What are some of your favorites? Personally, out of current authors I'd have to say J.K. Rowling (you could see that one coming, couldn't you? *wry grin*) and Tamora Pierce. Some of my favorites from elementary school were,
_A Wrinkle In Time_
_The Secret of Nymph_ (aplogoies, I can only remember the film title)
_Can I Get There By Candlelight?_
_Mary Poppins_ (never have forgotten some of those images!)
Peace and good reading light,
Aleera
_A Wrinkle In Time_
_The Secret of Nymph_ (aplogoies, I can only remember the film title)
_Can I Get There By Candlelight?_
_Mary Poppins_ (never have forgotten some of those images!)
Peace and good reading light,
Aleera
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Sun, August 15, 2004 - 8:53 AM* Everything I've read by L'Engle has been awesome (Wrinkle in Time"
* John Bellairs - Only read the trilogy which starts with "The House with the Clock in its Walls" but LOVED it!
* Harriet the Spy - I've probably read this 10 times and still love it.
* Oz - any and all
* Little House - didn't think I'd like 'em but really did
* Roy Chapman Andrews books about his dinosaur-digging expeditions to the Gobi desert in the 30s
* Roald Dahl, particularly Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator and James & the Giant Peach. Some find him too negative or scary for kids, but even when I was quite small I understood his black sense of humor. I think he's one you either "get" and love or don't. Nothin' wrong with that.
* Narnia - Even as a non-Christian, I love these. I think they teach good morality without being too preachy and are lovely adventures besides
* Prydain Chronicles - still faves of mine. An interpretation of Welsh legend including the Arthur mythos
* Grimm's fairy tales - Some feel they are too scary for kids, but I never suffered as a result of reading them or having them read to me.
* Tell Me Why? - A whole series of books which answer all manner of questions that kids ask like "Why is the sky blue?", "How high is up?", etc.
* Macaulay's (might have the spelling wrong, too lazy to go look it up) books on engineering "Castle", "Pyramid", "Cathedral". Excellent!
* The Great Brain series - set in turn-of-the-20th-century Utah, mostly in a little town in the south-east near St. George, The Great Brain is the older brother of the narrator who comes up with all kinds of schemes and gets into and out of multitudes of troubles.
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Mon, April 24, 2006 - 8:29 AMThe Great Brain series - set in turn-of-the-20th-century Utah, mostly in a little town in the south-east near St. George, The Great Brain is the older brother of the narrator who comes up with all kinds of schemes and gets into and out of multitudes of troubles.
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I JUST SAW THIS BIT!!! I LOOOOOOVE THIS SERIES! i loved him because i thought he was so brilliant. i was utterly fascinated when he made the copy of the key......
do you remember that the actually made a movie based on it and Jimmy Osmond played the lead?
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Mon, August 16, 2004 - 3:04 PMOK Im a school teacher, you shouldnt have asked me, this will take for ever if IM not generall. So I must be
Anything by Tommy DePaola, Stephen Kellog, Arnold Lobel(Frog and Toad!) Seuss, Leo Lionni, Ul De Rico, Rohld Dahl, Bev Cleary, and a few more that will come to mind after I hti "submit"
I also enjoy Harry Potter, The Series Of Unfortunate Events ( Lemony Snickett) and the Spiderwick Chronicles. I loved the Little House books when I was a girl.
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Tue, November 2, 2004 - 12:49 AMAny of Heinlein's 'Juvies' especially (in order of importance)
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
Tunnel in the Sky
The Door into Summer
StarBeast
The Rolling Stones
And any of Andre Norton's
The Witch World series
Time Traders series
the 'Tom Swift' books (can't remember the Author)
And any by:
Tamora Pierce
L'Engle's
and too many others to list!
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Thu, November 4, 2004 - 6:52 AMHey, A, I totally agree with you on the Heinliein, though I didn't get to read most of them until I was in high school.
Just yesterday, after reading your post the day before, I found a copy of The Rolling Stones!!! Yay! Haven't seen one in years! The Door Into Summer might be one of my very faves of his, juvie or adult. I have to re-read lots of his stuff as it's been too long now. -
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Thu, November 4, 2004 - 7:01 AMLeo Lioni...
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Thu, February 24, 2005 - 6:14 PMof late, my infatuation in children's lit. has grown. but me, i preffer the picture books.
if you have read
"the paper bag princess"
"the slimy book" babette cole
or
a book that if it wasn't stolen from me i would remember the title properly. but it was about wings of steel.
well then, you might just understand.
of course when a boy borrows "pickle chiffon pie" from a local library just to read it to you, well... i mean, ya know right?
at any rate, this is a brilliant thread, i hope only to breathe more life into it. in fact, one of my favorite "getting to know you" questions is, what was your favorite book/story as a child?
