What was your favourite book as a child? I loved Dr. Seuss' "Go Dogs Go". They had

[applegrove]

it at my nursery school and I'd always turn to the back page where all the dogs were partying in the canopy of a tree I think. I used to stare and stare at the picture. You?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. This, when I was very small:

http://www.amazon.com/Color-Kittens-Little-Golden-Book/dp/0307021416

Also, Kipling's Jungle Book.

[femmocrat]

2. "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell.

I've read it several times and still own a copy of it.

[alsame]

27. +1. "Black Beauty" and "My Friend Flicka". I still have them both. nt

[elleng]

35. ABSOLUTELY!

and got me into the animal book genre.

[demmiblue]

3. Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

[rug]

19. You can always revisit your childood.

http://barranca.hubpages.com/hub/misty_of_chincoteague

Sort of.

[demmiblue]

39. .

:)


:tinfoilhat:


:think:


:o


:wtf:


x(


:scared:


:spank:


:rofl:

[surrealAmerican]

4. That was not a Dr. Seuss book ...

... It was written and illustrated by P. D. Eastman, but published as a "beginner" book, so it had the little picture of the cat in the hat on the cover.

I think my favorite at that age was probably "Blueberries for Sal".

[A HERETIC I AM]

31. I'm replying to your post after having put mine at the bottom of the thread. You're right.

"Go dogs, GO" wasn't a Dr. Suess book, but there were so many put out by that same publisher, with the little Cat In The Hat logo, it was hard to keep them straight.

Definitely not the same artist, no doubt.

Still....lots of fun.


Damn...too many misspellings to edit for in such a short post!

[applegrove]

40. You are right. I always thought it was a Dr. Seuss book and I've been wrong all these years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go,_Dog._Go!

[Joe Fields]

5. A book of childrens rhymes.

[Withywindle]

6. When I was really little, I loved any and all Richard Scarry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scarry



My boss and his wife just had twins (a boy and a girl). Although they're newborns, I raided the local Borders going out of business sale to make sure they'll get to feel the Scarry love too.

[Withywindle]

7. double post, sorry.

[Luciferous]

8. A Fish Out of Water by Helen Palmer and P.D. Eastman. I made my

grandpa read me that book about a gazillion times.

[Brigid]

9. "Green Eggs and Ham."

I do not like green eggs and ham
I do not like them Sam-I-Am

Who could forget that one? :)

[MrScorpio]

32. Same here

It would be a fucking epic movie

[seabeyond]

10. so many. kids love them. one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.

loved go dogs go, too.

had one that was perfect for teaching kids to read, forgot.

i still have them and read to niece and nephew.

yertle the turtle
whorton hears a who
are you my mother

ha ha... on edit, i thought you were asking favorite suess.

ping duck as a kid. i still have that and read to boys. but cant remember a lot from a child. i have read zillions of books.

[catabryna]

15. One Fish, Two Fish is the first book my son read to me...

I remember where I was and when. Lincoln, Nebraska, August 2007.

[seabeyond]

20. you reminded me what i used. hop on pop. the best book for beginning reading. nt

[DBoon]

11. I loved that one, and "Clifford the Big Red Dog"

nt

[csziggy]

12. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

The Elephant's Child was my favorite story, probably because I was also full of 'satiable curtiosity.

[Lindsey]

13. Charlotte's Web. n/t

[OffWithTheirHeads]

14. Man. hard question. The first book that really grabbed me after Dick and Jane

was Joseph Heller's Catch 22. I think I was 11 when I read it the first time and it is one of the few books I've read more than once. I was inspired by the Mad Magazine issue that included book covers you could put on your trash to make the teacher think you were actually reading something worthwhile.

I figured that if this was considered "worthwhile", perhaps I should actually read it.

Aside from that, I can't think of any "formative books".

[Fleshdancer]

16. Are You There God, It's Me Margaret

I read all the time as a kid, but my favorite author was Judy Blume.

[petronius]

17. 'The Wump World'

In my early reading, Bill Peet was right up there with Dr. Seuss...

http://elm335-jdfort.blogspot.com/2010/03/wump-world-by-bill-peet.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_yRDbZxq5F50/S7Kbenkks4I/AAAAAAAAABk/x6kdCoNmg2s/s1600/Wump.jpg

[MerryBlooms]

18. The Lorax, Sneetches and then later The Secret Garden. n/t

[seabeyond]

22. the lorax... was trying to remember this one. great story for children to think.... when

they are young. loved reading this to kids. lol

love suess

[Lionel Mandrake]

21. My mother taught French, hence ...

The versions that were read to me were English translations.

I used to read Madeline to my kids, but I often made mistakes, like:

"A crack on the ceiling had the habit of sometimes looking like a porcupine."

The kids, of course, would correct me.

[Maccagirl]

23. There was a series of books called "The Happy Hollisters"

about a family of kids who solved crimes. Also there was a series of books by an author named Mary C Jane, mysteries involving children and always set in Maine (pre-Stephen King).

[alsame]

29. I remember "The Happy Hollisters"! I enjoyed that series. nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

24. Any of the series of Oz books by L. Frank Baum.

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They were also MiddleFingerMomMom's favorites when she was a little
girl, and one of the joys of my life was to bring her a LOT of happiness
by reading them to her after her Alzheimer's had caused her to regress
back to those times.
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It was one of the ONLY truly joyful things about that whole process.
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.
.

[Lucinda]

38. I'm so glad that made her happy.

And that you had the chance to do it.

[LeftishBrit]

25. At the same sort of age, I loved Seuss' 'The Cat in the Hat'

Look at me, look at me, look at me now.
It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how.

[Brother Buzz]

26. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Even to this day I have an affinity for steam shovels. Mary Anne was tops in my mind

[alsame]

28. "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" by Dr. Seuss was

another favorite of mine.

[A HERETIC I AM]

30. "Go Dogs Go" was fantastic. Loved it!

I too loved the pic of all those pups having a balst at the top of the tree.

They all had cars.....they were going to a party....




AND THE PARTY WAS IN A TREE!!! HOW COOL IS THAT?

Well...for a dog, it would be totally cool.

To this day, whenever I see a tree with a large canopy and a narrow trunk, I think of Go Dogs Go!



Here's the late, great, MR. BB trying to start such a party going;


"If only I had opposable thumbs or there was another dog up there with a fucking car, I wouldn't have to hang on this way!"

[LiberalEsto]

33. The Bobbsey Twins series

When I first learned to read, I was reading in the Estonian language, but I can't remember any of the books.

[WinkyDink]

34. "The Swiss Family Robinson." 100%.

[Rhythm]

36. Beverly Cleary's "Socks"

Read it over and over...

[Faygo Kid]

37. Anything dinosaurs, Roy Chapman Andrews; 10 cent grocery store encyclopedias, Paul Bunyan

Also Call of the Wild, Robinson Crusoe, and of course my beloved comic books: Batman, Justice League of America, Dennis the Menace, Uncle Scrooge. And Mad, and then with puberty, surreptitious issues of Playboy. Sublime.

Guess I don't have to say we're talking late '50s early '60s here.

[blueamy66]

41. Chow San and the Very Wise Hermit

nt

[Odin2005]

42. "On the Banks of Plum Creek", because it took place in Minnesota.

And I grew up in rural Minnesota.