Friday, March 2, 2007 QUESTION:What are some of your favorite books (name up to five) to read to children?
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Elaine Gutenstein I am a preschool teacher, so this could be MUCH longer: GREEN EGGS AND HAM CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM CORDUROY THE SNOWY DAY MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR Peggy GREEN EGGS AND HAM CHARLOTTE'S WEB THE HUNGRY CATERPILLAR The First Two Harry Potter books Ann Bowen The Cat in the Hat Horton Hears A Who! All the Places You'll Go The Polar Express The Bridge to Terabithia Mona E. Miller Big Red Barn Emil and the Detectives Little House in the Big Woods Hans Brinker Green Eggs and Ham Sandi 1. You Are My I Love You 2. Counting Kisses 3. The Giving Tree 4. Winnie-the-Pooh 5. Where the Sidewalk Ends Malvina The Hobbit Are You My Mother? Ping Rosie's Walk The Very Hungry Caterpillar Katja Green Eggs and Ham Horton Hears a Who! The Chronicles of Narnia A Series of Unfortunate Events The Little House series
Danny THE GIVING TREE by Shel Silverstein My daughter brought it home from school and it brought tears to my eyes when I read it to her. Dorothy Turk Goodnight Moon Caps For Sale Harry the Dirty Dog Darlene De Ryke The Golden Egg No Jumping on the Bed! The Very Hungry Caterpillar The Giving Tree Freda The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! The Amelia Bedelia series Are You My Mother? Wiley and the Hairy Man Stone Soup Suzi Skutley - WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak - ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN by Debra Frasier - Almost anything wriiten by Byrd Baylor Linda M. Johnson THE TRUE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS! by Jon Scieszka THE VELVETEEN RABBIT by Margery Williams A LITTLE PIGEON TOAD by Fred Gwynne CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS by Judi Barrett THE FIVE CHINESE BROTHERS by Claire Huchet Bishop Robin Schmidinger All the Dr. Seuss are lots of fun (even without kids). Dianne How about my favorite children's authors: Patricia Pollacco Chris Van Allsburg Mem Fox Lois Lowry Gary Paulsen Barb W Chicka Chicka Boom Boom The Cat in the Hat Fox in Socks Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book Suzanne Farris Chicka Chicka Boom Boom If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Mother Goose Is Your Mama a Llama? The Watering Hole Suzanne in Ohio GOODNIGHT MOON and other books by Laura Numeroff: IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE, IF YOU GIVE A PIG A PANCAKE, IF YOU TAKE A MOUSE TO SCHOOL, and IF OU GIVE A PIG A PARTY Beth Cummings 1.WINNIE-THE-POOH and THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER 2.ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH 3.HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON 4. The poetry of Shel Silverstein (WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS) Elinor Nuxoll WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE and anything else by Maurice Sendak LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE by Laura Ingalls Wilder Anything by Dr.Seuss or Richard Scarry Deborah Silveira 1. Goodnight Moon 2. Make Way For Ducklings 3. The Cat in the Hat 4. Green eggs and Ham Susan Reading DOG HEAVEN by Cynthia Rylant THE HIGH RISE GLORIOUS SKITTLE SKAT ROARIOUS SKY PIE ANGEL FOOD CAKE by Nancy Willard ALPHABEARS by Michael Hague THE LITTLE MOUSE, THE RIPE RED STRAWBERRY, AND THE BIG HUNGRY BEAR by Don Wood ANIMALIA by Graeme Base G. Perona 1. Charlotte's Web 2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas 3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 4. The Incredible Journey 5. The Tale of Peter Rabbit Tamara Leonard THE POKEY LITTLE PUPPY(my all-time fav) THE COUTRY MOUSE AND THE CITY MOUSE THE VELVETEEN RABBIT MADELINE THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE (that was long before the movie ever came out) OK, I know this is #6, but I love the ANNE OF GREEN GABLES stories too. Sheila Soloff 1. The Frog and Toad series. 2. STREGA NONA 3. and 4. LILLY'S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE and CHRYSANTHEMUM by Kevin Henkes 5-GREEN EGGS AND HAM
