I LOVE the book Love you forever by Robert Munsch.
I sing the love you forever song to my kids every night when they are asleep like the mum does in the book - my kids now sing it back to me!
Whats your fav kids book?
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I LOVE the book Love you forever by Robert Munsch.
I sing the love you forever song to my kids every night when they are asleep like the mum does in the book - my kids now sing it back to me!
Whats your fav kids book?
Probably Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge.
Harry Potter.
The Magic Faraway Tree. I've already got the set ready for my girls and I think they'll probably be ready for it in another year or so
Where is the Green Sheep a favorite here
Do I have to pick just one?! Impossible!
Where is the green sheep?
Ten little fingers and ten little toes
Ten in the meadow
Ten in the den
Tiger in the snow
Aliens love underpants
Dinosaurs love underpants
Spot books
Soooo many more
Currently either a Mem Fox book called Hattie and the fox or a book called The Very Cranky Bear by Nick Bland. The Lynley Dodd Hairy McClary books are also a close favourite. Oooh and there's a book we have at work called Giraffes Can't Dance which I also love - it has a line in the end that is very sweet, something like 'we all can dance when we find music that we love'.
I love children's books and have tons and I love reading to children and making the voices different. I think it's very sweet when there's an emotional moment and some of the sensitive children tear up a bit - makes me feel all fuzzy.
There are some cute sing along CD ones out too - can't tell you who the guy is that writes the music but he's pretty clever. Wilbee the Bumblebee and The Wonky Donkey are both pretty funny.
H&Z the aliens books are very popular at work.
Well they are very funny. ;)
We borrowed another one from the library called "aliens in underpants save the world".
Good ol' pingy pants elastic. :lol:
Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr Suess
The Short But Incredibly Happy Life Of Riley by Colin Thompson.
Edward the Emu is my all time favourite. Close second is 10 Little Fingers - I always tear up at the end!
Totally the Magic Faraway Tree, I love Enid Blyton.
I also had/still have these books to read to DS's
Animalia
Possum Magic
The man from snowy river
Big Book Of Nursery Rhymes
I have lots of the Dr Seuss books (boys love them)
One fish, two fish. Dr Seuss. Only because DD1 used to pretty much read it to me at 2, she knew it so well! The copy we had was my dad's & his brothers when they were kids :)
DD2's book was green eggs & ham.
I had lots of Little Golden Books when I was a kid. A few of them were faves that I'd read over & over again when I was little.
When I got a bit older though, I read the silly books :lol: Sweet Valley High, Babysitters Club. I've actually got a stack of BSC for DD1 that I picked up at an op shop :)
Hungry hungry caterpillar!
This book is just beautiful, I do the exact same with my cherubs also :) This book and Wilfred Gordan would be my special two. But although they are my favourite, they're not necessarily my kids.:
My kids adore the very cranky bear and we're going on a bear hunt ( sensing a theme? )
We also borrowed a library book before Christmas that they loved, come down cat. I didn't really rate it, bit lost count of how many times we read it. :)
I grew up on Enid Blyton books, but my all time favourite
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I don't know how many times I read it growing up and it is one book I'll be giving to DD when she is older :)
I still have most of my Enid Blyton books in the roof and am looking forward to getting them down soon and reading them to my girls.
I loved Possum Magic & Hattie & The Fox aswell (my girls LOVE this now we have our own chooks)
I find it REALLY hard to choose though, my girls have so many gorgeous books i could read them a million times over, along with my old favorites
i am a huge fan of hairy mclairy. but for xmas we bought our daughter the book called ' there is a monster under my bed who farts" the funniest book ever!
the beast in the bathtub.
the Yowie
My love of Enid Blyton has been squashed after I saw the movie of her life. She was horrible to her own children and never even made time to read them any of her books while she went out and read them to strangers children regularly. Shipped them off to boarding school and out of her hair at a very young age. Made me sad someone could write such tales of wonderful childhood adventures while her own children were having miserable childhoods.
