Favorite Children's Books
 

This was discussed more seriously in another Forum, but I thought we could start a new game. You get to name ONE children's book that you love/loved at a time, or a series. Examples would be:

The Little Prince

or

The Bobbsey Twins series

BUT NOT "anything by Dr. Suess. Ready?





The Little House Books.

Okay not to sound like a total blonde, but I'm kind of at a loss on how this is a game?

Am I supposed to come up with one of my favorite kids books that house either "the", "little" or "house" in the title?

Too bad with no Dr. Suess "Oh, the Places You Go" is one of my all-time books in general because it really "speaks" to you.


Anyways, ending my mini Dr. Suess hijack, need clarification on how this game is supposed to work. Because I actually just started listing all my favorite books until I went back and looked at your post an realized this was supposed to be a game.

It's just a list of children's books you love/loved.

The only stipulation is that you DON'T say "One Author's entire collection". You CAN say, One Author's Book, or Oh, the Places You'll Go - Dr. Suess. Or, The JRR Tolkein Trilogy - but not EVERYTHING BY JRR TOLKEIN, or EVERYTHING BY DR. Suess.

Does that help?

Think of it as a list of good or fun children's literature that you'd like to see your children enjoy, but you only get to list one book or collection at a time.

So I'm guessing that I can list all the books I loved as a child.



Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (I think that is how her last name is spelled)


Oh, The Places You Go by Dr. Suess


The Baby-Sitters Club (yeah can't remember the author)


Sweet Valley High by Francine Pascal


I Wish I Were A Butterfly (sorry don't remember the author either)


The Polar Express & Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg







I know that there are more, but I can't think of them now. Plus, I would love to mention some children's books that I have read and now own to read to my students and hopefully future children (when I have kids).






Am I doing this right?

Well, yes and no. I was going more for one at a time. Do you want to edit it to just leave one of those (stellar, IMHO) books up?

And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street ~ Dr. Suess

The Snowy Day ~Ezra Jack Keats

Tales of the 4th Grade Nothing ~ Beverly Cleary (I think)

Here's one (for now):

Where the Wild Things Are

The Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh I love this book!!!!!




One of my current favorite children's books is Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type.

Horton Hears A Who - Dr. Suess

Oooooo.....can I play?
 

I discovered this book during Chi Omega's Centennial Philanthropy (Reads Aloud), when we read to elementary school children for the year (1995).

It's a great book -- I loved the main character, Lil Nutbrown Hare, so much I use a variation of it as my screen name!


"Guess How Much I Love You"
by Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illustrator)

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Anything by Beverly Cleary
Bunnicula (tale of the vampire bunny)
Babysitters Club
Sleepover Friends
Sweet Valley Twins

The Wump World by Bill Peet

My favorite books as a kid were coloring books (:p), and any books (w/ tapes) for Teddy Rupxkin .. did I spell that right?

Oooh Teddy!! Is he still around?

Stone Soup - Marcia Brown


(Let's do this one book or series at a time, folks, to make it last longer!)

<<== follows directions well :)


One of my favorites as a kid:
"The Touch Me Book" (Golden Touch and Feel Book)
by Pat Witte, Eve Witte, Harlow Rockwell (Illustrator)


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And I grew up to love dachshunds!

The Giving Tree by Shel Siverstein

You so took mine!!! (I seriously was about to type that!)

Okay, how about Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown......

Looking back through my childhood memories...

I would have to say..

The Little Engine That Could...

The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williamson

Since I'm a first grade teacher, I will be visiting this often!

I loved:

Pat the Bunny - there were all these things you could do, rub the soft bunny, look at yourself in a "mirror", rub daddy's scratchy "beard", smell the "flowers". It was great tactile learning!

I could fill up pages of children's books, but will follow Honey's directions!;)

LOL! I almost put Pat the Bunny myself!!


Is That You, God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume

"The Sailor Dog" by Margaret Wise Brown

(the first book I read entirely on my own)

Oh... Another thing I thought of... when I was in the end of elementary school and going into middle school I had a thing for reading stories about children dying of diseases or surviving from them... So I suggest

The One Last Wish series by Lurlene McDaniel

My last one for tonight...

"Just So Stories" by Rudyard Kipling

The Devil's Arithmetic - Jane Yolen

Oh, I loved Pat the Bunny (for my middle daughter, though!), and the Betsy-Tacy series, and Beverly Cleary. (I'm reading "Henry and Ribsy" and "Beezus and Ramona" to my youngest daughter right now, and reliving how much I loved those books.)

"Edith and Mr. Bear" by Dare Wright

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Powerful story, beautiful illustrations!

Moses the Kitten by James Herriot
Only One Woof by James Herriot

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Mr. Men and Little Miss series by Roger Hargreaves

Go Dog Go! Dr. Seuss

I still love that book! It gets alot of "play" time in my classroom. I think that I just like the party in the tree at the end of the story!

Miss Rumphius? That sounds wonderful!!!

This is a series: All of a Kind Family

I learned more about Jewish holidays there than I ever learned from anywhere else!

I LOVE the All of a Kind Family series!!!!!!!!!! I also learned more about Jewish holidays and an appreciation of the Jewish religion through those books than I have from anywhere else! I think about those books anytime Seder or Purim or any other holiday is mentioned anywhere.

Miss Minerva and Billy Green Hill

The Shoe books....

Skating Shoes
Ballet Shoes, etc.

The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly





OMG I still love this book to this day!!!!!!

Pippi Longstocking
Beezus and Ramona

Dog Breath: The Horrible Trouble with Hally Tosis by Dav Pilkey

This isn't a book, but since we're talking about children, is this TOO CUTE, or what?!

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Count Worm