Favourite childrens book, and why?

What is your personal favourite children's book, and why do you like it/find it interesting?

For me, its ''the girl who speaks bear''. Has anyone read this?

''Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, Yanka has always wondered where she is from......''

(from one of the reviews, just glancing quickly at it... one of the powerful messages this book conveys is ''graceful acceptance of aid'' when in ''need'' (so different from the ugly messages the Narcissistic family of origin repeatedly conveyed to me..)

The Power of Stories. I'm going to try to read more of these.... (if I get around to it and my inner critic allows me that luxury)

To be honest I'm really not sure. If I can think back that far I think one of my favorites, as a young child, was a book titled: Curious George (Curious George was a monkey.) I've also enjoyed the books of Dr. Seuss. But I guess one of my favorites would have to be Stories for Children by the late Isaac Bashevis Singer. I don't know why I love Singer's children's stories so much except that I've loved all of his books for many years. Actually my wife & I have a collection of over 300 children's picture story books... mostly classic fairy tales. I have to admit I haven't read them all. (She has.) I keep telling myself someday I'll sit down and read through them all. But, so far, it hasn't happened. Thanks for asking though!

What a great question Fuzzy! I'm not sure I can pick just one. In general if it had horses or other critters in it I loved it.

Black beauty. I loved grim m’s fairytale s, mother goose nursery rhyme s, Aesop’s fables. Dr Seuss and Dr Doolittle books. I was very fortunate as a child to have lots of books. I had my own set of classic children’s stories. Two stories in every book. Little woman, Hans Brinkley or the Silver Skates, so many more. Clifford the big red dog, Harold and the purple crayon. Little house on the prairie. Books by Jules Verne and other fantasies like Swizzle family Robison and Robinson Caruso I read everything I could find on Native Americans too. I read every book about horses in the children’s library and my mum talked the librarian into letting me get books on horses from the adults library. Yes back then our library had two doors. One for the children’s side and one for the adults. Silence was expected and the adults had a sitting room where they read the papers and magazines. Oh what wonderful memories books give me.

Yeah, I can’t pick just one either! Ha ha

yay cat in the hat. love that book

like has all ready been said, their's just so many to pick from

I love you forever, by robert munch, I think is a must read to your kid

" I love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be". it's so sweet!

huglesss dugless (about a bear who goes in search of a hug, and ends up getting one from his mom) is a cute story too, and I also liked the house that sneezed- a story about the owners of a house using everything that made the furniture sneeze

the dinosaur that poophed a pirate is a fun story.. their are just so many to pick!

There’s this one kids book I read a ton of times because the main character had the same name as me.

I also liked anything by Margaret Peterson Haddix and Ann M Martin.

I loved Little Women. And when I was really little, I liked Where the Wild Things Are.

I haven't heard of ''where the wild things are'', it sounds like something my cub (inner cub) might like

Over 300 children's picture story books, I'm ''jealous'' (lol)

I also love the cat in the hat

I love books with horses or other critters in them. Black Beauty was one of my favourites, I've read several others I loved.

One of my favorite memories is putting sheets and blankets over the clothes line to make an outside tent. On hot days it was cooler in the tent with grass floor and there I could read a pile of books in bliss.

I still love children's books because some adult books seem too dark for me now. I have read and love many of the ones mentioned. Here are some others:

1) The Wizard of Oz book series because my dad would read them to me at bedtime from a very young age.
2) The Phantom Tollbooth because I loved how the author played with words.
3) Encyclopedia Brown, Nancy Drew and Trixie Beldon mystery series because I loved imagining myself solving mysteries.
4) The Lord of Rings, the Hobbit, and A Wrinkle in Time because they made me feel like I was in a new world
5) Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and the Little House on the Prairie book series: at the time, I felt like they helped me understand more about our country (I was reading them in elementary school and am in my late 50s now).
6) Charlotte's Webb because I liked what it said about love.
7) All the peanuts comic strips books because I could relate to Charlie Brown--perhaps I had a bit of depression now and then way back when.

Later, when I worked as an elementary school teacher, one of my favorite book series to read aloud was the Sideways Stories from Wayside School Series. I hope it is OK that I find these stories hilarious.

I was an avid reader as a child. If I had to choose one book that I most loved, it was Little Women. I'm named after characters in the book.

oh yeah! Beth was my favorite character.

the magic faraway tree!

secret garden..

The secret garden is good

Gotta mention Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. I read them way back before they refined the books for PC reasons Nancy was a real go getter in the first books.

And oh, the Bobbsey twins.