What Childrens Books do you own?

Teeny, the main things we have received are socks. We already have four pairs. :-)

Only it's the googly-eyed version.

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hahaha, i have a dim recollection that this might be otm.

My friends threw me a baby shower with a 'book' theme (no doubt a nod to my husband's overeducation)--I thought it was a great idea, a nice antidote to the traditional shower.

I used to really love the Dick-King Smith books - most were based on farmyard animals, a few of them had DEATHS of animals involved.

I missed out all my Stephen Kings, have about twenty of them.

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Picture books are there, middle-grade and young adult still TK.

I loved it as a kid so I bought a copy... still good.

and the Playtime Book for Piano
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Corduroy
Where the Wild Things Are
Blueberries for Sal
The Biggest Bear
Oh the Places You'll Go!
Famous Five 1-19
Alice in Wonderland
Grimm's Fairy Tales
A Child's Garden of Verses
The Enchanted Wood
Black Beauty
James and the Giant Peach
Kidnapped!
The Wicked Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
The Magic Pudding

That said, the current house favorite with the 1-year-old set is 8 Silly Monkeys.

okay so there are three pictures in the great green room: the cow jumping over the moon, three little bears sitting in chairs, and then there's the picture they don't mention in the text--

It's a picture of a fly fisherman, except instead of a man, it's a rabbit, and instead of a fly, it's a carrot, and instead of him catching a fish, he's catching A TINY RABBIT. What the holy hell?

To answer the thread question, picture books only:
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My boy has certainly heard his share of New Yorker Talk of the Town pieces as well.

My deal with not knowing my own books is that we kinda got an insta-library when I was pregnant with my kid...we had given some pretty significant legal/financial help to my sister-in-law so she scrounged books for months and presented us with literal grocery bags full at my baby shower...she said there were about 350 books, a lot of them are still in bags in the basement.

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The third of many a books to follow. Jip & Janneke is written by the very popular children's author Annie MG Schmidt .

I've read that baby's love to listen to voices, and especially their mother's, so I don't think this is strange.

When I do my story times sometimes moms bring their infants along, and usually they just sleep or cry, but sometimes they will look at me with big wide eyes seemingly rapt as they suck on their pacifiers--I get a big kick out of it.

i wish i still had all of my sweet valley high books. the old school drawing covers.

i read gossip girl, which i guess is meant for 15-16 year olds. lots of sex and drug talk. fun.

My younger child (daughter, age 3) is fixated on One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey and the Babar stories by Jean de Brunhoff. And I always love to read the Crockett Johnson's Harold titles out loud.

I recently bought Peter Graves, by William Pene du Bois. I don't remember all that much of it, just that the title character likes to walk on the railings of suspension bridges, and that there's an invention called the Ball Which Bounces Higher Than the Height From Which You Drop It.

M. Sasek rules

I can't believe Judy Blume has not been mentioned more on this thread, I mean, I know she's American but surely she was still one of the more important authors for preteen girls in UK and the rest of AUS, besides my friends, too? Coz she talked about bras and periods and sex and stuff?

I still love the "girls/boys own annual" type books and buy them at opp shoppes if I see them.

Little Women
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
complete set of Roald Dahl
The Owl Service
Anne of Green Gables
complete boxed set Narnia
four Brambley Hedge stories
a Puffin Book of Verse
Tales of the Greek Heroes
The Iron Man
The Railway Children
Northern Lights
The Subtle Knife
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Little Prince

and a collection of mainly picture books recently reclaimed from my mum for the forthcoming baby :)

snugglepot and cuddle pie
the magic pudding
blinky bill
the narnia series
the harry potter series
looking for alibrandi
several john marsden books
some isobel carmody books
grimms fairytales
several famous five books
the pressed fairy book

also...the first two Harry Potter books, but I didn't really get hooked enough to read anymore after that....

...I have the His Dark Materials series by Pullman, but that might be more young adult I guess?

I have that Dr. Suess book "Oh the Places You'll Go" it's a sweet book.

anyone own Richard Scarry books?