I never knew that about Enid Blyton, how sad. I adored her books :(
My kids love all the classics already mentioned (possum magic and all Mem Fox books especially) but also Julia Donaldson books 'what the ladybird heard' and 'the princess and the wizard'. They can recite both from memory. And 'dear zoo' is a definite fave as well.
The first book s I bought when I found out I was pg was a box set of Roald Dahl.
I adore him and although he is a bit young to have them read to him, ds loves any of his movies.
Enid Blyton, Mr Men, Hairy Mc Clary are also faves too.
My new favourite is "I grow in Grandad's Garden". I heard Brian Andrew (the author) speak a few months ago and he is so inspiring. And the book is just gorgeous - and so is the story behind it. If you haven't heard of it, I highly recommend it.
The Gruffalo
Hairy Maclary
The Something-o-saur
The Very Itchy Bear (or cranky, or hungry. They like them all)
The Snail and the Whale
The Magic Faraway Tree. I had The Enchanted Wood and kept it all these years, so its the original version, unspoilt by political correctness. I'd love to get my hands on earlier, non-PC versions of the other two for my DD.
Hungry Caterpillar,
Whistle Up The Chimney (Nan Hunt)
Crusher is coming, Let's get a pup, oscar's half birthday - bob graham
The jolly postman
Wombat divine, possum magic - mem fox
Marmaduke duck and the marmalade jam
The way I feel/act - Janan Cain
Sorry for the lack of appropriate capitalization... It's late and I can't be bothered!
Just bought 3 boxes of my books down from the roof - DD1's choice of book for the next couple of nights "Black Beauty" :p
The poky little puppy. :p
I'm a big reader but TBH most children's books give me the absolute irrits.
I bought DD1 an awesome book for Christmas though and I love reading all these stories:
The Railway Children (she loved it so much we got the movie too)
Secret Garden
Black Beauty
Heidi
Little Women
Heidi was my favourite growing up.
Now we are all enjoying,
Where's god?
The very cranky bear
Any of the paddington books
Teddy bear, piglet, christmas and me
Race to bed
We seem to have moved past mem fox and Pamela allen books now and I could never read dr seuss myself lol.
I just found all of these in the 3 boxes I had in the roof ;):
Anything Enid blyton. Loved the school girl series, also the Brer Rabbit ones :)
I also loved The silver brumby <3
Harry potter,however I didn't read them til I was 25 lol.
The Velveteen Rabbit
Chronicles of Narnia
and my favourite that I bought when I FINALLY fell pregnant was *Who's In The Loo* ... tehehe it always makes me giggle, and, er ... I don't need the book as I know it off by heart now :redface:
Rebecca's World by Terry Nation (creator of the daleks)
Where the wild things are
Koala Lou
Possum Magic
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Lost Thing
Captain Finn and The Pirate Dinosaurs
This thread has made me realise how much I miss reading picture books to my kids :(
I'm reading The Enchanted Wood to my girls at the moment and they're loving it (me too - I love snuggling into bed with them). Almost as much as the reading, I love it when I take DD3 off DH to get her into bed and he's saying goodnight to DDs 1 and 2, and I can hear them soooo excited telling him all about what Moon Face has just done, or what world the Joe, Beth and Frannie have just visited.
Ooble Ooble Ooble! :D:
One only? Too hard.
Some fave fave favorites: Picture books - Old hat, new hat (it was the book that told me I could read); The tiger who came to tea; The journey home (by Alison Lester). And about a million more.
Novels - Charmed Life (Diana Wynne Jones); Momo by Michael Ende. I also loved books by Joan Aiken but until recently they've been hard to get a hold of so haven't revisted any of them. Special mentions should also go to E Nesbitt (she of 5 Children and It fame), the Finn Family Moomintroll, and also there was a series of fairy tale volumes named after colours (eg the Red Fairy Book) which I adored and read every single one.
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Looking for some inspiration for Christmas - lest I poke my own eyes out before reading some books we have for the 458,345th time ;)