Children's Books

We had a picture book called "Night monkey, day monkey" when the infant was tiny. She still loved it when she was learning her letters, even though by then she could recite the whole thing.

I bought it for her on a business trip, and because at the letter learning age (3 to 4) I was just newly single, it had special relevance. I can't look at it now without having all those feelings of intense love and painful dispair.

I guess my point is, it doesn't matter WHAT you read to your kids.

It just matters THAT you read to them.
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Holy crap. Just googled it.

Theres a BBC video of it being read by The Doctor!


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb-L8fNYPGg

 

First of all, I love British children's lit! I love when my son picks up the British idiom-- I also usually do my best to read British books to him in an English accent, although I can really only do London, not Lancashire.

Second of all, I kept waiting for him to go "This is just a fantastic story! I've got to share it with Rose!"

 

Absolutely agree with what Daniel_ said. Read to them whatever you can. Our boys when they were little really enjoyed Mem Fox and Alison Lester (both Oz authors) when they were smaller. Now they are 10 and 8 their reading is driven by themselves more than me. The older one enjoys the Rangers Apprentice series. The younger one loves geronimo stilton. Especially once they have access to a library on a regular basis, just make sure they borrow regularly

 

Getting a lot of laughs with Garrison Keiler's book about the man who loved to eat stinky cheese.
Seems to be perfect for our age 5 to 7 demographic.

 

BabySquirrel always wants me to read the Japanese books. She goes to her bookshelf and grabs from the Japanese section. (I worked at a Library, I have to organize them.) I can not read Japanese so I just describe the pictures to her.

 

Walter the Farting Dog kills me.

 

You should write a children's book, maybe The Lady and the Fucktards (the title might require some revision).

You should try being around a couple of our dogs after they've eaten something that disagrees with them.

 

So far, this is my absolute FAVORITE book of BabySquirrels:



How Do Dinosaurs Love Their Cats?: Jane Yolen, Mark Teague: 9780545153546: Amazon.com: Books

I'm a fan of the whole series actually. The pictures are awesome and the stories are great. It's not your typical T-Rex, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops. There are some less familiar dinosaurs. Well, not as familiar to someone who didn't grow up OBSESSED with dinos.

 

My son really liked it when I read this to him:


My daughter would make me read this to her over and over again:


When I was a kid, I read this one over and over again -- Walter The Lazy Mouse

 

Little Levite has fallen in love with the works of Arnold Lobel. He likes the "Frog and Toad" books, but adores "Mouse Tales" and "Mouse Soup." He also very much likes Ezra Jack Keats' classic The Snowy Day. He loves Margaret Wise Brown's "Goodnight Moon," and Anna Dewdney's "Llama llama" books. There's a small series of books about a little bear named Sam and his mom (I forget the author's name) that he enjoys a lot. And a book called Mitzi's Mitzvah, about a dog who visits senior citizens at the High Holidays (again, I forget the author)-- he can recite that one along with us from memory, it's very cute.

 

My woman really loves Little Raccoon and the Outside World. She had it as a kid and talks about it all the time, so I bought her an old copy to keep by the coffee table.

 

YOU ARE SO CUTE!!!!

 

Perhaps The B***h with the scissors and the Fucktards? That should be a good edit for the cover.
.....No offense intended for the Undead Rodent Queen, sends her local forces a peace offering before they plan an early strike

 

No Offense taken. You recognized that I am THE bitch. You will be spared.

 

That was very.......dare I use the S word?.......sensitive of you.

 

*flex*

 

Omg that would be rad, but I'm a little skurred of what else might show up there
I loved this book called "Thirteen" when I was a child, and "Matilda and her Children" which my mother read to us. And "the Lions Paw." we skipped a lot of the lower age range books. I do crack up over "Walter the Farting Dog" books these days. The autistic kids love it. And "Everyone Poops" and "The Gas We Pass." I do love those twisted fairy tale books, too, like "The Stinky Cheese Man."

 

I'd like that adventure........

 

My wife bought a copy of Where The Wild Things Are (yes, a thrift store find) for the library at the school where she works. They only had three copies, which stay checked out each semester. I think the story is lame (a better way of saying it is it's written for very young children), but the illustrations by Maurice Sendak are timeless.