Do you have a favorite children's book?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (224785)
Walnut Creek, California
April 11, 2016 11:04pm CST
When I was a small child, I love this book. I don't know why I loved it then, but I know that I still love it now. Along with Milne's Pooh stories, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are is one of my favorite works of children's literature.
I think I like it because it tells the story of a boy who "acts out" (it's actually something of a misunderstanding), but winds up knowing, by the end of the story, that his parents' love for him is "still hot."
I read this one repeatedly to the younger children I work with. I read with with my 7-year-old neighbor buddy the other day when he "didn't want to go home." I even read it with one of my 12-year-old kid clients who reads at a second-grade level. I let him read it and quickly "helped" him with the hard words.
Are Pooh and Wild Things on your list? Do you have a favorite children's book, either from your childhood or now?
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@JudyEv (349351)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Apr 16
I didn't know about Pooh and Wild Things until I was almost adult. I still haven't read Wild Things but now I will when I get the chance. I don't remember any books from my very early years but later I had a great collection of pony stories.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
12 Apr 16
I had many favorites, if I had a normal children's book I dont remember, but I loved the Laura Ingles Wilder books and the hobbit to be read to me
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
12 Apr 16
@Marty1 both, read too and liked to read, earliest memories are of staring at dad through crib bars being read about hobbits. And yeah, been awhile but I have. I rather like Mercedes Lackey!
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
13 Apr 16
@Marty1 she writes fantasy. And I would start with Take a Thief. Honestly that is in the middle of the series, but one of the few standalone books in her series, as most come in sets of 3. Gives you a good feel for her, and if you want to try the others. The Valdemar series is good, and yeah, there are tons of them, but all based in the same lands, so very interrelated.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
13 Apr 16
@Marty1 I read them on kindle, but the library might have, if they do you can always start elsewhere too, just be sure to check online, to be sure if you do grab a different one, it is at least book 1 in that grouping.
@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
12 Apr 16
Green Eggs and Ham. Best book ever written as far as I'm concerned.
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@josie_ (10032)
• Philippines
12 Apr 16
I don't know if Grimm's fairy tale is considered a children's book but it was the first book I still recall which my mom would read to me and from which I learn to read. Hansel and Gretel terrified me. I think this is where I got my morbid sense of humor.
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
13 Apr 16
Those books where never my favorite. My daughters favorite book is calles Shoe, La la, and my son's is the Monster is in my closet. Mine as a kid was the cat in the hat it was the first book I learned to read.
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@Macarrosel (7498)
• Philippines
12 Apr 16
My favorite book was Jack and Beanstalk.
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@JESSY3236 (20319)
• United States
12 Apr 16
When I was really little, I love a little small book about a bear eating blueberries. I can't remember the name of it. I have that little book somewhere still. But once I got older, I didn't really have a favorite.
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@TheHorse (224785)
• Walnut Creek, California
13 Apr 16
@JESSY3236 Ah, OK. Blueberries for Sal Is an old Classic.
@JESSY3236 (20319)
• United States
13 Apr 16
@TheHorse No. It was a little orange, or yellow book. I'll look for it sometime when I get a chance to.
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@TheHorse (224785)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Apr 16
I don't know any of those. You may be too young, but were either of the earlier (1963, 1983) Masoom movies a part of your childhood? I use songs from both to teach appropriate dance moves to poor American children who have been exposed to too much MTV.
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@rina110383 (24491)
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12 Apr 16
All books of Winnie the Pooh. I still love reading them, even now that I'm an adult.
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@puddleglum (1380)
• United States
29 Jun 16
I liked Winnie the Pooh stories. When I was very small, I loved a book called Robert, the Rose Horse. When I was nine, I became a fan of Louisa May Alcott.
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@puddleglum (1380)
• United States
29 Jun 16
@TheHorse Little Women was the first I read. It is pretty long, but heart-warming. You may have seen one of the film versions. There was one in 1933 with Katherine Hepburn and one in 1994 with Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon.
@Ruby3881 (1963)
• Canada
12 Apr 16
I can't really say I had a particular attachment to children's literature when I was a child. Today I love the Pooh stories and Robert Munsch and Patrica Polacco's stories. I am a huge fan of Beatrix Potter, and I like Jan Brett and Phoebe Gilman's children's stories too.
I guess I kind of went in reverse 
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@SIMPLYD (90720)
• Philippines
13 Apr 16
Our father bought us , siblings 2 big books of the compilation of the fairy tales Charles Dickinson has written , And those two books are our favorites .