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Thu, February 24, 2005 - 6:16 PMaw, since you asked, i'll tell you.
so... they tell me i liked "goodnight, moon" as a wee one. but i remember liking "the little match girl" by hans christian anderson and poppa read me ray bradbury since time immemorial, and i remember the one about the sun. or the few about it.
well?
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Thu, February 24, 2005 - 10:46 PMI loved the Paper Bag Princess!
Cinder Edna is wonderful too - another great independent gal fairy tale with gorgeous artwork
Im also a big fan of Shel Silverstein
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Thu, February 24, 2005 - 11:07 PMFor my birthday one year someone gave me a *lovely* hardbound illustrated edition of fairy tales like Puss in Boots, Thumbleina, and one about the Columbine flower (I remember the images more than the tales. ) The pictures were lovely, though, with a touch of the mysterious and magical about them. I wonder what happened to it?
These may not count as "kids books" but I still remember "Where the Red Fern Grows" and "Island of the Blue Dolphins" and, of course, "The Black Stallion" series.
And this summer, I was introduced to the "Redwall" books, which I call the book version of crack, because I was hooked after page 2 of the first novel.
Peace and good reading light,
Autumn
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Mon, April 24, 2006 - 8:31 AMI loved the Paper Bag Princess! <<<<<<<<<<<<
ok, here i go again! lol
i too love that book. wow, so many great minds that think alike! ")
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Fri, February 25, 2005 - 9:13 AMMrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nymh
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Fri, February 25, 2005 - 7:25 PMLittle kid books: Almost anything by Tommie dePaola, Donald Crewe, Denise Flemming, Taro Gomi ("Everyone Poops" & such), Tana Hoban, Holly Hobbie ("Toot & Puddle" collection), Eric Carle, the pop-up bug books but I forget who does them ("Bugs in a Box", "Jingle Bugs"), Laura Numeroff, Babette Cole, Cynthia Rylant, Mercer Mayer, Sandra Boynton, anything Lynn Munsinger had a hand in (as author or illustrator), Arnold Lobel, Ian Falconer, Dav Pilkey (okay, better stop now!)
I also like "Skippyjon Jones", "Diary of a Wombat"
Bigger kid books: Madeline L'Engle, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Paula Danziger, Judy Blume
I didn't read a lot of "pre-/teen" fiction - I kinda skipped over most of it and went on to adult books fairly early. As such, I never got into Roald Dahl's kid books, but I *love* his adult works.
I also never really got much into Dr. Seuss. I liked "One Fish, Two Fish" and "Yertle the Turtle", but I never really did 'get' The Cat in the Hat. -
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Tue, March 1, 2005 - 8:41 AMEveryone has said mine already :( but I'll say the Narnia books, A Wrinkle in Time, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, Bridge to Tarabithia, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Harriet the Spy, etc. -
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Thu, March 3, 2005 - 9:25 PMI was obsessed with Harriet. I used to sneak around half built houses, carrying around a notebook trying to figure out what in the world I was supposed to write.
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Thu, January 19, 2006 - 9:54 PM*sigh* what a relief to see that someone added that missing letter L. Thank you.......
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Fri, March 11, 2005 - 11:53 AMAs a collector of kids (I say kids so as to include both children and young adult literature) and I am super super super super amazingly picky about what I call good, and especially great kids lit.
But with all the classic collections being listed here, I thought I would throw out a new book, that so enraptured me, I was reading it outloud to my boyfriend in the bath tub. :) (And no, there's no infantalism here, we just read to each other in the bath.)
The book is: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate Dicamillo
As to classics, or hard to find. . . If you ever have a chance to find a copy of Scuttle, the Stowaway Mouse by Jean Conder Soule, it's quite possible the basis on which I judge any and all Picture books I read.
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Sun, March 13, 2005 - 8:25 PMI was just wondering...
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Sun, March 13, 2005 - 9:24 PMSorry. . . I totally left of the BOOKS in my sentence.
And I hate typos. So what I meant to say is I collect kids books!
Oh, and as to collecting kids, the best you can do is collect friends. :)
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Sun, March 13, 2005 - 9:26 PMAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGG!
LEFT OFF! OFF not Of.
Wow.
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Mon, March 14, 2005 - 7:56 AMdrat! i was hoping for a dark and seedy underbelly.
ah, well.
it is fun to talk about one of my friends, and then mention that she is 4. wee ones are brilliant friends.
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Sat, March 12, 2005 - 7:20 PMALL Newbery Award books....
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Sun, September 30, 2007 - 7:38 PMSandra Boynton is brilliant. "Come everybody, do the barn yard dance."
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Slimy Books
Sun, March 13, 2005 - 8:23 PMBlimey! Slimy, oodles noodles,
slimy sausages for poodles...
