classic kid's books?

[pugz]

can you give me some suggestions? I am drawing a blank. I want to give Squirms a classic book every year at Christmas for her to hold on to and use when she (hopefully) has kids someday.

I was thinking Goodnight Moon, since we don't have it, but dh doesn't like that book

[gibbinator]

Stellaluna was one of my favorites

[grk2012]

DH doesn't have to like it for it to be a classic, lol

We love Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, and (my personal fave) The Velveteen Rabbit.

[pugz]

Velveteen Rabbit makes me ugly cry

[Brie]

Do you have The Polar Express?

Corduroy is another favorite.

[DazeyDee]

What about the Beatrix Potter books? You can find some beautiful editions of them. Or the Eric Carle books? And I love the old Dr Seuss books, and Corduroy is a huge hit in our house. So is Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Where The Wild Things Are? Madeline? You could do beautiful editions of fairy tales too - DD just started getting WAY into the old fairy tales, so we've been getting gorgeously illustrated versions from the library - Rapunzel, Chicken Little, The Princess & The Pea, Hansel & Gretel, stuff like that?

[Saudade]

Ferdinand, Mike Mulligan, Katy the snowplow. My most favorite of favorites

[Ashley&Scott]

The Pokey Little Puppy

[pugz]

we have so many of the ones you guys have mentioned!

[dr.girlfriend]

The Curious George anthologies are DS's favorites, along with How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

[pugz]

I might get Petunia, we checked it out from the library and really liked it. It is long though.

I love Ferdinand but we checked it out and dh thought it was weird, what with the people trying to kill the bull and all, but whatever, Ferd is a survivor thanks to laziness!

[iheartbanjos]

DD is obsessed with Curious George. We have 2 of the books with 6 or 8 stories in them.

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Strega Nona! www.amazon.com/Strega-Nona-Tomie-dePaola/dp/0671666061

[ladygrey]

Blueberries for Sal, The Snowy Day, Mike Mullligan and his Steam Shovel, Babar, Paddington Bear, Madeline

[Saudade]

Nov 16, 2012 21:56:47 GMT -5 pugz said:

I might get Petunia, we checked it out from the library and really liked it. It is long though.

I love Ferdinand but we checked it out and dh thought it was weird, what with the people trying to kill the bull and all, but whatever, Ferd is a survivor thanks to laziness!

Aww that's sad! You should tell him how it was written as an anti-war story back in the 30's!

[elocrates]

Harry the Dirty Dog (or anything in the Harry series), The Little Engine That Could, Berenstain Bears

[pacificrules]

Eric Carle, Dr. Seuss, and the Berenstain Bears come to mind.

[drloretta]

Rikki Tikki Tavi (I remember watching the movie every year on TV--those were the days)
Velveteen Rabbit
The Giving Tree
Knuffle Bunny and its 2 sequels
The Beatrix Potter collection (DH just picked the set up for not much at Costco)
Dr Seuss
Where the Wild Things Are (we read it regularly around here)

[otowngirl]

How do you not like Goodnight Moon?

[Brie]

Nov 16, 2012 23:41:38 GMT -5 otowngirl said:

How do you not like Goodnight Moon?

It's boring, there's no plot, and I don't really like the illustrations.

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it will be a classic. The Garfalo

www.amazon.com/Gruffalo-Julia-Donaldson/dp/0142403873/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353153770&sr=1-1&keywords=garafalo

[otowngirl]

Nov 16, 2012 23:56:36 GMT -5 Brie said:

Nov 16, 2012 23:41:38 GMT -5 otowngirl said:

How do you not like Goodnight Moon?

It's boring, there's no plot, and I don't really like the illustrations.

LOL. Most of DD's books are pretty boring (esp after reading them for the umpteenth time . She gets a kick out of finding the mouse and pointing out different stuff in the pictures, though. *Shrug*

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Do you have The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, or Alice in Wonderland? I'm looking forward to when the kids are old enough to start reading these.

[froggy76]

Make way for ducklings, very hungry caterpillar

One of my new favorites is On the night you were born.

[yellowbrkrd]

We started making a list of books to buy, this is what we have so far: Berenstein Bears, Dr. Seuss, The Giving Tree, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Corduroy, Clifford, Curious George, Goodnight Moon

[cjeanette]

www.barnesandnoble.com/listing/2682426094771?cm_mmc=GooglePLA-_-Book-_-Q000000633-_-2682426094771&cm_mmca2=pla&r=1

Don't know that it is a classic but I get teary everytime I read it to C.

[h]

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Make Way for Ducklings
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Caps for Sale
The Jolly Postman
the Frances books -- Bedtime for Frances, Bread and Jam for Frances, etc.
anything by William Steig -- Sylverster and the Magic Pebble, Soloman and the Rusty Nail, Dr. DeSoto, etc.
The Very Hungry Catepillar, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, or anything else by Eric Carle
Where the Wild Things Are
the Madeline books
Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, or any other Dr. Seuss
the original Winnie the Pooh
The Tales of Peter Rabbit
The Velveteen Rabbit
Babar books, Curious George books, Richard Scarry, Berenstain Bears

If you want to start collecting books for older kids, then add Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The Secret Garden, Little Women, the Harry Potter series, the Lion the, the Witch, and the Wardrobe series, the Ramona books, Mr. Popper's Penguins

[h]

Nov 16, 2012 23:56:36 GMT -5 Brie said:

Nov 16, 2012 23:41:38 GMT -5 otowngirl said:

How do you not like Goodnight Moon?

It's boring, there's no plot, and I don't really like the illustrations.

I am so with you! I hate Goodnight Moon. Fortunately my kids have never been big on it either.

And I will add that I think the reference to "mush" is gross and the old lady lurking in the corner whispering "hush" is creepy.

[hellonurse]

This is by no means a classic (yet!), but it's my absolute favorite kids book. And we read tons of kids books. Haha.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

[mellymel]

Goodnight Moon sucks.

This is not a classic (yet), but a must-have:

Little Blue Truck