Your Favorite Children's Books

goodnight moon

i still read it sometimes.

***goodnight forum***

 

Anything by Enid Blyton.. but especially her Mallory Towers and The Naughtiest Girl books. You could say that Rowling's Harry Potter is really Mallory Towers with a magical twist .

Someone's mentioned Narnia.. there were great.. until I grew up and understood all the Christian allegories going on.. then it put me off.. but read it for the story and language and it's wonderful stuff.

There's K LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy.. written for kids and winner of numerous kid awards but underpinned throughout by Taoist concepts of balance. Something all adults can read and apply to the way we live life.

And finally (and not least) there's Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising Pentalogy for her classic reworking of the Arthurian legend.

Actually.. come to think of it.. u could probably throw David Edding's in here. His Belgariad and Malloreon quintets are easy to read and have a cracking story of good vs evil.

 

lol from about the age of 5 upwards to about 10 i loved black beauty and rohl dahl stuff...and all the ickle penguin classics like the princess and the pea.

and i distinctly remember books with characters that were vegetables...i can't for the life of me remember what it was called though

 

how could I forget The Other Side of the Mountain, it is a true story based on a teenage boy who left home and lived on a mountain in the wild by himself for a summer. they made a movie about it also

 

correction, it was MY Side of the Mountain, the other is a book and movie about Jill Kinmont

 

If you give a mouse a cookie - Laura Numeroff

The Balloon Tree - Phoebe Gilman

(both i loved and still do)

 

The earliest book I can really remember enjoying was "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", which was a cardboard book for small children, and was probably the first book I read myself. At primary school I really enjoyed "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh", and was very pleased when we had to read it in class a few years later, although I though the animated film was pretty rubbish. The other books that stand out are "The Worst Witch" series by Jill Murphy, which were probably my favorite out of the lot, and I was really pleased when they made a great TV series based on them a few years ago.

 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, I love that book. For some reason I always got really hungry on the page with the plums.

When I was younger my favourite book was The Secret Garden. I've always loved it.

 

In retrospect I think that Charlotte's Web br E.B.White was my favourite children's book.If I remember the spider was a mentor to a runt piglet.It was that meaningful one to one personal relationship that is so important in life.In the end the spider dies after laying eggs, the new spiders get blown away to start new life cycles of their own.

 

Curious George for sure
Good Night moon
the one with all the monsters on the island
berenstein bears

yours?

 

My all time favorite children's book when I was younger would have to be The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

 

I loved the Great Brain series

and the

Cricket in Times Square series

 

Where the Wild Things Are
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia
Corduroy
The Witches
A Cricket in Times Square

 

Where The Wild Things Are

And these three poetry books by this russian guy

Falling Up
A Light in the Attic
Where the Sidewalk Ends

I loved those three books, and i still do, its funny and intriuging at the same time

oh yeah and the Whole Dinotopia Series

 

i definitely still have that book in my room

 

good call, thats what I ment!

two more excellent choices, good call!

 

carl, you have some good taste

 

I think it was called "The Funny Little Woman"
and "Snugglepot and Cuddlepie"

 

and The Very Hungry Caterpillar

 

Good Night Moon, Richard Scary's stuff, Dr. Suess's stuff, Where The Wild Things Are, and the Where's Waldo series