Slime Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I have no kids, but would like to eventually (especially after seeing things like the pictures our board members have posted of their own kids). I wanna know what the parents here read to their children. What kid's books do you enjoy yourself? I'll need recommendations for the future! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Limelight* Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 (edited) The magic school bus The bernstein bears and other childish story i can find. Just for the record, i'm not a father yet.. Edited June 20, 2006 by *Limelight* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Anything and everything! Usually three "ni-night" stories each night, to our three year-old girl, Iris. The "Little Critter" books by Mercer Mayer are good; even fun for adults, with a healthy cynicism in the stories and an interesting meter to the writing. Sesame Street books. "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" (good for learning colors) "Goodnight Moon" "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" (for learning the alphabet) "Little Engine That Could" Old staples like "Three Little Pigs" and "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Later, of course, we'll get into longer and deeper stuff. I can't wait to share books with her like "Charlotte's Web" and (later still) have her read "Harriet the Spy" and "The Hobbit." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien Girl Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Dr. Seuss...lot's and lot's of Dr. Seuss. The sun did not shine it was too wet to play, so we stayed in the house all that cold cold wet day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Yeah... Seuss is good, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Sawyer Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Curious George - was my fav as a kid... still is!! http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/pinkfloyd1973/curiousgeorge.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostGirl Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 My sons loved Good Night, Moon. It's a perfect get-cozy-and-drowsy book. Then there's every mother's tearjerker: I'll Love You Forever. We have lots of Berenstain Bears (great for life lessons) and various other Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder-type stuff. Oh, and the classic Winnie the Pooh stories are wonderful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien Girl Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jun 20 2006, 01:46 PM) Then there's every mother's tearjerker: I'll Love You Forever. OMG...I burst out crying in a book store when I read that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostGirl Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 QUOTE (Alien Girl @ Jun 20 2006, 03:48 PM) QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jun 20 2006, 01:46 PM) Then there's every mother's tearjerker: I'll Love You Forever. OMG...I burst out crying in a book store when I read that one. I know. Every time I try to pick him up, or get him in my lap, my now-eight-year-old son tells me, "Mom, you're like that lady in the book. You gonna try to pick me up when I'm a grown-up?" And I say, "You'd better believe it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milton Bridge Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Thomas The Tank Series - we have 30 of them but the favourites are Cranky the Crane, Elizabeth, Toby, Terance and Percy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 (edited) QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jun 20 2006, 03:53 PM) QUOTE (Alien Girl @ Jun 20 2006, 03:48 PM) QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jun 20 2006, 01:46 PM) Then there's every mother's tearjerker: I'll Love You Forever. OMG...I burst out crying in a book store when I read that one. I know. Every time I try to pick him up, or get him in my lap, my now-eight-year-old son tells me, "Mom, you're like that lady in the book. You gonna try to pick me up when I'm a grown-up?" And I say, "You'd better believe it." Must be a chick thing; my wife got teary, too. Personally, I think it's a little creepy. The now-elderly mom climbs a ladder and into the bedroom window of the now-adult son, only to cradle a 40 year-old man in her lap. Pretty weird, if you ask me. I get the message: Mom will always love you, will always be there to comfort you, even as an adult. It's the execution of the message and that one illustration that makes it so darned wonky. Edited June 20, 2006 by GeddyRulz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostGirl Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jun 20 2006, 04:42 PM) QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jun 20 2006, 03:53 PM) QUOTE (Alien Girl @ Jun 20 2006, 03:48 PM) QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jun 20 2006, 01:46 PM) Then there's every mother's tearjerker: I'll Love You Forever. OMG...I burst out crying in a book store when I read that one. I know. Every time I try to pick him up, or get him in my lap, my now-eight-year-old son tells me, "Mom, you're like that lady in the book. You gonna try to pick me up when I'm a grown-up?" And I say, "You'd better believe it." Must be a chick thing; my wife got teary, too. Personally, I think it's a little creepy. The now-elderly mom climbs a ladder and into the bedroom window of the now-adult son, only to cradle a 40 year-old man in her lap. Pretty weird, if you ask me. I get the message: Mom will always love you, will always be there to comfort you, even as an adult. It's the execution of the message and that one illustration that makes it so darned wonky. Awww...c'mon. My son knows it's sort of symbolic. I told him, "No, I'm not going to climb up to your window...it's that I'll always WANT to think of you as my baby." He gets it and doesn't think I'm too weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Man Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jun 