Mine are:
The Little Prince
The Hobbit
A Wrinkle in Time
Where the Wild Things Are
Willy Wonka
The Velveteen Rabbit
I guess these are not just my favorite childhood books..they are still my favorites today!
Mine are:
The Little Prince
The Hobbit
A Wrinkle in Time
Where the Wild Things Are
Willy Wonka
The Velveteen Rabbit
I guess these are not just my favorite childhood books..they are still my favorites today!
A Royal Pain by Ellen Conford
The Frog and Toad series books by Arnold Lobel
i like my money where i can see it, right in my closet.
love you forever -It's a great book.
Where the wild things are- scenes from the book were painted on my libary walls and classrom walls when i was in grade school. i love the book.
I cannot possibly answer this question.
Patricia Pollaco- awesome
Beverly Cleary- Adored her
Tomie DePaola- Mom was Irish Cath, Dad was Italian Cath, Just like Little Tod!
Tomie DePaola is a genius, IMnsHO
Eric Carle. ERIC-CARLE. ADORE that man. Another Genius.
That's the beginning of my list. I know I'm leaving off so many awesome authors. There are so many wonderful books. I would regularly spend $100 a month or more on books for my classroom when I was teaching. That's not including book clubs.
I love children's lit.
Adrienne
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Originally Posted by QueenAlisha
Ahhh the stalker mom book. I don't get the attraction of that book.
I'm so happy my kid is getting old enough to read real books, I never was much for picture books. I'm reading her all my favorites. Since she turned 5 in April we've read:
All the Little House books
The first three Anne of Green Gables books
All but 2 of the Ramona/Beezus/Henry/Ribsy books (waiting on the final two to be in at the library)
2 of the Narnia books
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit (hope to read her all the Nesbit ones eventually)
I have a huge list to tackle. SHe'll be reading on her own before we finish!
Before I was able to read, my dad would always read Puppies Are Like That to me. When I was finally able to read (Grandma taught me when I was 5...learned on Dr. Suess!) my favorites were Corduroy, Amelia Bedelia, Encyclopedia Brown, the Ramona books, most Roald Dahl books, the American Girl books, The Borrowers, Little House books, Pipi Longstocking, the quintessential Baby-Sitters Club series, oh my...the list goes on and on. I was a big reader when I was little.... Now I'm just lucky to find a day where I have some time to sit down and read for pleasure. I can't wait til I have kids of my own so I can introduce these books to them...and read them again myself!
Great thread!
My favorite books as a child were:
-The Black Stallion series
-Anne of Green Gables
-Little House series
-The Littlest Angel (Picture book)
-The Sweet Smells of Christmas--remember that one? It had the scratch and sniff stickers on it. (They still publish it.)
-Tuck Everlasting
-Black Beauty
-A Little Princess
-The Little Prince
-Charlotte's Web
I still love all those--plus these newer favorites for my children and classroom:
-All of Jamie Lee Curtis' books--especially Today I feel Silly
-Eloise series
-The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch (author of I'll Love you Forever. I like that book, but I love the humor in his other stuff better. I don't get super teary reading that one.)
-All of Erice Carle
-Lemony Snicket series
-Robert Sabuda's Pop-Up books
-The Jolly Postman
-The Runaway Bunny
-NO, David!
-Cookie's Week
I'm a lot like Adrienne.The last morning of our teacher's convention up in Anaheim, Scholastic's exhibit sells all their book half price. My friends and I get up very early and stumble into the convention center to wait in line so as to scoop up all the wonderful books. I still can justify the picture books because I'm buying them for my classroom...my girls are into chapter books now, and they are just not as fun to buy.
My favorite childhood book is the first non-Charlie Brown book I ever read: Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass.
Early childhood- I was addicted to Dr. Seuss books.
Late childhood- I was addicted to Baby-Sitters Club books (I even dressed up as Claudia for Halloween once).
Why, Sam Raimi?! Why did you have to butcher Venom?!
I recently bought an 1897 version of Alice in Wonderland, and a 1946 boxed set of Wonderland and Looking Glass...I got outbid on a first edition printing of Lookinglass..darn ebay..lost it in the last few seconds..I just LOVE the vintage Alice books
Younger children:
The Paper Bag Princess~Robert Munsch
The Salamander Room~Anne Mazer
Everyone Poops~Taro Gomi
Tikki Tikki Tembo~Arlene Mosel
Anything by Jan Brett
The Snowman~Raymond Briggs
Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny~Margaret Wise Brown
Guess How Much I Love You~Sam McBratney
Any of the "Sheep" series by Nancy E. Shaw (I love Sheep in a Jeep)
Harold and the Purple Crayon~Crockett Johnson
Laura Numeroff's "If You..." series (If You Give a Mouse a Cookie...a Moose a Muffin...a Pig a Pancake)
Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who!, Oh, the Places You'll Go, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!~Dr Suess
Older children:
The Series of Unfortunate Events series~Lemony Snicket
Holes~Louis Sachar
Tuck Everlasting~Natalie Babbitt
Ella Enchanted~Gail Carson Levine
Madeleine L'Engle's books~Wrinkle in Time especially
Harry Potter series~JK Rowling
The Island of the Blue Dolphins~Scott O'Dell
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH~Robert O'Brien
The Cricket in Times Square (I could read this one over and over!)~George Seldon
And so many more that I'm too tired to type.
