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Piccoli Fiori JMJ

Chicka-Chicka Boom Boom was a classic... I remember loving the boxcar children and we still have quite a set. I also got into Animorphs when I was older but I never did get into the Goosebumps thing... Dr. Suess was great too! I think my favorite was Go, Dog, Go!

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that catepillar one... now that i cant think of the name of it even though i emphatically agreed that it was the best childrens book of all time... :blink:

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle?

I discovered books by Chris Van Allsburg when I worked in the children's section of our library one summer -- this is the guy who wrote "Jumanji" and "Zathura." He's got several interesting, beautifully illustrated books.

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[quote name='FutureNunJMJ' date='Nov 9 2005, 09:24 PM']Dr. Suess was great too!  I think my favorite was Go, Dog, Go!
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That's my two year old's favorite right now. I could probably recite it by heart.

My personal favorite Dr. Seuss story is "What Was I Afraid Of" about the empty green pants.

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homeschoolmom

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Nov 10 2005, 08:36 AM']The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
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My first year teaching we did a unit on that book. :) And our Children's Theater did a production which we went to see. It was really fun.

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[quote name='Lil Red' date='Nov 9 2005, 05:44 PM']Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books.

man i love that woman. i still have those books, too. read them a lot too.
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Oh she was [i]fabulous[/i]. I also read all the Ramona books (Beverely Cleary) and most of the Judy Blume books. [u]Little Women [/u]ranks near the top of my list, but I consider that more of an adolescent book than a children's book. And I love all the 'If you give a.... (pig/pancake, moose/muffin, mouse/cookie, etc)' books. And, [u]The Giving Tree[/u].

My little sister and I had a pile of 'Christmas only' books, and we got to get them out on December 5 (after my Dad's bday on the 4th), and we could have them out until Epiphany. [u]The Polar Express [/u] is a beautiful book I still like to go home and read them.

<insert moment of nostalgia here>

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The Best Christmas Pagent Ever.

My third grade teacher read that to us and I have loved it ever since. It's our next book for our homeschool book club.

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I can't believe I didn't mention it.... or no one before me had......


ROALD DAHL!!! Matilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, ooooooh they were wonderful books.

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Ooo, I loved The Secret Garden. I read that one more than once, I'm sure.

And I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier -- Anne of Green Gables. I read EVERY Lucy Maude Montgomery book ever written, I think.

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[url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064440346/104-5101943-1207152?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance"]Owl at Home[/url] by Arnold Lobel. It was one of my favorites, and now my five, seven, and nine-year-old brothers always ask me to read it to them.

[url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0590020498/104-5101943-1207152?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance"]"I Can't," Said the Ant[/url] by Polly Cameron. Another one my siblings love, too.

I also loved [i]Are You My Mother?[/i] and [i]Go, Dog, Go![/i] (P.D. Eastman).

And then of course, the Little House on the Prairie books, the Chronicles of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, and really any of Louisa May Alcott's books.

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Thy Geekdom Come

[quote name='shortnun' date='Nov 10 2005, 09:52 AM']I can't believe I didn't mention it.... or no one before me had......
ROALD DAHL!!! Matilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, ooooooh they were wonderful books.
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Yeah, those were great. I loved The BFG!

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Thy Geekdom Come

[quote name='Carrie' date='Nov 10 2005, 12:27 PM']Are You My Mother?
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Yeah, that was a good one...I remember having the Spanish version, too...

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