Favorite Children's Book
 

This may have been used before but I am doing a grant proposal for a children's library and it got me thinking about my favorite children's book--

Mine was The Story of Ping

What was yours?

Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book

There's a Wocket in my Pocket & Green Eggs and Ham
You can't go wrong w/Dr. Seuss.

I also loved The Little Princess & The Secret Garden.

I, too was a child of the Berenstein Bears, Paddington, Ramona Quimby, and Judy Blume books, but these were some of my favorites and most cherished:

Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Love You Foreverr by Robert N. Munsch and Sheila McGraw
I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be...

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff

The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

that's what i was going to say!

Our kids and our grand daughter all love(d) Goodnight Moon and The Rainbow Goblins...

I adored all of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books.

I also love "Goodnight Moon". Reminds me of when my girls were babies and I'd read it to them every night :)

Ananzi the Spider

Cat in the Hat

To Think That All Happened on Mullberry Street

Cars and Trucks and Things That Go--it's finding Goldbug in EVERY picture that makes this story book fun...

All the Brother's Grimm fairytales... Just that Princess life my folks sold me off into...

The Giving Tree - still brings a tear to my eye

Are You There God? It's Me Margaret - too bad it's still banned in many schools.

A current book I read w/my 6th graders is The Giver. That's an amazing book w/out the traditional "storybook" ending.

When I was really little, my favorites were:

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The Monster at the End of this Book

my ultimate favorites are the laura ingalls wilder books. i still have them on my book shelves.

i also loved
tales of a fouth grade nothing
are you there god its me margaret
paradise island (i think that is the name)

now that i am a teacher, i have a few favorites, too
stellaluna
the rainbow fish
and the froggy books by jonathon london

if i think of more, i will add them!

the cat and the hat
curious george
bernstein bears
three little pigs
charlotte's web

My favourite books when I was younger were:
~No Flying in the House
~Life at the Royal Ballet School (I bought myself a first edition copy for my birthday last year :) )
~The Westing Game
~Little House books
~Little Miss and Mr. Men books

My favorite when I was very small was "What Do People Do All Day?" by Richard Scarry. It's well written and illustrated, and explains what different occupations are, etc. My copy fell apart, I read it so much. :)

The only problem I have with it now, as an adult, is that all the adult female characters are stay-at-home moms. I don't think any of them had careers outside the home. The book did address the challenges of being a SAHM, though.

Are You There God, It's Me Margaret is banned?? Heh, even my ultra-religious parents let me read that. Then again, I grew up in a school district where The Catcher in the Rye was on the required reading list.

Y'all have mentioned SOOO many books that I would have listed!!
*sigh*

-The Little House books
-The Velveteen Rabbit
-all the Judy Blume books
-Where the Red Fern Grows
-If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
-The Secret Garden
-The Little Princess
-all Dr. Suess
-what was that series of children's biographies? It was great!
-The Diary of Anne Frank
-All of a Kind Family series by Sydney Taylor (and if you haven't read these, they are great!!)

Goodnight Moon: I have memorized this thing.
The Giving Tree: Makes me cry.

Where the Wild Things Are is one of my absolute favorites. The boy is named Max, so it really suits the little one.

The Spider and the Fly
Click, Clack Moo: Cows That Type
Madeline
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
No, David

The Boxcar Children
Little Women
A Wrinkle in Time
Anything by Beverly

They weren't great literature, but I loved the Trixie Beldon series.

There are so many. I loved being read to as a child, and went through books like crazy once I learned how to read.

When I was little:

Over in the Meadow- It was a Little Golden Book and my mom read it to me ever night. The book (which is now held together by tape) still sits on my shelf so I can read it to my little ones one day.

The Pokey Little Puppy, or for that matter and book that had a dog in it. I was dog crazy and still am.

As I got older:

The Entire Boxcar Children series- These are awesome. I have the whole series except for maybe 7 of the books. One day I plan on ordering the last few that I need so I can have the entire series

Babysitter Club series

Judy Blume Books

As an elementary school librarian, I have so many favorites that I can't narrow it down! I'd like to recommend a newer book that I think is great. It's "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers" about Philippe Petit, who walked a tight rope between the World Trade Center Towers back in about 1974. It's just amazing - won the Caldecott Award for outstanding illustrations last year.

Okay, I have to add some more then--

Wait til Helen Comes(the SCARIEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ-it may be kid lit but it freaked me out!)

The 10th Good Thing About Barney

And I agree with everyone that loved the All of a Kind Family--I can still read those and love them!

A lot of mine have been mentioned, but I will add some more:

-The Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum: With Lovable, Furry old Grover

-The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

-Beezus and Ramona, by Beverly Cleary

-Ellen Tebbits, by Beverly Cleary

-The "A Very Young..." series by Jill Krementz (especially A Very Young Dancer and A Very Young Gymnast)

-Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light In The Attic, by Shel Silverstein

-Rolling Harvey Down The Hill by Jack Prelutsky

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Here's a great kids' book from Strong Bad.