sexymama

We love to read together so I thought I'd share a few of my favorites and would love to hear a few of your's.

Infant -- "Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch
Early reader -- "My Many Color Days" by Dr. Seus
and "The Kissing Hand"
Pre-teen -- All the Harry Potter Books
Pre-teen girl -- "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle"
Young teen -- "Ender's Game" and "Ender's Shadow"

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"Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch
(i agree- we have that one)

One that I have read to him frequently from day one is:
"I Love You as Much"-Laura Krauss Melmed

also,
*Goodnight Gorilla- Peggy Rathmann
*If You Give a Mouse a Cookie- Laura Joffe Numeroff
*Harold and the Purple Crayon- Crockett Johnson
*I Love You Stinky Face- Lisa McCourt
*all Little Critter books, especially Just Me and My Mom or Just Me and my Dad
*all Shel Silverstein books
*all Dr. Suess Books

sapiens

Good thread! Some of our favorite books for our 9 month old daughter are:

"Is your Momma a LLama?" by Deborah Guarino
"Yummy Yucky", "Quiet Loud" and "Big Little" by by Leslie Patricelli
"Papa Please Get The Moon For Me" by Eric Carle

raeanna74

I love "Owl Moon" (Caldacott Winner) for lower elementary grades.

For the upper grades or even into highschool I love "Number the Stars" (Newberry Winner) My students loved that book and we read it more than once in class even. Also many of my parents borrowed it and some highschoolers in that school as well. It was popular and well liked. I also was able to bring out a lot of different things in regard to the holocaust, Jews, and such. It was written from a child's point of view and fairly short. A quick read and well done.

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CinnamonGirl

Some of my favorites growing up (and my mom's as well)

Younger:
Alexander and the Terrible Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
The Monster at the End of This Book by Michael Smollin
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Older:
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye
the Wayside School books by Louis Sachar
the Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

I'll still sit down and read all of those books when I come across them again

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clavus

"Goodnight Gorilla" for the wee little ones

"The Very Persistant Gappers of Fripp" is great for the wee bit older ones.

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fatboss

It's amazing how many times a book can come back from School for reading again and again.

My kids are 6 and 4 and I can see the younger one bringing the very same books home for reading that his older Brother did a few years ago. Some books are just perpetual classics.

We sit and read books to both our kids all the time, and I think it shows. They both have a higher reading age than average and even though they are still quite young, I can see a brightness and intelligence there already. Books are only one part of being a parent tho' , am I right?

OOPS, nearly forgot. 'Not now Bernard' and 'Baby Owls' are just 2 of the books that come back time and time again.

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tecoyah

Dragon in a wagon

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Strange Famous

10+ - Pullman - His Dark Materials

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powerclown

4 yr. old son likes this one alot.

"Curious George Goes to the Movies"
"Curious George and the Dump Truck"
"Make New Friends"
"Just Me & My Dad"
"Train Song"

For kids age 4-6, or so they say.

lurkette

My favorites as a little kid were "Blueberries for Sal" and "Make Way for Ducklings", but my new all-time favorite is the book my friends read to their son called:

"Everybody Poops"

Well they do!

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Oh, also there is the Once Upon A Potty for boys and girls in text and audio which works really well.

sexymama

Another great piece of historical fiction is "Esperanza Rising" It is about a young rich Mexican girl whose father is murdered causing her and her mother to loose everything. They are forced to move to the U.S. to survive and escape the abuse of her uncles. When she arrives she has to learn to find peace within herself as life as a migrant worker is so foreign to her.

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Podmore

My little girl's favorites were:

- The Rainbow Fish (Marcus Pfister)
- On The Day You Were Born (Debra Frasier)
- Miss Spider's Tea Party (David Kirk)
- The Cat in the Hat (Dr. Seuss) -- I have this one memorized and can recite it from beginning to end.

Empty_One

here are some of my personal favorite childrens books

Everybody Poops
The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts
The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish
The Wolves in the Walls
Where the Sidewalk Ends

BuddyHawks

Alice in Wonderland

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daydream

We're Going on a Bear Hunt- by Helen Oxenbury

This is a great book for kids... I use to work at a daycare center and the kids in my room would always ask me to read them this book... It's a lot of fun to read because you can get them all excited and they love it!

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Any and all of the Redwall series for teens
The Illustrated classic for age’s pre-teens

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neddy65

My 6 yo daughter(oldest) has hundreds of books and can read them all. her favorites are:
1. anything by Munch
2. anything by Suess
3. really enjoying the Junie B. Jones series
4. Jillian Jiggs series

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Zander

Ender's game is an excellent choice, i wish I would have read it years ago when i was 14ish- it is really motivating.

anti fishstick

toddler/early reader:
goodnight moon
any shel silverstein books
pre-teen:
encylopedia brown series
pre-teen girl:
are you there god, it's me margaret by judy blume
man, that's a classic.

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sipsake

Stellaluna
Where the Wild Things Are

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sailor

YESSS!!!!!!!

You just brought back so many memories...

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