childhood books
Rachel Cree
Lonely Doll... half for the photography and half for the fact that it was
one of my favorite books when I was real young. I also came across Corduroy
the Bear, Frances books , Dennis Lee, Shel Silverstien and the whole Where
the Wild Things are stuff. This brought to mind the triplets.. Flicka Dicka
and Ricka or something like that and my Jane books... what ones do you all
remember... reason I am asking is my cousin just found out she is pregnant
and I wanted to give her a baby shower where the gifts are children's books
only. It starts a little library for them as reading , I believe with my
whole heart, is something that every parent should do with their child to
encourage reading and language skills. So let the suggestions flow. thanks!
LizzieZ
that I have to do that.)
Off the top of my head, some of my very favorites...
-Goodnight Moon
-There Must Be Magic (small book of short poems with brightly colored pictures
that I can still visualize like it was yesterday)
-In the Night Kitchen
-Where the Sidewalk Ends
-Any Richard Scarry book (hours and hours of fun looking for all the labeled
objects on any given page)
-Amelia Bedelia books
-Frog and Toad books
-the All-of-a-Kind Family books
-The Westing Game
Hope this helps!
Liz
*kevin Johnston
I had a whole bunch of books as a kid.....
some serious and some not, The first book I read on my own was one based
on the Lassie tv show. I had Dr. Doolittle and......hmmm...what else?
Kids versions of classics, which were gifts from my Aunt Mary......
If I remember anything more specific, I'll let you all know.
Meanwhile, cross your fingers for me as I am in the middle of a really
nasty attack of Real Life......
Kevin J.
"Please don't squeeze the Charmin...."
JoKisLany
-->Dr. Seuss
-->Jack Prelutsky's poetry
-->STELLALUNA
-->Eric Carle's THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR and the rest of that series
-->the BROWN BEAR BROWN BEAR WHAT DO YOU SEE books
-->Beverly Cleary's RAMONA books
I am a special education teacher who has just spent the past two years teaching
Kindergarten through 3rd grade to students with emotional disabilities. These
books are timeless and appeal to all.
WNK
Cleary.... my daughter, who is 4, loves Richard Scarry and Eric Carle's
books...... and Dr. Seuss, of course.... Dr. Seuss is who helped both of us
learn how to read! (Well, her now....me, when I was 4. ha ha) I also liked
The Lonely Doll! And the Harry by the Sea books....
Nadine
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Michele
My favorite of all time has to be Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik.
It's the loveliest little book.
I'm also a teacher and have found another classic that the kids still love
is Caps for Sale. Never fails to crack the little guys (and me) up!
Michele -the ex roller disco queen
Rebecca
Michele wrote:
> My favorite of all time has to be Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik.
> It's the loveliest little book.
>
> I'm also a teacher and have found another classic that the kids still love
> is Caps for Sale. Never fails to crack the little guys (and me) up!
>
> Michele -the ex roller disco queen
Wow, this is such a cool thread, and a wonderful idea for a baby shower! All of
the books that you all grew up with, some of which I thought no one else had
ever heard of. I _loved_ Little Bear, especially the one where he goes to the
Moon, and the one where he visits his grandparents. My parents used to read to
me all the time. The Lonely Doll, Pat The Bunny (boy that's an old one for me
and I think my mom still has my copy), Dr. Seuss, Richard Scarry, Frog and Toad,
Lyle The Crocodile (which was a short story in a large book of stories), The
Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles, Nancy Drew (those last two are for older
children, but hey, they all grow up eventually). I'd forgotten about the Harry
the Dog books. My husband and I were talking about those and those were among
his favorite books. Reading to children is as important as feeding and clothing
them, even reading to babies who cannot understand the words. They hear the
rhythm, tones and sounds in your voice. Story-time was my favorite part of
teaching pre-school. Kudos, Rachel, on a great idea! And all my best to your
cousin!
