What are some of your favorite books (name up to five) to read to children?
Elaine Gutenstein
I am a preschool teacher, so this could be MUCH longer:
GREEN EGGS AND HAM
CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM
CORDUROY
THE SNOWY DAY
MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR
Peggy
GREEN EGGS AND HAM
CHARLOTTE'S WEB
THE HUNGRY CATERPILLAR
The First Two Harry Potter books
Ann Bowen
The Cat in the Hat
Horton Hears A Who!
All the Places You'll Go
The Polar Express
The Bridge to Terabithia
Mona E. Miller
Big Red Barn
Emil and the Detectives
Little House in the Big Woods
Hans Brinker
Green Eggs and Ham
Sandi
1. You Are My I Love You
2. Counting Kisses
3. The Giving Tree
4. Winnie-the-Pooh
5. Where the Sidewalk Ends
Malvina
The Hobbit
Are You My Mother?
Ping
Rosie's Walk
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Katja
Green Eggs and Ham
Horton Hears a Who!
The Chronicles of Narnia
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Little House series
Danny
THE GIVING TREE by Shel Silverstein
My daughter brought it home from school and it brought tears to my eyes when I read it to her.
Dorothy Turk
Goodnight Moon
Caps For Sale
Harry the Dirty Dog
Darlene De Ryke
The Golden Egg
No Jumping on the Bed!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Giving Tree
Freda
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!
The Amelia Bedelia series
Are You My Mother?
Wiley and the Hairy Man
Stone Soup
Suzi Skutley
- WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak
- ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN by Debra Frasier
- Almost anything wriiten by Byrd Baylor
Linda M. Johnson
THE TRUE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS! by Jon Scieszka
THE VELVETEEN RABBIT by Margery Williams
A LITTLE PIGEON TOAD by Fred Gwynne
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS by Judi Barrett
THE FIVE CHINESE BROTHERS by Claire Huchet Bishop
Robin Schmidinger
All the Dr. Seuss are lots of fun (even without kids).
Dianne
How about my favorite children's authors:
Patricia Pollacco
Chris Van Allsburg
Mem Fox
Lois Lowry
Gary Paulsen
Barb W
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
The Cat in the Hat
Fox in Socks
Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book
Suzanne Farris
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Mother Goose
Is Your Mama a Llama?
The Watering Hole
Suzanne in Ohio
GOODNIGHT MOON and other books by Laura Numeroff: IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE, IF YOU GIVE A PIG A PANCAKE, IF YOU TAKE A MOUSE TO SCHOOL, and IF OU GIVE A PIG A PARTY
Beth Cummings
1.WINNIE-THE-POOH and THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER
2.ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH
3.HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON
4. The poetry of Shel Silverstein (WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS)
Elinor Nuxoll
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE and anything else by Maurice Sendak
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Anything by Dr.Seuss or Richard Scarry
Deborah Silveira
1. Goodnight Moon
2. Make Way For Ducklings
3. The Cat in the Hat
4. Green eggs and Ham
Susan Reading
DOG HEAVEN by Cynthia Rylant
THE HIGH RISE GLORIOUS SKITTLE SKAT ROARIOUS SKY PIE ANGEL FOOD CAKE by Nancy Willard
ALPHABEARS by Michael Hague
THE LITTLE MOUSE, THE RIPE RED STRAWBERRY, AND THE BIG HUNGRY BEAR by Don Wood
ANIMALIA by Graeme Base
G. Perona
1. Charlotte's Web
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
4. The Incredible Journey
5. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Tamara Leonard
THE POKEY LITTLE PUPPY(my all-time fav)
THE COUTRY MOUSE AND THE CITY MOUSE
THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
MADELINE
THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE (that was long before the movie ever came out)
OK, I know this is #6, but I love the ANNE OF GREEN GABLES stories too.
Sheila Soloff
1. The Frog and Toad series.
2. STREGA NONA
3. and 4. LILLY'S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE and CHRYSANTHEMUM by Kevin Henkes
5-GREEN EGGS AND HAM
I am a first grade teacher ---do I have to stop now?
