Some of my favorites are:
The Tomten- Astrid Lindgren
Miss Rumphius- Barbara Cooney Island Boy Roxaboxen
Ox Cart Man- Donald Hall
Strega Nona- Tomie DePaoula (anything by him)
Pumpkin Moonshine- Tasha Tudor (anything by her)
Children of the Forest- Elsa Beskow Christopher's Harvest
What are your favorites?
[This message edited by boudicca at 5:58 PM, June 27th (Monday)]
Lesson, read aloud to all kids!
Hugless Douglas
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
The Thirteen Hours of Halloween The 12 Days of Summer
Bats At the BallGame Bats in the Library
A Visitor for Bear
Knuffle Bunny Knuffle Bunny Too Knuffle Bunny Free
And the Pigeon books by Mo Willems
Don't discount the fiction written for kids and young adults. Several fiction books have dealt with the topic of autism and asperger's syndrome with amazing directness and sensitivity. Others are just great reads! Mystery, fantasy, speculative fiction, you name it. And kids are sucking it up like it is air!
Happy reading.
Oh, BTW, my all time classic favorite is The Story of Ferdinand. (the bull who dared to be different) Kids still love this 1936 story.
[This message edited by scaredyKat at 9:31 PM, June 27th (Monday)]
Some more modern picture books I like are:
No, David! Click, Clack, Moo cows that can type Fletcher and the falling leaves Dr. DeSoto
I love YA fiction as well. I have read all of the Margaret Peterson Haddix books, the Cornelia Funke books, and I love the Jeanie Birdsall Penderwick series.
I love Eric Carle books.
Are You My Mother, a Dr. Seuss book, one of my favorites from when I was a kid.
Bark, George (can't remember the author)
Freight Train by Donald Crews
One of my favorite things about being a preschool teacher was reading to the kids. I was always finding new treasures.
It is a picture book for adults only.
http://www.amazon.com/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/1617750255/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309400150&sr=8-1#_
I also used to like:
Harry the Dirty Dog Love you Forever My Love Will Find You Corduroy Horton Hears A Who
I always HATED Cat in the Hat because it reminded me of one of those bad dreams that you couldn't wake up from.
I would read to my 8th graders every once in awhile
Anansi the Spider books The Places You Will Go
And those big bad teenagers would ask if they could sit on the floor and made sure I showed the pictures. Big kids.
And a treasure my kids love that we found in a used bookstore is a book called
A Porcupine Named Fluffy which is hilarious and sweet and about accepting yourself and others.
Goodnight Moon Your Mama is a Llama
love to share stories and real aloud.
Percy the Park Keeper by Nick Butterworth (the kids loved this and it was a bedtime favourite)
I also enjoy the simplicity of the story and the fantastic illustration in "The Relative's Came"
As for reading aloud to my boys, I did this every night for fourteen years (until my youngest was 11 years old). I will always treasure that time. Our absolute favorite book, that we read a loud every year was "Bunnicula" by James Howe. We would just laugh out loud together, and it doesn't get any better than that.
both by Jane Hissey
'The story of the little mole who knew it was none of his business'.
I love 'Love You Forever'.
When Grandma Came - makes me cry, just beautiful.
Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket!
We have a couple of tote boxes full of books the kis had when they were little.
After asking the kids which their favourites were, they now want to get the boxes out
I remember loving The Pokey Little Puppy, The Diggingest Dog, and I Wish That I Had Duck Feet.
My daughter is very little, only 20 months, but her absolute favorite is Curious George Gets a Medal. She also loves Moo Baa La La La, and we read Goodnight Moon every night. I love Llama Llama Red Pajama, but she doesn't think it's as funny as I do.
I learned to read on that and Are You My Mother.
Ezra Jack Keats is good, too.
Some more favorites for us are "10,9,8" by Molly Bang. My daughters loved this as toddlers." Brown Bear, Brown Bear" oldest son loved this."Jamberry" youngest son loved this and still has it memorized. "Corduroy", they all loved this.
I can't wait to have grandkids. I love read aloud time.
[This message edited by boudicca at 5:31 PM, June 30th (Thursday)]
I love children's verse and poetry too. I have a big collection and can recite hundreds.
The other day I was in the park with my baby gdd pushing her in a swing. I started saying (in a loud voice)
'How do you like to go up in a swing up in the air so blue oh, I do think it's the pleasantest thing ever a child can do
Up in th air and over the wall till you can see so wide rivers and trees and cattle and all over the countryside
Till I look down on the garden so green down on the roof so brown up in the air I go flying again up in the air and down (Stevenson R.L)
I got some funny looks but my gdd loved it. She loves The Gruffalo.
end of t/j
For true connoisseurs of children's picture books. The artwork alone is amazing.
Ludwig Bemelmans'classic Madeline books - still love that spunky heroine.
Love you Forever makes me weep and has been banished from my home.
That's my favorite time with her!!! I have a basketful of books just for when she visits. She's almost 4....love that age!
