What is *your* favourite children's book?
 

Yours, not your kids' ... the one(s) you read as a kid and can still go back to with pleasure?

The Red Balloon! I still have my circa 1965 copy, all busted spine and mangled. The color pictures smell good. (I cant explain that, but tis true.) I wanted to go hang out with Pascal.

where the wild things are....i know this has already been discussed, but, it really is my favorite.

Unless you count "the lion the witch and the wardrobe" as a 'kids' book

I really like "Jamberry", though I haven't been able to find it since we moved.

Other favourites include "Green Eggs and Ham", "The Daddy Book", "Where the Wild Things Are", and "Fox in Socks".

Jamey's favourites:

"The Daddy Book", "I Spy: Treasure something-something", "The Okay Book" and "Green Eggs and Ham". Lately he also seems to like a particular little "Three Bears" book and the "Airplanes" book.

:) It was your thread that sparked off mine, LJ!

Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein. Both of these books are now on the "banned books" list for very stupid reasons.

oh, that wasnt me, it was Fireman. i was just the most entertaining one in the thread.

:)

Fox in Socks, hands down.

Oh yeah, Shel Siliverstein, those great rhymes! There was his other one about the giving tree, that was so sweet.

whats is your favourite childrens book
 

Am amazing book called "Elidor" by Alan Garner.
My first sword and sorcery fantasy been a sucker for the genre ever since.

www.readingmatters.co.uk/books/elidor

There was a series of books that followed a girl named "Ramona". At the time, my best friend was named Ramona, so I thought it was cool. :D

The Little House In The Woods books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. (and the show that the books were based on ruled!)

I had a series of various Disney books, and they were kept in a pretty cool Mickey Mouse bookholder. I think it was like a book club or something.

Charlotte's Web: This was the most CHERISHED book that I could have ever owned. I got the paperback version for Christmas, with the first edition cover on it. Years later, my mother thought it was a good idea to give away some of my childhood books to charity (without telling me). It took me several days before I could speak to her without wanting to strangle her. (my family has this strange, but annoying habit of doing things without telling me.) :angry:

I read several of the Heinlein "juveniles" when I was in elementary school. I liked most of them and will still read them sometimes today. Although I liked "Between Planets," "Space Cadet," and "The Rolling Stones" very much, the undisputed champion of them all is "Have Space Suit, Will Travel."

the berinstein bears were my all time favourite , especially the one where they go camping.

http://www.berenstainbears.com/

i used to borow this when i was younger from the library evrey week, sometimes i would hide it under my bed so that it wouldnt go back to the library, i ended up with about $16 in overdue fees - heh, and each time i returned it and went looking for another book i would just pick that one up again. my poor daddy if he had just brough the book it would have saved 100 trips to the library and prob only cost about $5.

The Beverly Cleary books. I liked those, too.
My mother's side of the family lives near Plum Creek. I've visited the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in the area.

Given that the Berenstain Bears books portray the Papa Bear as a clueless boob who can't blow his nose, much less parent the children, without extensive assistance from the much more wise and intelligent Mama Bear, your daddy probably just wanted to avoid giving any money to the publishers & authors! :D

(Needless to say, Mrs. Dallas insists that this continuing theme of paternal incompetence is what makes the books so attractive.)