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07-03-2008, 06:45 PM
|  | walking the cow | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: pollen lane
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| | | childrens books
what childrens books do you remember from your childhood? especially picture ones with illustrations. mainly from 10 under, before there were a huge amount of words!
are there any that stand out and you would say were a main part of your childhood, if so why? what parts do you remember and what parts about the characters or pictures drew you in?
if you have small children what are their favourite books and why?
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07-03-2008, 09:11 PM
|  | bedroom revolutionary | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: the cold neurotic sea
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| | My favourite was Not Now Bernard, follwed by The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark 
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07-03-2008, 09:14 PM
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07-03-2008, 09:30 PM
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| | | The first book I ever read on my own was Elephant has the Hiccups
Lots of Robert Munsch books.
Beatrix Potter
Dr. Seuss
How Smudge Came by Nan Gregory
The Market Square Dog by James Harriot
EDIT: Oh and...
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Coony
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
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07-03-2008, 09:50 PM
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| | | Bunnicula (But I think I was a bit older for that one)
My kids love Duck in a Truck, the Peeing Circus, & Hop on Pop.
My oldest daughter is 8 and loves Junie B. and The Magic Treehouse books. Chapter books for older kids. She loved Chicka Chicka Boom Boom in preschool. |
07-04-2008, 12:20 AM
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Originally Posted by EMMAh  The first book I ever read on my own was Elephant has the Hiccups
Lots of Robert Munsch books.
Beatrix Potter
Dr. Seuss
How Smudge Came by Nan Gregory
The Market Square Dog by James Harriot
EDIT: Oh and...
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Coony
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen | You have brilliant taste in children`s books, dude
Do you happen to know the name of the Robert Munch book where the kid does the "Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, I'm gonna make my noise all day!!!" song? Book changed my freakin`life. |
07-04-2008, 02:49 AM
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| | | heaps of Little Golden Books, like the Poky Little Puppy and 101 Dalmations and Lady & the Tramp, the Little Tugboat and stuff - loved them mainly because the pictures were so cute lol. especially the animal ones, to be honest the tugboat scared me a little - because it was like, an inanimate object with human qualities...it weirded me out. but i love crap like that now.
heaps of Enid Blyton books cos my mum read them when she was little so they got passed down to me, although they don't have pictures so that's not helpful...oh but i mean Noddy does. Noddy had good pictures.
heaps of Beatrix Potter, which i loved because the stories were good but also the illustrations were beatiful, i liked that they were realistic (aside from the fact that peter & benjamin & jemima etc wear jackets and bonnets lol)
Richard Scarry, oh man i LOVED richard scarry. the illustrations were hilarious
Hairy Mclary (which you won't have heard of unless yr in NZ lol) also has excellent illustrations, very cute animals but not too unrealistic, they walk on four legs etc and are scared of going to the vet, scared of animals bigger than them etc.
hmmmm oh this one's really random - my aunt gave me this looney tunes book which i loved cos it was really colourful...can't really remember much else?
basically i loved anything with animals, human illustrations mostly disgusted me lol. too pink and gross and smug.  |
07-04-2008, 03:02 AM
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| | isn't hairy mclairy an english book? i know we had it here anyway and there was a TV show too. though, obv not as cool as the books.
i loved mem fox books and the little golden books as already mentioned! also animalia and other graeme base books were awesome because there was so much to look at. and pixie o'harris (esp for the illustrations) and enid blyton. where the wild things are OF COURSE. i liked kind of scratchy looking illustrations, i had a book about cats where you could see all the pencil lines. 
and roald dahl books ... quentin blake's awesome drawings 
ooh and there's a hippopotamus on my roof eating cake. hehe and spot! because they were so colourful!
also i used to have this book called "the worst man in the world" (or something like that) which was really cool. i don't remember who it's by, but all the illustrations were watercolour.
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07-04-2008, 03:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Mother Greer isn't hairy mclairy an english book? i know we had it here anyway and there was a TV show too. though, obv not as cool as the books. | lol no it's totally NZ.
and omg, how could i forget roald dahl. so awesome |
07-04-2008, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by cheshirecat heaps of Little Golden Books, like the Poky Little Puppy and 101 Dalmations and Lady & the Tramp, the Little Tugboat and stuff - loved them mainly because the pictures were so cute lol. especially the animal ones, to be honest the tugboat scared me a little - because it was like, an inanimate object with human qualities...it weirded me out. but i love crap like that now.
heaps of Enid Blyton books cos my mum read them when she was little so they got passed down to me, although they don't have pictures so that's not helpful...oh but i mean Noddy does. Noddy had good pictures.
heaps of Beatrix Potter, which i loved because the stories were good but also the illustrations were beatiful, i liked that they were realistic (aside from the fact that peter & benjamin & jemima etc wear jackets and bonnets lol)
Richard Scarry, oh man i LOVED richard scarry. the illustrations were hilarious
Hairy Mclary (which you won't have heard of unless yr in NZ lol) also has excellent illustrations, very cute animals but not too unrealistic, they walk on four legs etc and are scared of going to the vet, scared of animals bigger than them etc.
hmmmm oh this one's really random - my aunt gave me this looney tunes book which i loved cos it was really colourful...can't really remember much else?
basically i loved anything with animals, human illustrations mostly disgusted me lol. too pink and gross and smug. | loved this post!!! would rep you but youve disabled them :[
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07-04-2008, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Amity My favourite was Not Now Bernard, follwed by The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark | i remember the owl who was afraid of the dark was it by the same person who did the otter who wanted to know...??? or something along those lines? I liked them loads!!
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07-04-2008, 09:06 AM
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| | | the villiage with three corners or something, jenny yellow hat, roger red hat, billy blue hat hahahaha its still all in my brain. but i think they were books we had in reception (not the place you stand in, you know milk and biscuit time) at school.
the magic key!!! biff, chip and something...wait that was at school too.
spot dog!
ohh and a book about a fish with a glittery scale or something? or i think he was a shit fish who got better with a glittery scale.
another book called father christmas or something, which was kinda in the same style as the snowman.
OH YEAH i just remembered another something about gnomes, like the amazing world of gnomes, i think it was a series you collected *researches*
edit: upsy turvey world or something, where everyone walks around on their heads.
this is fun.
how could i forget that book about the caterpillar!! does anyone else remember that?
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07-04-2008, 09:14 AM
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| | the very hungry caterpillar? i think its still a classic 
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07-04-2008, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by cheshirecat lol no it's totally NZ.
and omg, how could i forget roald dahl. so awesome | weird! i never knew that! hehe i wonder if i have any hairy mclairy books still ....
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07-04-2008, 09:20 AM
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| | YEAH!!!!!
theres a lot to learn from caterpillars. Especially hungry ones.
edit: cos there is a picture now= FLASHBACKS! |
07-04-2008, 09:22 AM
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| | | my fave books when i was under 10 were the deptford mice trilogy, super scary stuff! |
07-04-2008, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by bookstore the very hungry caterpillar? i think its still a classic | ahh yes my kids love this book and his others.
and shel silverstein. my kids ADORE him. |
07-04-2008, 10:33 AM
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| | | i was a nerdy kid and read abridged classics.
but i was totally addicted to enid blyton.
my favourite EVER childrens book is roverandom by JRR tolkein. it has pictures he drew and its magnificent. i actually cite it as my favourite book of all time.
those are all a bit wordy, though.
edit: and yes i used to love hairy mclairy and spot and things toooo
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07-04-2008, 10:52 AM
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