, and The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley. He also loved The Hardy Boys, and A Wrinkle in Time by Madelyn L'Engle.
My middle son read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl until the book fell apart. He also loved Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing and Superfudge, Bunnicula, The Celery Stalks at Midnight, Howliday Inn, How to Eat Fried Worms, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No good, Very Bad Day, James and the Giant Peach, anything and everything by Shel Silverstein. He also loved Richard Scary's Best Word Book Ever.
Cabrylla suggests Charlotte's Web, Red Badge of Courage, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Where the Red Fern Grows,and Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Hope I haven't given too many suggestions.
Nancy Drew, Bobbsey Twins, and a large thin picture book when I was very little entitled "The Golden Egg Book". A lot of Dr. Seuss.
Lilith
11-23-2003, 12:03 AM
Eliza~ Among my student teacher friends The Trumpet of the Swan was an all time fave and I have not read it although I own it :spin:
dicksbro~ Green Eggs and Ham was written on a bet. He was given a list of words and bet that he could not write a book only using those words!
Glyndwr~ of course, I should have known you'd choose him. He ranks with Babar in my heart!
SS~ all superb selestions and I would add Holes, Tuck Everlasting, Walk Two Moons, Ella Enchanted, and Bud, Not Buddy.
Mae~ I have my The Golden Egg Book still.
Last year I told Skipthisone about a book my mother used to read to me as a very small child Hi, All You Rabbits. I had searched for that book for years and within a few minutes he had found it for me. Made me warm and tingly allll over:D Funny how childhood books can bring so much joy to grown ups.
Slow Ride
11-23-2003, 12:18 AM
as I got a little older one of my favorites became the Penthouse Forum.........................J/K I've never picked up a Penthouse in my life !!!
I think it was Hustler
Lilith
11-23-2003, 12:20 AM
I can remember reading Penthouse forum when I was a senior in highschool :slurp: No wonder those little boys always seemed to disappoint:p
Lillith - Terrific! I thought I was the only one that had that book. I think they reprinted it a few years ago. :)
BlondeCurlGirl
11-23-2003, 11:05 PM
"Mother, Mother, I Want Another" by Maria Polushkin was my favorite growing up. Here is the review from Publisher's Weekly, taken from Amazon:
Trying to get baby mouse to go to sleep, Mrs. Mouse enlists the help of her friends in response to his cries of "Mother, mother, I want another," thinking he wants another mother, until he tells her he wants another kiss. "Polushkin's comedy of errors accelerates into a whirlwind of crises," PW said, "and the richly hued paintings burst with life, humor and imaginative touches."
I also loved "The Secret Garden."
rabbit
11-23-2003, 11:55 PM
Gotta be "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss
Lilith
11-24-2003, 06:25 AM
BCG~ I have never heard of that!! Excellent I will hunt it down!
Rabbit~ That is the only Dr. Seuss I can read aloud to kiddos and not get tounge tied:p
rabbit
11-24-2003, 10:51 AM
Originally posted by Lilith
Rabbit~ That is the only Dr. Seuss I can read aloud to kiddos and not get tounge tied:p
LOL...Lil, that is the only Dr Seuss that I read where my mind goes completely raunchy....
"Would you could you in the dark?"
"Would you could you in the rain?"
"Would you could you on a train?"
"Would you could you on a boat?"
"Would you could you with a goat?"...
...never mind! :p
rabbit
Lilith
11-24-2003, 11:59 AM
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
No!
:D
Although Hop on Pop could get nasty too Big Daddy!:p
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