I am a first grade teacher ---do I have to stop now? Melinda RIKI TIKI TAVI ARE YOU MY MOTHER? THE SECRET GARDEN CHARLOTTE'S WEB Fairy Tales by Hans Christen Anderson or the Brothers Grimm Meg My two favorites are CHARLOTTE'S WEB and BUNNICULA. BUNNICULA is a delightful story of a vampire bunny that sucks vegetables white. It is a great read! Kathy - former children's librarian DON'T LET THE PIGEON RIDE THE BUS by Mo Willems EARRINGS! by Judith Viorst and Nola Langner Malone CLICK CLACK MOO by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin JUNIE B. JONES AND THE STUPID SMELLY BUS by Barbara Park WINNIE THE POOH by A. A. Milne Gaye SKIPPYJOB JONES by Judy Schachner is fabulously funny! It's about a Siamese cat who thinks he's a chihuahua! DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS! by Mo Willems --- a great sense of voice. YOU ARE SPECIAL by by Max Lucado LOVE YOU FOREVER by Robert Munsch --- I dare you to read it with a dry eye! TUESDAY by David Weisner --- how he can say so much with so little is astonishing. Mary Angela Young Harry Potter, Lemony Snickett, Goosebumps, Dr. Seuss, and Little Golden Books. Noreen THE GIVING TREE and THE VELVETEEN RABBIT Lee The Runaway Pumpkin Hop On Pop Goodnight Moon
Sandi Lewis CHARLOTTE'S WEB As a former elementary teacher, I've read this every year and the students are enthralled. Bob Coghill LIGHT IN THE ATTIC by Shel Silverstein WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS by Shel Silverstein OLIVER TWIST by Charles Dickens WITCHES FOUR by Marc Brown THE STORY ABOUT PING by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese and many more... Laurie A Light In The Attic Where The Sidewalk Ends Mr. Popper's Penquins The Legend of Sleeping Bear The Giving Tree Benita Sirkin PLAINSONG, HEIDI, the Betsy and Tracy books, and anything by Dr. Seuss.
Lynn Hackenberg The Tale of Peter Rabbit Where the Wild Things Are Goodnight Moon Winnie-the-Pooh The Velveteen Rabbit Annika Stowe Where the Wild Things Are? Freight Train Go, Dog. Go Where's My Teddy? Chris The Giving Treee If You Give a Mouse a Cookie The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Little Engine that Could A House is a House For Me Merrilee The Giving Tree A Light in the Attic Any Richard Scarry book Sharron MILLIONS OF CATS by Wanda Gag A BAD CASE OF STRIPES by David Shannon THE BADGER AND THE MAGIC FAN by Tony Johnston THE TALKING EGGS by Robert D. San Souci THE BIG ORANGE SPLOT by Daniel Manus Pinkwater Patty Blackwell Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Black Snowman The Acrobat and the Angel Little Bear Julie Martin Anything by Dr. Seuss Anything by Bill Peet The Billy and Blaze series 10 BLACK DOTS The Harry Potter series Kathleen Wierzbicki THE SWEETEST FIG by Chris Van Allsburg THE MITTEN by Jan Brett Doris Willis Books by Richard Scarry and Shel Silverstein Donnell GREEN EGGS AND HAM by Dr. Seuss BARTHOLOMEW AND THE OOBLECK by Dr. Seuss ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH by Dr. Seuss THE NAPPING HOUSE by Audrey Wood THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD by Watty Piper Neal Weisman Jamberry Green Eggs and Ham Dianne THE WESTING GAME by Ellen Raskin THE LORAX by Dr. Seuss CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY by Roald Dahl WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak THE LITTLE PRINCE by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry April Lemesh Favorites to read to the children were THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, JAMBERRY, and the Good Dog, Carl books. My kids and grandkids loved to read them over and over. Dawn Cronk Any of the Mercer Mayer Little Critter books, Dr. Seuss's OH THE