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post #1 of 19
5/31/06 at 7:15pm
Thread Starter 
What are your children's favorite books?

My boys love:
Atlas of the Human Body by Vigue-Martin
Earth From Above: 365 Days by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Neither are actully geared towards children but they love the images! Both boys have really gotten interested in anatomy since they learned of our pregnancy. The Arthus-Bertrand book has great pictures and they love to look on the map for where the images originated.
post #2 of 19
5/31/06 at 8:08pm
Owen, 4, says his favorite book is "Thomas". I don't know the name of it, we only have one Thomas the Tank Engine book he got from a booksale and I don't know where it is and that's all he can tell me.
He also named
The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle (complete with electronic beeping noise when you turn the last page
Drummer Hoff adapted by Barbara Emberley
and any Scooby Doo book

Bridget, 7 says her favorite books are
Boxcar Children #1
Calvin and Hobbes (any)
the Tin Tin series (I asked her which one and she said "Any one. Just type 'Tin Tin series'.")
the Asterix series
the Bone series (though we've only read 3 so far)
post #3 of 19
5/31/06 at 9:24pm
Dd really likes The Polar Express, Alexander and The Terrible No Good Horrible Very Bad Day, All the I Spy hidden picture type books.

Ds has too many! He likes Tamora Pierce, Madelien L'engle, His Dark Materials series. etc.
post #4 of 19
5/31/06 at 9:28pm
Thread Starter 
I forgot about the I SPY books! I'll have to see if I can find them. I loved those when I was younger.

Shannon- what's the Bone series?
post #5 of 19
5/31/06 at 9:34pm
12yo DD says;

Harry Potter (all of them)
Abarat, books 1 and 2-the art in these books is amazing (as well as a bit disturbing!) and the author really pulls off the alternate universe thing.
Wizardology
Artemis Fowl series

10yo DD says;

W.I.T.C.H. graphic novels
Spirited Away picture book

7yo Ds says;

Usborne Dinosaur Atlas (that's not the exact title)-he *reads* this so much he's broken the binding!
The Seven Silly Eaters
Magic Tree House Books
post #6 of 19
5/31/06 at 10:00pm
Roomformore, we LOVE the Earth from Above book too. It is truly a family treasure.

As far as books we can't live without, we have cycled through many favorites that are essential for a while but they come and go.

Joan Aiken's "The Last Slice of Rainbow" is an incredible collection of stories we come back to again and again, and we enjoy her other book "Necklace of Raindrops" also. Few people I meet have heard of her but these are extraordinary books.

The original Winnie-the-Pooh books and Beatrix Potter books. Illustrated classic fairy tales (We like our Candlewick Press book "Fairy Tales" a lot) and other folk and fairy tale collections including a wonderful one called "Freaky Tales from Far and Wide"

Poetry books such as "Talking Like the Rain" and Tasha Tudor's "Wings From the Wind" along with the Childcraft Poems Rhymes and Stories and Fables volumes.

Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen" We can't miss the wonderful "The Tub People" and the "Old Bear" stories for read-to picture books.

Virginia Lee Burton books "The Little House" "Katy and the Big Snow" "Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel"

We get lots of use out of our "Encyclopedia of Animals" and "Wildlife Fact File", along with "The Body Atlas" and an elderly picture/reference book called "How We Are Born, How We Grow, How Our Bodies Work, and How We Learn"

We have a baby name book my 11yo really liked, and she says she cannot live without "Eragon" and "Eldest" and "Island of the Blue Dophins" and books by Madeline L'Engle. She adds Harry Potter books to that.

The dictionary and children's atlas get quite heavy use. We even have a dumpster-dived unabridged dictionary that we use when the little regular one is not thorough enough for whatever argument or question we are having.

Both 3yo and 6yo say Ian Fleming's "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is the best book we have. (Dad is currently reading this one to them now so I guess that is a factor)

For a while, my ds could not live without reading "The Polar Express" nightly.
post #7 of 19
5/31/06 at 10:20pm
I agree with pp that books come and go in fashion around here. Tonight we (my 5yo ds, 3yo ds & myself) read:

Brave Irene (William Stieg)
Harry the Dirty Dog (M-something?? Can't remember the author)
Now Everyone REALLY Hates Me (illustrated by Roz Chast - I think the author's name is something Martin)
A Thomas the Tank Engine flap book that I would GLADLY throw in the trash if I thought I could get away with it, and
Tree of Birds (Susan Meddaugh).

