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[periwinkle]

What were your favorite books when you were little? I'd like to start compiling a little library. My favorite is "The Velveteen Rabbit", but it always makes me cry!!

Richard Scarry's books are really cool, too.

I also like those books with the really complicated photos, and you have to find certain items in the photos. I have a couple I've used when teaching privates when they clamor for a game at the end- good for improving vocab, too.

[RACETRAITOR]

Here's an obscure one I'd love to track down: "Cross Country Cat."

[happeningthang]

This was a classic of Aboriginal folk tales, with giant snakes and men turning into birds. Made a deep impression when I was a kid.



And this one was actually a cartoon that got me started on Seuss. This is still my favourite of them all.

[Woland]

Tony Ross' Sooper Dooper Jezebel, which ends with a pun that most children won't get, but will give any adult reading it to a child a chuckle (see below). Children will like it mostly because it's the tale of the perfect kid who gets hers in the end.

Tony Ross
Illustrated by Tony Ross
Super Dooper Jezebel
Jezebel is always good, always best in school. It was nice being perfect - being super dooper, but she's so busy telling the other children not to run, she doesn't realize what they are running from - and the crocodile, though told he's eaten the best girl in the world, thinks he's had better.

Ian Falconer's Olivia series - absolutely hilarious, both texts and illustrations:

The Barnes & Noble Review - Olivia Saves the Circus
Everyone's favorite pig is back in this charming sequel to Ian Falconer's Caldecott Award-winning Olivia. Standing proud in her adorably accessorized school uniform, Olivia recounts her adventurous summer vacation, which was highlighted by a trip to the circus that led to a heroic and hilarious performance from the petite pig. Upon arrival at the big top, she learned that all the circus people were out sick with ear infections. "Luckily I knew how to do everything," she says. We see Olivia the Lion Tamer (her grisly growl frightens the biggest lion) and Olivia the Tightrope Walker. Madame Olivia and her Trained Dogs will evoke a big chuckle as the pooches turn out to be a hilariously inept bunch. At the end, Olivia's boastful account leaves the teacher scowling at her desk. When asked if her wild story is true, Olivia politely responds, "Pretty all true."

These aren't from my childhood, but are more recent things I've gotten and read for nieces and nephew and friends' children.

Also, "Pish Posh," said Hieronymous Bosch is also very cool, if you know and like Bosch's art.

[schwa]

For younger kids, Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are, & Into the Night Kitchen. My kids loved them, Korean kids do too.

[Yo!Chingo]

These are for mid level readers. The Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper was my absolute favorite! I also loved the Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley, and Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.

[Yo!Chingo]

OMG I'm soooo happy...The Dark is Rising is going to be made into a movie by Walden Media, and the release date is in 2007.....Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy!!!

[atlhockey]

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials series )by Philip Pullman was good. I liked Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

For more advanced readers, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I suppose it's an adult book, but I read it at 14 and my brothers read it at 12 and 10 and we all loved it.

[kermo]

Favorite authors:

(novels)
Edward Eager
Ursula Le Guin
Madeleine L'Engel

(illustrated)
Maurice Sendak
Roald Dahl/Quentin Blake
William Steig-- hopefully you read this guy when you were a kid. If the name doesn't ring a bell, browse his website a bit.

[mindmetoo]

Pat the Bunny
Where the Wild Things Are
Cat in the Hat, et al.
The Monster at the End of this Book

[Dazed and Confused]

Harry the Dirty Dog. I don't know why but I loved that one.
Green Eggs and Ham
A House for Sloth or something like that. I forget the title exactly.

[formerflautist]

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.

[Dawn]

The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer
Make Way for the Ducklings and Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
Little Bunny Follows His Nose by Katherine Howard

[SuperFly]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

[JongnoGuru]

The Boys' Empire Storybook

An illustrated history and guidebook of the world, and of all the odd-looking, half-clothed, funny-talking, poor benighted people who inhabit the darker corners of it.