steelcaressed Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 (edited) As mentioned before...Seuss.... And one that wasn't mentioned but is a monster favorite: Grandfather Twilight. We also read a series of books by some lady named Weiss...about twins. Twins go to the park, twins take a bath, twins go to bed...etc. And as for when they get older, Tolkien made the list for my boys. Beware of "Where the red fern grows," an unbelievable tear-jerker with a fairly well hidden religious theme. I could barely read it between sobs at the end. I'm pretty sure it freaked my kids out, but they were bawling too. Edited September 10, 2006 by steelcaressed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelcaressed Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 3 2006, 05:56 PM) 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. Me too...except for Grover. Though I can do the voice well...it kills my throat and makes me cough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnaWanna Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 QUOTE What do you read to your kids? Meow mix box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladirushfan80 Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 QUOTE (DonnaWanna @ Sep 9 2006, 09:40 PM) QUOTE What do you read to your kids? Meow mix box yikes!! every night until my kids were old enough to read to themselves i would read to them before bed... ..... lets see...some favorites... DEFINATELY Mercer Mayer's little critter!! i saved all the ones we had and passed them on to my neice...i hope she will love them as much as my kids did/do... curious george books dr suess books the little engine that could Shel Silerstein....especially **The Giving Tree**... (and the tree was happy....) The runaway Bunny good nite moon Where the wild things are Clifford the Big Red Dog books Mother Goose Rhymes Roald Dahl book Junie B Jones books Tell me Again about the night i was born ( a book by Jamie Lee Curtis about being adopted...and altho my kids weren't adopted, they loved the book!) Lilly and the purple plastic purse (or something close to that) Little Golden books (The poky little puppy) Little Bear Chicken Soup with Rice Spot books and that's all i can think of off the top of my head.... i'm sure there are a million more i'm not remembering..... those Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 (edited) I love reading Mercer Mayer's "Little Critter" books to my daughter. There's something about the way the sentences are structured that make them fun to read; they just "flow" in a poetic way. And Little Critter's narration makes him sound a little bit like a healthy cynic, although with a soft spot. Good stuff. We've got over a dozen of these books. I can't wait for my kids to get older, so I can foist Roald Dahl books and "Harriet the Spy" on them. Edited September 12, 2006 by GeddyRulz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slime Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 I'm trying to find the best "These are for kids, but you're not a total dork if you read them past 20" titles out there so that, one day, my kids will be able to read without me going broke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid_Gloves Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 I don't have kids yet, but when I do I can't wait to read them the books that my parents read to me! James and the Giant Peach (my dad read to me from it every night before bed, I loved it) The Children's Bible (my dad read this to my brother and I, we loved it) All of those classic Golden Books Anything Disney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladirushfan80 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 (edited) QUOTE (Kid_Gloves @ Sep 18 2006, 01:46 AM) James and the Giant Peach (my dad read to me from it every night before bed, I loved it) that is a GREAT book...(and i like the movie too...) here's some more i may not have listed before.... Stuart Little.... Charlotte's Web The Trumpet of the Swan The Secret Staircase Alice In wonderland The Umbrella Man and other short stories Caps for Sale some of the most memorable Dr Suess books are: (we still have these!) My Many Colored Days One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Go Dog Go! Are You my Mother? The Lorax The Foot Book The Cat In The Cat Green Eggs n Ham My Book About Me, By Me Myself Oh, The Places You'll Go! Edited September 18, 2006 by ladirushfan80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelcaressed Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 QUOTE (ladirushfan80 @ Sep 18 2006, 06:26 AM) some of the most memorable Dr Suess books are: (we still have these!) My Many Colored Days One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Go Dog Go! Are You my Mother? The Lorax The Foot Book The Cat In The Cat Green Eggs n Ham My Book About Me, By Me Myself Oh, The Places You'll Go! We love all those too....a couple more obscure Suess books that I love: The Butter Battle Book. The 500 hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. Yertle the Turtle. And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street. And two classics not aforementioned: Fox in Socks and Oh, say can you say! My older daughter did "My book about me." Makes me misty to see her own hand-drawn foot and hand, to see that she weighed 38 pounds when she was 7, (she's very petite still) to read that she eats like "a persin." My newest children are growing up thinking that is how that book is supposed to be. I love it, a little captured piece of time in my daughter's life when she was 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepless Wind Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Heavy into the Harry Potter, although my kids are far to old to be read to. My younger daughter and I did take a stab at reading the first of the Dragonlance Chronicles outloud together, alternating chapters. It was...ummm...an experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladirushfan80 Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 QUOTE (Sleepless Wind @ Sep 20 2006, 09:04 AM) Heavy into the Harry Potter, although my kids are far to old to be read to. My younger daughter and I did take a stab at reading the first of the Dragonlance Chronicles outloud together, alternating chapters. It was...ummm...an experience. yeah.....we all LOVE the HP books, but it wasn't a book that i would read to them, so that's why i didn't list it.... it wasn't until they were old enough to read themselves that they started reading them..