Do you have a FAVORITE children's story book? Several favorites? Let's post some of these in this thread, ONE book per post and include if you can: Title Author Picture Brief Description and why you love it! Any relevant web links Here's my first one: The Empty Pot by Demi (picture to be posted a little later ) I LOVE this story! I first heard it on Between the Lions and LOVE IT!!!! It is a wonderful story on honesty, integrity, and doing your personal best, regardless of what others are doing and ESPECIALLY resisting the influence of others/peer pressure, and it reminds me of one of my own mama's favorite quotes "The right way isn't always the easy way, and the easy way isn't always right!" You've GOT to read this book!!! http://pbskids.org/lions/seed/ http://www.amazon.com/Empty-Pot-Demi/dp/0805012176 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780805049008&itm=1
"Leo The Lop" is my FAVORITE book. It's about a rabbit named Leo. Who was laughed at by the other rabbits because his ears were different than theirs and not "normal". The lesson in the book is that "normal" is whatever you are. It's really cute. I also like "The Velvateen Rabbit". Angela
Welll....thanks Angela! Steal my book. "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams (also subtitled "How Toys become Real") Picture is from my favorite part of the book, Where Skinhorse Tells His Story . Why do I love the book. It starts as is one of my only happy memories of my biological mother. She could never make it thru the story without crying. It was not until I was a mother that I understood the magnatude of those moments. I, too, cannot get thru it without crying. Everything real, really real, is in this book. Sniff......
One of my favorites is Today I Feel Silly and was written by Jamie Lee Curtis and illustrated by Laura Cornell. It is just the cutest thing ever. It talks about all the different emotions a kid can go through and that whatever you feel inside is okay. At the end it asks "How do you feel today?" and it has a wheel in back for you to choose your mood. Dd10 got htis for Christmas when she was 5 and it has remained a fav.
Small Brown Dog's Bad Remembering Day http://www.amazon.com/Small-Brown-R...ef=sr_1_1/103-8714723-0257443?ie=UTF8&s=books Every page has a hiding blue mouse and at the end he says "I could have told you that." Our kids really like it.
Sorry Krista I also like goodnight moon. My 3 year old really likes Chicka chicka boom boom. She calls it boom boom. Too cute.
Title: The Lorax Author: Dr. Seuss Brief Description and why you love it! Good lesson here, and fun, fun, fun to read! We really get into this one when we read it. The Onceler chops down all of the truffula trees out of greed, it pollutes everything and all of the critters that lived there had to leave to find somewhere cleaner to live.
My second pick would be Bob by Tracey Campbell Pearson. It's about a rooster named Bob who doesn't know how to crow. It's just cute!
Third pick...My many colored days by Dr. Seuss. Can you tell we love Dr. Seuss around here? Another fun book to read is Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina. I like fun to read books. I could really fill up this thread!
I have quite a few. Right now its Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you see? By Eric Carle All three love animals. I like the pictures and it's easy to memorize. My oldest first read this book. She has it memorized like I do.
Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do you Hear and it's also by Eric Carle. Again we like it because of the animals and the pictures in it. We also have this one pretty much memorized.
Panada Bear, Panda Bear what do you hear? (I am sure that's the title) it is also a well worn book in our house. Like it for the same reasons posted above. Just to save from hitting reply millions times. We also have the monkey one. I think it says Do what a Monkey Does? Something like that. We have the spider one with a clock on it (how we learn time here), the Tiny Seed. We like most of the Eric Carle books in this house.
Again to save on many posts we like the Magic School Bus series by Joanna Cole. I would watch the cartoon all the time. I have recently started getting them from the library and now on the hunt at thrift stores to buy them. If we can, we read the book and then watch the cartoon to compare them. We also do a craft to go with the book. We just drew the solar system on paper with markers and crayons after reading the one about 'Lost in The Solar System'. She gets more excited about things while reading these books than the boxed curriculum sitting in the closet.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault. The little ones really like me reading it to them. There is also a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom 1,2,3. I think they are are the same. Not quite sure. I just know that I picked up both at the library. They are on the list to buy too. I also have just about every disney book out there and 1/2 the Dr. Suese books. I dont care for him but my mother got them for me as a child. My daughter enjoys them so I read them to her.
My three all time favorite children's books are as follows. I loved reading these to my kids when they were small. My Pre-K kids always loved these too. 1.Chrysanthemum (ISBN 0-688-09699-9) is the title of a 1991 children's book by the American writer and illustrator Kevin Henkes. The plot deals with a young mouse named Chrysanthemum, who loves her name until classmates criticize it. However, a teacher defends her because the teacher's name is Delphinium.
2. Chester Raccoon doesn't want to go to school--he wants to stay home with his mother. She assures him that he'll love school--with its promise of new friends, new toys, and new books. Even better, she has a special secret that's been in the family for years--the Kissing Hand. This secret, she tells him, will make school seem as cozy as home. She takes her son's hand, spreads his tiny fingers into a fan and kisses his palm--smack dab in the middle: "Chester felt his mother's kiss rush from his hand, up his arm, and into his heart." Whenever he feels lonely at school, all he has to do is press his hand to his cheek to feel the warmth of his mother's kiss. Chester is so pleased with his Kissing Hand that he--in a genuinely touching moment--gives his mom a Kissing Hand, too, to comfort her when he is away.
3. Elmer the elephant is a colorful character. His heady optimism and unbridled sense of humor keep the entire community in a cheery mood. And Elmer's unusual multicolored checkerboard hide is the wonder of all the other elephants, who are characteristically gray. In spite of his sunny disposition, Elmer begins to feel conspicuous. He starts to believe the others are laughing at him because of his crazy patchwork coat. When Elmer discovers a bush in the jungle with elephant-colored berries, he shakes the bush and rolls in a berry mash until he is as gray as the others. Now no one seems to notice him; for a time he enjoys his anonymity, but after a while he begins to realize just how quiet and dull things are when he's not around. Finally the practical joker in Elmer emerges, and he soon has the whole gang laughing again.
