Berenstien Bears - favorite kid's books?

[Deety]

I loved the Amelia Bedelia books where the housekeeper takes everything everyone says literally.

Those were my sister's favorites.

Anne of Green Gables
Betsy-Tacy
Little House on the Prairie
Little Women
James and the Giant Peach
A Wrinkle in Time - definitely!
Encyclopedia Brown (I'd forgotten!)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Dr. Suess et al
Stone Soup (made some in school in first grade... SO cool... better than tomato soup, actually...)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Black Beauty
The Three Musketeers
All my father's sci-fi books left scattered throughout the house

Where there was a series, I read them all.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Dr. Seuss books. Cat in the Hat was the shit.

 

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[BayBuck]

Can't believe I never saw this thread: I would have totally been spamming it up with all my new and reclaimed favorites through my daughters' toddlerhood and early elementary years.

These are my very favorite picture books to have read aloud to the little ones:

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, about a dad taking his daughter out for her first time "owling" on a winter night in the woods


The Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall, about the annual cycle of life for a olden-times New England family


I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean! by Kevin Sherry, the first book that really cracked us up at bedtime, a million times over


Birds by Kevin Henkes, so simple but just about perfect


The Dam by David Almond, this one is quite new but so haunting and interesting, about an English town flooded by a new dam


Journey by Aaron Becker, the first in an awesome trilogy of wordless books about a girl's adventure of imagination