kids' books - SEARCH and DESTROY

We love Good Night Gorilla too.
The Escape of Marvin the Ape is another really good gorilla book. Beautiful & engaging art, really silly story.
Mo Willems & Jon Klassen get much respect at bedtime.

still my fave:

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https://www.lostmy.name/products/lostmy-name?utf8=%E2%9C%93&name=Ivy&gender=girl

I haven't ordered one yet, but I really like this book. Customizable!

Children’s Stories Made Horrific: Love You Forever - http://the-toast.net/2014/09/18/love-forever/

Jesus, now I feel like a heel for hating this book - http://robertmunsch.com/book/love-you-forever

Sad story. Still a bad book.

my 2 year old is obsessed with the poky little puppy, and i think it is a terrible boring book. obviously i don't tell him this and i read it to him whenever he asks, though i do admit to hiding it sometimes to get him to read other books

are there any halfway decent/not terrible comic books appropriate for a 5 1/2 year old? my daughter loves batman and wonder woman, but a lot of the stuff I've picked up hasn't really been quite right. there are some kids books at the library but they aren't actually comic books.

do what I did and get a bunch of Silver Age stuff. More recent stuff is gonna hit or miss, although DC puts out decent kids comics (Superman Family Adventures, I think it's called, plus Batman Brave and the Bold although that might have ended). The book that sold my daughter on comics was, oddly, Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman when she was around 4 iirc. But Silver Age stuff is the way to go - Superman, Kirby etc.

I bought Ivy a graphic novelization of A Wrinkle In Time, which is too old for 5 1/2 (or 16 months for that matter) but it's out there. And I bought her the actual book when she was like two months old so I'm getting closer to age-appropriate.

What about non-super hero stuff?

Asterix + Tintin tyler

we got V a Tintin book (apparently one of the crappier ones) and it was a) pretty violent and b) chock-full of ethnic stereotypes

(she didn't care for it)

Comic books for 5-6 year olds?

It depends what they are into I'd say that Tintin and Asterix are no good as they are for older children and yeah, really old fashioned.

Baby Mouse (19 books and counting) by Matt and Jennifer Holm
Squish (5 books and counting) also by the Holms
Johnny Boo (there's about 5 of them) by James Kochalka
Dragon Puncher/Dragon Puncher Island - James Kochalka - hilarious
Comics Squad Recess! - a compliation with the Holms, Dav Pilkey and others
The Flying Beaver Brothers books by Maxwell Eaton
Ottos Orange Day/Ottos Backwards Day by Frank Cammuso and Jay Lynch
^ Those are published by Toon Books who do tons of great comic books for ages 4-8. Defintely check them out.
Captain Underpants obviously though it's not really a comic book but Super Diaper Baby is and lots of others by Dav Pilkey.

There's old favs like the Smurfs and Garfield who have newer, more modern comic books for younger kids. Theres a killer Wizard of Oz series but probably for older kids.

I have others which I can't remember right now. My children are voracious comic book readers. Our central library has a huge selection so we just go and get about 20 every week.

thanks y'all!
yeah i liked tintin when i was a kid, but maybe a little older... they are umm problematic aren't they? beautiful to look at though.

See also Nobrow's kid's comics: http://www.nobrow.net/category/products/comic-graphic?producttag=childrens-books

They also do some really nice kids picture books.

BTW, Mr Men books are really boring to read as an adult. I remember being obsessed by them as a kid, and Ella loves them, but they do not stand up well.

The Art Spiegelman-edited collection of classic American children's comics is one of the greatest anthologies of all time:

http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/The_TOON_Treasury_of_Classic_Children_s_Comics-9780810957305.html

Ivy's new favorite book is Chu's Day by Neil Gaiman, which I impulse bought at TJ Maxx for like $4.50. She runs to her bookshelf saying, "Ah choo ah choo ah choo," grabs the book, and brings it to us. When we read it, she sneezes along with Chu and then kisses him goodnight at the end of the book.

So, search: Chu's Day by Neil Gaiman. The illustrations are fantastic, too. Lots of weird detail in them.

There's a second one, too, 'Chu's First Day at School', which Ella loves

Almost anything by Mercer Mayer is k-classic.

Anyone got a good book that teaches the value of apologies? Got a precocious preschooler who would rather pretend to faint than apologize for anything.

Mercer Mayer's "I'm Sorry

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/618W5M4AQML._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

which also specifically gets at how apologies don't mean much if you don't follow through on them

Cool! We haven't delved into Mercer Mayer yet, either.

love his style, kind of too prolific for his own good, almost makes it hard to pick out the "best".

also after someone pointed this out to me I can't unsee it:
http://i.imgur.com/Zfj3x7S.jpg

"I dress myself!"

El Deafo by Cece Bell is a wonderful graphic novel for children ages 6-12 (imo). It's an autobiographical story about a little deaf girl/bunny. Great gift idea.

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my daughter *loves* that book

Yeah mine has read it about 20 times and so have all her friends.

god I hate these "If You Give a ____ a ____" books, would prefer it if they were stuffed with completely random non-sequiturs instead of this cutesy "aw the animal thinks its people" nonsense.

Oh I hate those too. But not as much as I hate Pete the Cat books. I can't understand the popularity of these things at all.

you aren't supposed to like kids books. your kids are supposed to like them.

my 4yo for a book of fairy tales and she asked me to read her hansel and gretl which i did and even tho i knew how much disturbing material was in it i was still a little taken aback. the wife is frank about wanting to ditch her kids in the forest (and we had an interesting conversation about why she isn't called their mother but her husband is called their father), the dad resists but ultimately she nags him into essentially abandoning his children for death. of course the witch tries to cannibalize both of the children, not to mention that the entire story takes place against a background of terrible deprivation + acute poverty. but i've read scholars who believe that the gruesomeness was necessary (bettelheim particularly iirc) for kids to process complicated details about the world and themselves. and my daughter loved it so much she wanted me to immediately read it again (despite it being a fairly lengthy story). she had a lot of questions too and she found the cannibalism elements hilarious. she also noted without my prodding that the witch was obviously the wife from the beginning and i kvelled bc i agree that it is the subtext - psychologically if not literally attributable to the text - and i think it was a v astute observation.

then we read puss and boots and i think we both found it significantly less stimulating

what no "Jew in the Thorns"

alas this version of collected stories (not just grimm) did not include it

Never realised that about the witch, now feel foolish

https://www.amazon.com/Night-Gargoyles-Eve-Bunting/dp/0395968879/

My new favorite one to read.