THINKS YOU CAN THINK!, Children's bible stories, and any of the Arthur books. Marion Miller As a retired teacher, I was always reading anything by Dr. Seuss. The children parodied the rhymes and they could hear the same stories over and over. They also loved MISS NELSON IS MISSING!, and always, the fairy tales. CHARLOTTE'S WEB was another favorite. Sandra Hughes Black Beauty Little House on the Prairie The Cat in the Hat Rosalie Sambuco And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street Thd 500 Hats of Barthomew Cubbins Horton Hatches the Egg B Book "Stand Back," Said the Elephant, I'm Going to Sneeze Phyllis Lamken GOODNIGHT, MOON by Margaret Wise Brown GREEN EGGS AND HAM by Dr. Seuss WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak FIFTY BELOW ZERO by Robert Munsch THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT by Beatrix Potter Julie Caps For Sale Green Eggs and Ham Goodnight Moon The Velveteen Rabbit Rainbow Fish Ronnie The Cat Who Wore A Pot On Her Head Michelle Miller Guess How Much I Love You? Oh, the Places You'll Go! Goodnight, Gorilla
Judy Ross 1. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE 2. SLOBCAT 3. any Dr. Seuss title 4. any Berenstain Bears title 5. The Night Before Christmas F Tessa Bartels Any of the Seuss books GOODNIGHT MOON THE VELVETEEN RABBIT A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS I have an old (50 years, at least) book called READ ALOUD STORIES that has many classic fairy tales and fables in it. Sonia Zaffiris The Little Engine That Could Harold & the Purple Crayon Where the Wild Things Are The Giving Tree Goodnight Moon
Fifi 1. How The Grinch Stole Christmas 2. Otis Spofford 3. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing 4. Charlotte's Web 5. The Borrowers series Marie Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Goodnight Moon The Monster at the End of This Book (Sesame Street)
*Mama, Do you Love Me? Are You My Mother? Amy W. Rabbits Rafferty Watership Down Little House On The Prairie Christie The Purple Pussycat Mary Branham My granddaughter loved all the Eric Carle books. Also, she loved the Dr. Seuss books, which I never cared for but read to her anyway. I like IF GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE, GOODNIGHT MOON, and THE VELVETEEN RABBIT. Terri The Quiltmaker's Gift The Seven Silly Eaters Northwoods Cradle Song Robin Hillyer Miles Sailor Moo, Cow at Sea Diary of a Worm Hop on Pop The Monster at the End of this Book Little Chief Dail Anything by Jon Scieszka, author of THE STINKY CHEESE MAN AND OTHER FAIRLY STUPID TALES. J. Davis For toddlers: WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT by Michael Rosen GOODNIGHT MOON by Margaret Wise Brown BLUE HAT, GREEN HAT by Sandra Boynton ONE DUCK STUCK by Phyllis Root BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? by Bill Martin Melissa Jordan Where the Wild Things Are Goodnight Moon The Monster at the End of this Book Harry the Dirty Dog Janis Hahn Where the Wild Things Are Juanita The Night Before Christmas Rose - CT The Tender Bar Snow Flower and the Secret Fan The Kite Runner Tuesday's With Morrie Memoirs of a Geisha Lynn Ketelsen The Happy Hollisters Mystery Series by Jerry West The Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling The Betsy-Tacy and Tib series by Maud Hart Lovelace Anything by Sandra Boynton Louise Pledge I'LL LOVE YOU FOREVER THE CAT IN THE HAT Anything with Grover in it Any of the Berenstain Bears Bible Stories Canadian reader THE MINPINS by Roald Dahl. PRINCE WILLIAM by Gloria Rand and Ted Rand "Prince Ivan and the Little Sister of the Sun," in Arthur Ransome's OLD PETER'S RUSSIAN TALES A PROMISE IS A PROMISE by Robert Munsch. WILLY THE WIMP by Anthony Browne Terry Horan CHARLOTTE'S WEB
Books by:
