Your favorite children's book is__________?

[grntuscarora]

My youngest is well into the category of "independent reader", so I asked her to sort through the books she didn't want anymore, figuring we'd donate them to Goodwill or some other group. It made me sad to see our copies of "Blueberries for Sal" and "Make Way for Ducklings" on the pile. How many hours did I log reading those stories to the kids when they were young? It's hard to part with them.

So what is your favorite book that you remember from childhood , or one that you enjoyed as an adult reading with a child?

Mine is "Blueberries for Sal".
Story. Pictures. Perfect.
I'm probably going to take that one off the pile.

[pipi_k]

1. The very first book

I was allowed to borrow from the library was "Harry The Dirty Dog" and that was my favorite for a while.

Then I liked the "Madeline" books.

When I got a little older, my favorite book was "Perri", a story about a squirrel.

Now my all time favorite children's book is "The Education of Little Tree" by Forrest Carter. Very sad in spots, but lots of hilarity in others.

[RevStPatrick]

2. My favorite children's book is...

Go the Fuck to Sleep.

Here it is being read by Samuel L Jackson:

[orleans]

39. omg! i didn't think this was a "real" book

but it is! i just ordered it from the library!

[elleng]

3. Pooh.

Like Sal too. and Ducklings.

[lunatica]

4. I loved Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little

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As I grew older I loved Jack London's White Fang and Call of The Wild. Then as I got older I discovered Science Fiction with Heinlein's Have Space Suit Will Travel.

[woodsprite]

10. Definitely Charlotte's Web. n/t

[grntuscarora]

11. Didn't read much science fiction when I was young,

except for A Wrinkle in Time in fourth grade. I loved that one.
Will have to see if our library has a copy of Have Space Suit. I've never heard of it before.

[fizzgig]

19. i've got a copy of that somewhere among my books

wonderful book

[backwoodsbob]

55. I was going to post

Charlotte's web

[OriginalGeek]

5. I liked reading the Madelain books to my daughter

My favorites, though, were any Dr Suess (Fox in Sox #1 because I loved it as a kid and it made my daughter laugh when I read it to her) and Where the Wild Things Are.

[HarveyDarkey]

6. Where The Sidewalk Ends

although most of his children's books are stellar

[fizzgig]

17. i love shel silverstein

can't even think about the giving tree without tearing up a bit

[bluedigger]

7. The Hobbit.

My hippie Dad sent it to me for Christmas when I was eight.

I got around to reading it when I was ten.

[fizzgig]

18. the only thing i can thank my fifth grade teacher for was reading us that book

i still have the copy my mom bought me in 92 or 93 and i read it at least once a year. you can tell it's a well-loved copy

[bluedigger]

24. I just picked up and am finishing a well worn copy at a yard sale a couple weeks ago.

It was (almost) the same paperback edition my Dad gave me in the 60's. Picked up the whole set and The Silmarillion for $2.50.

To me - priceless!

[femmocrat]

8. "Black Beauty"

My aunt bought it for me for Christmas one year and read the beginning chapters to me. It's a beautiful book.

[grntuscarora]

12. BB was a favorite of my older girl.

It is beautiful.

[elleng]

16. Black Beauty started me reading 'animal' books;

not really interested in much else as a kid.

After I HAD kids, well, all of the above!

[lunatica]

58. I loved that book too!

[REP]

9. Daddy Drinks Because You Cry

[RiffRandell]

13. My 10 year old liked the Harry Potter series and Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

My favorite is The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. Can barely have my 6 year old daughter read it to me and I'm crying.

[fizzgig]

20. i tear up even thinking about the giving tree

definitely near the top of my list

[Pool Hall Ace]

15. "A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Charlotte's Web"
"Stuart Little"

[XemaSab]

21. When I was a kid?

Narnia, for sure.

