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post #21 of 34
10/1/08 at 11:53am
My 5.5 yo daughter loves to have the following books read to her:

Little House - the Laura years
Little House - the Caroline years
Magic Treehouse books
Silverstein poetry
Winnie the Pooh
My Father's Dragon series
Roald Dahl books
Cicely Mary Barker's fairy books

I am thinking about starting the Spiderwick Chronicles.
post #22 of 34
10/1/08 at 1:35pm
Dd 8- Mouse Guard Fall 1152
post #23 of 34
10/14/08 at 12:40am
My ds is 6 and we are on book II of The Lord of The Rings trilogy.
He likes to take nights off of LOTR and read Stuart Little and Magic Treehouse, and ISPY. ISPY at that time of night is too much for my brain, lol.
post #24 of 34
10/14/08 at 11:41am
Dd (7) won't let me read to her at bedtime right now. Her reading has suddenly taken off and she's spending every evening tucked under the covers reading on her own - Moomin book after Moomin book!

I get to sit with her and read my own book, at least. I'm hoping I get to still do read-alouds sometime...
post #25 of 34
10/14/08 at 12:46pm
I'm now reading The Black Stallion to 5 1/2 yr old DD (and wishing it was better written.) Before that, we re-read No Flying in the House at her request.
post #26 of 34
10/18/08 at 11:59pm
skippyjon jones mania with my almost-5 yo.

after i read Peter Pan to double check it's ok, that's what she'd like to hear next. she got turned off of the little house series after Jack the dog died if i don't pick a new chapter book soon, we'll be on charlotte's web again.
post #27 of 34
10/19/08 at 8:38pm
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Originally Posted by LadyAlathia View Post
My son's a month old, and we're reading "The Fellowship of the Ring".

Hey, it's not like he's comprehending it, or going to remember, so it might as well be something I like to hear, right? ^_^

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My ds is nine months old and at this delightful stage where he has a good enough attention span for some fairly thought provoking picture books (he doesn't tear/eat paper pages, either) but still laughs uproariously at Helen Oxenbury's Tickle Tickle and aks for it over and over.

Some of our recent faves are A Ride On Mother's Back, It's Just a Plant (I live in Humboldt County), Global Babies, X, Y, and me/ (He was conceived via artificial insemination with a known donor) and It's A Big Beautiful World, which Nancy Carlson wrote on September 12, 2001.

I'm probably going to try chapter books this winter and see if he's up for them.

I like to read to him in the mornings with my coffee because....well, that's what i did with his siblings during the eleven (or seventeen, depending on your perspective) years that i homeschooled them and it's a deeply ingrained habit.
post #28 of 34
10/19/08 at 9:18pm
With my DS (will be 8 in a couple of months) I've been reading the original Mary Poppins books, and a lot of Jack Prelutsky.
post #29 of 34
10/19/08 at 10:38pm
Ds is almost eight and right now we are reading James and the Giant Peach. I never read it so I'm really enjoying it. Peter Pan is next on our list

Dd is 3 and is only interested in Curious George and Sandra Boynton books. Especially when ds reads to her!
post #30 of 34
10/19/08 at 11:16pm
For the first time, I've been reading the same books to my 8yo and my 5yo. We have been reading the Swallows and Amazons series and we're on the fifth book, Coot Club.
post #31 of 34
10/20/08 at 12:53pm
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Originally Posted by kangamitroo View Post
skippyjon jones mania with my almost-5 yo.

after i read Peter Pan to double check it's ok, that's what she'd like to hear next. she got turned off of the little house series after Jack the dog died if i don't pick a new chapter book soon, we'll be on charlotte's web again.

Is that the time Jack gets lost in the river crossing? Don't worry - he comes back. And how can that be more traumatizing than Charlotte's Web? My MIL gave CW to DD last year and I hid it. I remember it being WAY too sad when I read it at 8. Have I blown it out of proportion?
post #32 of 34
10/20/08 at 1:15pm
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Originally Posted by friendtoall View Post
Is that the time Jack gets lost in the river crossing? Don't worry - he comes back. And how can that be more traumatizing than Charlotte's Web? My MIL gave CW to DD last year and I hid it. I remember it being WAY too sad when I read it at 8. Have I blown it out of proportion?
She could be talking about when Jack really does die, at the beginning of By The Shores of Silver Lake.

Some kids do find Charlotte's Web incredibly sad, so if you were one of them and think your daughter might be, no I don't think you've blown it out of proportion. On the other hand, I don't remember being all that sad any of the multiple times I read CW as a kid. I pretty much took Charlotte's word for it: she'd had a good life and it was her time to go. And when I read it to 6yo ds he didn't get upset, either. It's all about the individual kid.

But Peter Pan? Man, that book got to me. I thought it was really sad. I mean, I loved it, but at the end when Peter comes back to find that Wendy is a grownup and she can't go to Neverland with him and then when her daughter Jane goes...I was a little kid, but something about that really struck me, the end of childhood, the sorrow of looking back at a time that's passed. (I'm talking about the real, unedited Peter and Wendy, not those abridged versions.) But it's a great (if quite odd) book and my kids loved it, too.
post #33 of 34
10/20/08 at 2:31pm
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Originally Posted by onlyzombiecat View Post
Hey, I got that for my son. I finally sat down with it and read it myself. The drawings are beautiful. The story was good, but needed some serious fleshing-out.

Book that got to me: Winnie the Pooh! I read that to Dear Son, and I literally could not read out loud the last bit where Christopher Robin explains to Pooh that he's going off to school and won't be coming back. It was achingly sad! Dh took pity on me and read the rest to ds while I sat behind a closed door and tried to pull myself together.

None the less, I really recommend Winnie the Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner for bed time reading. It gets over-looked for newer stories, but it's excellent.
post #34 of 34
10/21/08 at 5:08pm
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Originally Posted by zinemama View Post
She could be talking about when Jack really does die, at the beginning of By The Shores of Silver Lake.

Some kids do find Charlotte's Web incredibly sad, so if you were one of them and think your daughter might be, no I don't think you've blown it out of proportion. On the other hand, I don't remember being all that sad any of the multiple times I read CW as a kid. I pretty much took Charlotte's word for it: she'd had a good life and it was her time to go. And when I read it to 6yo ds he didn't get upset, either. It's all about the individual kid.

But Peter Pan? Man, that book got to me. I thought it was really sad. I mean, I loved it, but at the end when Peter comes back to find that Wendy is a grownup and she can't go to Neverland with him and then when her daughter Jane goes...I was a little kid, but something about that really struck me, the end of childhood, the sorrow of looking back at a time that's passed. (I'm talking about the real, unedited Peter and Wendy, not those abridged versions.) But it's a great (if quite odd) book and my kids loved it, too.

Another book by daughter is dying to have me read to her, but I think is too sad, is Call of the Wild. It's funny, I'm more sensitive to children's books than adults.

We have started reading the Magic Treehouse books. DD (5) loves them, though admits they are a little scary, and DS (3) follows a bit.
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