Favorite Children's Books

[PrincessSalome]

What are/were your favorite children's books?

Frog and Toad?
Where the Wild Things Are?
Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimy?
Anne of Green Gables?
Narnia Chronicles?

How did reading/being read to as a child influence your education, personality, family relations?

 

[alexandraaah]

Eloise.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.

All things Seuss.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Let the wild rumpus start

In no particular order:

Stellaluna

Verdi

The Worst Band in the Universe

If you give a mouse a cookie

Bud, not Buddy

Building Machines and What They Do

Dinosaur Valley

Goodnight, Moon

Wake Up, Grizzly

The Sign of the Seahorse

and for putting them to bed, the classic:
The Little Island
written under the pen name Golden MacDonald, if I recall correctly

 

[starlis]

Anything Seuss
Anne of Green Gables
Little House on the Prairie

I'm not sure how it affected my personality, but it definitely had a big influence on interests I developed as a kid. I learned to read pretty early (age 3), and by 4th grade had read Little Women, as well as most of the Little House series, which prompted an interest in all things Colonial and Victorian-era. I was probably the only elementary-school kid in existence who found museums to be more entertaining than amusement parks.

 

[CarolineOh]

Oh shoot, what's the title of the book about the little boy who owned the steam shovel. I loved that book.
When I got a little older, A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeliene L'Engle.
As an adolescent my two favorite books were not really kids books: To Kill A Mockingbird and Up The Down Staircase

 

[Guest]

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Guess How Much I Love You

Make Way For Ducklings

Pat the Bunny

If You Give A Mouse a Cookie
If You Give A Pig A Pancake
If YOu Give A Moose A Muffin

http://www.scholastic.com/titles/missspider/images/msteaparty.gif
Miss Spider's Tea Party

Where The Wild Things Are

The Very Hungry Catepillar

Verdi

Stellaluna

The Giving Tree

The Polar Express

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Olive the Other Reindeer

 

[LukkyKnight]

Steam shovel... do you mean Mike Mulligan? There was another by that same author called something like Katy the Snowplow

 

[Aphrodisiac]

Where the Wild things are...


Is probably one of my all time favorite books. I remember reading it when we were in kinder or 1st grade. I was so taken by the monsters and the boat ride they took the little boy on ... it was amazing!

Reading has always been a big part of my life, when we were younger we never had much money but my dad would always indulge us with books. He would let us buy one book a week or @ times we would go to the library and check out the books we enjoyed reading. I am still a avid reader, I enjoy reading any thing & every thing. Reading in my early years probably influnced my creativity and imagination as a child and still today , it made me love reading & writing.

 

[Ginny]

<pointing up>.....my unregistered post....

 

[LukkyKnight]

Oops

How did I leave off "Harold and the purple crayon", damnit? And, "I love you the purplest" ...

 

[CarolineOh]

Steam shovel... do you mean Mike Mulligan? There was another by that same author called something like Katy the Snowplow

Yes, that's it! Thank you. OK, so I was an odd little girl

 

[tortoise]

The Hobbit was the first book I recall being absolutely obsessed with, followed quickly by the Narnia books, then Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. All of the above definitely awakened a sense of wonder in me, along with a love of imaginary worlds. I distinctly recall wishing that I could find a portal into Narnia like the Wardrobe.

 

[CarolineOh]

Where the Wild things are...


Is probably one of my all time favorite books. I remember reading it when we were in kinder or 1st grade. I was so taken by the monsters and the boat ride they took the little boy on ... it was amazing!

Last summer at Detroit Festival of The Arts they had sand sculptors who make an incredible rendition of the boat, and the little boy, and the monsters out of sand. It was about 8 feet high and 20 feet long, and the detail was fantastic. I wish I had pictures of it to share.
Seeing it really brought a smile to my face. Those books we loved as children never leave us, do they?

 

[Ginny]

http://www.looseleafbookcompany.com/archives/2047/images/goodnight.JPG

how could leave off this one....what parent can't recite it?

<smiling softly, remembering those first nights of reading to her>

 

[phrodeau]

The House at Pooh Corner
&
Winnie the Pooh
by A. A. Milne

The Littlest Angel
by Charles Tazewell

James and the Giant Peach
&
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl

The Mouse and the Motorcycle
&
Runaway Ralph
by Beverly Cleary

 

[Mensa]

I had a teacher in fourth grade who, a half-hour before we were to be let out, would have us put our books and lessons away, put our heads down on our desks, and read us stories.

They always were from the Doctor Dolittle series. Grateful at not having to do schoolwork everyone listened attentively. It built in me a life-long passion for books.

Doctor Dolittle still holds a special place in my memories.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Re: Oops

How did I leave off "Harold and the purple crayon", damnit? And, "I love you the purplest" ...

I'm reading the Harold series to my 5 year old right now. Love 'em.