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepless Wind Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 QUOTE (ladirushfan80 @ Sep 22 2006, 04:09 AM)QUOTE (Sleepless Wind @ Sep 20 2006, 09:04 AM) Heavy into the Harry Potter, although my kids are far to old to be read to. My younger daughter and I did take a stab at reading the first of the Dragonlance Chronicles outloud together, alternating chapters. It was...ummm...an experience. yeah.....we all LOVE the HP books, but it wasn't a book that i would read to them, so that's why i didn't list it.... it wasn't until they were old enough to read themselves that they started reading them..... The fun thing with HP is that we all read them and sit around spending countless hours on 'HP Conspiracy Theories' I guess I can't talk about "read to" anymore (why am I in this thread, LOL) but more along the lines of influencing them to good books. My eldest got further through the LOTR books than I did, I died off somewhere in the middle of TTT. They both LOVED To Kill A Mockingbird. I guess I love the idea of sitting around discussing books with them. I do however fondly remember reading 'Sheep in a Jeep' and 'Green Wilma' until I felt my tongue would fall out of my mouth. ...sorry for incoherent rambling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slime Posted September 27, 2006 Author Share Posted September 27, 2006 Every HP fan will be mumbling incoherently until the last book is released sometime next year. Even after that, I suppose some people will still be rambling about certain plot holes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkanta Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 When the kids were young, in addition to the house, I'd read to them in the car. My oldest child was the only one for five years, and we had a 40 minute commute to her preschool (and where my husband was in grad school and the community in which I worked). I'd read to her the entire trip there, and often on the way back. She has a love of literature and is a sophmore in college majoring in English. Not sure if all that reading had an effect. So far, the other two (12 and 14) continue to read for pleasure. Favorite books when she and her sisters were young: Owl Moon (so fun to whoo whoo who who who who whoooooo), Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day (so much fun to read and whine at the same time), Lyle Lyle Crockodile, and lots of Joseph Bruchac ones. When the youngest was about 5, I read Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth on a trip and Louise Erdrich's [/i]Birchbark House[/i]. I soooooooo recommend that book, btw. We read one of the Harry Potter books aloud over a Christmas vacation one year. Wow...there have been sooooooo many favorite books over the years that I can't remember. I'd really recommend the Caldecotts for the younger ones and the Newberys, Coretta Scott Kings and Mildred L. Batchelder award winners. The American Library Association has lots of lists of great books. Click here for children's resources (the lists are available under "other resources," toward the bottom). Click here for lists of good young adult titles. As kids get older, we find it more challenging to read to them, that's for sure. Even when they become independent readers, it's good to still attempt to set aside some time to share a book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkanta Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Ah forgot to mention....ladirushfan80--love your list (love all of the lists, actually!)! Oh the places you'll go is a great book to give a grad. My former library director even read it to a group of graduating library science students at their celebration. That was also the theme of my daughter's high school graduation party. I didn't embarass her too badly when I read it to everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celine Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Shel Silverstein books are great. A couple of them are books of silly poetry and drawings that crack the kids up. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" is the title of one of them. "A Light in the Attic" is another. But my personal favorite (and not just because I can read it in about 45 seconds flat...lol) has been mentioned several times, Good-Night Moon. A kind of funny story about reading that book to my son when he was younger. I used to try to keep him involved in reading the book with me by letting him finish off the sentences. This, I thought, would be easy to do, because the words rhymed. There's one part of the book that goes something like: Good night socks (?), good night brush, Good night little old lady whispering hush. This is how this went with my 3 year old angel. Mom (in a very soothing, calm, go to sleep voice): Good night socks, good night brush, Good night little old lady whispering...... Son (after pondering for about 10 seconds, in a yelling voice) .....SHUT UP!! Ahh, kids. You gotta love em. Good thread. Good night. Cel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 QUOTE (Celine @ Oct 24 2006, 12:44 AM) A kind of funny story about reading that book to my son when he was younger. I used