Literature for the Tub
 

This is a look at literature from another perspective! Through the eyes of a child.
There are a couple of mommies and daddies on Gnet. Some are going to have a child for their first time this year. What will be the first books you want your children to see?

I wonder if it would be something like this? (Click the links to read the book)

Join the Tubby Buddies for oodles of bath time fun
Rub-a-Dub-Dub
Splish-Splash-Splish
Quack-a-doodle-do

I had a book like that when I was little, it was about this girl who swam to an island and met this big blue friendly monster and built a sand castle with it. Not only was it fun bathtime reading, but it was fun to chew on too!

I think it was, however, rather significantly better written than that...

*giggling*

Maybe you already had survived a few month on our planet. You don´t happen to remember the author of the book?

Oh man I saw this thread and thought "woah someone else who loves to read in the bath tub!" *sigh* Goodnight Moon is one of my all time favorite books.

Xng: Danke! This is a nice book.

Damn. I can´t remember the books some irish friends borrowed me, when I was child (didn´t seem important to memorize author and title at that age).

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sandek is a classic I would definitely want my child to have. Oh, and all of Dr. Suess's trippy books. Is it wrong to say Gashleycrumb Tinies? hehe. Oooo, I just remembered that short story, the Teeny Tiny Woman. Anyone, else ever read that? Mine was in a collection of illustrated short stories. My mom used to read it to me in this nutty voice. I loved it and it gave me the creeps a bit too. Yay books!

Ennui! What a name :-) Despite it, your input is welcome.

View the Gashlycrumb Tinies

Freaky book! I love it.

For my kids the first books i chose were:

goodnight moon

guess how much I love you

and all the dr. suess books i could get my hands on.

My favorite book from my childhood was Old Turtle but I also really liked, ok I still really like, dr suess

I remember those!
Oh my, I loved those things. They were always soft and chewy.
The book I always used to read as a kid, almost religiously, was the Cat in the Hat. That book still makes me happy.

Oh boy, childhood memories. My favourite was always....actually, I'm missing so many chunks of my memory that I can't recall it. And I've been sitting here for at least ten minutes. But I do love Where the Wild Things Are. I think I took great joy in a book called the Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery.

A must have would be Green Eggs and Ham. XD

[quote=ennui]Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sandek is a classic I would definitely want my child to have. QUOTE]

I'd agree with you on that once, I loved that as a child. If I can clearly remember, there was a mini-movie on that which I also loved. Great recommendation ennui!

oh shit I forgot!

Harold and the Purple Crayon!

I intend to get my children every bit as hooked on Fox in Socks as I was. My father was very busy instilling my love of ludicrous rhymes and word play at a very young age :D

My favorite color was (and still is) purple, so I loved that book.

I reccomend The Runaway Bunny (by the same author as Goodnight, Moon), and Duncan & Dolores. Both are excellent children's books.

Looking for Atlantis is also a great book, kind of sad but good

I loved Run Away bunny, My mom used to read it to me before bed

Der Struwwelpeter (1845) is a popular German children's book by Heinrich Hoffmann. It is about fearful stories and vile pictures to instruct good little folks... Recommended reading :-)

The Wolves in the Walls - Neil Gaiman & Dave McKeen

Gave it to my cousin's children last Christmas, they loved it. (And I do, too)

http://www.mousecircus.com/witw/flash/witw_flash.html

I remember my mother reading 'Pongwiffy' and the 'Mr Majeeka' books to me...she did all the voices, including 'Hugo zeee 'amster'.

My mother put up with/still puts up with a hell of a lot, but they are the only ones I can really remember apart from 'Meg and Mog'.

Hang on.....all my fave children's books have witches in them.......................

Hmmm....................

So far this is what I have gotten for Connor because I had them...

Where the Wild Things Are
When You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Goodnight Moon
Pickles the FireCat
Golden Children's Bible
Charlotte's Web
Oh, The Places You'll Go
Love You Forever

And I plan on reading the Narnia Series to him, everyday, beginning with the 1 and ending with 7.

I wrote in the front of each book a little note telling him why I bought each one and dated it. My family got in on the act too, and I had them sign theirs.

I recieved Wind In The Willows, The Once and Future King, The Secret Garden, and Atlas Shrugged from family members as gifts growing up and still have them, notes and all. I treasure them more than the crappy cheap ass toys that I got and don't even remember anymore. I want my son to have books with my letters to him inside them, so he can share them with his own kids someday :)

BH, I love your idea of signing the books and noting additional info - must be great for later reviews. Have to adopt this technique.

Thanks!

I was trying to think of ways to give him things that he'll actually be able to remember.

My mom wrote me a letter before I was born that she waited to let me read until I was 16. I want to do that as well.

That´s interesting. Hmmm. And how did you feel reading that letter after you turned 16?
Boy, I guess it would take me weeks to find the correct words for such a letter. How long was it anyway?