Becky
WNK
Nadine
JoKisLany <joki...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> How timely all! I'm 13 weeks pregnant and just now starting to think
about
> this sort of thing!
>
> Noelle (the sped head)
JoKisLany
JoKisLany
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nursery rhymes, which is probably why i do so many prince and princess
related storyhours at the library, complete with crown and wand, etc
(you would die of you saw me at work...LOL). when i was little here
were some of my favourite books:
"busy busy world" by richard scarry
"green eggs and ham" by dr seuss
"alligator pie" by dennis lee
"madeline and the bad hat" by ludwig bemelmans
"curious george gets a medal" by h.a. rey
as well as that whole series of disney storybooks (ie sleeping beauty,
snow white, cinderella, etc)--i just LOVED these!!!
also lots of the "Golden look books", those thin books with the
cardboard covers with the silver spine, i had tons of those!!!
also two of my favourite books were called "jiggers" about a little
lost doggy, and "backyard circus" about these kids who had a cool
circus in the backyard!
some of my favourite children's books from today are:
"horace" by holly keller, this cute little spotted bear that is adopted
by a family of striped animals, and everyone around him is striped too,
so he does things like connect his spots with a marker to make stripes,
cute!!!
and i also love the franklin series, brenda clark does the most
adorable illustrations!!!
have a great day guys!!!
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NoHarrassment
from our public library when I went to my parents and I had a wonderful time
looking at it. Here are some of the other books I loved:
The Stupids series
Sweet Pickles series
Beatrix Potter, especially Peter Rabbit
Alice in Wonderland
Rikki-Tikki-Tembo-No-Sa-Rembo-Cherry-Berry-Ruchi-Pip-Perri-Pembo I hope that's
correct, I'm not writing that again. :)
Clifford the Big Red Dog (I had a stuffed Clifford)
Any Seasame Street books
Okay, that's all for now.
Rebecca
NoHarrassment wrote:
> Rachel, the Lonely Doll was one of my fave books as a kid. I took it out again
> from our public library when I went to my parents and I had a wonderful time
> looking at it. Here are some of the other books I loved:
>
> The Stupids series
> Sweet Pickles series
> Beatrix Potter, especially Peter Rabbit
This is a book for older kids, but there is a Peter Rabbit cookbook out there. I
got one in jr. high and loved it... wish I could find it again! It was my very
first cookbook and gave me a wonderful love of cooking.
> Alice in Wonderland
> Rikki-Tikki-Tembo-No-Sa-Rembo-Cherry-Berry-Ruchi-Pip-Perri-Pembo I hope that's
> correct, I'm not writing that again. :)
Oh girl, you have really intrigued me here! I _know_ I had a teacher who read us
that book as a child but cannot remember what it was about. All I do remember is
that little rhyme. I could hear the sound of my teacher's rhythmic voice in my
head the way she read it. Wow, what a flashback!
Becky
NoHarrassment
Is a book about that took place in a Chinese village, and it was a boy named
Rikki-Tikki-Tembo.... who falls in the well, and his younger brother has to run
to his mom and I think grandfather and he has to say his name. If anybody
knows more please let me know.
Rebecca
NoHarrassment wrote:
This story was absolutely going to keep me from sleeping if I didn't remember
something about it. I think the older son was given a longer "special" name
because he was the first son, and when he fell in the well, the younger son (who
was less significant and therefore had a shorter name) couldn't say his brother's
whole name and tell what had happened because the name was so long and he'd run so
fast from the well. (talk about run-on sentences... sheesh! :-) This story was in
a book of fairy tales we had as children, but I don't remember the title. Thank
goodness, now I will sleep. lol
Becky
Andrew Keller
mrs...@aol.comNoTrolls (NoHarrassment) wrote:
> >Rikki-Tikki-Tembo-No-Sa-Rembo-Cherry-Berry-Ruchi-Pip-Perri-Pembo
>
Rikki-Tikki-Tembo-No-So-Rembo-Um-Ma-Moochi-Yama-Gama Guchi is the name I
remember from the record album I owned as a little kid. Maybe the record
and the book use slightly different variations of Rikki's name. I still
have the album somewhere around my house....
