Childrens books

Watership Down! That was my ultimate favourite.

The Jungle Book and Uncle Toms Cabin were pretty damn good too, Kipling for the win.

 

The Jolly Postman

 

"Ferdinand the Bull" by Munro Leaf is good classic. About a bull that wants to sits around and smell flowers rather then fight in bullfights.

"The Secret of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien is also good.

 

Little Pollywop the Dancing Badger.

 

I like that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGTVRbpAuRo"]Walt Disney - Ferdinand The Bull - 1938 - YouTube

 

Shit guys, what about The Hobbit? Not really sure what age that's really aimed at, been a while since I read that.. but I know it was intended for a younger audience.

 

I bought 'The Best of Snoopy' - but I think I might have to return it...

These books are for a gay(lesbian) couples first child...

The VERY FIRST page...

 

The first novels I read as a kid were 'The Indian in the Cupboard' books/series by Lynne Reid Banks.
I LOVED them! I read them over and over so many times.
Not for a baby, but for when the baby gets older

 

I recently started reading "A Month of Bedtime Stories" by Neil Roy McFarlane to my 8-year-old son. He immediately lost all interest in Harry Potter. If your kid's still just a baby it's probably a little old for him/her, but it definitely fits the bill as far as reminiscing goes. The best thing is I have as much fun reading it as he does hearing it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Month-Bedti...f+Wackiness+and+Wonder+for+the+Retiring+Child

 

Where the Red Fern grows by Wilson Rawls :2thumbsup:




Hotwater

 

The Giving Tree or Where the Sidewalk Ends.

 

Dr Seuss and also Mother Goose nursery rhymes have been the most read books in my house if you're getting them for a very young child. I've amassed a pretty sizeable book collection for a toddler but Dr Suess, Mother Goose, and any other book that either uses a lot of repetition and rhyming or uses one word and one picture per page are really the only books that will keep a very young child's attention. Brown Bear Brown Bear is a great example of the latter and a classic.

I was excited about reading story books from the time he was a wee little fetus but he usually gets bored a page or two in so really silly and simple books are the way to go for that age group

I plan to read this to my son when he is 4 or 5

 

That is nothing short of an excellent book; but, more for young adults I think. I read it (again) several years ago and it truly brought tears to my eyes.

 

It was required reading in elementary school but you think younger kids couldn’t handle it?



Hotwater

 

I think or guess around the 5th or 6th grades, it could be appreciated...for some reason I associate Where the Red Fern Grows with I Heard the Owl Call My Name. For I Heard the Owl..., I honestly do think you'd need to at least be in Jr. High to come close to appreciating it.

Both books deal with life and death in rural (hard) settings. Even though a child in the 3rd or 4th grade might could call the words, I think it would take the maturity of an older child (around here anyway) to truly "get" the book(s).

 

I'm gonna go for an Olde tale of English past =
"Wind in the Willows"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_in_the_Willows