Good Books to Read Your Kid(s)

[Old Monkey]

I mentioned on another thread that Haley and I just finished reading Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. I love Dahls' books and we've read a couple so far. What books did you love to read as a kid? What books did your kids have fun hearing? I had two older brothers and was reading science fiction books by Ray Bradbury when I should have been reading The Wizard of Oz and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I didn't comprehend most of what I was reading because I was too young. Now that I have a kid I want to read all the great kid books that I missed.

[sotc]

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Friendly-Giant-B-F-G/dp/6303978991
i enjoyed this one.teacher would read a little each day to us

[rumination]

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are great classics.

[Blinky]

The BFG was great. I read it to my daughter's 4th grade lunch group.

The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer (http://www.artemisfowl.com/thebooks.html) was a lot of fun.

[stehansen]

When my kids were little we had the "Book of Virtues" so I had a selection everynight.

[Paul B]

I have about 25 bankers boxes full of all my books from when I was a kid and teen. I cant make myself throw them out or sell them, I am hoping Jr will take to books like his pops. I remember reading all of stephen king's books when I was about 14, before that I read most of the Hardy Boys books, I laughed when the grade 9 teacher said we were doing Orwell's 'animal farm' and 1984 as book report projects, I was stoked as I had read them three years before. :)
Loved the Tolkien books, Shannara series etc. I read lots of stuff, glad I did, wish I had more time to read more now...

[stehansen]

When I took my daughters to cheerleading practice everynight my son and I read "A Bridge Too Far". The only books I can remember my Dad reading ot us were Dr. Seuss and the Briar Rabbit series

[Paul B]

is it fashioned like the movie? I used to watch the old WW2 movies with my pops, if I catch them these days on the tube and have time, I watch'em again, for memories sake.
bridge too far, kellys heroes, guns of navarone, the longest day, great escape, dirty dozen, Iwo Jima etc etc... :)

and the good, the bad and the ugly. cant get that whistling tune out of my head. :D

[Thor's Hammer]

As a kid I loved anything by Richard Scarry. Now I have my own, they too are obsessed by anything Scarry.
http://www.pop.umn.edu/~eroberts/forblog/whatdolarge.jpg

[squisher]

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was one of my first books and one of Julia's.

http://wiredforbooks.org/kids/beatrix/p1.htm

[Stumper]

Darin, While she is still little "Edward Fudwupper Fibbed Big" and all of the 'Jennie B Jones" books are fun. Of course the Wnnie the Pooh stories and classics llike Lewis Carrolls-Alice books are timeless. As she matures you will probably want to search out texts such as "The Care and Feeding of Geriatric Parents."

[fallguy]

When they get to be around 10 start getting anything written by Gary Paulsen. The one called "The Hacket" is of his better known ones. They are all good. My son's English teacher told us any of Gary's books would be accepted for book reports. Everyone that I bought for my son I read my self. The one I got the biggest laugh from is called " How Angel Peterson Got His Name". DO NOT try to drink a beer and read this one you well be spraying everything in the room.

[stehansen]

For those of you whose kids are starting to read "The Bears in the Night" was really good because they could tell from the picture exactly what was happening and it then repeated it in reverse order. I don't know who the author was, but I think it was part of the Berenstein Bears series.

[Mr. Sir]

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[Paul B]

in my early teen years a cousin of mine got me a book by Piers Anthony, I think now that it was a really good way to develope language skills. The Xanth series now has probably 30 or more books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Piers_Anthony

[Old Monkey]

Thanks everyone. I love reading to Haley at night.

Ed, I had a lot of Richard Scarry books as a kid too.

[Mr. Sir]

Hey Darin, PM me your address, I'll send you a "Mouse About the House" book. It's been our Number 1 best seller for ten years. :dance:

[No_Bivy]

Owl Moon is a good one....I find some more

[Stumper]

Paul, I enjoyed Piers Anthony's Xanth books also but one should be cautious of old Piers-some of his writing is pornographic and dabbling in pedophilia and bestiality.:O

[Paul B]

Stumper, thanks for the heads up, I had read some with a bit of racy stuff in it but havent encountered anything extreme. The Xanth series should be pretty safe I would think?

[Thor's Hammer]

Paul, I enjoyed Piers Anthony's Xanth books also but one should be cautious of old Piers-some of his writing is pornographic and dabbling in pedophilia and bestiality.:O

Somewhat similar to Jack L. Chalker. Pulp sci fi rules!:D

[rumination]

As far as sci fi goes, Phillip K. Dick is my favorite. But definitely not for Haley....


Don't forget Charlotte's Web.

[Frans]

Darin,
Have you read all the Oz books?

There are:
Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
The Emerald City of Oz
The Scarecrow of Oz
Tik Tock of Oz


...and many many more.

The publisher is, Morrow

[Newfie]

The Runaway Ralph ( mouse on a motorcycle) books were good and the "Great Brain" series. Lots of other great ones mentioned already.:)

My favorite is "Herbert the Pervert Likes Sherbert".;)

[lumberjack]

Hardy Boys and the Box Car Children should provide her with a year or two of reading :)

Around 7-8 I started collecting/reading more technical books. I got my first encyclopida set around then (condensed) for free, read them a few times. I like some fiction, but typically I'd rather learn.

[Tom Dunlap]

The Little Prince is an excellent book for kids or anyone to read. A very good message there. After reading the book get the video. Gene Wilder as The Fox is excellent. No one else could own that role like GW.

Right now I'm reading The Little Prince to my girlfriend. A chapter or so each night. What fun!

Research has shown and I've seen this in friends kids, reading to children will make them readers and learners.

