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eugene huo says:
MY new favourite has to be Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant... my youngest loves to say "Mudge!" and giggles the cutest giggle. I read it just to hear her do it. :)
posted Jul 9
eugene huo says:
just picked up a couple books at a used bookstore on College St. yesterday: "Harold and the Purple Crayon" by Crockett Johnson, and "Harry the Dirty Dog" by Gene Zion. Both of them happen to be 50th anniversary editions. They're over 50 years old now. Still great.
posted Apr 24
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jo says:
sounds like you hit the jackpot with those two. kids just never get tired of classics like that.
posted Apr 24
lovethecause says:
i teach 1st grade, and the books they want over and over:
"so much"
"knufflebunny"
my kind, adorable long-distance love, he puts me to sleep on yahoo talk by reading me:
"the story of ferdinand"
posted Apr 19
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eugene huo says:
I have a memory of when I was 10 or so, borrowing a book from the library, loving it, and then never being able to find it again because I forgot the title! I was an absent-minded kind of kid. Well, thanks to Amazon, I found it: The Secret World of Og by Pierre Burton. Canadian, no less!
My two girls (aged 2 and 4) currently like:
~ Up, Up, Down! and Murmel, Murmel by Robert Munsch
~ Little Critters Little Sister's Birthday by Mercer Mayer
~ anything Franklin by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark
~ we just finished a "big kids" book Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (I just got the DVD, and I told them we had to finish the book before we watched the movie, LOL)
They used to like (and Daddy misses reading):
~ The Going To Bed Book by Sandra Boynton
~ Fuzzy Fuzzy Fuzzy! also by Boynton
~ The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
~ Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Some recommends:
~ Olivia by Ian Falconer
~ Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
Books I'm glad they don't make me read anymore because I hate them:
~ Dora books :p
posted Apr 17
jo says:
Where to start...so many...
~ The Velveteen Rabbit
~ I'll Love You Forever
~ Goodnight Moon
~ All the Madeleine books (I have daughters...naturally gravitated to the "girly" tomes)
~ The Mitten
~ The Napping House
~ Alexander and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
~ The Polar Express (any book by Chris Van Allsburg is a treasure)
~ Where the Wild Things Are
~ All Dr. Suess books
As a former prek teacher, I could, no doubt, go on forever...but these are my favorites.
posted Apr 17
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Frank says:
As a child I have my long list of favorite books, but since the arrival of my daughter 8 months ago, that has very much changed. My favorite books are anything Dr. Suess or Richard Scary (my daughter loves There's a Wocket in My Pocket). Also, I am (or I should say my daughter is) a fan of Good Night Moon and Pat The Bunny.
posted Apr 17
creole says:
I'll start. I LOVED reading when I was a kid..."big kids" books, "little kids" books, I loved them all. Some of my favorites:
- Iceberg Hermit (my 5th grade teacher read it to us over a 6 week period)
- Lord of the Rings series (first started reading them when I was 8).
- Chronicles of Narnia (I still have the books my grandparents gave me when I was 7)
- Lots of the Judy Blume books
- All of the Hardy Boys books
- All of the Tom Swift books
- The Three Investigators
- All sorts of Greek, Roman and Norse mythology
- My current favorite is a book called "Llama Llama Red Pajama which I read to my daughter at least once a week.
posted Apr 16
eugene huo says:
A big hello to you all, and thanks for joining the group! I hope this will be a fun place to share books that we like to read to our kids. You know how there are books that just 'work', and then there are those books that no matter how hard you try, they just don't like them? Let's help each other find the 'keepers'!
posted Apr 16
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daryljames says:
Snuggle Puppy by Sandra Boynton is a perennial favorite in our house.
posted Jun 15