OT- What are your favorite children's books?

[DLW8]

Thanks to everyone for the great suggestions! I'm writing them down! I'll share some of our favorites. We love to read and are always looking for more!

Tikki Tikki Tembo (Lots of fun to say the full name!)

That is the first one that came to mind. I loved it when I was little, and my kids love it now too! I bought it for them when they were infants but I happened to find it, so picked it up.

Giraffes Can't Dance is another great one to read aloud (and beautiful illustrations)

Kindergarten Rocks! is a great read, especially if you have someone starting or in kindergarten...

My mom was our school librarian when I was growing up, and I'm so thankful that her love of books moved on to me and my kids. I love to see my kids reading, and not complaining when I remind them they have to get in X minutes of reading each day. The key for my DS (who is almost 8) was to find a book series he liked....and then he found the Geronimo Stilton books. They are great, and he is so excited to finish a book in a couple of days (they read for 30 minutes a day). He also love Diary of A Wimpy Kid and can't wiat for the 4th book to come out next month!

What a great thread!!!

 

[luckey-lasvegas]

We LOVE Mark Teague especially Sweet Dream Pie.
I also really like Jamie Lee Curtis books, I'm Gonna Like Me, Where Do Balloons Go, and Is There Really a Human Race.

Our favorite bedtime story is Sailing Off to Sleep.

For chapter books DD likes
Matilda
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Mary Poppins series
and Still at age 12 like Magic Tree House books.

 

[momofrrr]

We loved the

Box Car Children
The American Girl Stories (Especially Kirsten, Molly and Addie)
Leah's Pony (an amazing story of giving)
and anything by Patricia Paloma, her books are beautiful.

 

[Hoosier Mom]

Here's my top picks for my 4 year old. I might add that tonight I bought another one.....The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base...I'd like to get some of his others too.

The Kissing Hand (Audrey Penn)
Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (Richard Scarry) look for goldbug on every page.
Rooster Can’t ****-a-Doodle-Doo
Bunny Cakes (Rosemary Wells)
Down To The Sea with Mr Magee (Chris Van Dusen)
A Camping Spree with Mr Magee(Chris Van Dusen)
If I Built A Car (Chris Van Dusen)
Firefighters to the Rescue (Kersten Hamilton)
Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash (Sarah Weeks)
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie (Laura Joffe Numeroff)
Bear Feels Sick (Karma Wilson/Jane Chapman)
Bear Snores On (Karma Wilson/Jane Chapman)
Bear Stays Up For Christmas (Karma Wilson/Jane Chapman)
Don’t Wake Up The Bear (Marjorie Dennis Murray)
Dazzling Diggers (Tony Mitton/Ant Parker)
Amazing Airplanes (Tony Mitton/Ant Parker)

 

[sk!mom]

I haven't read all the responses but as a 3rd grade teacher and mom who LOVED reading with her children...

Kate DiCamillo-- All her books are wonderful and some of the best children's books ever written. Every year since it was published, my students overwhelmingly rate The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane as the favorite book we read all year.

 

[hanutedmansionmomma]

shel silverstein books are great

The missing piece, The giving tree, and the one with his poems...my kids still love them. I read them so much I have them mostly memorized.

great messages and conversation points too.

 

[mom2npr]

Another first grade teacher here.. Most of my favorties have been listed, but here are some others: Anything by Chris Van Allsburg, the I Stink and I'm Dirty books by Kate and Jim McMullan are about a garbage truck and a backhoe. My DS6 loves those! Also, Hey Al, and the poems by Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky are a lot of fun.

 

[poegirl30]

Little Critter series
Amelia Bedelia
Where the Wild Things Are
There's a Nightmare in My Closet
Curious George
Winnie the Pooh
Polar Express
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Love You Forever
Llama Llama books
Frog and Toad books
Berenstain Bears books
Arthur series (chapter books)
Magic Tree House (chapter books)

 

[GEM]

My little guy is 6 and in kindergarten. He's really into chapter books now, so that's mostly what we read to him these days. Some of his favorites...


The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (I know somebody already mentioned this one, but it is one of his very favorites! It's just an incredible book.)

Coraline (We read the book to him before he saw the movie. It's one of his all time favorites. It's pretty creepy, but he loves anything creepy or spooky!)

The two books listed above he loved so much and we got so many requests to read them to him over and over that we finally got audio book versions for him and now he listens them again and again on car trips, on planes, when he's just hanging out in his room, etc.)

He also loves...

all of the Narnia books
all of the Bunnicula books
all of the Hank the Cow Dog books
The Boxcar Children
the first Harry Potter book (the only one we've read him so far)
the classic Pooh stories
all of the Magic Treehouse Books
The Mouse and the Motorcycle and Runaway Ralph
Basil of Baker Street
and lots more

Old favorites (not chapter books) that he still loves....