Melinda
RIKI TIKI TAVI
ARE YOU MY MOTHER?
THE SECRET GARDEN
CHARLOTTE'S WEB
Fairy Tales by Hans Christen Anderson or the Brothers Grimm
Meg
My two favorites are CHARLOTTE'S WEB and BUNNICULA. BUNNICULA is a delightful story of a vampire bunny that sucks vegetables white. It is a great read!
Kathy - former children's librarian
DON'T LET THE PIGEON RIDE THE BUS by Mo Willems
EARRINGS! by Judith Viorst and Nola Langner Malone
CLICK CLACK MOO by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
JUNIE B. JONES AND THE STUPID SMELLY BUS by Barbara Park
WINNIE THE POOH by A. A. Milne
Gaye
SKIPPYJOB JONES by Judy Schachner is fabulously funny! It's about a Siamese cat who thinks he's a chihuahua!
DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS! by Mo Willems --- a great sense of voice.
YOU ARE SPECIAL by by Max Lucado
LOVE YOU FOREVER by Robert Munsch --- I dare you to read it with a dry eye!
TUESDAY by David Weisner --- how he can say so much with so little is astonishing.
Mary Angela Young
Harry Potter, Lemony Snickett, Goosebumps, Dr. Seuss, and Little Golden Books.
Noreen
THE GIVING TREE and THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
Lee
The Runaway Pumpkin
Hop On Pop
Goodnight Moon
Sandi Lewis
CHARLOTTE'S WEB
As a former elementary teacher, I've read this every year and the students are enthralled.
Bob Coghill
LIGHT IN THE ATTIC by Shel Silverstein
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS by Shel Silverstein
OLIVER TWIST by Charles Dickens
WITCHES FOUR by Marc Brown
THE STORY ABOUT PING by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
and many more...
Laurie
A Light In The Attic
Where The Sidewalk Ends
Mr. Popper's Penquins
The Legend of Sleeping Bear
The Giving Tree
Benita Sirkin
PLAINSONG, HEIDI, the Betsy and Tracy books, and anything by Dr. Seuss.
Lynn Hackenberg
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Where the Wild Things Are
Goodnight Moon
Winnie-the-Pooh
The Velveteen Rabbit
Annika Stowe
Where the Wild Things Are?
Freight Train
Go, Dog. Go
Where's My Teddy?
Chris
The Giving Treee
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Little Engine that Could
A House is a House For Me
Merrilee
The Giving Tree
A Light in the Attic
Any Richard Scarry book
Sharron
MILLIONS OF CATS by Wanda Gag
A BAD CASE OF STRIPES by David Shannon
THE BADGER AND THE MAGIC FAN by Tony Johnston
THE TALKING EGGS by Robert D. San Souci
THE BIG ORANGE SPLOT by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Patty Blackwell
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Black Snowman
The Acrobat and the Angel
Little Bear
Julie Martin
Anything by Dr. Seuss
Anything by Bill Peet
The Billy and Blaze series
10 BLACK DOTS
The Harry Potter series
Kathleen Wierzbicki
THE SWEETEST FIG by Chris Van Allsburg
THE MITTEN by Jan Brett
Doris Willis
Books by Richard Scarry and Shel Silverstein
Donnell
GREEN EGGS AND HAM by Dr. Seuss
BARTHOLOMEW AND THE OOBLECK by Dr. Seuss
ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH by Dr. Seuss
THE NAPPING HOUSE by Audrey Wood
THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD by Watty Piper
Neal Weisman
Jamberry
Green Eggs and Ham
Dianne
THE WESTING GAME by Ellen Raskin
THE LORAX by Dr. Seuss
CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY by Roald Dahl
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak
THE LITTLE PRINCE by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
April Lemesh
Favorites to read to the children were THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, JAMBERRY, and the Good Dog, Carl books. My kids and grandkids loved to read them over and over.
Dawn Cronk
Any of the Mercer Mayer Little Critter books, Dr. Seuss's OH THE THINKS YOU CAN THINK!, Children's bible stories, and any of theArthur books.