Anyway not that the exact name matters, but yes you a correct Rikki falls
into a well and is too big to get out of it. The person who was with
Rikki(not too sure whom it was that Rikki was with when he fell in. What
I recall from the record was, it is one of his rich family servants that
was with him when he fell) when he fell into the well has to go find help
and goes to various shops and houses around town telling people Rikki
Tikki has fallen in; the character getting help for Rikki on the record
would go around town(in an asian accent) telling people:" Young Master,
Rikki-Tikki Tembo-No-so-Rembo-Um-ma -Moochi-Yam-Gama-Guchi, is stuck in a
well!" Rikki's name was so long that it took up so much time that Rikki's
situation got worse as it would prove to get harder to get him out as
time went by...
After all the townspeoples failed efforts to get Rikki out of the well,
he finally gets out himself because of all the weight he lost while being
stuck there(I think they all give up on getting him out and stop feeding
him and he losses weight and wriggles out)!
From what I recall, Rikki was from a rich family and rich families in old
China would give their offspring extravagantly long names as a sign of
prestige. Well that long name was what got him into trouble; it was so
long that it took too long to say Rikki's name, and thus delayed him from
getting help right away!
In the end, the moral of the story according to my recollection of the
Album was that this is why Chinese people never give their children long
names anymore(shorter names like Wei and Po are now the norm), or
something like that!! LOL :-D
Hookay well that's all I can remember from the Album and some of it might
be off, and well, quite frankly, just scattered bits and pieces all
thrown together, but I tried my best to recall. If something more comes
to mind I'll chime in again. If I find the album I'll listen to it again.
:-)
> Is a book about that took place in a Chinese village, and it was a boy
> named Rikki-Tikki-Tembo.... who falls in the well, and his younger
> brother has to run to his mom and I think grandfather and he has to say
> his name. If anybody knows more please let me know.
>
Anyway, that's what I remember from the album. :-)
--
Drew....
davisk
and the one with the longest title I could remember 'Alexander's
Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day'. There was also I book that
was about some old lady who was eating everything (you would see only
her silhouette, and everything that was in her stomach), until she
exploded. I also remember this book about a small house that had a
face (the windows were eyes, and the mouth was the door), and the book
showed how the house began in a country setting, and then, over the
years, a city was built around it. The one book I hated reading, even
though my Mom made me do it, was Babar. That handwriting font they
used for the printing of the words really got me so mad when I had to
read it. I can remember throwing the book across the room a few
times. ;>)
--
'No comment'
JoKisLany
Never Talk to Strangers (safety tips for preschoolers, now out of print)
Millicent the Monster (she threatens to eat her little brother)
or
my favorite,
THE FAT CAT (with those marvelous characters Skohottentot and Skolinkinlot)
???
Noelle (basking in nostalgia)
Michael E. Kotler
book in Spanish. Incidentally, a recent version of that book changed a
line (and the accompanying illustration) from "The dinosaur was so tall
that Danny had to hold up the wires for him" as the kid held up some
power lines. They changed that to "ropes" and had clotheslines there,
for obvious safety reasons.
"Sammy the Seal" had a similar theme of a seal that took a day off from
the zoo. Both books were part of the "I Can Read" book club.
"Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak of "Where the Wild Things Are"
fame. This was a book of months, each with a catchy poem. Our first
grade class did a skit of this one. Here's one sample:
In February it will be
My snowman's anniversary
With cake for him
And soup for me
Happy once
Happy twice
Happy chicken soup with rice
For older kids, I liked the Danny Dunn series, the best being "Danny Dunn
and the Homework Machine." by Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin. And
for some reason, I remember two books with Cricket in the title (not the
magazine) "The Cricket Winter" and "The Cricket in Times Square".
