what childhood book must you show your child?

Might as well throw in some Machiavelli and Nietzsche while you're at it.

When my daughter gets older, I'm putting away all my true crimes stuff, but giving her the option of those political/philosophical books if she's interested. Hm. To put away my Marquis de Sade or not?

 

i was raised on aesop's fables and walden. i'd add kalil gebran's the prophet and walker's translation of the wah hoo chang (which i've obviously forgotten how its spelled). the poetry of edgar a guest was another of my dad's favorites he read to me and started me out with before i started kindergarten.

for perty pichers i like those serindipidy books that look 70s ish, i'm not sure when they actually came out, but i know they didn't exist yet until long after my childhood and even adolescence.

dr suess too. i was i think in the third grade when i first heard of those, and didn't really get to know them untill is was in my 30s in the early 1980s

 

My mom read Crime and Punishment to me when I was 7 and I absolutely loved it. I always urged her to read adult books to me... hated kids books. It encouraged me to start reading serious literature at a very early age.

I will do the same with my kids.

 

Andrew Henry's Meadow +
Kristina Katrina and the Box

These are the two books which I used to read. They're really good.

 

where the sidewalk ends
oh the places you'll go
the missing piece

 

Chronicles of Narnia

 

Clifford
Stellaluna
Cordouroy
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Charlotte's Web

 

aesop's fables, walden, where the wild things are, barlow's guide to extra-terrestrials, in-re-mechanibus, kalil gebran's the prophet, and robert hinline's stranger in a strange land. the last two are much more important, useful and meaningful, then either 1984 or brave new world. i'd also dig out a couple of old dome books and a last whole earth catalogue. alicia bay laural's living on the earth. also among my favorites i'd like them to see are a couple of my real favorites; architecture without architects, yv88, mabye even gerald m best's nevada county narrow gauge. and of course the seven valleys and the four valleys and the hidden words. along with abdu'l baha's foundations of world unity and shoghi effendi's turning point for all nations.

 

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe that was the one that got me when I was little.


And I read Junky by William Burroughs when I was about 10, I think just about my all time favourite book, I probably give that to my tween, and anything by Thomas Hardy, both of them had really good writing styles

 

MUUMI!

 

where the wild things are.

 

^ yesss

where the wild things are
goodnight moon
three chinese brothers (i think thats what its called)
aesop's fables

 

They'd probably have to be able to read on their own fairly well to tackle this book, but hands down The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. I read it way back when and it's still one of my favorite books to this day, despite pretty much selectively reading non-fiction now.

Not only does it have an amazing plot line, but the underlying themes are great as well.

 

^ i cant believe i forgot that one! i looved that book.

 

'The Forest Child' by Marni McGee and A. Scott Banfill
Such a beautiful book, and ideal for hippie kids.

 

The Giving Tree.. such a great short with such a great lesson.