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Depending on how little, I absolutely recommend Robert Munch books. He's amazing.
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Little kids LOVE books with big, colourful pictures and such. I don't know much about English children's books, but if your friend enters a book shop and goes to the kids section, she can't go wrong with a book with nice pictures.
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My three year old niece loves the Fancy Nancy books, Dr. Seuss books, David Gets Into Trouble, and the Beatrix Potter books.
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EDIT: Sorry, just saw garnet_dagger's post, so wanted to say that I also read Where the Red Fern Grows. It was very good indeed, and I agree with you: it was quite sad. My teacher read it to my class when I was in Grade 3. At the end, everyone in my class was pretty much crying! Of course, no one admitted it later on.
I didn't read much when I was young. I did enjoy the Amelia Bedelia series, though. They used to make me laugh, so I read them when I wasn't in a very good mood. |
Ooh, Ooh Every book written by Roald Dahl. I loved the Fantastic Mr. Fox, The BFG, Witches, Matilda, George's Marvelous Medicine, etc. etc.
I also remember reading an awful lot of Encyclopedia Brown books. I don't know why, but I liked them. |
I don't remember any books that I read when I was child... D;
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My favorite is Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. It tells the story of a boy and his mom from when he's a baby, to a toddler, to a teenager, to an adult. The main theme of the book is when the boy is asleep, his mom rocks him and sings
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Because they totally rocked! I just thought of another book that I used to read A LOT as a kid, though I doubt anyone has ever heard of it. It's called Chicken Trek. it's about a boy who's sent to live with his crazy inventor uncle. His uncle introduces him to the countries bet friend chicken and the contest where you have to eat at everyone of the restaurants in the country. The uncle and the boy travel around the country in the picklemobile (yes just what it sounds like) and eat fried chicken and have adventures. It was awesome! |
Well maybe these books can help I liked thenm alot when I was aa child. Here they are:
The Olivia Series by Ian Falconer 1.Olivia by Ian Falconer 2.Olivia Counts by Ian Falconer 3.Olivia helps with Christmas by Ian Falconer 4.Olivia and the Missing Toy by Ian Falconer 5.Olivia forms a Band by Ian Falconer 6.Olivia's big Christmas by Ian Falconer 7.Dream Big by Ian Falconer 8.Olivia's Opposites by Ian Falconer 9.Olivia saves the Circus by Ian Falconer. The Little Critter Series which are by Mercer Mayer The Amelia Bedelia Series by Peggy Parish Um, thats all I can think of right now. I will be here if I am hit with more ideas. :) |
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I just thought it was funny that I recognised it and thought I would post ... maybe I'll buy it one day because it does sound nice. :) |
The Magic Tree House series was one of my favorites as a kid, but I don't know if an under 3 year old would be able to understand it...
Dr. Seuss's Are You My Mother and the Martha Speaks series are also pretty good. Those were all the titles I could think of. I hope that helps somewhat! |
I didn't see it- or i missed it
But the author Richard Scary does some great stories. I have one big book from when i was a kid, it has a alot of illustrations which would be good. Another thing- if you want to look- i know sometimes its a lot. But this website is pretty good at finding stuff ^_^ http://www.thereadingtub.com/children_book_reviews.asp |
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I found it at Walmart for about $5. I read it so many times in elementary school that I just had to buy it. |
Well, not sure what age you are referring to, but I know of the Geronimo Stilton series, which is filled with pictures and colorful words. Very entertaining, even at my age.
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Childhood? Well that's up for some questioning. I still consider 6th grade my childhood, and that's when my first book that I actually considered a 'favorite' appeared - it was called The Iron Ring. I also read The Thief.
