Happy Friday, everyone! While I do actually have four great children‘s books left on hand, after working Thursday night, then all day today I am honestly too tired to write reviews of Giant Meatball and Flush! Be assured that both are cute and funny and would no doubt get at least a Recommended, if I had the energy to write the reviews. But I don’t.
So instead today, I throw the floor open to all of my visitors: What’s your favorite children’s book? Please leave a comment and let us know. And I will tell you about my favorites next week. I hope you have enjoyed Children’s Book Week here on The Thin Red Line. Have a great weekend, and hope to see you back here on Monday!
Many, many thanks to everyone who responded. Many of the books mentioned are also favorites of mine and I also spotted some titles I wasn’t familiar with that I will have to check out. My favorite Children’s books are Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst and of course the Harry Potter series by J K Rowling. I will plan to do a future post featuring the suggestions given here with links to the commenters. Thank you all so much.
mine is, Sunny With A Side of Meatballs.
“Grandpa’s In The Litter Box” by Dale Greenburg.
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie–the original story. He is very insightful and understands human behavior. The stories are a little spooky too, because when the kids disappear, the parents speak about them as if they had died.
I don’t know many – only the ones with drawings and stickers of cats in them!
My absolute favorite is The Day the Babies Crawled Away by Peggy Rathmann.
I have many children’s books that I love but one of my special favorites is “Goodnight Moon.”
I’ve always loved The BFG by Roald Dahl it was something that bit different from all the other books around at the time I was reading as a child
I remember reading Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy World over and over again as a child.
I also loved Caps For Sale. I wanted a monkey so badly!
I really like Dr. Seuss’s The Better Butter Battle Book.
I am also giving you a little present. It comes out of the blue.
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My favorite books as a small child was Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (the little golden book). I loved that story. I’d make my older brother read it to me again and again. I used to cry because I thought I was too stupid to be able to read (I was 3). At the age of 4, my mother talked to the head mistress at the school my brother and sister attended (it was a British school near where we were stationed in Germany). She told my mother that any child that wanted to learn that badly should be going to school, so I got to start school at 4 *laughs*.
As I got older, my favorite books were those by Louisa May Alcott. I read them over and over again. I still read them, as a matter of fact, and I’m almost 47!
You can’t go wrong with Dr Seuss. I even rediscovered him in college. Green eggs and ham for the kids; The Lorax and Oh the Places You’ll Go for the older crowd.
The Star Bellied Sneeches were pretty awesome, too.
Knuffle Bunny:A Cautionary Tale by Mo Williams. Each time I would read this to my son he would laugh. It is really quite funny.
I really love the Hello Goodbye Window by Norton Juster. It’s such a delightfully happy picture book. With unusual illustrations, which I love.
I have a fondness for two rabbit books, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny by Beatrix Potter, and The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown. I like others but not so much to read. I remember Where The Wild Things Are vividly because my father read it to me.