~Babette Cole
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Thu, January 26, 2006 - 1:01 PMAlice Through the Looking Glass
The Time series by Madeleine L'Engle
The Chronicles of Narnia (natch)
Pippi Longstocking and the rest of that series
The Moomintroll series
Anything by Ray Bradbury but particularly Something Wicked This Way Comes
His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman is astonishing
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Bridge to Terebithia
The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I Mean Noel
Harriet the Spy
Books for younger children
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (makes me cry every time)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Day
The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
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Tue, October 23, 2007 - 8:23 PMYeah, The Secret of Nymph is another story --not intended for children... <G>
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Sun, April 23, 2006 - 6:02 PMMy kids are getting older now but I remember they used to dig that book " The Happy Hocky Family" by Lane Smith...It' s very silly. -
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Mon, April 24, 2006 - 6:24 AMMake Way for Ducklings. A classic. Every kid in the greater Boston area knows it.
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Mon, April 24, 2006 - 8:32 AMtwo series that i really enjoyed were
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Fri, June 9, 2006 - 11:11 AMAnything Tasha Tudor, written or/and illustrated.
Nils Holgerson, still read it once in a while.
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Sat, September 29, 2007 - 2:13 PMYay I still have ones to add
The Paradise Garden and others by Colin Thompson
MOMO!!!!!!!! and the Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Her Stories and The People Could FLy Victoria Hamelton
The Tiffany Aching series of Terry Pratchett
Byrd Baylor
Tale if the Iron Horse also The Star Children and most others by that author
anything Jane Yolen
Isabelle Allende the one in South America though perhaps not acceptable by all parents
The Cat Who went to Heaven
Shibumi and the Kitemaker
That Zippurumpazoo book Mercer Mayer
many that other people named and many more........ I read constantly as a child and even more now to my daughter
The other day I read a childrens book about that whole Nazi mess in Germany that made me cry in the bookstore and I don't remember the name, I wish I did
oh yeah, Shel Silverstein I loved Christopher Pike as a teenager, but I don't know now what I think
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Sat, September 29, 2007 - 2:29 PMThe narnia books aside I remeber being fascinated by The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner , there was a follow up book but I can't remember the title after all these years.
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Tue, October 23, 2007 - 7:47 PM"The other day I read a childrens book about that whole Nazi mess in Germany that made me cry in the bookstore and I don't remember the name, I wish I did"
Rose-- was the book that made you cry Butterfly by Patricia Polacco? That one made me cry in the bookstore. www.amazon.com/Butterfly-.../0399231706
--then again, so did Hana's Suitcase --another children's holocaust book...
Speaking of books making me cry... Pink and Say also by Patricia Polacco is another one... this one about two boys during the Civil War.
I adore Patricia Polacco's books -and not all of them make me cry! Some of them are just plain fun, and many of them have wonderful messages of warmth, kindness and tolerance woven into a good tale with lively illustrations.
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Sun, September 30, 2007 - 7:36 PMI loved the Great Brain series. But my all time favorites were and still are anything by Zelphia Keatley Snynder (?) She wrote a book called "the Changeling" and it has haunted me all this time (I read it when I was in the 5th grade). All of her stories are magical realism.
I also read and re-read, and still have, all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. And Little Woman.
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Wed, October 3, 2007 - 1:51 PMI loved anything by Tamora Pierce as an adolescent, as well The Hobbit, which will always be a children's book to me, and that really depressing series of books that were written as diaries of young women in and/or coming to America. when I was little, I loved this picture book called Martha B. Rabbit, about this rabbit who was a famous cook in the forest she lived in. That last one could have been an earlier indicator of the obsession I developed with cooking.
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Tue, October 23, 2007 - 8:18 PMOhhh... I know I shouldn't get started on this, but it's a subject that calls my name! I'll try to control myself...
Some outstanding picture books:
Patricia Polacco's books (even the ones that make me cry!)
books with Illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman --she has illustrated some wonderful tales such as The Water of Life, Rapunzel, Saint George and the Dragon...
Jan Brett's illustrations are brilliant and I love the sub-stories in the borders
Douglas Wood's books such as Grandad's Prayers of the Earth, Old Turtle, The Secret of Saying Thanks are breathtakingly lovely spiritual books
Janet and Allen Ahlberg's books are nostalgic, whimsical and fun --I love "Bye Bye Baby, A Sad Story With a Happy Ending!" Of course their The Jolly Postman is wonderful fun and started a trend...
Babette Cole! Her hilarious, irreverent and lively books are fantastic
--some are delightfully off the wall. Special ones include Prince Cinders, Princess Smartypants, Mommy Laid An Egg (or, where do babies come from) --I love her fearless approach --no subject seems off limits and it all is treated with her zany humour
Barbara Berger's Grandfather Twilight is pure magic
I love Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partidge and Night Noises --both by Mem Fox
Julie Vivas' illustrations give exuberant life to stories
I really could go on... but I'll stop here. <G>
