Favorite Children's Book

[aephi alum]

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.

[honeychile]

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!!)

[Tippiechick]

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

[AOIIalum]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
I adored all of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books.

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

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

[CUGreekgirl]

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

[tinydancer]

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.

[AOTTAdvisor]

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!

[Sister Havana]

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

[LightBulb]

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