Michael Kotler
mek...@aol.com
Rebecca
Michael E. Kotler wrote:
> "Danny and the Dinosaur" by Syd Hoff. Our school had a version of that
> book in Spanish. Incidentally, a recent version of that book changed a
> line (and the accompanying illustration) from "The dinosaur was so tall
> that Danny had to hold up the wires for him" as the kid held up some
> power lines. They changed that to "ropes" and had clotheslines there,
> for obvious safety reasons.
>
> "Sammy the Seal" had a similar theme of a seal that took a day off from
> the zoo. Both books were part of the "I Can Read" book club.
>
> "Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak of "Where the Wild Things Are"
> fame. This was a book of months, each with a catchy poem. Our first
> grade class did a skit of this one. Here's one sample:
>
> In February it will be
> My snowman's anniversary
> With cake for him
> And soup for me
> Happy once
> Happy twice
> Happy chicken soup with rice
Oh wow! Danny and the Dinosaur was my favorite book for a long time... I
carried it everywhere I went! *sighs contentedly* Thanks for bringing that
back to me. :-)
Becky
Rebecca
remember a book called "Pancakes For Breakfast"? I know my sister really
loved it, and for some reason I recall the boy in the story looking for
something, like a detective or something. It's been a very long time.
Becky
NoHarrassment
one of my faves.
Karen
> . There was also I book that
> was about some old lady who was eating everything (you would see only
> her silhouette, and everything that was in her stomach), until she
> exploded.
Did it go like this?
I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don't know why, I guess she'll
die
I knew an old lady who swallowed a spider to catch the fly, I don't know
why she swallowed the fly, I guess she'll die.
She goes on to swallow a bird, a cat, a dog, maybe someother stuff too
inbetween, a cow and a horse..she then explodes.
Jodi B.
they're as fabulous as ever. They sang the song about the old woman who
swallowed a fly and also Puff the Magic Dragon and other songs you're sure
to remember. :-)
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Lady Molly
"I Can't, said the Ant"
"Oh my, said the fly"
80s Child
mrs...@aol.comNoTrolls (NoHarrassment) wrote:
> >Rikki-Tikki-Tembo-No-Sa-Rembo-Cherry-Berry-Ruchi-Pip-Perri-Pembo
>
boy named
> Rikki-Tikki-Tembo.... who falls in the well, and his younger brother
has to run
> to his mom and I think grandfather and he has to say his name. If
anybody
> knows more please let me know.
I was a pretty opinionated kid when it came to my books and TV shows,
and I remember hating this book because I thought the name was so
stupid.
Now, I'd probably enjoy reading it for the nostalgia. :)
--
Put rubber bands around your pant legs to keep the
evil spirits out of your trousers.
- Dogbert ("Dilbert" 7/18/99)
Michael E. Kotler
mrs...@aol.comNoTrolls says...
> Does anybody remember the book, I Can't Said the Ant?
I still have a copy which I borrowed from a school library 25 years ago,
just before we moved away :( . I do plan to return it though.
The story was about a teapot that fell off the kitchen counter and broke
her spout, and some ants and spiders tried to restore it back.
One page went like this:
"Push her up, said the cup
I can't, said the ant
You can, said the pan
You must, said the crust
Please try, said the pie."
Lady Molly
something that we found from home, and I read, "I Can't Said the Ant", and I
did different voices to each one. It was funny. :)
Rachel Cree
when the librarian comes looking for Jerry and a thousand dollar fine for a
book he took out of the library in 1974 called Tropic of Cancer lol ahhh the
highjix... lol
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had told me that she read them when she was younger and turned me on to them.
I tried to get my daughter to read to read them as well, but she never got into
them. I remember my daughter reading a series of books titled Ramona by
Beverly Cleary, which I thought was really cool, because I had remembered a
couple of Bevery Cleary books that I had read at her age ("Jean & Johnny" and
"The Luckiest Girl")