Eric Carle Marc Brown C.S. Lewis Van Allsburg Trish Thomas GOODNIGHT MOON, GOODNIGHT GORILLA (thanks to Jon Carroll, SF Chronicle), THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS, and LITTLE PEAR by Frances Lattimore. Zena Schulman Curious George Harry the Dirty Dog Mop Top Where's Andy Cynthia D. Smith King Bidgood's in the Bathtub Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Boxcar Children Green Eggs and Ham Winnie-the-Pooh Ginny Lazar GREEN EGGS AND HAM has always been my favorite, but THE CAT IN THE HAT comes in a close second. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is also a favorite, but my grandchildren love to listen to any book and are beginning to memorize them. Maureen H. THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, THE POLAR EXPRESS, THE ADVENTURES OF WINNIE-THE-POOH, anything by Dr. Seuss, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY, and CORDUROY. I could read all day to children. Delores The Cat In The Hat Hello, Moon! Katherine Stephens The Berenstain Bears and the Sweet Pickles series, including GOOSE GOOFS OFF. Kathy Church THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Clement C. Moore GOODNIGHT MOON by Margaret Wise Brown Any Dr. Suess books THE POLAR EXPRESS by Chris Van Allsburg THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR by Eric Carle Rhea Peterson Goodnight Moon I Love You Forever
Linda Hastings WINNIE-THE-POOH and THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER by A. A. Milne MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS by Robert McCloskey MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS byRichard and Florence Atwater OFFICER BUCKLE AND GLORIA by Peggy Rathman Mary Davis A GARDEN FOR MISS MOUSE MISS NELSON IS MISSING! MILK AND COOKIES DETECTIVE BOB AND THE GREAT APE ESCAPE Kimberli The Digby and Kate series by Barbara Baker WINNIE-THE-POOH by A. A. Milne Anything written by Eric Carle is good for very young children Pamela Ashland Goodnight Moon Runaway Bunny Dr. Doolittle When the Sun Rose Bunnicula Marcia Demille Mr. Popper's Penguins Mary Graetzer Goodnight Moon Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Winnie-the-Pooh How the Grinch Stole Christmas Ro Blake The Little House Miss Lollipop's Lion Goodnight Moon Lois Where the Sidewalk Ends Charlotte's Web A Wrinkle in Time My Side of the Mountain The Velveteen Rabbit Pam Dean Charlotte's Web Little House on the Prarie The Velveteen Rabbit Where the Sidewalk Ends Ruth Millions of Cats If You Give a Mouse a Cookie If You Give a Pig a Pancake Goldilocks & the Three Bears The Runaway Pancake Sandra Greathouse THE CAT IN THE HAT by Dr. Seuss BLUEBERRIES FOR SAL by Robert McClosky HEIDI by Johanna Spyri GOODNIGHT MOON The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder Genevieve 101 Dalmatians, The Cat in the Hat, Good Boy, Fergus!, Until I Saw the Sea, The Magic Horse of Han Gan Arlene Herring GREEN EGGS AND HAM GOODNIGHT MOON MANY MOONS (James Thurber) THE DOLL'S HOUSE (Rumer Godden) WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (Sendak) L. Green PARTS by Tedd Arnold THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR by Eric Carle STELLALUNA by Janell Cannon BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? by Bill Martin Jr. THE POLAR EXPRESS by Chris Van Allsburg Lynne Perednia TOMORROW ON ROCKY POND by Lyn Reiser THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Bartimeous Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud Cheri Coley Goodnight Moon Janet Thomas The Velveteen Rabbit The Polar Express Goodnight Moon Winnie-th- Pooh
