Posted by Racer on August 5, 2006, at 10:27:43
In reply to Reading to my son, posted by All Done on August 4, 2006, at 14:57:19
Mayzee hit on a lot of my favorites, so I'll have to go check both my bookshelves upstairs (where the children's books are) and my mother's box of her favorites from my childhood. (That might take a while -- I won't be going up there until my class ends, so if you don't hear from me, remind me, 'K?)
I know "Nutshell Library" is/was one of my very favorites. That's the one I get for all my friends when their kids get to nearly reading age. If you start now, maybe he'll be that much more motivated to read in another year? ("In January it's so nice, while slipping on the sliding ice, to sip hot chicken soup with rice. Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice..." I remember that from when I was your son's age! Can you tell that was read to me a LOT?)
"Caps for Sale" is another I liked, and another I get for people with boy-children. They like the monkeys... :-D
"Curious George" and "Babar" are classics that I loved. You know I was hit by a car when I was 4? Part of what made it an adventure to me, instead of awful -- I was hospitalized for a month, in traction, then casted for I don't know how long -- was that Curious George had been hit by a car and he broke his leg, too! {rolls eyes} And they're just plain Feel Good books, you know? (As for Babar, after reading that, I knew I wanted a chocolate eclair! Didn't know what they were, but pestered my mother for one for ages, until she finally said yes. Chocolate eclairs are still HIGH on my list of favorite treats.)
I was too old for it, but everyone raved about "The Velveteen Rabbit" when it came out, and they still seem to. I loved "Dance in the Desert," by our boon companion Madeline L'Engel.
OK, that's as much as my unfed brain can come up with right now. I'll check upstairs later, and at Mom's when my class is over...
poster:Racer
thread:673685
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/books/20051228/msgs/673957.html