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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Some Favorite Children's Books

Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River
 Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River

I LOVE Scuffy. It has been one of my favorite read aloud books for many, many years... our copy is one I gave to one of my brothers many Christmases ago, and he passed it on to our little ones so it could give more enjoyment.  I love the storyline -  Scuffy is discontent where he is, so he sails off to find adventure, and then realizes that he really does need the man with the polka dot tie and his son, and wishes that he were back with them... and just as he is entering the ocean, which has no beginning or end, the man and his son scoop him up and he is safe again.

 

Barnyard Dance! (Boynton on Board)                                  One of our board book favorites is Barnyard Dance!  It was a gift to Nathan when he was born, and we've loved it ever since. It has a fun rhythm and shows all the different farm animals dancing.  It has a lot of "moo" and other animal noises, which makes it a toddler favorite, and the fun pictures also make it a good book to entertain the baby during church.

 "Bounce with the bunny.  Strut with the duck.  Spin with the chickens now- CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK!"


The Going-To-Bed BookWe also have another board book by Sandra Boynton called The Going-To-Bed Book- it is fun and is our current diaper bag book, for distracting and calming a wiggly little one in church or elsewhere. :)


It has a really fun cadence to it as well...

"And down once more, but not so fast, they're on their way to bed at last.
The day is done.  They say good night, and somebody turns off the light."


And of course, we love the classic kid books...
- Green Eggs and Ham,  Bears On Wheels, Make Way for Ducklings, The Little Engine That Could, Corduroy

Bears on Wheels (Bright and Early Books)Make Way for DucklingsThe Little Engine That Could miniCorduroy (40th Anniversary Edition)

As you can see, we're bookworms, and it seems to be passing on to the next generation!  I think we better get some more bookcases soon, because these are all  full already...  are any of these your favorite stories too?  Have any others we should put on our library/wish list? :)

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6 comments:

Anna Friedrich said...

I remember "Corduroy" really well from when I was a little kid! I always wanted to go to a department store, afterwards, that was just like the one in the story. :-) Wonderful, classic children's stories!

natalie said...

Sadly, Corduroy wasn't part of my childhood, but it has quickly become one of my favorites to read aloud! Nathan has even started trying to say "Corduroy" - "Coe-oy" - which I love too, so fun. :)

Kelly said...

I looked over my shelves this morning and pulled some favorites for you:

Goodnight, Moon; The Runaway Bunny (Margaret Wise Brown)

The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats)

Floss (Kim Lewis)

The Five Chinese Brothers (Clare Hutchet Bishop)

Angus and the Ducks; The Story about Ping (Marjorie Flack)

Miss Rumphius (Barbara Cooney)

Ox-Cart Man (Donald Hall, illus. Barbara Cooney)

The Bright and Shining Breadboard (Rosalys Hall)

Cranberry Thanksgiving (Wende and Harry Devlin)

Miss Suzy (Miriam Young)

The Relatives Came (Cynthia Rylant)

The Foot Book (Dr. Seuss)

Blueberries for Sal (Robert McCloskey)

Everything you can get your hands on by the following authors:

Bill Peet

James Herriot (especially Moses the Kitten)

Beatrix Potter (try to get them in the individual small books rather than the large all-in-one volume, as the pictures each deserve their own page)

AA Milne

The following are early readers, but I like reading them aloud to the babies:

Elsa Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear stories

Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad stories

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (Peter and Connie Roop)

natalie said...

Wow, thank you so much! :) I'll have to see which of those our library has.

The Story about Ping was one of my favorites as a child, as well as some of the others, but Nathan hasn't met Ping or Frog and Toad yet. Must remedy that! :)

Lindsay said...

oooh! I didnt see this post! Sophias FAVORITE book right now is Blue Hat Green Hat by Boynton and this funny one my mom got her. http://www.amazon.com/Little-Spider-Finger-Puppet-Book/dp/081186104X/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265921001&sr=1-8 Little Spider finger puppet book. She LOVEs it.

Isa always loved Martha Speaks. Its for a little older kid but its adorable!

natalie said...

Awww, those look fun! Thanks, Lindsay!