...when I was little, I was tested, and then retested more than once because I got such high scores on comprehension tests that the school was having me do on the computer to determine my 'reading level' and I kept scoring at the level of reading War and Peace. LIKE HELL. I sat down in the library and cried - because the rule was, you couldn't read anything below the level the computer gave you, else it didn't count towards the class. As a sixth grader, I was kind of broken with the news. But my teacher patted me on the shoulder, and said she didn't know what was with the computer and my scores, but explained that books weren't about how hard the words were to understand, but about the story and emotion inside the books. She picked a few books out for me, and I fell in love with them. They were thick compared to what others around me were reading - but seriously, for a kid who could read an Animorphs book in the period of a school day between doing school work, I was peeved at the computer tests. (I did go pick up War and Peace, and I did understand it. I understood that it was dry and boring as hell after three pages.) ...seven years later, I still read whatever I want, regardless of how hard, easy, long, or short it looks to be. (My favorite series from high school was the Wheel of Time series, and the first books I ever read were from Kindergarten --- I was reading chapter books even when I was five: The Babysitter's Club. o_O) Yes, I knew it wasn't normal. I also found it strange that kids didn't like reading. What kind of child doesn't like reading?! |
Go, Dog, Go!
It's a struggle between Go, Dog, Go! and The Phantom Tollbooth. I still pick up that Beginner Book from time to time. That is only book among the Beginner Book/ Dr. Suess collection that I would keep. I would give away any and every other book to any child, parent, or grandparent, but Go, Dog, Go! stays. The Phantom Tollbooth is from an older time, middle school I believe. I must have borrowed that book three times before I left the school.
No, Go, Dog, Go! wins, because I haven't cared to read it lately, nor do I even remember what everything is about in that book. There's so much going on in that little book, that I always enjoy focusing on every little thing. When one of the small stories are repeated, I would hunt for similarities and changes. I would act out the conversations between the hatted dogs in different voices. I have a ball with this book. When I have children, they're going to think I'm crazy for wanting to read the same book to them more than they want to hear it. Tehe. |
I looooved the Amelia Bedilia books, but the only place I was ever able to read them was at school. And, for some odd reason, I always made my grandfather read me "Barbies Beach Vacation" or something xD |
ohhh it has to be "The cat in the hat" by: Dr. Seuss
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Charlette's Web was my favorite childhood book.
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I loved "The Squirrel, the Hare, and the Little Grey Rabbit" by Alison Uttley.
I've actually been searching for an older version of it recently; the newer editions have more pictures, but they're nowhere near as detailed and pretty as the pictures in the older editions. That was part of its charm. |
I really didn't read any books as a child... We only ever had 'Peter and Jane' for English practice in my house and kindergarten... Since I skipped a lot of my childhood reads, I just went straight on to reading Sweet Valley Twins when I was 8-9 years old ^^"
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>w< I must have read 30 or so of those books, they were amazing. I also read those little... Jewel Kingdom Books? XD; And the American Girl books, and the Alice books... And Grimm's Fairy Tales~ <3 Ooh, and the Wayside series~ owo And, Rohl Dahl's children's stuff, can't forget him~ ^__^ Later in middle school I discovered Diana Wynne Jones, Redwall, Xanth, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles... Gahh, memory lanee, so much nostalgiaaa... >w< ...Oh, and I will always loove the Velveteen Rabbit and Love You Forever, they make me cry. ;o; |
My favorite book to read was a toss up between Peter Rabbit and the Brer Rabbit stories. Its a shame that you don't really see either of those anymore, because they were such good stories. I was reading from the time I was old enough to understand how to, so since I was about three or so, and I have been something of a bookworm ever since. But Peter Rabbit and Brer Rabbit have always been, and will probably always be, my favorite tales.
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I loved the Ear, the Eye and the Arm, Misty of Chincotegue and Man O'War. I also read lots of Encyclopedia Brown and the Wayside School books. Good times....
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My favorite childhood book...
Ooohhh, so many to choose from. Lets see, there was all the Shel Silverstine books. Dr. Suess, of course. And then there was But No Elephants. That is also a great book. I read it the other day with one of my friends. Still love it. But Shel is sooooo funny. D: And the Lorax! What about the Lorax? I just don't know. Can I go with all three? |
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