[momto3]

42. Mine too. nt

[fizzgig]

22. where the wild things are

hands down.

i bought myself a new copy five or six years ago and it sits on the shelf between two of my other favorites - cloudy with a chance of meatballs and alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. i still have all my beatrix potter and pooh books, a half dozen little golden books.

they're my oldest friends and still make me smile.

i know i've read blueberries for sal, but don't really remember anything other than i liked it.

[Andrew67]

23. Your favorite children's book is__________?

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[HopeHoops]

25. "The Lorax"

[SidDithers]

26. Love you Forever by Robert Munsch...

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We always give this book to the new parents when their first baby is born.

Sid

[pipi_k]

27. In 2005

when my MIL was here on hospice, my SIL gave us this book.

Beginning of life...

End of life...

[momto3]

40. I got this as a gift when my daughter was born.

Still makes me cry.

[distantearlywarning]

28. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

I am 30-something and I still occasionally drag that classic out of my bookshelf and read it again.

[peacefreak]

29. I just cleaned out my kid's books to give to the grandkids.

They are going to have to come to my house to see these:
Miss Rumphius-Barbara Cooney
Stellaluna-Janelle Cannon
Tuesday-David Weisner

[sinkingfeeling]

30. I think it was called 'The Little Brown Bear' from around 1946-1948. It was a story

about a little bear who wouldn't go to school and learn to read. I still have it tucked away at home although it has a lot of crayon scribbles over some of the pages. I'd love to find another copy without the scribbles.




I found it!

[grasswire]

31. please don't give those best books away

put them aside in a box for the pleasure of reading them to a new generation -- grandchildren. I have some childrens books from the early 1800s that were saved in the family. Precious.

My favorite book as a child (reading age) was Mr. Popper's Penguins. Al Gore says that was his favorite too.

[pipi_k]

44. One of my cousins

gave me the best gift a few years ago.

Long story short, I never knew my dad's mom. She left the family when he was 5 and he didn't see her for nearly 50 years, right before she died.

Anyway, after dad died I got into doing my family tree, and connected with a cousin I never knew about either. My grandmother was her great aunt and she knew her. My grandmother gave her a book she treasured from her own childhood... "Ramona" by Helen Hunt Jackson.

When I met my cousin for the first time, she gave me this book. I wish I could have known my grandmother, but I do feel closer to her holding the book she read so many times. I'm nearly 60, so that gives a pretty good idea of how old this book is.

[grasswire]

46. there ya go

books are an intergenerational connection and carry meaning well beyond the first owners.

[Art_from_Ark]

32. I had all sorts of favorite children's books

Dr. Seuss was high on the list:
Hop on Pop (the first book I could read, at 4 years old)
Cat in the Hat
Yertle the Turtle
The Sleep Book
Dr. Seuss' ABC
The Sneetches
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Horton Hears a Who
One Fish, Two Fish
Children's Dictionary (Cat in the Hat Books)

Then there was Go, Dogs, Go by P.D. Eastman

Winnie the Pooh series (with original drawings by Mr. Saunders, not Disney)
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Boxcar Children series (especially The Lighthouse Mystery)
Mr. Pine's Mixed-up Signs
The Golden Book Encyclopedia for Children
The Golden Book of World Geography for Children
Children's Encyclopedia of American History
Peter Rabbit
A Treasury of Children's Stories

Scholastic books:
Runaway Slave (The Story of Harriet Tubman)
Rocket Genius (The Story of Robert Goddard)
The Search for Planet X
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Nothing Ever Happens on My Block

Comic books:
MAD Magazine
Mystery Comics Digest (Ripley's Believe It Or Not, Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery, The Twilight Zone)
Uncle Scrooge
Peanuts
Yellow Submarine

Other:
Golden Magazine


That's what I remember off the top of my head

[Spike89]

33. The whole OZ catalog

I had a mad crush on Dorothy Shea in 1st grade and somehow that transferred to Dorothy in the books. I read all 30-odd titles. In essence, the books pulled me from an early/pre reader into a voracious reader.

[mia]

34. Miss Rumphius

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[handmade34]

35. ah, memories...

some from when I was a kid, some from reading to my kids...