Oh, man! I'd love, love, love to own a children's book/toy store! It must be part of the reason I'm a teacher~for all the books.
Looking at all these titles in my own library, I'm thinking I have the inventory to open a store!
Christii! Thanks for this thread; now I'll be reading all my children's books for awhile!
what a GREAT list!! Im so glad to see a Wrinkle in Time was enjoyed by someone else...thatis suuch a deep book!! I really think the Little Prince is as well. I really love rereading these. I get so much from them, so much more than the so called adult fare that is out there. I still cant read the fox chapeter of the Little Prince, or about Aunt Beast in Wrinkle without crying..these pieces are just so touching, and really seem to hit you at the core..I havent read many grown up books that can do that to me..
I recently bought an 1897 version of Alice in Wonderland, and a 1946 boxed set of Wonderland and Looking Glass...I got outbid on a first edition printing of Lookinglass..darn ebay..lost it in the last few seconds..I just LOVE the vintage Alice booksThat is so cool Chris!
LOL - just realized my typo. It's Alices Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass. Sowwy.
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If you are ever in Memphis, check out the Troll teachers outlet. The hours are limited and the stock is variable, sometimes great stuff and other times not much. If you hit it just right or during a special, it's great. I used to get books for all my students for Christmas.
Some of my favorites to read to children are
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Piggy in the Puddle
Tiki Tiki Tembo
Where the Wild Things Are
The mosquito's food of choice, primitive humanoid lifeforms, have colonies all over that planet.
"some people live for the rules, I live for exceptions"-311
Santa's spendin' time at the Crown Warehouse centers this year. Mr M is just drinking up entry-level chapter books and they've got 'em.
Adrienne
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I don't know if I will ever have occasion to visit Memphis, but the Troll outlet sounds heavenly. Scholastic sometimes sets up shop in San Diego to clear out some of their overstocks, and it's much the same thing. I love those types of sales!
Alexander etc etc. is a great read aloud book. I love Judith Viorst.
"Little Women", "Black Beauty" and a book I've seldom seen called "Maple Sugar for Windy Foot." It was given to me when I was about 7 by our rather elderly neighbor for Christmas, it's about a boy who lives in Vermont I think, his family owns a grove of maple trees and they tap them for syrup and sugar in the winter. Windy Foot was his Shetland Pony.
Black Beauty
Black Stallion
Charlotte´s Web
Little House series
Narnia
You're a fan! Me, too! The late, great Noel Coward used to regularly refresh himself with a good E. Nesbitt read.
And I'm sorry but Harry Potter does not hold up in comparison to E. Nesbit'sThe Phoenix and The Carpet or The Enchanted Garden or any other.
Insert passive aggressive sentence of your choice here.
We're listneing to The Cricket in Times Square in the car right now. Our local library has a great selection of books on CD and I always have one going. It's amazing how much less the kids fight in the car when they are focussed on a good book.
I read a lot of the books mentioned but what may be my problem is that I also read all of the Barbara Cartlandt books in grade school....Then every scary book that came out new at the library {I went there all of the time}.
So my memory as a kid is grainy BUT for my kids~
We almost wore out Miss Suzy.
The Good Night Book.
Frog and Toad series.
Richard Scarry.
Oh man, so many. I have bins in storage in my garage of picture books since, yes, they are too old for them but I am too attached to get rid of them. Waiting for grandkids much?
They went through the Goosebumps series and the older ones now like Michael Crichton and Kurt Vonnegot. Amongst others.
You guys are making me think I ought to go and check out their current selections.....
The young one {10} is now into Leminy Snicket but his all time favorite {when asked he still says this, even when his fifth grade teacher asks} is 'Frog And Toad'.
"Whomsoever I've cured, I've sickened now. Whomsoever I've cradled, I've put you down. I'm a search light soul, they say, but I can't see it in the night. I'm only faking when I get it right...cause I Fell On Black Days...How would I know this could be my fate?"
Oooh! This is a great idea!!
"Whomsoever I've cured, I've sickened now. Whomsoever I've cradled, I've put you down. I'm a search light soul, they say, but I can't see it in the night. I'm only faking when I get it right...cause I Fell On Black Days...How would I know this could be my fate?"
I was a voracious reader as a kid, so I had a lot of favorites.
Dr. Seuss
Bread and Jam for Frances - just thinking about it makes me hungry for a hard-boiled egg
Frog and Toad books - my favorite story is the one where they go swimming
The Story of Ping - taught me about China and cormorants diving for fish
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (also The Little House byt the same author) - love the illustration style and the themes about progress vs. tradition
Blueberries for Sal - blueberries and bears
Make Way for Ducklings - wonderful illustrations; set in Boston
Caps for Sale - Monkeys!
Corduroy - great adventure with a happy ending
For 10 great Newberry Award picks see my post here.
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