My Favorite Children’s Books
Every night growing up my parents would search my room. Was it for candy? A great big chocolate bar? I do love chocolate, but they weren’t checking for a late night snack. They scoured my room before bed for books. Growing up I hid books and a flashlight under my pillow, my mattress, in between the sheets, and under the bed. I can’t tell you the number of times I heard, “Alyssa Marie, you will ruin your eyes reading in the dark like that!” I remember my first Roald Dahl book and staying up all night to frantically finish “Gone with the Wind.” I love books!
I could write for days about the books I love, but decided to just list my favorite children’s books. Some are old favorites and some I recently discovered going to the library with Bubba. Please comment with your all-time favorite children’s book if I didn’t list it here.
MY FAVORITE CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
Some Dogs Do by Jez Alborough
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
The Greedy Python by Eric Carle
And My Mean Old Mother Will Be Sorry, Blackboard Bear by Martha Alexander (ALL the Blackboard Bear books are wonderful!)
The Day Jimmy’s Boa ate the Wash by Steven Kellogg
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Pierre (A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue) by Maurice Sendak
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
Miss Nelson is Missing by James Marshall
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
The Monster at the End of This Book (starring lovable, furry old Grover) by Jon Stone
I Just Forgot by Mercer Mayer
The Goodnight Train by June Sobel
Happy Birthday, Moon by Frank Asch
The Crocodile Blues by Coleman Polhemus
Dandelion by Don Freeman
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE!! Amos, The Story of an Old Dog and His Couch by Howie Schneider
Now to call my parents for advice… I’ve caught Bubba reading past bedtime the last few nights!
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