Favorite Children's Books?

[Sarah_Rose]

Great suggestions, everyone! My Amazon wishlist is getting really long! We're going to have to get to the library next week to check out a whole bunch of books!

 

[Tinijocaro]

i can't beleive no one mentioned Robert Munsch.
Love you forever is classic.

His other books are hilarious-there are two treasuries available that my kids STILL like to go back and read.

 

[IDoDis]

i can't beleive no one mentioned Robert Munsch.
Love you forever is classic.

That book is kind of creepy with the old woman stalking her son. I liked the book, but neither of my kids liked that book.

 

[NewCrew42]

For babies I love Sandra Boynton!!! especially Barnyard Dance.

Agreed!!!

My kids are 13 and 15 and can quote these books!

Moo Baa Lah Lah Lah! Love that!!!!!

But not the Hippotamus

Anything by her is wonderful....

Especially for the age of your grandbaby and will continue to be favorite as they become a beginner reader.

 

[ahutton]

Robert Quackenbush has been a favorite of my kids from baby through about 1st grade. Henry Babysits is one my daughter asked me to read to her class, and those kids still remember it a couple years later.

Counting Crocodiles is really cute too, it is by Judy Sierra and the kids have always loved it.

 

[D&DDisney]

A few more classics the kids always enjoyed hearing...

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus - Mo Williams
Don't Let the Piegon Stay Up Late - Mo Williams
Knuffle Bunny - Mo Williams

Bad Kitty - Nick Bruel
Poor Puppy - Nick Bruel

 

[C.Ann]

I couldn't even begin to list them all - I've been a book lover (and reader) before I ever even started school..

You probably would have a hard time finding them now - unless they have been reprinted - but there was a series that I loved when I was a child (I'm 61 now).. It was called, "Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories" (original copyright 1927).. However, they are Christian themed and while ever single story isn't strictly religious, in one way or another the stories encourage truth, honesty, good morals and values, etc..

All of the older "Golden Books" were great - as well as the big books of poetry for children..

When I was beyond those types of books, I was a big fan of the "Bobbsey Twins"; "Trixie Belden"; the classics; and "fun facts" books..

Nice to see you're building your library now.. And don't forget to save the favorites to read to your grandchildren!

 

[Li-sa]

My kids have loved all of the Julia Donaldson picture books especially Monkey Puzzle (can you get them in the US?). They have great illustrations and rhyming text.

 

[amberg@eastlink.ca]

my all time fave will forever be go dog go a dr seuss book. i still quote it as it was a running joke with me and my mom. another as someone else posted is the very hungry caterpiller- i remember reading it in primary(kindergarden) and loving it so much i bought the board book for dd for her first xmas.

i also love all the robert munsch ones, but no one can read them like he can!

 

[Jennasis]

Coudy With a Chance of Meatballs

There's a Monster at The End of This Book (a little golden book featuring Grover)

 

[Mary•Poppins]

i can't beleive no one mentioned Robert Munsch.
Love you forever is classic.

When you son is of pre-school age, he will LOVE these books. My favorite is "The Paperbag Princess". I would read this over and over when I taught first grade. (Also, if you can find it ... the recordings of this author reading his own books is WONDERFUL! My sons would beg to listen to this tape in the car.)

If your son is just three months old, try finding some books that have pictures of babies in them. Children of this age LOVE to look at picture books that have faces in them.

 

[C&G'sMama]

Many of the books we love have already been mentioned.

Two we got when DD was a baby were "On the Day you Were Born" by Debra Frasier and "The Twelve Gifts of Birth" by Charlene Costanzo. Just about every mom-to-be we know gets these for shower gifts, my kids loved them.

DD also loved The Jamie Lee Curtis Books, Illustrated by Laura Cornell. "Today I Feel Silly" and "Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born" are the 2 we have and ready many, many times.

There are countless other titles we have read over the years.