Marion Miller
As a retired teacher, I was always reading anything by Dr. Seuss. The children parodied the rhymes and they could hear the same stories over and over. They also loved MISS NELSON IS MISSING!, and always, the fairy tales. CHARLOTTE'S WEB was another favorite.
Sandra Hughes
Black Beauty
Little House on the Prairie
The Cat in the Hat
Rosalie Sambuco
And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street
Thd 500 Hats of Barthomew Cubbins
Horton Hatches the Egg
B Book
"Stand Back," Said the Elephant, I'm Going to Sneeze
Phyllis Lamken
GOODNIGHT, MOON by Margaret Wise Brown
GREEN EGGS AND HAM by Dr. Seuss
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak
FIFTY BELOW ZERO by Robert Munsch
THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT by Beatrix Potter
Julie
Caps For Sale
Green Eggs and Ham
Goodnight Moon
The Velveteen Rabbit
Rainbow Fish
Ronnie
The Cat Who Wore A Pot On Her Head
Michelle Miller
Guess How Much I Love You?
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Goodnight, Gorilla
Judy Ross
1. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
2. SLOBCAT
3. any Dr. Seuss title
4. any Berenstain Bears title
5. The Night Before Christmas
F Tessa Bartels
Any of the Seuss books
GOODNIGHT MOON
THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS
I have an old (50 years, at least) book called READ ALOUD STORIES that has many classic fairy tales and fables in it.
Sonia Zaffiris
The Little Engine That Could
Harold & the Purple Crayon
Where the Wild Things Are
The Giving Tree
Goodnight Moon
Fifi
1. How The Grinch Stole Christmas
2. Otis Spofford
3. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
4. Charlotte's Web
5. The Borrowers series
Marie
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Goodnight Moon
The Monster at the End of This Book (Sesame Street)
*Mama, Do you Love Me?
Are You My Mother?
Amy W.
Rabbits Rafferty
Watership Down
Little House On The Prairie
Christie
The Purple Pussycat
Mary Branham
My granddaughter loved all the Eric Carle books. Also, she loved the Dr. Seuss books, which I never cared for but read to her anyway. I like IF GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE, GOODNIGHT MOON, and THE VELVETEEN RABBIT.
Terri
The Quiltmaker's Gift
The Seven Silly Eaters
Northwoods Cradle Song
Robin Hillyer Miles
Sailor Moo, Cow at Sea
Diary of a Worm
Hop on Pop
The Monster at the End of this Book
Little Chief
Dail
Anything by Jon Scieszka, author of THE STINKY CHEESE MAN AND OTHER FAIRLY STUPID TALES.
J. Davis
For toddlers:
WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT by Michael Rosen
GOODNIGHT MOON by Margaret Wise Brown
BLUE HAT, GREEN HAT by Sandra Boynton
ONE DUCK STUCK by Phyllis Root
BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? by Bill Martin
Melissa Jordan
Where the Wild Things Are
Goodnight Moon
The Monster at the End of this Book
Harry the Dirty Dog
Janis Hahn
Where the Wild Things Are
Juanita
The Night Before Christmas
Rose - CT
The Tender Bar
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Kite Runner
Tuesday's With Morrie
Memoirs of a Geisha
Lynn Ketelsen
The Happy Hollisters Mystery Series by Jerry West
The Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
The Betsy-Tacy and Tib series by Maud Hart Lovelace
Anything by Sandra Boynton
Louise Pledge
I'LL LOVE YOU FOREVER
THE CAT IN THE HAT
Anything with Grover in it
Any of the Berenstain Bears
Bible Stories
Canadian reader
THE MINPINS by Roald Dahl.
PRINCE WILLIAM by Gloria Rand and Ted Rand
"Prince Ivan and the Little Sister of the Sun," in Arthur Ransome's OLD PETER'S RUSSIAN TALES
A PROMISE IS A PROMISE by Robert Munsch.
