OT: Favorite kids books

What a fun thread!

"Big Dog, Little Dog" Robert Louis Stevenson "A Child's Garden of Verse" Mother Goose "The B Book" by the Berenstains Sweet Pickles series, particularly "Goof Off Goose" and "Moody Moose" and "Xerus Won't Allow It" (discovered by my young nieces now, and they love 'em, too) "Goodnight Moon" "Where the Wild Things Are" "The Christmas Day Cat" by Tasha Tudor (still a favorite!) Amelia Bedelia books Angelina Ballerina books

Interesting to see the roads each kid has taken, given the similarity in their earliest reading. DS reads pretty exclusively non-fiction and not a lot; DD#1 almost exclusively sci-fi/fantasy, and incessantly; and DD#2 historic fiction/romance/chick lit (not as much as her sister or me, but still more than the average 19 y.o., I dare say).

Sue

I knew I forgot something!

How about "least favorite book that your kids *loved*"?

We had several "Ant and Bee" books that the kids loved, but I HATED! Read them ad nauseum....

An English series about an ant and a bee and their (mis)adventures that weren't very adventurous...just repetitive

Sue

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Aha ! Now we have a pissing contest lol

WE, plural WE, need to take these younger Brats and wamp them one. Cheeky things !

Caps for Sale

There's a new book out, "Dino-hockey" by Lisa Wheeler. I saw it at our library conference a few weeks ago and *had* to get it for my boss! A little background: You may have heard about the hoopla over the NCAA trying to force universities with Indian mascots to change. UND is one of those universities (although we don't actually have a mascot) and we sued the NCAA. Anyway, my boss, a *huge* hockey fan, thinks, if we have to change our name, we should change it to Triceratops, since they used to live in ND and our geology dept. has a triceratops skull in the lobby. This book has a triceratops as a player and, what's more, it's wearing UND colors!!!

As far as favorite books, mine were "Pokey little puppy" (and I'm pokey to this day!), Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew books, and "The forgotten door", which I think started my love for fantasy books.

My oldest son, Nate, laughed his head off every time I read one specific line in the book "The red ball" which taught spatial concepts. To this day I can't understand why! I can also still recite (20+ years later) the first few pages of "Paul Bunyan". All 3 of my kids also liked "The animals of Farmer Jones". My oldest liked the Fraggle Rock books; my 2nd son disliked most books until I found "The stinky cheese man and other fairly stupid tales", the Goosebumps series and Shel Silverstein's books; DD liked pretty much anything I read to her and still reads avidly, mostly horse books and now romances, since she's 21.

Joan

I've got DD reading Misty of Chincoteague. Maybe that's next after she finished the series. C

I thought about it, Lucille!!!

I understood that "I" was for the subject, and "me" came after the verb and was the object. . Like "I want you to believe ME".

Heavens, English grammar a zillion years back has no connection with American grammar anyway. "GOTTEN"....I would have been sent to the ptincipal for that one!! LOLOL

Don't get me started on double negatives!!!

I aint got no problem with double negatives. That must be the American in me.

I have a few of my mother and grandmother's books. I'll be keeping those no matter what.

Huh, shows what YOU know. Ladies don't have pissing contests, we have tinkle parties!LOLOL

And my brother told everyine when I left the UK, that I was going to educate the Colonials!!!SSIIGGHHSSSS!! I failed!!

I still had my old Arthur Ransome books, AA Milne and Beatrix Potter. When I realised I wouldn't be going back to UK to live, I brought them back with me and at this time they are in my daughter's basement. Still in the family!

You might appreciate one rule I established for my children from an early age.

I never read a book twice >

Actually, either can be correct. "I" would be for formal/classical literary English in some grammar styles, and "me" would correct in less formal situations and in other grammar styles. You can make a good case for either. d

But "older than I am" doesn't.

When my children were little, little we had four of Sandra Boynton's books - you know the kind toddlers can chew on. I can still recite Moo, Baa. La La La and the Going to Bed Book. We read to our children every night till they were 12 and 10. The book they say they remember the most is Tolkein's The Hobbit. I admit to silently cursing while reading this out loud because I never properly learned phonics and I would get stymied by some of his made up words. (Which reminds me of my son at 3 and 4, deep into his dinosaur phase, telling me I was pronouncing the names incorrectly. I'm sure I was.)

We didn't have many books in my house while I was growing up, maybe less than a dozen other than the set of World Book Encyclopedias. But fortunately for me, the library was a block from my house and I read my way through the entire library. My all-time childhood favorite is Little Women. I reread it every few years and still cry when Beth dies. And still I want Jo to marry Teddy.

Donna in Virginia