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01-21-2008, 04:08 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Favorite childrens' books?
What were/are yours? I took a children's literature class a few years ago, and I must say, there are some great books out there now-a-days for the young ones.
My favorite from when I was a little girl is the "7 Chinese Brothers", specifically, the version with the "pop-out" features.
My favorite which has came out somewhat recently is a novel called "Kira Kira". It's definately for the 9-11 crowd, but I really do recommend that you read it...
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02-02-2008, 11:30 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: A whales Virgina
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The Giving Tree... By Shel
Too easy, its so good.
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Oh shit!!!*tries to run away, but trips, he breaks his neck on a stool*No I know how Hilary Swank feels like.
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02-19-2008, 01:37 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Lewis Carroll's Alice through the looking glass. I've never stopped loving it.
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02-19-2008, 04:27 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Roald Dahl fucking pwns. I can still read that shit now and from an older person's perspective, marvel that people give those books to their kids. That's some twisted shit.
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02-19-2008, 05:33 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
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I always loved the Magic Faraway tree , Watership Down, Willowbank, The Silver tide, And Grimms Fairytales.
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02-19-2008, 08:54 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Detroit
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Yay, people actually replied to this! =)
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02-19-2008, 12:49 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Ottawa, Canada
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ANYTHING by Dr. Seuss
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02-19-2008, 01:22 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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1984.
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02-19-2008, 01:47 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: A whales Virgina
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I actually have the Giving tree tatooed on my arm
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Oh shit!!!*tries to run away, but trips, he breaks his neck on a stool*No I know how Hilary Swank feels like.
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02-19-2008, 02:40 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: VA BCH VA
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A Wrinkle In Time.
Damn I loved that book...
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02-20-2008, 07:02 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
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Roald Dahl was my God. I actually memorized the first three pages of Matilda, and I LOVED The Witches, The BFG, James And The Giant Peach.
I loved Cold Sassy Tree and a Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
I loved Where The Wild Things Are.
I loved Bunnicula.
I loved all the Ramona Quimby books.
I loved Don't Make Me Smile and Skinnybones.
I regretfully collected every Sabrina The Teenage Witch book up to 34.
I love Harry Potter.
I loved To Kill A Mockingbird.
I loved Cyrano de Bergerac, but I guess that's not a kid book.
I loved A Light In The Attic and Where The Sidewalk Ends.
I loved The Outsiders.
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02-20-2008, 07:28 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Albany, NY
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Where The Wild Things Are. My girlfriend gave me a copy for Christmas.
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02-20-2008, 07:38 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Between firing synapses
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Oh shit, James and the Giant Peach, and Where the Sidewalk Ends! Niiice...I had this wierd book of Scary Stories written by Roald Dahl when I was a kid, and there was one where a girl had a ribbon around her neck, and this boy falls in love with her, and even though she warned him not to, he takes the ribbon off, and her head slips off her shoulders...scared the hell out of me back then.
I would add the Little Prince and this book called Uncle Fedya, His Dog, and His Cat by Eduard Uspenski. If you've read that last one, you're pretty much my best friend for life.
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03-18-2008, 06:47 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Cleveland
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When I was very young, I loved Little Bear by Else Minarik, and the Bunnykins series by Beatrix Potter.
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03-18-2008, 07:38 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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I had all the Dr. Seuss books, Watership Down (still read it today), The Last Unicorn, The Horse and His Boy, and a lost of unicorn/horse/dream land books.. I was so imaginative when I was young.. I really miss that..
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03-18-2008, 08:00 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Jersey Sticks.
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I'm going to name Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll as my favorite children's book. I found all the victorian humor rather funny (sadly my friends didn't understand it), and I loved how dear little Alice was a complete nit-wit. Some of the stuff she said coaxed more than a giggle, or two, out of me. 
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03-18-2008, 08:09 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
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03-18-2008, 08:30 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
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If You Give a Moose a Muffin was another good one in that series. And my mom always used to read me The Gashlycrumb Tinies. The Roald Dahl books were fun, but my dad and I read the Wizard of Earthsea series and Lord of the Rings as bedtime stories. And the Mr.Potter books about a crazy tea-loving old man who lived with this orange tabby cat.
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03-19-2008, 12:15 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: East Haven, CT
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The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright is my favorite children's book. It's rather dark and disturbing in tone 
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03-19-2008, 03:44 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Originally Posted by raggedyanne
...my dad and I read the Wizard of Earthsea series and Lord of the Rings as bedtime stories. ...
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OMG - my first thought was the Earthsea trilogy. I've just bought it for my eight year old daughter, because I want her to have a taste of a good book, not just have her obsessing about bloody Hannah Montana! *sigh*
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03-19-2008, 05:09 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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I loved Stellaluna, Was that book popular?
I still have my copy on my bookshelf.
Leroy the Lobster was awesome too... but I dont know if anyones even heard of that one.
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03-19-2008, 07:51 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: in a kingdom by the sea
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The Pyrdain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander
Bridge to Terabithia by K. Peterson
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William Mckinley, and me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg
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03-23-2008, 03:08 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Behind you.
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The Giving Tree. I think it's by Shel Silverstein.
And I still am a sucker for anything Winnie-the-Pooh, no lie.
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03-23-2008, 03:36 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Brizzle, baby!
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In roughly chronological order, from young children's books onwards.
The Meg and Mog series, by Jan Pienkowski.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle.
Each Peach Pear Plum, by Allan and Janet Ahlberg.
Dustbin Charlie, by Ann Pilling.
The Fat Cat series, though I can't recall the author. My favourite was Fat Cat on Wheels.
Please Mrs Butler, by Allan Ahlberg.
Carbonel, by Barbara Sleigh.
The Chronicles of Narnia, by CS Lewis. I read these books four times each in the four years of primary school, rather than read any of those ghastly Goosebumps books or Choose-Your-Own-Adventures.
To Kill a Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee.
The Adrian Mole series, by Sue Townsend.
The Hobbit, by JRR Tolkein.
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03-23-2008, 09:29 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
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Originally Posted by Dark Clarissa
OMG - my first thought was the Earthsea trilogy. I've just bought it for my eight year old daughter, because I want her to have a taste of a good book, not just have her obsessing about bloody Hannah Montana! *sigh*
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I aspire to be as good a parent as you when it comes to passing culture along to he next generation. And Hanna Montana must die . . . seriously.
ON another note, Moomin. It's a series about Finnish troll things that look like cows, very sweet.
Edit: Maybe not die, just feel a bit of serious unhappiness.
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Originally Posted by Joker_in_the_Pack
At some point, you need to look yourself in the mirror and realize that what other people did to you does not define you as a person. You and your actions define who you are as a person. It's up to you to be a good person, in spite of all the evil you've faced. In fact, it should be because of the evil you see that it's good you do. Be the change you want in the world. Next time someone tells me that they're an asshole because they've had a bad life, I'm stabbing them in the eye with a spork.
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