WILLY THE WIMP by Anthony Browne
Terry Horan
CHARLOTTE'S WEB
Books by:
Eric Carle
Marc Brown
C.S. Lewis
Van Allsburg
Trish Thomas
GOODNIGHT MOON, GOODNIGHT GORILLA (thanks to Jon Carroll,SF Chronicle), THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS, and LITTLE PEAR by Frances Lattimore.
Zena Schulman
Curious George
Harry the Dirty Dog
Mop Top
Where's Andy
Cynthia D. Smith
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Boxcar Children
Green Eggs and Ham
Winnie-the-Pooh
Ginny Lazar
GREEN EGGS AND HAM has always been my favorite, but THE CAT IN THE HAT comes in a close second. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is also a favorite, but my grandchildren love to listen to any book and are beginning to memorize them.
Maureen H.
THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, THE POLAR EXPRESS, THE ADVENTURES OF WINNIE-THE-POOH, anything by Dr. Seuss, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY, and CORDUROY. I could read all day to children.
Delores
The Cat In The Hat
Hello, Moon!
Katherine Stephens
The Berenstain Bears and the Sweet Pickles series, including GOOSE GOOFS OFF.
Kathy Church
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Clement C. Moore
GOODNIGHT MOON by Margaret Wise Brown
Any Dr. Suess books
THE POLAR EXPRESS by Chris Van Allsburg
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR by Eric Carle
Rhea Peterson
Goodnight Moon
I Love You Forever
Linda Hastings
WINNIE-THE-POOH and THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER by A. A. Milne
MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS by Robert McCloskey
MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS byRichard and Florence Atwater
OFFICER BUCKLE AND GLORIA by Peggy Rathman
Mary Davis
A GARDEN FOR MISS MOUSE
MISS NELSON IS MISSING!
MILK AND COOKIES
DETECTIVE BOB AND THE GREAT APE ESCAPE
Kimberli
The Digby and Kate series by Barbara Baker
WINNIE-THE-POOH by A. A. Milne
Anything written by Eric Carle is good for very young children
Pamela Ashland
Goodnight Moon
Runaway Bunny
Dr. Doolittle
When the Sun Rose
Bunnicula
Marcia Demille
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Mary Graetzer
Goodnight Moon
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Winnie-the-Pooh
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Ro Blake
The Little House
Miss Lollipop's Lion
Goodnight Moon
Lois
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Charlotte's Web
A Wrinkle in Time
My Side of the Mountain
The Velveteen Rabbit
Pam Dean
Charlotte's Web
Little House on the Prarie
The Velveteen Rabbit
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Ruth
Millions of Cats
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
Goldilocks & the Three Bears
The Runaway Pancake
Sandra Greathouse
THE CAT IN THE HAT by Dr. Seuss
BLUEBERRIES FOR SAL by Robert McClosky
HEIDI by Johanna Spyri
GOODNIGHT MOON
The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Genevieve
101 Dalmatians, The Cat in the Hat, Good Boy, Fergus!, Until I Saw the Sea, The Magic Horse of Han Gan
Arlene Herring
GREEN EGGS AND HAM
GOODNIGHT MOON
MANY MOONS (James Thurber)
THE DOLL'S HOUSE (Rumer Godden)
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (Sendak)
L. Green
PARTS by Tedd Arnold
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR by Eric Carle
STELLALUNA by Janell Cannon
BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? by Bill Martin Jr.
THE POLAR EXPRESS by Chris Van Allsburg
Lynne Perednia
TOMORROW ON ROCKY POND by Lyn Reiser
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame
THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Bartimeous Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Cheri Coley
Goodnight Moon
Janet Thomas
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Polar Express
Goodnight Moon
Winnie-th- Pooh
P A Rhoads
DINOSAUR ROAR!
Any of the Junie B. Jones books
Vanessa
The Kissing Hand
I Love You This Much
There's a Wocket in my Pocket
No, David!
Kimberly Yeaw
Green Eggs and Ham
The Foot Book
The Secret Garden
Goodnight Moon
Ellen Engelking
THE THIEF LORD by Cornelia Funke
THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX by Kate Di Camillo
THE WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum
Vickie Malone
Anything by Dr. Suess
Joanne
After THE CAT IN THE HAT, II like to read LORAX, THE RUNAWAY BUNNY, and GOODNIGHT MOON.
