see title. what are your favorite children's books? i'm starting a collection...
a few that i really dig (i hope a couple of these don't totally freak my kid out):
- guess again (barnett / rex)
- crazy hair (gaiman / mckean)
- i'm scared (craola)
- the day i swapped my dad for 2 goldfish (gaiman / mckean)
- the wolves in the walls (gaiman / mckean)
- heckedy peg (wood / wood)
- king bidgood's in the bathtub (wood / wood)
- the napping house (wood / wood)
- the story of ferdinand (leaf / lawson)
- jumanji (van allsburg)
- the garden of abdul gasazi (van allsburg)
- the conductor (devernay)
- a dignity of dragons (ceccoli)
- the girl in the castle inside the museum (ceccoli)
- the secret lives of princesses (lechermeier / dautremer)
- oh, the places you'll go! (dr. suess)
- the cat in the hat (dr. suess)
- green eggs and ham (dr. suess)
- the giving tree (silverstein)
- grandpa green (smith)
- outside over there (sendak)
- in the night kitchen (sendak)
- where the wild things are (sendak)
- the dangerous alphabet (gaimin / grimly)
- the wild swans (andersen, lewis / gilbert)
- the chronicles of harris burdick (van allsburg)
- there's a nightmare in my closet (mayer)
- caps for sale (slobodkina)
- slog's dad (almond, mckean)
- blueberries for sal (mccloskey)
- cloudy with a chance of meatballs (barrett / barrett)
recs, pls.
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Last edited by craola on 09/07/2016 06:45; edited 3 times in total
It seems this is more oriented towards picture books than like, chapter books?
Anyways...Everything Edward Lear ever did. The Complete Nonsense. Sooo delightful.
The Real Mother Goose as illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright is like a relic. I grew up on it. They're unbelievably strange and use really outdated old-fashioned terms but that adds to the charm!!
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