Your Favorite Children's Books

Here are a couple of my favorites:

Oh the Places You'll Go
Dr. Seuss

The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein

-JAX

 

E. Nesbit: The Enchanted Castle, and The Phoenix and the Carpet, especially. Edward Eager: Half Magic, Magic by the Lake, The Time Garden; everything he wrote was charming and gripping.
C. S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia ... he was the greatest!
George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Currie, etc.
Mary Norton, Bedknob and Broomstick.
Mary Norton, all The Borrowers books.
P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins books

yeah, I was one of those book-reading kids, too. I still like children's books. A few found recently: Dianna Wynne Jones, Witch Week etc.
Georgia Byng: Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl series.

 

The Wizard of Oz and it's many sequals. there was one with a traveling hobo or something that joins Dorthy in Oz. The idea of travel and winding up in strange and different places had a strong impact on me as a wee one.

 

To this day my fav childrens book is THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR =D

i also liked THE RAINBOW FISH. but not much now.

 

Currently the Hank Zipzer books!

 

Classics.

 

the best children book i love is something educational...like learn how to read and alphabet book..to gain your children more knowledge...









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where the wild things are

 

Hans Wilhelm "I'll Always Love You".. this was in my Grandmother's casket and it was always read to me when I was little.

 

The Giving Tree.

 

I love 'oh the places you will go' by Seuss and 'The Lorax'
alexander's horrible terrible no-good very bad day.
the soup mentioned before.
medieval feast
the giving tree
i love you forever
corduroy
the hungry hungry catterpillar
busy bunny
many many more.
I have a niece now, so as soon as we found out she was coming, i started buying her books. The corduroy book i got her is giant. she's 2 years old and the book is still bigger than her. i love it.
she knows how to say 'book' and she brings you a different book every time and she sits down next to you so you can read to her. she cant read yet, but she pretends to and its adorable. when she reads with me, I have her say a couple words per page. she's learned a few hard letters like c's and k's and p's and the 'sh' sound.

 

also, ella enchanted.

 

The world is small! When reading just the title of this thread, I knew it was The Secret Garden for me - my favorite book. Followed by Heidi. Seems I didn't get to read the L M Alcott series until later, for some reason.

 

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harry potter
alice in wonderland

 

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Dr Suess's books (although One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish was my fave)
Judy Blume's books
Beverly Cleary's books
R.L Stine's Goosebumps series
Encyclopedia Brown
The American Girl series (Felicity was the best, Samantha was so boring!)
The War Between The Terrible Teachers And The Splendid Kids
The Berenstein Bears
There's A Monster At The End of this Book
Old Mother Hubbard (it was a whole book in rhyming couplets that took the story much farther)
The 3 Sillies
The Babysitter's Club: Little Sister series
Christopher Pike's horror series (when I was a teen)
Sweet Valley High (I think that was the series, they had characters like Jade and had very stylized covers. Almost like a serialized book soap opera.)
Amelia Bedelia
Herbie Jones and the Class Gift
The Secret Garden
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Treasure Island
Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn
Edgar Allen Poe (can't believe my parents let me read his work at such a young age!)
The Time Machine
White Fang
Call of the Wild
The Last of the Mohicans
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(basically all of the classics)

There are so many more that I can visualize yet whose titles elude me. I was, and still am, a very avid bookworm.

 

Aughh its driving me crazy I am trying to figure it out but google has no idea what the hell i'm talking about. It was this book about a cat and a rat I forget what its about but I think the rat had a cape or something, I think they were trying to bake a huge cake or somethin, I just remember it had really good animation, and at the very end, you could see gigantic sized food way out into the distance. Please let me know if you know what i'm talking about I can't figure it out.
I thought it was something simple like fat cat and rat or something, or wait mabey fat pie mabey nobodys heard of it thats why I can't find it.

 

I am reading the new book of an Australian Author Susanne Gervay! ''Always Jack'' is amazing. In the book, Gervay tackles the effect of cancer on a family, and does so with her trademark warmth, insight and sensitivity. Worth a read!