20 2006, 01:46 PM) My sons loved Good Night, Moon. It's a perfect get-cozy-and-drowsy book. Oh, and the classic Winnie the Pooh stories are wonderful. Good Night Moon is great. I read it to my oldest everynight fro a year or two. She even has a stuffed rabbit from the book we got as a package when we bought it. Winnie The Pooh is awesome, AA Milne was amazing. These are fantastic stories for kids & us adults too. Green Eggs & Ham is one of my favorite books ever. I love reading it to my kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alsgalpal Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 I love Dr. Seuss. Gets really difficult to read tho, if you are plumb tuckered. Usually my kids end up laughing at me, instead of the book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien Girl Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 (edited) The funny thing about Dr. Seuss for me is it becomes somewhat rote to read. I used to think they were a tad too long, and tongue tying. But it's gotten so that I can read 'Green Eggs and Ham' in about 3 minutes...longer one's such as 'The Sleep Book' and 'Cat in the Hat' take a couple of minutes longer. They're fun to read too, for me, as the reader, not just fun to hear. Some of the passages roll off the tongue so nicely. So I said with my net I can get them I bet I bet with my net I can get those things yet Edited June 21, 2006 by Alien Girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Anything by Maurice Sendak- best know for "Where the wild things are" As said before anything by Dr, Suess. ( he is the shit ) Anything by Roald Dahl, best known for Charlie and the chocolate factory and james and the giant peach, all of his books in particular "the fantastic mr. fox" are worth checking out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powermetal warrior Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 i read to my little baby girl Curious George! it was Curious George for me wean i was a little kid that's how i started reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powermetal warrior Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 QUOTE (powermetal warrior @ Jun 22 2006, 12:17 AM)i read to my little baby girl Curious George! it was Curious George for me wean i was a little kid that's how i started reading the Curious George the movie is a good one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madra sneachta Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Mine loved the Enid Blyton fairy tales, and another favourite was The Iron Giant. They're reading themselves now so these days, I tend just to read then the riot act!!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necromancer Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 (edited) My kids were tough. My oldest boys both suffered from night terrors. So we usually only read them very tranquil stuff. I have to hand it to any parent who does the reading at night thing. I just can't do it for some reason. Though what I would do is take the basics of the page and add stuff to it to make them laugh. I'd do characterizations for them and funny voices that made NO sense at all. This however did little to put them to sleep. It usually only wound them up more, so I was forbidden to read to them anymore. Now when i have Grandkids... i'll read them JAWK JAW. Edited July 3, 2006 by Necromancer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 I do voices, too. I do great impressions of the Sesame Street characters when reading SS books (my Count is my best), and I give appropriate voices to the different-sized bears in "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." That kind of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammeh Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 (edited) My daughter (just turned 18) has been an avid gamer for most of her life. She's the queen and my hat's off to her in that regard. She's helped out of many a gaming bind. Anyway, when she was very young and we were still reading to her at bedtime, she always wanted us to read the instruction books that came with the nintendo games! She also liked Lowly Worm, Dr. Seuss, Disney books and some kids science books (but the game books were her fave, hehe). Edited July 6, 2006 by Tammeh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slime Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share Posted July 7, 2006 I remember the feeling of reading the instructions to a game I knew nothing about. That mysterious yet awe inspiring feeling is just lacking in todays modern booklets. Of course I played video games more than I read as a child. Maybe that's why I'm illiterate . and somebody shoot that dog from Duck Hunt, please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telegraphcreeklocal Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Anything about baseball and motocross. He's 8 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermouse Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Dr. Seuss Berenstain Bears Franklin the Turtle Thomas the Tank Engine Little Critter All the Robert Munsch books. Goodnight Moon, Brown Bear, The Toad Sleeps over. And almost everything mentioned already And one more thing. From birth -- probably in the womb -- my little guy has been car crazy. So since he was about two my hubbs would bring home car magazines or brochures from time to time to read to him. So every night he would INSIST that we go page by page through the car mags and identify every part of Ferraris, Porsches, Lamborghinis, Audis and Volvos and BMWs and Mercedes. We would point out gear boxes and gauges and engines and lights and grilles and steering wheels. He's 5 1/2 now and probably wouldn't recognize a Ford Taurus but he knows his upscale cars cold. And his real love is Porsches. I bring home toy ones a couple of times a year for a treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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