An email thread between me and Poppy gave me the inspiration for this post.
If you were asked what your all-time favorite kid’s book was when you were young, which one book pops into your head?
For me, it’s this one:
Oh. My. Gosh.
I *totally* and completely loved this book. It matched my sense of humor even before I knew what a sense of humor was. I “got” this book. This book “got” me. We were very close friends as I grew up and I love sharing it with my kids. Even the use of font size was brilliant.
The other books that are close runners up are
What one children’s book do you remember as being your absolute favorite?
CURIOUS GEORGE!! Me loves the Curious George! I think my favorite was when he went to the hospital.
Speaking of books, I made my monthly pilgrimage to the post office and had a package waiting for me from Wayne! After having it inspected for dangerous substances and X-rayed for bomb components, I opened it up to find a book! Thanks Wayne!!
Dave2, I never got into Curious George. But now that he might be our president, maybe I’ll have to read his books. In books-delivered-to-dave news, I hope you enjoy Dilbert’s anti-idiot policies; I do.
I aspire to inspire.
By default I say “Where the Wild Things Are” but the truth is that a book by a local artist is my favorite, and if I tell you his name then I reveal my Francereality. His first name is Tommie. (Google gives it away if you’re smart enough to look.
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(misspelling intentional, har har har)
Anything by Richard Scarry, but What Do People Do All Day? and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go were my two favorites.
My brother has a tattoo of Grover.
Flat Stanley! I loved that book and read it over and over and over again. I was convinced that I could one day fit through the mail slot too!
I had a love/hate relationship with the monster at the end of this book. I think I was 2 or 3 at the time and I had fun trying to keep my grandmother from turning the pages. Or, at least, I had fun for a while — as we got closer to the end of the book I became more anxious. Eventually, I took to hiding the book whenever we would visit.
My favorite is “The Pokey Little Puppy”.
Poppy, that book (the wild one) always seemed to me to be the book everyone is SUPPOSED to like, but I never got into the artwork or the story. I mean, it seems like a patent answer to me because I never liked it “so much”.
golfwidow, I don’t know either of those! But they sound like books my
56yr old would like. In other related news, I hear Grover has a tattoo of your brother.Hilly, I didnt find out about Flat Stanley until 2004 at a big family reunion and my mom had started a “Flat (cousin)” project that was quite the rage for that cousin’s 3rd grade class. Reminds me of “Letters from Felix” where a little girl’s stuffed rabbit gets “lost” at the airport but ends up going to all these cities across the world and sends letters to the little girl all summer, and then returns.
Ren there is a monster at the end of this comment.
Abs, I remember that book!
GROVER! GROVER! GROVER!
In 3rd grade, there was one kid (MIke, with the big square head) who could do Grover’s voice dead on. I’d bring my copy of the book and he’d read it aloud to us. It was his key to popularity. I wonder what happened to him?
Sherri I couldn’t've set it better myself, unless I did it without a double contraction.
Oh wow, I loved this book! I went to a wedding a couple of weeks ago where they had a photo booth set up, and when you got your photos you put them on a scrapbook page. My fiance wrote on our page “Don’t turn this page! There’s a monster at the end of this book!”
Although I have to add…to be honest, my favorite book was probably “Humpty Dumpty’s Bedtime Stories.” I still have it…somewhere.
Epiphany, welcome to the blog of whall! That wedding photo booth is a great idea, but the written note is even better! I don’t know the 2nd book you mentioned, but for some reason it made me think of Charlie Brown’s Excyclopedia, which was another one of my all-time favorite books.