Jamberry (I love, love, love this book!)
Giggle, Giggle, Quack
Don't Let the Pigion Drive the Bus
the Llama Llama books
If You Give a Pig a Party
any of the Berenstein Bears books
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and Pickles to Pittsburg
The Amazing Bone

 

[Astro Orbiter]

It's that time of year again! I'll be reading to a class or two in the near future. Getting great ideas by referring to this list!

Any more suggestions?

What classrooms? Are you looking for chapter books (to read for several weeks in a row) or read-all-at-once books? Picture books?

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Where the Wild Things Are are almost requirements this fall with the movie tie-ins, which then lets you move into other books by the same authors. A vintage version of the Princess and the Frog would go with the new Disney movie version before the fairy tale imprinted into kid's minds as to what the characters look/talk like.

Magic Schoolbus are good for school - funny and educational.

Magic Tree House could be good as well for anything up to about grade 4.

Animal Ark might be good, too, because DD tells me that the humans are both girls and boys.

Right now, DD's really into series - Droon, Bobbsey Twins, Boxcar Children, Rainbow Magic Fairies. And mysteries - Encyclopedia Brown, Jigsaw Jones, Nancy Drew Clue Crew, whatever else I can scrounge up. For the last 2 years she's also inhaled A-Z Mysteries/Capital Kids, but I think we've exhausted those.

 

[OceanAnnie]

What classrooms? Are you looking for chapter books (to read for several weeks in a row) or read-all-at-once books? Picture books?

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Where the Wild Things Are are almost requirements this fall with the movie tie-ins, which then lets you move into other books by the same authors. A vintage version of the Princess and the Frog would go with the new Disney movie version before the fairy tale imprinted into kid's minds as to what the characters look/talk like.

Magic Schoolbus are good for school - funny and educational.

Magic Tree House could be good as well for anything up to about grade 4.

Animal Ark might be good, too, because DD tells me that the humans are both girls and boys.

Right now, DD's really into series - Droon, Bobbsey Twins, Boxcar Children, Rainbow Magic Fairies. And mysteries - Encyclopedia Brown, Jigsaw Jones, Nancy Drew Clue Crew, whatever else I can scrounge up. For the last 2 years she's also inhaled A-Z Mysteries/Capital Kids, but I think we've exhausted those.

Parents just go in sporadically to read. I like to read chapter books to the kids (but they have to be short to read to class). I'm reading to first and second graders now. How time flies!

 

[DISNEYNV]

David Shannon Books...

Alice the Fairy
No David!
Fergus (a few of the kids favs)

Where the Wild Things Are (a classic and the movie is coming soon)

Mr. Pusskins (so cute for kids!)
Mr. Pusskins and Little Whiskers (the second Book...also cute!)

Fancy Nancy Books (all)

Little Golden Books (any)

Leo Leonni Books....very well written and illustrations are amazing!

Anything Eric Carle...Dr. Suess...or Leo Lionni...David Shannon...whatever your kids are into...reading to them is the best thing you can do as a parent...subscribe to a kids magazine (science or animals or whatever they are into) and read it to them...my DD loves Ranger Rick!

Have fun and let them see you read too! Go to the local library and make sure they check out books at school and read every night (or day). Have fun and reading a book is a great way to introduce your kids to new adventures and creativity

 

[DISNEYNV]

David Shannon Books...

Alice the Fairy
No David!
Fergus (a few of the kids favs)

Where the Wild Things Are (a classic and the movie is coming soon)

Mr. Pusskins (so cute for kids!)
Mr. Pusskins and Little Whiskers (the second Book...also cute!)

Fancy Nancy Books (all)

Little Golden Books (any)

Leo Leonni Books....very well written and illustrations are amazing!

Anything Eric Carle...Dr. Suess...or Leo Lionni...David Shannon...whatever your kids are into...reading to them is the best thing you can do as a parent...subscribe to a kids magazine (science or animals or whatever they are into) and read it to them...my DD loves Ranger Rick!

Have fun and let them see you read too! Go to the local library and make sure they check out books at school and read every night (or day). Have fun and reading a book is a great way to introduce your kids to new adventures and creativity

 

[tinkerfan1]

Mercer Meyer books; Bernstein Bears books; "No, No, Joe," "Taxi Dog," "Goodnight, Gorilla," Sandra Boynton books, "The Selfish Crocodile"...goodness, I could spend all day in a Barnes & Noble looking at the picture books.

 

[njmom47]

My kids always loved the Mercer Mayer books (Little Critters)...they might be a bit young but you could try them.

My personal favorite is "Corduroy" the bear.