Jeff Jepson read to his kids and now they're avid readers. His son har read The Hobbit and The Trilogy by himself by the time he was in second grade after JJ read it to his kids at night.

Another book that I try to read again every year is Shel Silverstein's 'ABZ Book'. It's available for around $8.

Here are some pictures of some of the letters. You decide when your kids are old enough to hear about Uncle Shel. In our family 7-8 is early enough. My nieces have many of the letters memorized.

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/childrens/uncle-shelbys-abz-book

[Bodean]

I liked where the wild things are.

[Paul B]

I liked where the wild things are.

Our little guy got that from someone at my wifes baby shower a few months ago. I didnt read it when I was a kid. :)

[Tom Dunlap]

The Little Prince is an excellent book for kids or anyone to read. A very good message there. After reading the book get the video. Gene Wilder as The Fox is excellent. No one else could own that role like GW.

The Fox from The LIttle Prince:

http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/lpfox.html

[Old Monkey]

That's funny Tom because Haley and I just watched that part of The Little Prince. I haven't read the book but I love the movie.

[Underwor]

The First Forest by John Gile. My sister got it for me about 20 years ago. It is not arboriculturally correct, but it is a good one. Was on the best seller lists in about 1989 in the Chicago area at least.

[High Scale]

As a nipper I liked Little Grey Men and Brendon Chase by BB.

Anything by Dahl.

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C O'Brian when I got a little older.

I will try to remember more.

My sister came around last week while I was reading a book she said that she didn't know I was into reading books, I remember doing little else.

[Frans]

The Night Kitchen. Forget who wrote it.. but alot of fun

[Paul B]

High Scale, I bought the rats of nimh dvd a couple years ago on Ebay, too cool to watch the old stuff. :)

[Old Monkey]

Well the Roald Dahl books we have read seem to be just little above her age wise, which seems perfect especially since she stops and asks me what words mean. We are four chapters in on the Wizard of Oz and the vocabulary is harder. She still seems engaged but we may have to switch books and revisit this one later. Did you guys know that in the book the Wicked Witch of the East wear silver slippers not ruby red?

[lumberjack]

I thought Dorthy was the only one wearing some Ruby Reds?

[Bodean]

I forgot the author as That was a time before memory,

But as a kid I wread a book called, The last Tree.

Touched my soul and made me a conservationist. er maybe preservationist.

Oh and I read every single Hardy Boys, Larry's old Yellow Jalopy........

[Frans]

'Ol Yeller

[sotc]

, Larry's old Yellow Jalopy........

wasnt it chet that had the jalopy?

[Stumper]

For boys 8 and above just about anything by Jim Kjelgaard. Boys & dogs, hunting, trapping, firefighting.....all were in his realm and he wrote with experience and authority. Very prolific also.

[Paul B]

Hardy Boys, cool, I had like 25 of them on my shelf at one point.

[MasterBlaster]

About all I read when I was young were science fiction and biographies.

(English question! Should it be "was" instead of "were?" That kinda stuff bothers me and I can't remember the rule for it. I'm pretty sure I'm right.)

[Paul B]

I think the 'biography's (biographies?)' makes it were.

[MasterBlaster]

I fixed the biographies, lol. I wasn't paying attention... :|:

[vharrison]

I fixed the biographies, lol. I wasn't paying attention... :|:

You are the grammar KING!

[MasterBlaster]

Ha!

Hey, ya'll hit Ctrl Q and see what happens. I just now accidentally discovered it.

[sotc]

nothing

[MasterBlaster]

You must have more than one browser open.

[vharrison]

Nothing for me. What happens?

[MasterBlaster]

Do you have several browsers open?

[Tom Dunlap]

On Mac Control/Q opens all of the windows on the desktop. another, easier way to do the same is to setup a hotcorner option. My lower right opens all windows, upper right closes them and leaves my desktop clear. IN the new Mac OS there are even more functions like this.

[Bodean]

Chet. Willie, You're right it was Chet.

[Paul B]

CTRL Q, cool! thumbnails the open pages to swap up between'em.

we should get one of those 'mobile computer fixer upper" decals for your truck! :D

[MasterBlaster]

Now try "windows + M"

:/:

[Paul B]

cool, is there an antonym code for bringing the window back up?

And, have you found a site that lists cool codes for XP? Share!

[MasterBlaster]

I just googled it, keyboard shortcuts.

Right click on the tab and open it.

[Old Monkey]

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The book was there when I got home today. I read it to Haley and now she is busy playing with it. Its a clever book but its hard to stay serious reading "Have you seen my nuts? on every page. I guess I am still a child. Thanks for the book.

[Mr. Sir]

The book was there when I got home today. I read it to Haley and now she is busy playing with it. Its a clever book but its hard to stay serious reading "Have you seen my nuts? on every page. I guess I am still a child. Thanks for the book.

Haha, I forgot about that! Those wacky Englishmen. Well, I hope she enjoys it. We have lots of sticker books too that girls love. Princesses, fairies, and dolls.

[Paul B]

Haha, I forgot about that! Those wacky Englishmen. Well, I hope she enjoys it. We have lots of sticker books too that girls love. Princesses, fairies, and dolls.

I musta missed the "we have a bookstore" post, whats up Mr Sir? :)

[Old Monkey]

She went to bed tonight snuggled up to the little squirrel from that book. We read the book again for bed time. "Have you seen my nuts?"

[Frans]

"Have you seen my nuts?"


Ahhh, I just cannot resist. Sounds like something I would ask my wife after I run to obey her.
:lol:

[Mr. Sir]

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[sotc]

Ahhh, I just cannot resist. Sounds like something I would ask my wife after I run to obey her.
:lol:

haha ill have to try that:D