Let's see

I read the James Herriot books in kindergarten (of course, I also read Firestarter in Kindergarten, which may explain my warpedness)

King of the Wind
The Black Stallion
The Narnia series
Where the Wild Things Are
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Secret Garden
Anne of Green Gables
Encyclopedia Brown
Ramona

Did anyone else read 'Which Way? Books'?

 

[nasty]

Any Seuss. Where The Wild Things Are. And, Harry Potter.

 

[DustyWolfe]

"I'll love you forever" and "The Tales of Uncle Wiggly"

 

[RisiaSkye]

A Wrinkle in Time
Beezus & Ramona
The Mouse & The Motorcyle
Alice in Wonderland
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Stuart Little
The Boxcar Children
Sadako & the Thousand Paper Cranes
The Giving Tree
The House of Stairs
Harriet the Spy

I love children's books. I *still* go back and reread them sometimes; it's amazing how well they hold up.

 

[JazzManJim]

All the Seuss I could stand, but especially: Fox in Socks, Green Eggs and Ham, and The Sneeches.

"Goodnight Moon"

All of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries.

The "Three Investigator" series that Hitchcock put together. Does anyone remember Jupiter Jones and Red Route 1??

The Encyclopedia Brown collections.

All the Sherlock Holmes stories by Doyle (My folks had me reading early).

"The Stars" by H.A. Rey (It put a fascination in me about astronomy that's never quite left.)

And speaking of H.A. Rey - the Curious George books, too.

of course, "A Wrinkle in Time", "The Hobbit", the Narnia series.

And about a gazillion more.

 

[WhiteRose]

All the Seuss'

All the Raggedy Ann & Andy's Collection

Are you There God, It's Me, Margaret (I remember thinking this was such a sexy book when I was 11 or 12)

All the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries

Stuart Little (funny how hobody ever questioned that a human family gave birth to a mouse back then)

All of Marguerite Henry's horse books ("Misty of Chincoteague", "Justin Morgan Had a Horse", "San Domingo, Medicine Hat Stallion", etc.)

All the Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey westerns (not specifically children's books, but I had all that had been published by the time I was 14)

The Little House series (I remember riding my bike down to the library every Saturday to get the next book)

NOW, of course, my favorite children's books include the Harry Potter series, and I can't wait until the next one comes out this summer!

 

[Neftoon_Zamora]

When I was a child, my mother had an old book.. I remember it being very fragile and my not being allowed to hold it, but she would read it and turn the pages... The illustrations were wonderful. It was a Rudyard Kipling..the one about the tiger who chased the little boy around and around the tree until he (the tiger, the boy had long since climbed the tree, I think) turned into butter... I remember being so amazed by the picture of that ring of butter around the tree....

Solomon Shag.. "Solomon Shag was a big yellow dog who slept like a bumpety lumpety log" (another old one)

I loved the Mother West Wind stories..Thornton Burgess. And all things Suess, of course.

As an mom, reading to my own little ones, I re discovered many of my old favorites, and have a few new ones.

Where the Wild Things Are
Chicken Soup with Rice
Harold and the Purple Crayon (and his other adventures as well)
Mouses Christmas
Click Clack Moo.. Cow's That Type (funny!)

the list goes on and on...

As an adult, I am an avid reader and I give my mother much of the credit for that... she was always reading to me, taking me to the library, encouraging books rather than tv... and I try to do the same for my own kids... one is reader...the other is a blossoming reader...

Great thread, btw.

 

[DopeyAngel]

Ooh, children's books! I love them, my mum was a single parent and never really had time to read, so when she used to pick me up from my child minder's, she used to read to me on the bus on the way home......

Each Peach Pear Plum
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Can't you sleep little bear?
Anne of Green Gables
Little Women
Goodnight Mister Tom
All Roald Dahl books
And someone bought me:Guess How Much I Love You a couple of years ago - I thought it was an odd present for someone my age but it's lovely.

It's proven that kids who were read to as a child read more when they grow up - isn't it amazing what a book can do?
Lovely thread Princess

 

[Debbie]

Black Beauty
Anne of Green gables
The Narnia series
Dr Suess
Dr Dolittle
Roald Dahl stories
Wind in the Willows
Famous five
Hardy boys
Nancy Drew
Little Women
The hungry caterpillar
Where the wild things are
Treasure Island
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
The Secret seven
Rudyard Kipling

Right now? My youngest loves Dr Suess!!! And the Hairy Mclary series. By Lynley Dodd. A New Zealand author. Her books are interesting, fun, imaginative and great for kids and adults to read to kids.
http://www.puffin.co.uk/Author/AuthorPage/1,1590,0000036142_BIO,00.html
We are also reading Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
http://www.puffin.co.uk/shared/Display/1,,16915_KIDS,00.html
Another very good book.


And both kids love Harry Potter. We are
lucky enough to have all four books thanks to
their great Nana.