My children are now 10 (DD) and 7(DS) and both are avid readers. Now we are into Tween books for DD and Calvin and Hobbes, Big Nate, Magic Treehouse, lots of non-fiction for DS and we have been reading the Harry Potter series as a family. We snuggle up in bed and read together at night.

One thing we did when both kids were little was have a bin of "garage sale" books. While we taught them to respect books it is inevitable that a book will get ripped, chewed, sticky etc. The "good" books were kept up out of reach and were read to with us. They both would crawl into the bin of books and just go through them all.

They still like me to sit and read to them. And my "all grown up Little Tween" once in a while will still reach for one of those little kid books...

 

[hulagirl87]

DD is 8 months old and we read every day. We have a lot of favorite books!

Ten Apples up on top
Goodnight Moon
the Maisy books
Clown of God by Tomie de Paola
Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton

 

[LiberalPrincess]

The Best Loved Doll by Rebecca Caudill
The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

 

[hulagirl87]

The Best Loved Doll by Rebecca Caudill

Oh my gosh! I love this book!!! I have 2 copies. The one from when I was little and a new copy I bought for DD

 

[luvsJack]

Has anyone mentioned "The Giving Tree"? When I was pregnant with dd, my fellow child care directors in the area threw me a big shower. One of the ladies gave me this book which I though kind of odd at the time but I LOVED this book. Dd loved it too and I read it too her over and over from the time she was a baby. Now I have the book to read to dgd when she is visiting.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

i can't beleive no one mentioned Robert Munsch.
Love you forever is classic.

Is this the one where the Mom crawls into her son's bedroom window at the end?


As a really young kids I loved Richard Scary's Oh What a Busy Day. I don't know why but I just liked it. Weird I know.
My favorite book to read to my kids is I Love You All The Time.

 

[southern_redhead]

I remember loving Corduroy and Goodnight Moon as a small child, I also loved the Lowley Worm books. When I went to elementary school I started reading Berenstein Bears (have TONS of these still) and books with the characters Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka. There was also a series of books that starred different vegetables as the characters (sort of like the Little Mr/Little Miss books but with food LOL) and I remember checking them out over and over. As I got older I got into comics and had many, many Garfield and Archie comics. I also enjoyed Nancy Drew books and the Fear Street series. DD8 and I were discussing Fear Street last night. Her teacher has been reading Goosebumps and showing the movies and she hates them. I don't remember Fear Street being as nasty as Goosebumps, more along the cryptic and mysterious. Maybe it's just that I was older when I read them

Now my kids enjoy Magic Treehouse, Diary of a Wimpy Kid , the Narnia series, Harry Potter (but I dislike reading aloud and those things are looong), and my oldest (11) has found the new Rick Riordan book that he is all into.

ETA Dh and I also love to read series books and we have the Bartimus Trilogy, the Eragon series, The Children of the Lamp series, and several Cornelia Funke books. I keep hoping DS11 will pick one up and try it out, I think he'd enjoy them, but he isn't much of a reader right now. My uncle says that teaching by example is the best thing you can do and he regularly sees me reading so maybe the bug will bite him.

 

[AprilRenee]

I loved/still love Goodnight Moon. My dad also always read me The Runaway Bunny. I know there are more but nothing else is popping in my head right now.

 

[ahutton]

You probably would have a hard time finding them now - unless they have been reprinted - but there was a series that I loved when I was a child (I'm 61 now).. It was called, "Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories" (original copyright 1927).. However, they are Christian themed and while ever single story isn't strictly religious, in one way or another the stories encourage truth, honesty, good morals and values, etc..

When I was beyond those types of books, I was a big fan of the "Bobbsey Twins"; "Trixie Belden"; the classics; and "fun facts" books..

How cool! We received a gift set of Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories!! I had forgotten that I read those to the kids. They got packed when we moved and I don't know that I've unpacked them yet!

I'm also a huge Trixie Belden fan - I'm working on getting my 10 year old hooked, and her sister will be right behind her!