Linda Nueman
The Cat in the Hat
Green Eggs and Ham
Pat the Bunny
The Little Engine That Could
Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
Debbie
THE VELVETEEN RABBIT by Margery Williams; THE TALE OF THREE TREES by Angela Elwell Hunt; THE UGLY DUCKLING by Hans Christian Anderson; ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN by Debra Frasier
Dodalodle from Beautiful British Columbia
Charlotte's Web
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Pokey Little Puppy
The Secret Garden
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Jon Erland Madsen
The Harry Potter books
Anything by Roald Dahl
For the slightly older:
Eolfin Colfer
Garth Nix
Philip Pullman
Lesa
The Velveteen Rabbit
Green Eggs and Ham
Little House in the Big Woods
The Night Before Christmas
Jon Weiman
Madeline
Goodnight Moon
The Lady with the Alligator Purse
Alphabet City
Adele & Simon
Claire Wilkins
THE SIGN OF THE BEAVER
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
COME SING JIMMY JO
WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS
Anything by Raol Dahl (especially THE TWITS)
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Cynthia
WHO DO YOU LOVE?
GOODNIGHT MOON
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES
Poetry
Carol Cool
Green Eggs and Ham
The Sneetches
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Bonnie Waliezer
The Cat in the Hat
Horton Hears a Who!
Goodnight Moon
Green Eggs and Ham
JD Simm
Peter Pan
Pinnocchio
Cinderella
Tarzan
Nursery Rhymes
Teresa Ryan
Bible stories
Nursery rhymes
Dr. Suess books
Brothers Grimms tales
Wendy Manning
Where the Wild Things Are
The Pirate Who Tried to Capture The Moon
The Stinky Cheese Man
Rikki Tikki Tavi
Make Way for Ducklings
Winnie-the-Pooh
Dottie Mallerich
THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT
All of Dr. Seuss's books
BREAD AND JAM FOR FRANCES
GOOD NIGHT, GORILLA
WINNIE-THE-POOH
Corinna
Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Goodnight Moon
Marlyn E. Myers
GREEN EGGS AND HAM
GOODNIGHT MOON
Any or all of the Eloise books
Any of the Curious George books
Laura Johnson
The Caterpillow Fight
Double Trouble in Walla Walla
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
Margaret Nance
Goodnight Moon
The Velveteen Rabbit
Nursery Classics: A Galdone Treasury
Children of the Forest
Miss Fannie's Hat
Patti D
Three Little Kittens
Green Ham and Eggs
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Holes
Big Bird's Birthday Party
Trish Thomas
IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN and WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak, LITTLE BEAR by Elsie Holmelund Minarek, TheCurious George books by H.A. and Margret Rey, and STREGA NONA by Tomi de Paola
Judy Carmichael
Too Much Noise
Goodnight Moon
The Little House
The Snowy Day
Carol
GOODNIGHT MOON was one of our favorites.
We also read a book called NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS. My kids loved to hear this book read to them and they would recite it along with me. That was quite a number of years ago, and though I've wanted to give it to others, I haven't been able to find it again.
Amy Honan
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
Jo
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Little Women
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Heidi
The Bobbsey Twins
Susan
Anything that starts with Harry Potter, RAMONA THE PEST, ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY, and GOODNIGHT MOON for the small ones.
Joann Archetto
Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom
Goodnight Moon
A Giraffe and a Half
The Rainbow Fish
Mary Petersen
1. The original stories of Winnie-the-Pooh
2. EATING THE ALPHABET by Lois Ehlert
3. Denise Fleming's alphabet book, ALPHABET UNDER CONSTRUCTION
4. READ ANYTHING GOOD LATELY? by Susan Allen & Jane Lindaman
5. Poetry books edited by Lee Hopkins
C. DeSoto
The Cat in the Hat
Grren Eggs and Ham
Owl at Home
Bedtime for Frances
Harold and the Purple Crayon
