What are your favorite Children's books?

Question

I am a college student going to school to be an early childhood educator. I am trying to start my book collection now so that I will have some when I start out., I am wondering what all of your favorites were/are. Please include the author if you know it. Thanks!

Answer 1

I still like the old Dick and Jane school books, that were around in the 50's. The Little Black Sambo Book, any of the other books.

Answer 2

Inside a Barn in the Country by Alyssa Satin Capucelli (even better if you can find the c.d.)
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
David books by David Shannon
Little Mouse, Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear
These are some that my class of two year olds ask for every day

Answer 3

The Monster at the End of the Book (don't know author)
Robert Munsch books
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Eric Carle books
The Little Old Lady That Wasn't Afraid of Anything
Kevin Henkes books
Jan Brett books-- The Mitten
The Seals on the Bus
'No David' books

Answer 4

The Wind in the Willows
Mother West Wind How and Why Stories
A Child's Garden of Verses
The Box Car Children
Uncle Remus Stories
Winnie the Pooh Stories
A good bookstore can get these books for you.

Answer 5

You should get some Dr.Suess books, I always loved those! Disney stories would be good too. Also, one of my favorites are If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. I am not sure who the author is but you can go to Borders or any bookstore, I'm sure you will find exactly what you are looking for.
Hope This Helps!!

Answer 6

Any books by Lois Ehlret are great! I also love all the Eric Carle books, Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak and all the Jamie Lee Curtis books too!

If you have any opportunity to get a hold of Scholastic Book Orders (friends or family who work in classrooms possibly?) then this is a GREAT way to build your book collection. When I was teaching at a daycare I took full advantage of this secret book world and have now built a HUGE book collection. I was able to use this while I was teaching as well as with my daughters. I highly recommend ordering books through book orders, they always have great choices and they are at a great price!

Answer 7

try to get copies of the scholastic book club order forms they have book clubs for different age groups, and you should probrably get some from each age group up thru at least 3 or 4th grade level, the children cannot read or understand all of them but they can give you ideas of things to do for other things in your classroom(like bulletin boards, art projects) and if you do get some of the little older level books maybe you will have a group of children you can read to in chapters(probably not till late kinder or 1st grade), then along with the paperback versions from book clubs and book stores you can choose your favorites in hardback form to use in reading to your class.be sure to also read the story yourself a few times before you present it to a child or group of children. talk to the childrens librarian at your local library to get some ideas too.

some of the best childrens authors are:
eric carle--very hungry caterpillar and very busy spider are examples
tana hoban--wonderful insightful picture books with good concrete story lines---push,pull,empty,full, inside/outside upside/down are examples
richard scarry --lots of cute pictures and concrete ideas in these
stan and jan bernstain--the stories are a little long but you can skip some of the words and still keep the storyline going there are at least 30 in the series
r a rey--"curious george" and all the troubles of the man with the "yellow hat"
dr seuss--watch out though the younger the group choose one of lesser words like green eggs and ham//one fish two fish red fish blue fish
margaret wise brown--goodnight moon and bear books and many others
dont remember the authors but there are a set of books that are called bread,bread, bread//houses//families---they have actual photographs of the titled items that come from all over the world so the children get several perspectives from several countries
classics like peter rabbit, goldilocks and the 3 bears, red riding hood, 3 pigs are ok but look also for the newer versions of the books they have less scary pictures and several new kinds of animals to choose from
tons more i cant remember, but if you get catalogs from places like lakeshore, abc school supply and other childrens or educational supply groups they have collections of books you can review and buy, but dont forget your own bookshelves and those of your family, and garage sales or thrift stores(you might even find copies of old favs that are now out of print)
and remember to also include books from accross the ciriculum like math, science, social studies, cooking and multicultural books too

***by the way one of my all time favorites is "stone soup" i have no less than 6 versions *****

Answer 8

For early childhood, I love Frog and Toad books, anything by Maurice Sendak, and, of course, Dr. Seuss. You might also want to look into Caldecott winners.

Thumb trolls strike again. My answers are correct for early childhood.

Answer 9

"The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein
"The Grouchy Lady Bug" by Eric Carle
"Miss Spider's Tea Party" by David Kirk
"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown
"Guess How Much I Love You" by Sam Mcbratney
"Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein

Those are just a few that I can think of.

Answer 10

The Little Prince The author is french, and i'll spell it wrong lol but its something like Antione de'st'auxperie

I read this book still. It changed my life.