P A Rhoads DINOSAUR ROAR! Any of the Junie B. Jones books Vanessa The Kissing Hand I Love You This Much There's a Wocket in my Pocket No, David! Kimberly Yeaw Green Eggs and Ham The Foot Book The Secret Garden Goodnight Moon Ellen Engelking THE THIEF LORD by Cornelia Funke THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX by Kate Di Camillo THE WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum Vickie Malone Anything by Dr. Suess Joanne After THE CAT IN THE HAT, II like to read LORAX, THE RUNAWAY BUNNY, and GOODNIGHT MOON. Linda Nueman The Cat in the Hat Green Eggs and Ham Pat the Bunny The Little Engine That Could Cars and Trucks and Things That Go Debbie THE VELVETEEN RABBIT by Margery Williams; THE TALE OF THREE TREES by Angela Elwell Hunt; THE UGLY DUCKLING by Hans Christian Anderson; ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN by Debra Frasier Dodalodle from Beautiful British Columbia Charlotte's Web The Velveteen Rabbit The Pokey Little Puppy The Secret Garden The Tale of Peter Rabbit Jon Erland Madsen The Harry Potter books Anything by Roald Dahl
For the slightly older:
Eolfin Colfer Garth Nix Philip Pullman Lesa The Velveteen Rabbit Green Eggs and Ham Little House in the Big Woods The Night Before Christmas Jon Weiman Madeline Goodnight Moon The Lady with the Alligator Purse Alphabet City Adele & Simon Claire Wilkins THE SIGN OF THE BEAVER BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA COME SING JIMMY JO WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS Anything by Raol Dahl (especially THE TWITS) WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Cynthia WHO DO YOU LOVE? GOODNIGHT MOON GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES Poetry Carol Cool Green Eggs and Ham The Sneetches Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Bonnie Waliezer The Cat in the Hat Horton Hears a Who! Goodnight Moon Green Eggs and Ham JD Simm Peter Pan Pinnocchio Cinderella Tarzan Nursery Rhymes Teresa Ryan Bible stories Nursery rhymes Dr. Suess books Brothers Grimms tales Wendy Manning Where the Wild Things Are The Pirate Who Tried to Capture The Moon The Stinky Cheese Man Rikki Tikki Tavi Make Way for Ducklings Winnie-the-Pooh Dottie Mallerich THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT All of Dr. Seuss's books BREAD AND JAM FOR FRANCES GOOD NIGHT, GORILLA WINNIE-THE-POOH Corinna Where the Wild Things Are Where the Sidewalk Ends Goodnight Moon Marlyn E. Myers GREEN EGGS AND HAM GOODNIGHT MOON Any or all of the Eloise books Any of the Curious George books Laura Johnson The Caterpillow Fight Double Trouble in Walla Walla Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse Margaret Nance Goodnight Moon The Velveteen Rabbit Nursery Classics: A Galdone Treasury Children of the Forest Miss Fannie's Hat Patti D Three Little Kittens Green Ham and Eggs The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Holes Big Bird's Birthday Party Trish Thomas IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN and WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak, LITTLE BEAR by Elsie Holmelund Minarek, The Curious George books by H.A. and Margret Rey, and STREGA NONA by Tomi de Paola Judy Carmichael Too Much Noise Goodnight Moon The Little House The Snowy Day Carol GOODNIGHT MOON was one of our favorites. We also read a book called NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS. My kids loved to hear this book read to them and they would recite it along with me. That was quite a number of years ago, and though I've wanted to give it to others, I haven't been able to find it again. Amy Honan Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey Jo A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Little Women The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Heidi The Bobbsey Twins Susan Anything that starts with Harry Potter, RAMONA THE PEST, ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY, and GOODNIGHT MOON for the small ones. Joann Archetto Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom Goodnight Moon A Giraffe and a Half The Rainbow Fish Mary Petersen 1. The original stories of Winnie-the-Pooh 2. EATING THE ALPHABET by Lois Ehlert 3. Denise Fleming's alphabet book, ALPHABET UNDER CONSTRUCTION 4. READ ANYTHING GOOD LATELY? by Susan Allen & Jane Lindaman 5. Poetry books edited by Lee Hopkins C. DeSoto The Cat in the Hat Grren Eggs and Ham Owl at Home Bedtime for Frances Harold and the Purple Crayon |