Favorite Books to read to your child(ren)?

**McD** · 10-16-2008, 03:21 PM

Do you have a favorite book to read to your child(ren?)

I love reading Wesley the book Where the Wild Things Are. We like to read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom together too. He points out the letter and says boom boom.

**TexasPeanut** · 10-16-2008, 05:00 PM

When my son was younger he had this book by national geographic (he's a nature nut) that came with a magnifying glass and different "things" you had to fold over, spin, push and pull to find hidden animals on each page as it told a story about the animal and it's environment. Some pages had things like 13 small monkeys hidden in the trees and you had to find them all by doing all of these different things, meanwhile you read a nice 1 page story about those monkeys, where and how they lived. Gosh he loved that book and I actually liked it to. He actually ended up donating that book to a nearby youth ranch for abused and neglected children.

**ilovechocolate** · 10-16-2008, 06:04 PM

My son (now 20) loved The Story of Ferdinand about the little bull who just wanted to sit and smell the flowers. He couldn't say the letter "f" so he called it Kerdinand. He also loved Goodnight, Moon.

My daughter (now 16) loved Pat the Bunny. By the time she was 9 or 10 months old she could do everything the book said to do.

**MomToTwoBoys** · 10-16-2008, 08:01 PM

I actually like reading alot of old stories to Dakota. I read him The Gingerbread Man and The Three Little Pigs. He has a few books he really likes, like Pluto the Detective and Choo Choo. He's been reading to me alot and he'll read Go Spud Go! and Eddy Visits Didi to me.

**AmyBoz** · 10-16-2008, 10:08 PM

Dd always loved to have I Love You, Stinky Face and A Fly Went By read to her.

The boys just like to hear about trucks.

**justatxmom** · 10-17-2008, 06:48 AM

Just one? I love reading to the children. Some of our top favorites...

Thy Friend Obidiah
The Lorax
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Caps for Sale

**Momto2Boyz** · 10-17-2008, 07:06 AM

I think one of my favorites to read is If you give a mouse a cookie. I have been reading that to my kids since my oldest was born...and the other day for the first time, my oldest turned around and read the whole book to me!

Other than that, we love all the Dr. Seuss books around here!

**joyofsix** · 10-17-2008, 07:13 AM

My kids have had phases where one story seemed to especially grab them. The ones I got most sick of (and thus their favorites)

Good Night Moon
Are You My Mother
PJ Funnybunny
Peter Rabbit

**YankeeMom** · 10-17-2008, 07:59 AM

I see a lot of our favorites already listed. We love The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Where the Wild Things Are, all of the If You Give a XXXXX a XXXX (there's a new one out, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake), as well as anything by Sandra Boynton.

Some that haven't been listed:
Guess How Much I Love You
The Kissing Hand (I think that's what it's called, with the Raccoon who doesn't want to leave his mom to go to school?)
Gingerbread Baby
Suppertime for Frieda Fuzzypaws
Miss Alaineus A Vocabulary Disaster

**McD** · 10-17-2008, 08:49 AM

We love the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and the Sandra Boynton books as well!!!!

**missyali** · 10-17-2008, 10:09 AM

My son LOVES
The Kissing Hand, Spoon Necklace (son's favorite, NOT mine), A tow truck , police car and ambulance book as well.

My daughter LOVES anything by Maryann Richmond, Big Sister Now, Guess How Much I Love You, Little Red Hen & Goldilocks ~ newer versions.

**Patty A** · 10-17-2008, 10:59 AM

My kids always loved the "Little Golden Books", and Nursery Rhymes.
As they got older they loved the young childrens classic's like the Little House on the Prairie, Tom Sawyer, Old Yeller, The Yearling, and Black Beauty.
I think some of the old classic books are some of the best.

**Gibs** · 10-30-2008, 05:01 PM

I love to read to the kids, and DD 6 loves to read as well. Some of our favorites to read are The Kissing Hand, Pocket full of kisses (sequal to kissing hand), Love you forever , Down by jim longs stage , Dancing Dinos oh my there are soo many more, they have at least 500 books. I just bought the another book in the kissing hand books, but I have it kept for christmas. It is called A kiss goodbye I am sure that they will like that one too.

**mom23boyz** · 11-14-2008, 01:35 PM

Mine are little old to read to now but my ALL time favorite is Love You Forever! I cry everytime i read it. There are so many more but thats my fave.

**MoonMommy** · 11-14-2008, 01:40 PM

The Lorax I one of my all time favorite books.
The Night before the Night before Christmas by Natasha Wing is a really cute book that I found last year that the kids just LOVE.
Twas the Nigth Before Christmas
If you give a XXXXX a XXXXX are also favs here
My son (6.5 yrs old) loves the Magic Treehouse series. My husband reads them to him at night.