to try to keep him involved in reading the book with me by letting him finish off the sentences. This, I thought, would be easy to do, because the words rhymed. There's one part of the book that goes something like: Good night socks (?), good night brush, Good night little old lady whispering hush. We also read that one to our little ones. I know the part by heart; it actually goes: Goodnight comb, goodnight brush, Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush, And goodnight to the old lady whispering hush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelcaressed Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Oct 24 2006, 04:50 AM) QUOTE (Celine @ Oct 24 2006, 12:44 AM) A kind of funny story about reading that book to my son when he was younger. I used to try to keep him involved in reading the book with me by letting him finish off the sentences. This, I thought, would be easy to do, because the words rhymed. There's one part of the book that goes something like: Good night socks (?), good night brush, Good night little old lady whispering hush. We also read that one to our little ones. I know the part by heart; it actually goes: Goodnight comb, goodnight brush, Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush, And goodnight to the old lady whispering hush. Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
progrush2112 Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Well, I don't have any kids yet, but if I did, most likely I would pull out my massive collection of Berenstein Bears books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xredsectorx Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 QUOTE (progrush2112 @ Oct 24 2006, 09:38 PM) Well, I don't have any kids yet, but if I did, most likely I would pull out my massive collection of Berenstein Bears books. aww yes, i remeber the good old day's of Berenstein Bears! those were awsome books!!! we have a large collection of the little critter books, every now and then i read a few to my bro. they are also classics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owlswing Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Ok! I'm opening an older thread but I need some help. I have the class read aloud coming up. What is a good book for 2nd graders (7-8 yrs old) -that is good for boys and girls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladirushfan80 Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 QUOTE (owlswing @ Jan 30 2007, 08:25 PM) Ok! I'm opening an older thread but I need some help. I have the class read aloud coming up. What is a good book for 2nd graders (7-8 yrs old) -that is good for boys and girls? almost any Suess book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owlswing Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 QUOTE (ladirushfan80 @ Jan 30 2007, 09:04 PM)QUOTE (owlswing @ Jan 30 2007, 08:25 PM) Ok! I'm opening an older thread but I need some help. I have the class read aloud coming up. What is a good book for 2nd graders (7-8 yrs old) -that is good for boys and girls? almost any Suess book Thanks that what I thought would work too. I brought a few of those last time and they gave them a thumbs downs. That's why I need some new ideas. All we have other than those are fairy, princess and american girl books. I'm stuck:huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladirushfan80 Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 QUOTE (owlswing @ Jan 30 2007, 09:55 PM) QUOTE (ladirushfan80 @ Jan 30 2007, 09:04 PM)QUOTE (owlswing @ Jan 30 2007, 08:25 PM) Ok! I'm opening an older thread but I need some help. I have the class read aloud coming up. What is a good book for 2nd graders (7-8 yrs old) -that is good for boys and girls? almost any Suess book Thanks that what I thought would work too. I brought a few of those last time and they gave them a thumbs downs. That's why I need some new ideas. All we have other than those are fairy, princess and american girl books. I'm stuck:huh: when do you have to do this? i will ask my girls...seeing that they are 16 & 14, it's been a LONG time since i read to them...and by the time they were 7 & 8, they were reading themselves... but i'm sure i still have some of those books around... a few i saved because i loved them so much! OH! and my co-worker! he has a boy about that age!! i'll see what he says today too! i'll get back at cha later today ok? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostGirl Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 owlswing, I read this book to my son's class...I think in 2nd grade, but even if it was 1st, I think 7-8 year olds would like it. It's really fun to read, esp. if you put on a fake cowboy accent. http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807504572.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg Armadilly Chili by Helen Ketteman From Booklist K-Gr. 3. Yee haw! This Texas-style takeoff on "The Little Red Hen" bubbles with southwestern flavor. Miss Billie Armadilly is hankerin' for a pot of hot armadilly chili but her friends--tarantula Tex, bluebird Mackie, and horned Taffy the toad--have excuses for not helping her gather a boxful of beetles, pick a peck of peppers, and chop prickly pear cactus. "No workin' with Billie, no sharin' the chili," is Miss Billie's retort when the smell of the bubbling chili brings her friends to her door, but the chili tastes flat until her buddies return bringing sacks of apologies and goodies; friends, it seems were the missing ingredient. Ketteman flavors the tale and message with plenty of pizzazz. Terry uses hot, intensely saturated, southwestern colors to spice the comedy, and embellishes each critter's characteristics with clever details, such as Tex's bolo tie. A surefire hit for the lap-sit crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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