Sage loves the "Biscuit" series. Written Alyssa Satin Capucilli. They are easy to read books about a little Golden Retriever and his "little girl" and the things they do. Sage also love the Dick and Jane Books, Frog and Toad books by Arnold Lobel and a new book called "Mouse Soup" (I don't have the author right now.) Sage likes to read these to Bear or I, or to herself. (Sage is 5 and reading at about a 2-3 grade level, I am thinking.) I refuse to buy any books which have TV or movie tie ins, so I have to search for good books, which are well written and appeal to a little girl her age. I'm always looking for more (she just finished "The Frog and Toad Treasury" tonight) so we always have to have good ideas. (When posting on this thread, it might be helpful to let us know if the books are books to "read to" the child, or if they are books the child can read on their own, and what reading level the book is and actual age your child is, so we can choose what is good for kids our children's ages.) This could be a great thread. Good idea, FH!
I remember being big on Babysitters Club books and American Girl books. The American Girl books are fantastic. I believe they're still being made. The BSC books aren't, but it's not a big loss. I liked reading them, but they weren't great. Goosebumps books were great. I still read them. My brother got me into the My Teacher Is An Alien books. They were looked at as "boy" books when I was a kid, but so were the Goosebumps books and I still read them. My Teacher Glows In The Dark actually had a good message in it, too. The Wayside School books were hilarious. It was all series when I was little. I don't know if it's still like that.
yeah they were awesome. Did anyone ever read the Puddle Lane books? They had stories about the people that lived on puddle lane and their animals, as well as a magician who lived at the end of the lane and the occasional dragon etc... the way they were written was cool - one page would have a simplified version of the story so that the kid could read it, the facing page a more advanced version that the adult could read out loud. the page for kids also had levels of advancement - blue covers were for beginners, red, green and purple were for the more advanced. i loved those as a child.
Has anyone else read the Bug Books? My mom read those to me when I was really small, like 3. They were pretty good. They were similar to Dr. Suess books in the sense that they often covered rather profound topics in a really simplified way. The pictures are really adorable, too. I don't know how the illustrater managed to make bugs look cute, but he\she really did.
When I was a kid, I loved the books by Astrid Lindgren. She's a swedish author, and the kids in her books are the sweetest charakters I have ever met in books. My favorites are "the lionheart brothers" and "ronia, the robber's daughter" but of course also the classic, pippi longstocking. They are great to read to children, because the novels are pretty long. But, I think as soon as 3rd grade, I started to read them on my own. (I don't know how many times I have read "the lionheart brothers" it's so sad in a way, not a happy book, but still a great one) She also has written some short things for beginners, I think some stories of a girl calles Lotta. Another thing I really loved, and still do is Michael Ende (I think he's german), but many of his books are also available in english. I think they are more for reading together with your children. Or have them read it when they are older. The themes are often very complex, and have many layers, so one can understand them on many layers. Which is probably the reason, that his books are for children and adults interessting at the same time, because each group can find new layers. A literature teacher (and he was a very educated man) of mine said once, the really good so called children's books, also have things to offer for adults. And in the above mentioned authors, i'd say, this is definately true!
We don't really read as much as we make up stories about the pictures in the books. Dakota likes to talk about the pictures and find things in the pictures. He has a lot of Dr. Seuss. He also has a lot of obscure things. His favorite right now is How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night. Kathi
I love the Miss Spider books but I recently found out that Miss Spider is a tv show- We don't watch tv and I am also against the tie-in thing, but the pictures are great. I also love the Click, Clack, Moo, Cows that Type and other books about Farmer Brown and his animals. The Click Clack Moo books are all about how to play the system- in Click, Clack, Moo the cows use an old typewriter and some snazzy negotiating to get something they want. It still makes me laugh and I have read it zillions of times.
Amira is two and a half and she loves the "Hairy McLairy" books, any of them are good...I think is the rythm and stuff like that. She also loves "Hop on Pop"...and I do too, hop on pop rocks to read as it is good fun!!! I can't wait until we get to "Green Eggs and Ham"!!
My daughter loves Astrid Lingren, too! Lotta (or is it Lotte?) is from the CHildren of Troublemaker Street, I think. We also like Michael Ende. My daughter just turned 7 and can read on her own quite well, but she still prefers for me to read to her. Sometimes she reads to me. We have read all of the Little House books and many of the newer series based on the characters. We have read many older books, like Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, etc. . . We started reading Beverly CLeary books not long ago. We also read many story books. Patricia Polacco is our favortie storybook author. But, we also like Chris Van Allsburg, Dr. Suess, Diane Stanley, Steven Kellogg and many others.