We've lately really loved:
The Lion and the Little Red Bird and The Paper Princess (forget the author, but she wrote both of these)
Sam and the Tigers (Julius Lester maybe? Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney)
The Line Up Book (Ack! I can't believe how bad I am with these authors!)
Harold and the Purple Crayon (Crocket Johnson)
Any Robert Munsch book EXCEPT Love You Forever
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (William Steig)
All the Frog and Toad books (Arnold Lobel)
The Mysterious Tadpole (Stephen Kellogg)
The Fire Cat (Esther Averill)
post #8 of 19
5/31/06 at 10:36pm
DD (3.5) is really into the Magic Schoolbus books. I just asked her what her favorite book was, and she said, "I'm not the kind of person who has a favorite book." She got that from a Magic Schoolbus book where Arnold says, "I'm not the kind of person who has a favorite insect."
post #9 of 19
5/31/06 at 11:40pm
Daffodil
post #10 of 19
5/31/06 at 11:57pm
Bone is a comic book that's now being re-released in graphic novel form by (I think?) Scholastic. My library is buying them one by one. There's 9 and so far they only have 3 (pout). It's a fantasy adventure that's funny and dramatic and we're both enjoying it

Elisa Kleven did the Lion and the Little Red Bird. I love that book! Her illustrations are awesome. We also have the Paper Princess and two books that she illustrated but didn't write I think. Abuela (or did she write that one?) and a song book. I think I like her books more than my kids though

I also love Seven Silly Eaters but again, I like it more than my kids do
post #11 of 19
6/1/06 at 12:11am
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShannonCC
Bone is a comic book that's now being re-released in graphic novel form by (I think?) Scholastic. My library is buying them one by one. There's 9 and so far they only have 3 (pout). It's a fantasy adventure that's funny and dramatic and we're both enjoying it
My sister's boyfriend owns a video game company that recently released the Bone game. You can see it at www.telltalegames.com
post #12 of 19
6/1/06 at 1:29am
Xavier loves "Good night Moon" and Sandra Boynton's board books esp. "The going to bed book".

Jio likes to read the Dr Suess books to his pet chinchilla, "Einstein"-its very sweet

Ronny likes anything Disney.
post #13 of 19
6/1/06 at 1:45am
The books under my son's pillow right now are:

Magic Treehouse (blech!) the first four in the series
This dinosaur book
Usborne Greek Myths for Young Children (thanks MDC'er for the recommendation)
post #14 of 19
6/1/06 at 1:51am
Boxcar children are perpetual favorites!
post #15 of 19
6/1/06 at 9:44am
Quote:
Originally Posted by AuntRayRay
Sandra Boynton's board books esp. "The going to bed book".
I LOVE The Going to Bed Book! My kids are beyond it

The sun has set not long ago, now everybody goes below....*sigh*

I also loved Snoozers...TOO funny!
post #16 of 19
6/1/06 at 10:24am
Oceanbaby Thank you
post #17 of 19
6/1/06 at 12:41pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShannonCC
Bone is a comic book that's now being re-released in graphic novel form by (I think?) Scholastic. My library is buying them one by one. There's 9 and so far they only have 3 (pout). It's a fantasy adventure that's funny and dramatic and we're both enjoying it
We love Bone (for ourselves!), but be warned, it does get darker and more scary as the series goes on. I don't know how old your kids are, but if they're young enough for you to be concerned about that sort of thing, you might want to skim through the later books yourself before the kids read them.
post #18 of 19
6/1/06 at 2:10pm
At the moment:

Pokemon guides and "tips and tricks" books
Calvin and Hobbes compilations
Bloom County compilations
The Far Side compilations
The Book of Leviathan by Peter Blegvad (a strange, philosophical comic strip series)
Bone series
Harry Potter series
Anything by Road Dahl (I think he's read them all now, at least a few times through)
The Ology series (Dragonology, Wizardology, Egyptology)
The Voyage of the Basset by James Christensen (not the paperbacks, but the beautiful, colorful hardbound version)
AD&D Monster Manuals (they're really pretty cool if a kiddo is interested in mythological creatures and monsters)
The Horrible series (Horrible History, Horrible Geography, Horrible Science, Murderous Maths, The Knowledge, etc.)
Cartoon History of the World series by Larry Gonick (amazing books)
Einstein Simplified: Cartoons on Science by Sidney Harris
A Gift From Zeus by Jeanne Steig (which we just found because of a thread on this board a few weeks ago)
Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini
post #19 of 19
6/1/06 at 11:03pm
Pookel, thanks We've only seen through book 3 and that starts to get a little dark. I think Bridget (7) will be fine because she has no problem putting something down if it's too scary. That, and I think they're releasing them really slowly so by the time we read to the end of the series she'll be 12 or something
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