favourite chilhood books
POSTED BY: boris
UPDATED: Monday, October 29, 2007 01:17
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I can't remember if I did this already or not..My faves were: Fungus the Bogeyman, My Naughty little Sister, Asterix and Obelix, The Lord of the Rings, Harriet the spy, Grimms fairy tales, the Illyad,
and Where the wild things are.
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Stuart Little
Any Dr. Seuss
Charlotte's Web
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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Dr. Seuss...Pale Green Pants, The Lorax, The Sleep Book.
THe Monster at the End of This Book
and my daughter loves the Click Clack Moo books, like Duck for President and Giggle Giggle Quake
Jayne Cobb, the Dick Casablancas of Firefly
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ooh I loved the monster at the end of this book are you talking about the Sesame Street one with Grover. my 2 year old niece loves books with animal noises, she can produce a fine repertoire of sounds.
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yes, grover at the end of the book! it was great! and my ainsley, who is also 2, reads click clack moo to us, with all the noises.
Jayne Cobb, the Dick Casablancas of Firefly
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I love it when they mimic animal noises...I taught my niece Stella to make macaw sounds, when we went to the Delhi zoo days later, I pointed out the Macaws and she did the perfect imitation of their call...it shocked the people around us coz she was so little and the sound was so bold. I'm giving
her my old books including the "monster at the end of this book." she has so far not been exposed to Sesame Street I will have to fix that.
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I am known for doing all the sounds and different voices with my neices and nephews and any children I nanny of babysit! I love it when they tell their parents that they aren't doing it right coz it needs the right voices!!! 
I grew up reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, the Little House series - I have no idea how often I read them as I lost count around the 20th time...
I also loved Anne of Green Gables and all the following books that chronicle her life until it takes up her youngest daughter Marilla's point of view,('Rilla of Ingleside') and I loved the Narnia Chronicles, they still have a special place in my heart, as well as now passing on these books to my neices, nephews and the three children I have nannied for the last 7 years. 'The Children of Green Knowe' books (a series of books that focus on the history of a house in England and the various children who live in it over the centuries...) by Lucy M Bolton.
In my younger days (I started with the Little House books at the age of 7 I gues...) I loved Horton Hatches the Egg... and just about anything by Dr Seuss, and Richard Scarry - his little characters amused me no end, and the details were wonderful!
Today my favourites are anything by Mem Fox, Jackie French and Graeme Base. I adore Bilby Moon (can't remember the author right now tough...) and anything about wombats - they are such adorable creatures and they make such wonderful characters for children's books...
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charlotte sometimes - by penelope farmer (still my fave rave)
Gobbolino the Witch's Cat - by ursula moray williams
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my favorite books as a child were the Shel Silverstein collections, A light in the attic, and were the sidewalk ends.
"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."
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