So how do choose books for your kids, students, siblings, nieces, and nephews? Do you have any favorite books, any favorite authors? How often do you read books to them and how often do you visit library?
What were you favorite books and authors as kids? Did your parents read to you?
So how do choose books for your kids, students, siblings, nieces, and nephews?
I usually buy classic literature for my kids because of the eloquent language that you can't find in modern kids literature.
Do you have any favorite books, any favorite authors?
My favorite one is "Brambley Hedge" and a "child's garden of verses" ....and favorite authors are Beatrix Potter, Elsa Beskow and Robert Louis Stevenson.
How often do you read books to them and how often do you visit library?
For two hours a day and i visit the library every week and online usage of library for search and reservation every fortnight.
What were you favorite books and authors as kids? Did your parents read to you?
My parents never read to me but my elder sister sometimes did. My favorite books were mostly in Urdu like "Umru Ayyar" and few others I read in school and few famous fairy tales.
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My kids love all books I make them love!!! They have no choice 
I only had 1 book as a child, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I loved it, carried it with me everywhere.
Im very much into picture books. I love everything Julia Donaldson writes (The Gruffalo) I also love witty books like ‘Charlie and Lola’ My fav illustrator is Shaun Tan. He’s Austrailian. SO good!
My fav American author is Mo Willems. He wrote a series of books about a pigeon. OhMyLife they are SO good. SO funny and just amazing! I loves Mo Willems! Welcome to Mo Willems Home Page
‘The Pigeon finds a hotdog’ is like THE best book I think iv ever read!
My uni friends and I would sit in the uni library and take turns reading kids books to each to practice our ‘teacher reading voices’
Guess who always won! (I made it into a competition)
I dont ever visit the library. People pick their noses and dont wash hands. Plus, I love the smell of new books!
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Yeah they love Gruffalo, they make me to read it every single day, oh and also "we're going on a bear hunt".
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MY 21 year old brother loves The Gruffalo too. He found The Gruffalo's Child about 2 weeks after I had read The Gruffalo to him and nearly wet his knickers with joy!
We're going on a bear hunt is really good, but Micheal Rosen, the author is strange. Hes currently the childrens laureate for this year. His poems are strange and he wrote this book about this little boys dad dying and it freaked me out!
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My daughter receives a catalog from scholastic books every month from school and I usually select a collection from there for her. I also buy her all the classics.
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I forgot to add my most favourite book ever!
This story makes me cry everytime I read it. The Veleteen Rabbit
You can read it online!
:lol: your brother is 21 years old and he’s Gruffalo’s fan?
I haven’t seen any other book of his…yet. Bear hunt was everywhere so I bought it.
I am very dramatic when I read stories, even my dad was impressed with The Gruffalo!
Do you have boys?
My boys (I have 17 :D) love Aliens love underpants. Its VERY good!
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OhMyLife! I completely forgot Emily Gravett. I LOVE her!
Meerkat Mail is such a fantastic book. It can be used for SO many things, family, postcards, geography! Its just amazing.
Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears is also good for children who are afraid of things. This little mouse is afraid of everything, including paper! Yet at the end of the story finds the irony in a child being afraid of him! So cute!
Lusi why did you open this thread man!
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^Let them coming Milly. I really liked Emily Gravett's books, the illustrations are lovely.
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Ok, one more before I go to sleep.
Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt.
She’s Canadian
SO funny and just super amazing for children who cant get to grips with changes to their normal routine.
My 3 year old nephew loves the first book!
I remember the first time I read it to my class, I couldnt stop laughing and some of my kids, bless their hearts really didnt get the humour.
Hareem, have you read ‘The Odd Egg’ By Emily Gravett? Its so cute!
My daughter receives a catalog from scholastic books every month from school and I usually select a collection from there for her. I also buy her all the classics.
I too love scholastic, they have great books, both new and classics.
Milly...because we talk alot about adult literature but not much on kids literature.
Today in the library we read book "Bats at the Library", i think it is a new book, has beautiful illustrations and very interesting story. If you guys can find it in your library then check it out. :)
We read books almost everyday. My daughter likes to read as much as I do. My son a little less. I have two kids. Sometimes they go to the library to get books. My daughter always looks at the book cover and reads what the book is about before she chooses a book, especially if she doesn't know the writer and is trying to figure out if that book might be worth reading or not. My son mostly looks at the cover and the title, but doesn't always read what the book is about.
Sometimes I suggest a book that I liked when I was a child. Sometimes I like a story which I've read nowadays, tell them what it's about, or read them some part of it, and ask if they would like me to read that book to them. (no use trying that with Proust! my kids yawned, while I've become an admirer of his work) At this moment, I'm reading the Silmarillion (Tolkien) to my son. He likes the stories in it a lot and adores the pictures of that world. To my daughter I've been reading either classics or books she had chosen herself from the library. But mostly she prefers to read a book herself nowadays. She likes all kinds of books, especially ghost stories, fantasy, mysteries, but girly books as well.
One of her favorite books is Deltora from Emily Rodda, she's trying to buy them all. She also adores Jacqueline Wilson and she enjoyed reading the Potter books. She liked A series of Unfortunate events, but only the first few books really interested her, I read to her the last books of A series of unfortunate events, because she couldn't find them in Dutch, so I got them in English and translated them. They were annoying, the ones I read to her anyway, I mean, there are mysteries to be solved, but instead there are more mysteries, while the former problems aren't explained or solved and it seems to go on and on, I was relieved when I could read the end to her and was released from having to read any more Snicket stuff to her! I don't know about the first books, maybe they are less irritating, but the ones I read to my daughter were annoying. She liked the books anyway. But though there were nice things in it, the ending was too vague, there were way too many things left open and unexplained. I didn't really like any of the characters in that book, negative or positive. She also has been read something called Village Argo or Village Argus or something. She couldn't find the rest of those books and still waits for the following books.
My children get to know different kinds of writers when I read books of different writers to them. But I'm getting to know all kinds of writers too, because of my childrens choices of books. It seems to me, that children have more kinds of books to read than during my own childhood. Is it me, or are there more childrens books than ever available, each year multiplying even more?
But still, there are certain classics, which not even the best writers in our time can make me forget.
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Here is a link of the Deltora books:
Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Tales Of Deltora
Reminded me a bit of LOTR. But a nice read for children. I’ve read a few Deltora stories to my son, he liked those too, while usually he’s not that much into books.
Here are Jacqueline Wilson books:
http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/childrens/jacquelinewilson/home.htm
My daughter likes them, because they’re funny.
This is also one of her favorites:
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Milly Molly Mandy!!!