Children's Books

[Sojourner]

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Nov 10 2005, 08:36 AM']The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
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My first year teaching we did a unit on that book. And our Children's Theater did a production which we went to see. It was really fun.

[shortnun]

[quote name='Lil Red' date='Nov 9 2005, 05:44 PM']Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books.

man i love that woman. i still have those books, too. read them a lot too.
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Oh she was [i]fabulous[/i]. I also read all the Ramona books (Beverely Cleary) and most of the Judy Blume books. [u]Little Women [/u]ranks near the top of my list, but I consider that more of an adolescent book than a children's book. And I love all the 'If you give a.... (pig/pancake, moose/muffin, mouse/cookie, etc)' books. And, [u]The Giving Tree[/u].

My little sister and I had a pile of 'Christmas only' books, and we got to get them out on December 5 (after my Dad's bday on the 4th), and we could have them out until Epiphany. [u]The Polar Express [/u] is a beautiful book I still like to go home and read them.

<insert moment of nostalgia here>

[homeschoolmom]

The Best Christmas Pagent Ever.

My third grade teacher read that to us and I have loved it ever since. It's our next book for our homeschool book club.

[shortnun]

I can't believe I didn't mention it.... or no one before me had......


ROALD DAHL!!! Matilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, ooooooh they were wonderful books.

[Sojourner]

Ooo, I loved The Secret Garden. I read that one more than once, I'm sure.

And I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier -- Anne of Green Gables. I read EVERY Lucy Maude Montgomery book ever written, I think.

[Colleen]

[url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064440346/104-5101943-1207152?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance"]Owl at Home[/url] by Arnold Lobel. It was one of my favorites, and now my five, seven, and nine-year-old brothers always ask me to read it to them.

[url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0590020498/104-5101943-1207152?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance"]"I Can't," Said the Ant[/url] by Polly Cameron. Another one my siblings love, too.

I also loved [i]Are You My Mother?[/i] and [i]Go, Dog, Go![/i] (P.D. Eastman).

And then of course, the Little House on the Prairie books, the Chronicles of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, and really any of Louisa May Alcott's books.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='shortnun' date='Nov 10 2005, 09:52 AM']I can't believe I didn't mention it.... or no one before me had......
ROALD DAHL!!! Matilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, ooooooh they were wonderful books.
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Yeah, those were great. I loved The BFG!

[Carrie]

I loved The Velveteen Rabbit, Corduroy, and Are You My Mother?

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Carrie' date='Nov 10 2005, 12:27 PM']Are You My Mother?
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Yeah, that was a good one...I remember having the Spanish version, too...

[ardillacid]

Lord of the Rings and Narnia

[franciscanheart]

I really liked [u]Are You My Mother[/u] too.

what else....
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? & Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?
Little Critter Books (Just Grandpa and Me, When I Get Bigger, All By Myself)
Danny and the Dinosaur
The Blind Men and the Elephant
No Jumping on the Bed!

and some of my absolute favorites
Cecily G. and the Monkeys
A Picture Book of Passover
A Child's Bible (Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon, Ohio - Sister Mary Kathleen Glavich, S.N.D.)
The World God Made
Going to Confession (i dont know why i used to like this book so much)

[photosynthesis]

I loved the Maurice Sendak books, especially [u]Where the Wild Things Are[/u] and [u]In the Night Kitchen[/u]. Maurice Sendak was actually my college's graduation speaker about 2 years ago... He was excellent!

[u]Yertle the Turtle[/u] was always my favorite book when I was a toddler. My mom said it was my favorite bedtime story, and that she used to cringe whenever I would ask her to read it to me, because it was such a long children's book and usually she was so tired from chasing me around the house all day!

[u]the Secret Garden[/u], [u]Anne of Green Gables[/u], [u]Little Women[/u], [u]Heidi[/u] and [u]Little House on the Prairie[/u] were some of my favorites...

and I loved [u]Ramona[/u] and [u]Amelia Bedilia[/u].

For awhile I read the Baby Sitters' Club books... but then it started to get old.

Roald Dahl's books were good too... and I am scarred for life because a few years ago I was at a garage sale and I found a bunch of OTHER books he'd written. it turns out that Dahl also had a passion for writing erotica books

I also liked [u]Bridge to Terabithia[/u] and [u]Jacob Have I Loved[/u] by Katherine Paterson.

[avemaria40]

Babysitter's Club, Nancy Drew, Marvin K. Mooney, will You Please Go Now?, books based on Disney movies, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, American Girl Books and Beverly Cleary Books

[photosynthesis]

i loved "Are you there God, it's me margaret" too... along with a lot of other Judy Blume books.

when I was a camp counselor a few summers ago, all of the kids wanted to read Robert Munsch stories... does anyone else know about this guy?

[franciscanheart]

oh i forgot about nancy drew! my mom turned me onto those.

[franciscanheart]

in fourth grade we read amos fortune... i think i liked it.

[missionseeker]

I liked the first few :"Little House on The Prarie" books.
I LOVED L.M. Montgomery and Louisa May Alcott.
The "Anne of Windy Poplars", though I didn't like when I was in third or fourth grade. I thought it would have been way more interesting if Gilbert had replied. lol
"Eight Cousins" and "Rose in Bloom". "Old Fashioned Girl" and "Little Women" "Little Men" and "Jo's Boys" I've read like five times.
Then I kind of stopped reading what I liked cuz my school had this program A.R. (accelerated Reading) for kids who don't like to read. you take a test and then you read whatever books are on your grade level and then take a test for points. Ten points a month and you get a feild trip. (I tested way above my GRADE level and so I didn't read what I liked cuz you were only allowed to read what was on your grade level) If you didn't take a certain number of tests, you failed reading. Stupid program.

But I loved "The Adventures of Dr. Doolittle" I think that's the name.

[tojo]

I read almost all the books mentioned in this whole thread.....

[franciscanheart]

i cant believe it. i think i jinxed myself (however you spell it). my mom cleaned out our bookcase today and got rid of a bunch of good books. my dad said he wanted to keep the ones we really liked and two of my favs got chunked. im sad.