Children's Books

What books did you get your parents to read to you over and over again? Even though you knew every line, but you just couldn't get enough of them - what were your favourite children's books? And if you're a parent, what books have your children constantly asked for?

 

Don't believe anyone read to their kids when I was a young un, money had better purposes than books. Suppose the first reading apart from school was comics.

Constant repeats for the babies would of been "Spot the Dog". Don't recall any real stories repeated they've always had a new story waiting the end of the current one.

 

I don't remember being read to, but i was surrounded by books and was an obsessive reader.
Read to my kids from they were babies, starting off with colourful picture books. As they got older "The Hobbit" was requested over and over, and I always had to "do the voices".

 

where the wild things are

 

i always wanted the night before christmas no matter what time of the year, i just loved that book & the book my mum had, had the most wonderful illistrations in it, it was great.

 

I always loved "The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark" by Jill Tomlinson. And I remember getting quite into "The Iron Man" by Ted Hughes

 

Ah yes "WTWTA" that was enjoyed by the girls and also "The Obstreporous Kite" my favourite name for a book.

 

The Chicken that could swim
The hungry caterpillar
The enormous turnip
The Jolly postman (both of them)
Burglar Bill!
Anything by Roald Dahl
Winnie the Pooh (originals, not disney)

 

Aha! Yes I loved this when I was wee ... I loved the way the book had holes in where the caterpillar had munched through it

 

i loved this one two, my mum bought a green shoe lace & i used to pull it through the holes as we went along, ahh good memories!

 

Dude, you knows it!

 

I vote for the Hungry Caterpillar as well.

I've been trying to think of others. My mom was really religious so I got read the bible alot even if I didn't want it, but I'd say that my top fave were:

Anything by Dr. Seuss
Alice In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
A Christmas Carol (which my mom usually read to me around Christmas)
I loved Golden Books (not sure if they had those over here)
The Bearenstein Bears
Grimm's Fairy Tales (She didn't read me a lot of the real ones till I was a bit older, but when I was really little I loved Rapunzel, Rumplestilskin, and a few others I can't remember off hand)

Also, this might sound racist ... but trust me it isn't. I absolutely ADORED "Little Black Sambo". My grandmother had that book when I was really young, maybe 5 or 6. It was the only book (other than the Song of the South Brer Rabbit tales) that had a black kid it in (that I can remember) out of the books I had, and I always loved reading about him and the tiger. But then, I remember one day the book disappeared, and I found out that it had been banned and such cause it was supposed to be racist. But as a little kid, I didn't pick up on the rascist undertones, I just thought it was a sweet story. I always wondered what had happened to it, maybe my grandma threw it out; but I still wish I somehow had a copy of it to this day. Maybe I'd read it now, and see it as the rascist book it was supposed to have been, but my childhood recollections only bring me much happiness and the memories of wanting to live in a jungle with Sambo.

 

ahhh yes, grimms fairy tales are the boom diggy!

 

JRR Tolkein's Lord of the Rings. Folks used to read it to me as a wee nipper, then i read it meself at nine or ten.

 

I was also a huge fan of greek myths when I was a wee ickle girl.

 

My dad had a Ukrainian book about a scared orange cat in the woods that I love... My mom used to read every Dr.Suess book in the world to me, along with Where The Wild Things Are... and a lot of Hans Anderson fairy tales...