I remember them from back then, loved them. I'm trying to identify which one had the 'man' fishing and he ended up getting pulled in by a really big fish.
(I say 'man' but was probably a pig or a cat)

"Richard Scarry's Best Balloon Ride Ever" has a hyena (I think) accidentally catching a hot-air balloon with a fishing rod. That kind of thing happens in every Richard Scarry book I think.

My kids have lots of these books btw.

cool. i'm going to get hold of a few soon for my godson. He's almost 3 and I think he'd love them, loves animals something crazy. And these books I remember are chock full of things happening on every page.

only managed to recall the guys name after seeing one of the books at a carboot sale recently. stupid me didn't pick it up though.

Love Richard Scarry!

My daughter's current fav:

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My faves Scarry as a kid was What Do People Do All Day?

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I still think it's a good question!

It's just full of union propaganda tho:

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An antidote might be Margaret Wise Brown's Mister Dog: The Dog Who Belonged to Himself. The text notes the dog is a conservative.

i have few children's books:

winnie-the-pooh (1926 1st press)
the house at pooh corner (1950 repress - had these basically since i was born, teething-chewed, additional illustrations in pencil & crayon)
beatrix potter box set that some in-laws didn't want (fools!)
the little prince (in french & english)
ed emberly's great thumbprint drawing book
ed emberly's drawing book of weirdos (LOVED these as a kid)
the wind in the willows
baaa - david mccauley (too horrifying to be a proper children's book, but in the style and by a noted children's author/illustrator)
alice in wonderland/through the looking glass
various maurice sendak books

I seriously love
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And all the Moomin books and the William books

oh yeah! i have moomin books too. wasn't counting what i think of as comics, for some reason.

I still own all the old Berenstain Bears books that were published from around 1980-1992 and a few of the chapter books from the mid 90s. I got rid of or lost a lot of my kids books.

Mr. Dog rules.

You are OTM.

are the berenstein bears jewish, or do they just sound like it?

I don't remember their religion ever being addressed.

Abbott I loved that book.

I love the Little Critter books as a kid. Still do tbh. He messed up a lot. I mess up a lot too.

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i don't own this, but i should maybe buy it someday

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France is adorable.

Frances

yeah!

Yeah, Frances is great! Blew my mind when I realised the guy who wrote Frances also wrote 'Riddley Walker'.

Also love 'What-a-mess', the Afghan hound with the worst coat in history, usually containign several rodents, a small duck, Christmas lights, grass clippings, mud, garden gnomes, etc

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oh man i loved richard scarry as a kid - i never really liked the stories but was in love with all the incedental details that built up this weirdly quotidian world, the strange everydayness of it

theres a quote from one of the author's in the newyorker 20 under 40 where he talks abt this, ill see if i can find it... yeah its chris adrian:

What was the first piece of fiction you read that had an impact on you?

Probably Richard Scarry’s “Busy, Busy World.” It was the first time I can remember being so taken by a fictional representation of the world that I wanted to live there instead of in the real world. And I identified very closely with Lowly Worm. I had this idea that Lowly and I and Huckle Cat could all live together in one of those timber-framed houses that Scarry drew so exactingly. I didn’t think of it that way back then, but now I think I wanted us all to be boyfriends.

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and some well dodgy hilarious 60s/70s "girls own annual" hardcovers with very odd illustrated stories in them.

Shit, I wonder where these got to.

And I have The Little Prince but I dont think of that as a kids book, it was given to me when I was 17 by a guy I was utterly enamoured with (and he wrote some poetry lines by Byron or someone in the front page).

Hmm--from what I remember of the plot, i hope that doesn't mean he thought he would have to kill you! :)

true fact: russell hoban, writer of frances, is also the author of the totally-not-for-kids riddley walker that may/may not have inspired some of the mad max movies.

i feel like there are easier places to go for mad max than that

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I used to have an assload of Matt Christopher books, as well as most all of the Ramonas, Fudge/Superfudge, et al, but lost em in the last move (had to donate em, no more space)

@ thomp : http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2010/06/summer-of-85-we-don%E2%80%99t-need-another-hero-mad-max-beyond-thunderdome/

Thought I'd ask this here.

Regarding the Leap Pad device, the kids version of a computer tablet. Does anyone know if you can program your own apps for it in any way? I can't find anything on the internet, so I presume not.