Homer Price

Make Way for Ducklings

The Happy Hocky Family (best whole family favorite!!! kid all have wicked sense of humor)



And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street

Chronicles of Narnia

Always Room For One More



Tikki Tikki Tembo ( fun to read aloud - not quite culturally accurate!)



and so many more...

[RebelOne]

36. The whole series of Bobbsey Twins and Nancy Drew series.

This was many, many, many years ago.

[Arctic Dave]

37. Where the Red Fern Grows

Dr Suess

Shel Silverstien

[Broken_Hero]

38. The White Mountain trilogy by J. Christopher

followed very closely by L. Alexander's Taran novels....

[momto3]

41. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

My daughter loved this book. Read it to her so often that the binding broke and the pages began to fall out. I still have it with her baby things. I cannot through it out (too dilapidated to donate). I can still recite it from memory 13 years later.



A told B and B told C, I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree.......

[annonymous]

43. Alice in Wonderland and The Black Stallion

I also enjoyed Dr. Suess books and Nancy Drew.

[Sweet Freedom]

45. Giraffes Can't Dance

I saved it and recommend it to all my friends with kids.

[pipi_k]

47. Oooh just thought of a couple more....

The Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

The Moffats

The Bobbsey Twins

[Auggie]

48. Bartholomew and the Oobleck

I still have it

On edit: Not a childrens' story, but I remember my mom reading Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Gold Bug" to my brother and I. I was mesmerized by her reading -- it's still one of my favorite short stories of all time.

[Arugula Latte]

49. It's hard to decide, but "James and the Giant Peach" is up there.

I kept my copy and have read it to my kids.

[TorchTheWitch]

50. The Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day

"I went to sleep with gum in my mouth, and now there's gum in my hair..."

[TorchTheWitch]

51. Oh, just thought of another faboulous one...

"Christmas is Everywhere Including Asia Minor"... bootlegging Jewish granny insists on getting a Christmas tree and convinces her grandson to help her hide her stash inside a snowman right smack on the front lawn.

[fizzgig]

53. one of my favorites

my sister got me a new copy for christmas a few years ago

[TorchTheWitch]

54. One of my brothers met the woman who wrote the book

At some kind of dinner function. He had been placed next to her at the dinner and spent so much time laughing and chatting (and consuming large quantities of wine) when they suddenly realized they were the only people left other than the hired staff that was cleaning up. She sent him a signed copy of the book on this birthday and wrote a lovely hilarious letter that covered both front and back pages and referenced their "melting under the table" with all that wine while she was so impressed with his being able to recite nearly the whole book word for word despite being 40-something and completely toodled. He also doesn't recall some other things they had apparently talked about nor that he'd let her know when his birthday was or is address. He sadly doesn't recall all that much of the encounter other than barfing for two days afterward and having to hang onto his own head to keep it on his neck... he's not much of a drinker.

I love the book even more as an adult than I did as a kid. What a great idea your sister had in getting you a copy as a gift. In fact, I think I'm going to pick up a copy for myself.

[fizzgig]

57. that is way cool

i think i need to read that book again, i've had a couple terrible, horrible no good, very bad days lately

[KamaAina]

52. Starabella!

My dear friends back in NY created this all by themselves. It is basically the life story of Tara, the elder daughter who is Autistic, as written by Mom and set to music Tara herself composed and performed, with neurotypical little sis -- and Broadway-caliber performer! -- Dana on vocals. And Dad? He's their business manager.

http://starabella.com

[petronius]

56. The Wump World (and everything else by Bill Peet)

The Seuss collection, Where the Wild Things Are, Sir Toby Jingle's Beastly Journey, The Giving Tree are all also pretty high on the list.

As I got older it was Oz, Madeleine L'Engle, and The Hardy Boys...

[Brother Buzz]

59. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as one hundred men can dig in a week

[applegrove]

60. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein.

[AsahinaKimi]

61. The Cat in the Hat