What was your favorite children's book?
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March 11th, 2009
mine would have to be Zip and Pud and the inimitable tikki tikki tembo no sa rembo chari bari ruchi pip peri pembo
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The Best Nest. Plus anything by Dr. Seuss. And the Berenstain Bears. And Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. Really, there’s just far too many to count – I loved them all!
Busy Town, What Do People Do All Day? – Richard Scarry
Many selections by Dr. Seuss
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
The Hardy Boys (a series of books)
I love a book called Snow Lion. It isn’t in print anymore, and my son has my very tattered copy from 20 years ago. I also like I Am a Bunny and Detective Bob and the Great Ape Escape.
I definitely have to second the Berenstein Bears!
Also, the Junie B. Jones books, Goosebumps, Sweet Valley Middle School and High, and those short stories about the classroom at the top floor of this school that was super tall because the architects messed it up and built it vertically instead of horizontally…totally spacing on the name…
A Dream Of A Thousand Cats. I consider that a kids story.
Um, The World Book Encyclopedia, actually
Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. My life-long love affair with language really began right there.
I loved the Frog and Toad series. And anything about gnomes.
My mom tells me it was Peter’s Wagon
I guess I memorized it and was able to read along and tell her where to turn the pages even before I could read.
Anything Dr Seuss
Anything Roald Dahl
Anything Shel Silverstein
The B Book.
Which might I add, I have memorized.
The Monster at the End of this Book. By Grover!!!!
Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman
A Very Special House, By Ruth Krauss, Maurice Sendak
“And nobody ever says “stop, Stop, STOP!”
I particularly enjoyed Everyone is Different . Before that, I couldn’t correctly use the words “fangoriously,” “gelatinous,” and, um, “linebacker”…
I was actually always a fan of Sandra Boynton’s books. I always buy them for baby showers.
Matilda and georges marvellous medicine both by Roald Dahl.
Where the Wild Things Are and The Little Prince.
The Giving Tree. I still tear up a little every time I read it.
Fletcher – not sure about the author – sweet book about a girl and her dog.
Where the Wild Things Are – just a wonderful book!
Where the Sidewalk End and Sideway Stories from Wayside school definitley.
@emt333: I agree with you, Tikki Tikki Tembo was one of my very favorites, too.
Charlottes Web
The Secret Garden
Bridge to Terabitha and Matilda are the bestest big kid books ever, according to me.
Questions like this are always really hard for me because reading has always been a huge part of my family, but reading through everyone’s answers made me laugh and (I’m a bit embarrassed to admit) tear up a bit.
I want to start by applauding @SuperMouse because Jamberry was always my Dad and I’s book….we both loved it and I would make him read it to me over and over and seeing it there on that list just made me smile.
Other books….The Sandra Boynton books were always a staple in our household. My father used to read them outloud to my brother and I and both of us have fond memories of the voices he would use and my mom remembers hearing delighted giggles from the room when he was reading.
I also still have my copies of A Wrinkle in Time, Sideways Stories from Wayside School (the entire series), Where the Sidewalk Ends, a plethora of Dr. Seuss books (One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish was the first book I read entirely on my own), and I think I should stop there before I go on forever…..
When I was in 1st or 2nd grade, it was the Ramona Quimby series. I thought she was cool.
By 4th or 5th grades, I’d say it was a three-way tie between Harriet The Spy, Stuart Little and Blubber, though I read all the other Judy Blume novels, too. After that point I read adult books.
That Dollanganger series was dreadful, but I read it to keep up with the older girls at school. My favorite was a compilation by Art Buchwald of his columns during Watergate, called I Am Not A Crook.
I didn’t really care for children’s books until I was in my mid to late teens. But I always kind of got a kick out of reading If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to my nephews (who are only a couple of years younger than I am).
@MacBean don’t forget If You Give a Pig a Pancake and If You Give a Moose a Muffin!!
@SuperMouse If You Give a Mouse a Cookie was the only one we had! And they’d deemed themselves “too old to be read to” before If You Give a Pig a Pancake was even published. Too old to be read to. PFFT! I still like being read to. Ridiculous boys.
It just occurred to me that Fluther could have a grown-up version of those books with “If You Give a @SuperMouse a Pancake.”
“Sheep in a Jeep” was a book my kids loved. The plot was highly unlikely but it rhymed a lot.
My mom always read Love You, Forever to me. =] <heart fills will love>
There was another one I really liked, but I can’t remember the name of it. I’ve been searching for it for a while. It was about two brothers who are bats (or vampires? I’m 97% sure they’re bats) and one of them loses a tooth. The other one gets jealous and really wants a loose tooth. Eventually he gets one and everyone is happy.
My mom is also really amused by a series that includes a book called Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. She gave them to my nephew and constantly quotes them.
I also posted this before, but I MUST INSIST THAT EVERYONE CLICK THIS LINK AND ‘READ’ THE BOOK. Thank you, kindly.
@TitsMcGhee. Loved reading that book and thanks for a good laugh. Lurve for you, ma’am. =)
@TitsMcGhee – I’ve not seen hide nor hair (!) of the author for a long time. I must catch up on his work.
@aprilsimnel: Yeah, I fell off of the wagon for awhile, but saw this question and got the urge to go catch up too!
my favorite child’s story?
Well, The HOBBIT, of course! What other children’s stories ARE there? ::rolls eyes theatrically:::
Hey, who remembers Nate the Great and weird Rosamond with her cats? I used to love those books too, in 2nd and 3rd grades.
OH. I forgot..
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
Stephanie’s Ponytail
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Purple, Green & Yellow
There’s a Monster at the End of This Book
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