What is your favorite child's book?

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AtlasEros

January 13, 2011, 11:29:55 AM
I know there are others on here who have young children which means reading children's books, over, and over.  So I wondered what is your favorite; it can either be your favorite you read your child or your favorite from your childhood.

Mine is Socks for Supper, although, I enjoy reading Cat in the Hat too.
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ambrosial

#1
January 19, 2011, 06:49:02 PM
I have no children myself, but I have studied children's literature and love children's books.

I think my favorite picture book from my childhood was Aunt Isabella Tells a Good One - very cute illustrations and an imaginative tale about a bedtime story.
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January 19, 2011, 09:59:29 PM
Oh, "Goodnight Moon" in a heartbeat.  That one has been around -forever-...

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#3
January 19, 2011, 11:26:53 PM
My son love "A Dirty Little Boy"... he could go to it where it is shelved at the local library we go to.... we would laugh together reading it.

I believe we have also read all of the Dr. Seuss books.

AtlasEros

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January 19, 2011, 11:38:49 PM
Quote from: Sweet Trouble on January 19, 2011, 11:26:53 PMI believe we have also read all of the Dr. Seuss books.
Good deal, he wrote a lot of stories.  I believe we own at least 15 of them.
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Miss Lilly

#5
January 31, 2011, 09:25:01 AM
The Very Hungry Caterpilla!

I still love it.....*grins*
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January 31, 2011, 04:50:47 PM
How young a 'child' are we talking about?  My favorite book in fourth grade was 'The Phantom Tollbooth', and I read it to the little Oni when she was in 2nd or 3rd grade.
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Fae Brin

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January 31, 2011, 10:08:06 PM
Stuff I legitly fell in love with-- that I read as a child?

Greek myths. All of them.

The more mainstream idea of a children's book-- Nancy Drew? Do those count?

Robert Munsch. -nods-
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AtlasEros

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February 01, 2011, 01:42:48 PM
Quote from: Fae Brin on January 31, 2011, 10:08:06 PM
Stuff I legitly fell in love with-- that I read as a child?

Greek myths. All of them.

yeah, I first discovered Greek, Celtic and Norse myths when I was 3 or 4, at the local library.  From that point on, I've been a huge fan of mythology.
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KaiiVii

#9
February 01, 2011, 02:12:45 PM
"Crow and Weasel" Its illustrations are beautiful and I was always in love with native American culture. Dad used to read Harry Potter for bedtime stories before I could read (I read the last half of the first book by myself)

"Goodnight Moon"

"Cat, You Better Come Home"

Dr Seuss: "if I ran the Zoo" "The Lorax" "One Fish Two fish Red Fish Blue Fish" "To think that I saw it On Mulberry Street" and there was one with a kid and a bunch of hats... I can't find the name though

"Thunder Cake"

"Boxcar Children"

"The Berenstain Bears"

"The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear "

Mercer Mayer's "Little Critter" books

"The Mouse and the Motorcycle"

And others I'm sure
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#10
February 01, 2011, 02:12:57 PM
Green Eggs and Ham! XD

Fae Brin

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February 01, 2011, 02:13:38 PM
Aren't they just epic?
The idea hovered and shivered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. 
But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.
and a subtle fear [capture d] my  h  e  a  r  t.
already [wet] and we're gonna go s w i m ming

AtlasEros

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February 01, 2011, 02:22:25 PM
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Fae Brin

#13
February 01, 2011, 02:31:37 PM
My reading mostly centered on Greek and Roman myths-- I only read some Norse mythology. Almost no Celtic. >.>
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But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.
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already [wet] and we're gonna go s w i m ming

Oniya

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February 01, 2011, 02:32:49 PM
If you read the Lloyd Alexander books, you've gotten a fair piece of Celtic myth.
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Fae Brin

#15
February 01, 2011, 02:41:06 PM
He's atchally been on my 'To Read' list for several years. @.@
The idea hovered and shivered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. 
But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.
and a subtle fear [capture d] my  h  e  a  r  t.
already [wet] and we're gonna go s w i m ming

AtlasEros

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February 01, 2011, 03:38:42 PM
Quote from: Fae Brin on February 01, 2011, 02:31:37 PM
My reading mostly centered on Greek and Roman myths-- I only read some Norse mythology. Almost no Celtic. >.>
Ah, with a name like Fae Brin, I would have figured you for a fan of the Celtic mythology. 

Norse is my favorite of the lot, I really suggest you take a look at it.  You may find it to your liking.
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DobbyDevotchka

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February 01, 2011, 07:44:55 PM
 I had a near complete collection of the hard back Dr. Seuss books, hand me downs with worn down spines.  I learned to read with those books, and I still find them to be excellent stories.  He was a great!  I was always so sad for the lorax.

Fae Brin

#18
February 01, 2011, 08:34:09 PM
I know enough about Norse mythology to be familiar with some of the terms, but the actual legends escape me.

Mm-- I went through a small druid phase?

>.>

<.<

Kay-- so it was a big one alright. I might have poked around the Celtic lit a bit. But I don't remember almost all of it.
The idea hovered and shivered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. 
But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.
and a subtle fear [capture d] my  h  e  a  r  t.
already [wet] and we're gonna go s w i m ming

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February 08, 2011, 01:20:41 AM
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February 08, 2011, 06:21:00 PM
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February 15, 2011, 11:28:31 AM
  My favorite children's book as a child was 'The Tale of Zachary Zween', a really obscure old book about a boy in a boy's school where everything was done in alphabetical order, so he was always last. It's a really sweet book.

  Also, I think the Madeline series is truly superb.
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April 11, 2011, 09:50:13 AM
Along with Goosebumps, The Giver, The Outsiders, and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde...I adored the Sideways Stories from Wayside School. I always liked the story about Mr. Gorf who sucked up children's voices through his third nostril. And the one about Miss Wendy Nogard who uses her third ear to read the children's minds and make them miserable my humiliating them because no one loves her.

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April 11, 2011, 10:20:11 AM
I saw one listed in the little Oni's Scholastic flyers earlier this year.  Contact your local elementary schools and find out when they're having Scholastic book fairs.  I know they're usually for students and their parents, but they might be amenable to others, since the schools get a portion of the proceeds.
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April 11, 2011, 02:36:44 PM
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