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Where The Wild Things Are is the very first that comes to mind. Jack and the Beanstalk would be second. My dad would do all sorts of crazy awesome voices, noises, expressions and hand gestures while he was telling stories to make them more lively and interactive.
What were your favorite childhood stories?
The Lion King
IT COUNTS OKAY
Where the Wild Things Are is magical. I remember enjoying Strega Nona (I think that was the name) a lot as a kid.
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Yes, I bought a copy for my daughter.
Oh my god, we had that story.
Also, The Velveteen Rabbit.
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My favourite book of fairytales is illustrated by Barbara C Freeman. My favourite story is One Eye, Two Eyes & Three Eyes, but here is a picture of her Thumbelina:
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Quentin Blake, The Berenstains, Roald Dahl, Margaret & H.A. Rey, Theodore Geisel, Enid Blyton, Kathryn Kenny, Eric Carle, Maurice Sendak and Bill Peet all deserve mention. I've read and loved countless classics, particularly Heidi and Black Beauty, but as I get older I find my interest in YA fiction has waned, but my love of children's picture books is just as strong as it has always been. I regularly take picture books home from the library and enjoy studying how expressive and alive a character can be rendered in just a few strokes.
My favourite modern children's authors and illustrators include Mo Willems, Jon Klassen, Shelley Jackson, Bob Shea, David Shannon, Suzy Lee, Graeme Base and Sarah Verroken. Love your kids. Teach them to read.
The Monster At The End Of This Book featuring Grover.
The Puffalumps Bedtime Stories or whatever it was called (I recently found my battered and worn copy of it)
Corduroy
Wind in the Willows (or whatever that book was called)
& all the stories my dad would make up when I went with him in the truck.
I can't tell you how many times I demanded this be read to me when I was a kid. My favourite part was always when he swallowed the spoon and it got stuck in his throat sideways. Oh, Morris, you silly moose!
There's plenty worth a mention but the book that really made me realise, around the age of five or six, that I loved the smurf out of reading was Roald Dahl's The Witches.
I used to like reading the Llama Llama books to my kids at school..
Llama, Llama, Mad At Mama
Llama, Llama, Red Pajama
and the Bear books!
Bear Snores On
Bear Feels Sick
etc
And The Giving Tree (makes me sniffle quite a bit) - I love Shel Silverstein.
and The Lorax
and Oh! The Places You'll Go!
As far as books for young children go, I loved this book I had about Mickey and Minnie Mouse going on a picnic. Also Henry & Mudge! I loved all the Henry & Mudge stories. I think that's probably where my love of Mastiffs began. And Dr. Seuss; I had a particular love for The Foot Book. And The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see? When I was older I loved Charlotte's Web, Where the Red Fern Grows, Summer of the Monkeys and the Babysitter's Club books.
I wish I read as much as I did when I was a kid.
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"I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..."