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Berenstien Bears - favorite kid's books?

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The author of the "Berenstien Bears" books died yesterday, at age 82. This morning, the radio guys I listen to were talking about that, and other kid's books that they liked when they were young.

What are some of your favorites?

A few of mine:
The Encyclopedia Brown series
Where the Wild Things Are
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Richard Scarry (author) books
Curious George
 
Very sad news. I was a huge fan of that series. I have the whole set of books and still do...I am keeping them for my future class for teaching...My favorite one is Berenstein Bears Goes to Camp..They are all great books for beginning readers that teach great morals of life.
 
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DEBuckeye said:
The author of the "Berenstien Bears" books died yesterday, at age 82. This morning, the radio guys I listen to were talking about that, and other kid's books that they liked when they were young.

What are some of your favorites?

A few of mine:
The Encyclopedia Brown series
Where the Wild Things Are
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Richard Scarry (author) books
Curious George
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Wow. No one else I've ever talked to had even heard of those. I had all lf them as a kid. mY favorite when the bully kid "passedout" from a choke hold and EB proved it was faked because when you pass out from an upright position, you fall backwards everytime.

My daughter is reading the Junie B Jones books. She's in the the First Grader books right now. She read all of the Kindergartener series.

Where the Sidewalk Ends also from the Shell Silverstein is also a good one.
 
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DEBuckeye said:
The author of the "Berenstien Bears" books died yesterday, at age 82. This morning, the radio guys I listen to were talking about that, and other kid's books that they liked when they were young.

What are some of your favorites?

A few of mine:
The Encyclopedia Brown series
Where the Wild Things Are
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Richard Scarry (author) books
Curious George
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I loved all of those growing up (with the exception of Harold). Also:

Dr. Seuss books
Pokey Little Puppy
Little House on the Prairie series
Clifford the Big Red Dog books
Charlotte's Web
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Sign of the Beaver (:lol:)
Where the Red Fern Grows (:sad:)
Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series
Judy Blume books
Choose Your Own Adventure series
Shel Silverstein's books
 
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Encylopedia Brown was great!
I also read a lot of Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew, The Bobbsey Twins, and The Hardy Boys growing up. :nerd:

The Matt Christopher sports books were a favorite, too.

When I got really desperate for something to read, I may have been known to swipe my sister's Babysitters' Club or Sweet Valley Twins books. :! I loved to read. That's the only reason I read those books. I swear. I promise I didn't enjoy them at all. :paranoid:
 
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This is the only Berenstain Bears book I remember:

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My favorite books from childhood:

Frog and Toad are Friends
Stuart Little
Island of the Blue Dolphins (good call, Sushi :) )
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Grandfa Grig had a Pig

Oh, and I read Encyclopedia Brown books to, but don't remember much about them...
 
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Hardy Boys
Dr. Seuss-If I Ran the Circus, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligott's Pool, 500 Hats
Roald Dahl-his books have been compared to Harry Potter, but that is like comparing Bad Santa to a crappy, sentimental X-mas movie. The Twits, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Danny-Champion of the World are the best,IMO.
Encyclopedia Brown-his real name was LeRoy-no joke
The Great Brain series
You Make the Call sports book-football, baseball, hoops-game and GM situations
Any kind of fairy/folk tales
 
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Lot of good stuff mentioned already. FC - that's the best one. If you're gonna remember one, remember that one. And nice call on Frog and Toad.

I'd pretty much copy Sushi's list, I think, except I never read Sign of the Beaver. Love the Curious George and Richard Scarry, too, DEBuckeye.

I'd add The Velveteen Rabbit, Beatrix Potter stuff, Paddington Bear, Winnie the Pooh, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, The Neverending Story, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, and Little Women & Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott. Also liked Roald Dahl's stuff, especially James and the Giant Peach.

Never got into Babysitter's Club or Sweet Valley, maybe because I only had brothers, Bucky. Swiping their books led me to the original Dragonlance books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, still among my favorites.
 
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