IBBBT: What's the best Children's Book You have Ever Read?

[OceanAnnie]

1. The Little Prince
2. The Velveteen Rabbit
3. A Wrinkle in Time
4. Diary of Ann Frank
5. Alice in Wonderland
6. Anne of Green Gables

Fun books:

Junie B. Jones (I laugh and cry over those books)
Captain Underpants (Totally inappropriate, totally funny)
Magic Treehouse
Judy Moody
Bearnstain Bears

Can't think of the toddler books we loved the most. Lots of Dr. Suess. Drawing a blank on others.

 

[LoraJ]

Are You There God, It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume

 

[DMickey28]

Right now I am on a little/toddler book phase in our house.

Corduroy
No More Elephants
Mike and the Steamshovel
Milk and Cookies
Blueberries for Sal

 

[AshleyW]

My favorite books as a kid:

Little House series
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Charlotte's Web
Goodnight Moon
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Where the Wild Things Are (side note: I CANNOT wait for this movie to come out!)
The Velveeten Rabbit
The Lorax, Oh the Places You'll Go, Horton Hatches the Egg & various other Dr. Seuss books
The Giver
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
The Boxcar Children series

... I loved to read as a kid (and still do!)

 

[WDWBarb]

The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
A Wrinkle in Time
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
The Black Stallion series (I still have all of them!)
I Love You Forever (for a slightly younger crowd - still makes me cry!)
A Taste of Blackberries (I cried every time I read this book)
Bridge to Terabithia

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

My all-time fave is probably In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson.

Also like:
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Westing Game
Shiloh
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIHM
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
A Wrinkle in Time
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler

Series books:
anything by Beverly Cleary, but especially the Ramona books (which I believe is being made into a movie)
The Great Brain
Encyclopedia Brown
the Annie Pat and Eddie books

 

[karly05]

Still have a soft spot for:
Winnie the Pooh/House at Pooh Corner

The Little House books, esp. On the Banks of Plum Creek and Little Town on the Prairie - Oh, the Laura vs. Nellie Drama!!

Lloyd Alexander's "Prydain" books - which really really deserve a full-scale live action treatment, and I would so want Mackenzie Crook as Fflewddur Fflam.

 

[K and K's Mommy]

My favorite book when I was little was Goodnight Moon. My four year old will still pick it for me to read to him and say, "This one is for you, Mommy." So sweet!

My favorites that I read myself were:
Beverly Cleary books
Boxcar Children
Encyclopedia Brown books
Little House books

But my absolute favorite:
Anne of Green Gables

 

[maxiesmom]

Mike Mulligan and his Mighty Steam Shovel.
The Foot Book
Go Dog Go (gotta love Dr Seuss!)
The Monster at the end of the Book by Grover
Harold and the Purple Crayon
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

 

[OceanAnnie]

I see a bunch more I have really enjoyed. A bunch.


Harold and the Purple Crayon is a favorite in our house. For some reason it reminds me of, "Ish". I cried while reading it. I was surprised. Very touching book.

Good Night Moon, another favorite.

 

[merekc]

Books I loved that I had to buy my kids:
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
The Giant Jam Sandwich

My dad loved and bought for my siblings and I and again for our kids Ricki, Ticki Timbo.

I also read and loved every (original series) Nancy Drew, Hardy Boy, Bobbsey Twins and Trixie Beldon book at least 3 times each.

For my kids I really enjoy Sandra Boynton's books with my favorite being Barnyard Dance. My boys also loved a book called The Jungle Baseball game.

 

[tonilea]

Skippy Jon Jones - these crack me up!
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins - I LOVE this book.
Little House books
Magic Tree House

One of my favorite things about substituting is reading out loud to the kids. I love it!

 

[Jennasis]

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
The Black Stallion series
There's A Monster at The End Of This Book
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
SuperFudge
Are You There God It's Me Margaret
Otherwise Known as Sheila The Great

 

[Ppufi]

Anne of Green Gables series
Betsy, Tacy & Tib series
Little House series
BSC series
Little Women
Dear America/Canada series
Royal Diaries series
American Girl series

 

[Sparx]

Pockets
http://www.amazon.com/Pockets-Jenni...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250477035&sr=8-2

Where The Wild Things Are

 

[IDoDis]

Favorite chapter book: "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

Picture books I love as a mom and a as teacher:

1) "Thank You, Mr. Falker" by Patricia Polacco (anything by her is great!)

2) "The Hickory Chair" by Lisa Rowe Faustino

3) "The Lorax" by Dr. Suess

4) "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day" by Judith Voirst

5) "Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse" by Kevin Henkes

6) "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf" by John Scieszka

7) "Tikki Tikki Tembo" by Arlene Mosel
"Tikki Tikki Tembo,
no sa rembo,
cherry berry ruchi,
pip peri pembo."

That's so fun to read!)

8) "No David!" by David Shannon

9) "The Kissing Hand" by Audrey Penn

10) "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown

 

[a paper star]

When I was younger I read:
American Girl (Molly was my favorite)
The Baby-Sitter Club and Little Sister Series
Judy Blume Books
Beverly Clearly Books
The BoxCar Children Series
The Wizard of Oz
Sweet Valley Twins (the middle school or elementary series I can't remember)
and several others reading was something I always did when I was younger.

 

[themilesfamily]

Ballet Shoes
The Phantom Tollbooth
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Nancy Drew
Trixie Belden
The Boxcar Children
Anne of Green Gables
Little House on the Prairie
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Bobbsey Twins
Little Women
Baby Island
Candy Stripers
Caddie Woodlawn
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Pippi Longstocking
Roald Dahl books

for younger kids:

Old Witch and the Polka Dot Ribbon
Amelia Bedelia
Make Way for Ducklings
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Madeline
Blueberries for Sal
The Maggie B
Curious George

So many wonderful books. Reading saved me as a child.

 

[lemondog]

My all time favorites as a child were the Laura Ingalls Wilder books..the Little House on the Prairie series.

Now, as a preschool teacher and mom of 3, I have a few books that I am completely in love with and I own copies of all of them.

-Goodnight Moon (I can probably recite this without even seeing the book)
-The Giving Tree (not many children's books can actually make you tear up)
-Guess How Much I Love You
-Brown Bear, Brown Bear
-The Rainbow Fish
-Cordurouy
-Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
-Amelia Bedelia books
-Caps for Sale
-Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
-Madeline books
-Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel

 

[PaulaSB12]

When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit.