Your Favorite Kids Books
by I remember reading the book "Where The Wild Things Are." I might have been Ian's favorite book but I remember liking it regardless. If you haven't read it by now I suggest you make it to the library. It was about a kid who, at night, went to the place 'where the wild things were' and i think they made him king at some point. But these wild things were like nice monsters. That was a good thing at the time. I didn't and I still don't like the scary ones. But this is a must read, it has adventure, excitment, and best of all lots of pictures.
p.s. I really felt like I was just on Reading Rainbow doing the interveiw for the book.
So I want to hear what some of your favorite kids books were or still are. And tell it as if you are on Reading Rainbow.
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I still have this book my mom got me when I was little. She sent away for it and it was one of those books where they just customize it with your name. I can't remember the name of it but it was something about visiting the circus I believe. I used to love that book. Anyone else have one of those?
i still read young adult books alot so for kids books i think more along the lines of picture books.
some i really like are (i know some of these were already mentioned):
The Saggy Baggy Elephant (he does a cute dance 1, 2, 3 kick)
The Pokey Little Puppy (whos always late, like me)
Where Did the Baby Go? (she sees a picture of herself as a baby and wonders why the baby doesnt live there anymore)
Where the Wild Things Are
Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day
The Lorax
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Pat the Bunny (not much of a story, but irresistibly tactile)
Good Night Moon
Caps for Sale
Stone Soup
Guess How Much I Love You (thats for frest)
I'll Love You Forever (thats for mel)
Harry Hates Shopping (thats for jube)
ha guys i used to do: i love you THIIIIIIS much!
hey frest, isnt that also the book you read with mom at the mall. about the rabbits? or am i totally off base?
totally off base. that's The Runaway Bunny.
thanks. im officially senile. at least i remembered rabbits.
aw! i'll love u forever, i'll like u for always, as long as i'm living, my baby u'll be! i used to sing that EVERY time i read that book haha
the giving tree, and any curious george series
curious george and the electric fence was v. good
don't wiz on the electric fence!
the givng tree was my absolute favorite when iwas little. best book ever
the existentialist manifesto by karl marx
i found it! woooooo
point, point, point, point, point
you were one strange child
you think that was weird...i also read wealth of existentialism by adam smith when i was 7
this is mine now
mein kamf...don't read that to your kids
o man, what were those books about that kid that changed places with every one?! o man.. O! Help I'm trapped In..." there was one where he got stuck in his teachers body... that was mad funny! I have them all.
How about the books that Bruce Coville used to write. The My teacher is an Alien series I used to love those books. Actually anything he wrote was usually pretty good.
oh yeah... the mouse and the motorcycle, and also the ledgend of nimm (is that the name? can't remember)
i think it was the secret of NIMM. that was a really good book.
i also liked "superfudge", and maniac magee. that was awesome.
dude it's NIMH
The book is called Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM. The movie is The Secret of NIHM. I own both of them and love them though I haven't read the book or watched the movie in a while. This is defenitly one of my favorite books.
secret of nimh cartoon is pretty good too. i love when the dude says rrrrheumatism. (im like an uber loser today, man)
the Secret of Nimh movie was on the other day... and i was like "o man, i gotta watch this"... but 15 minutes later i realized that i was not 5 years old and i turned it off
but then you went to get a cookie from the jar on the counter and you couldn't reach and you doubted your existence?
uh ok.. i'm dieing to know what is it that you are talking about?
i was just being fresh with you because i love you and haven't seen you in 2 days.
okie retard...
i marked myself stupid just for you
thanks :)
okay im so sorry mel. i'm a jerk. i'll go die in a hole now.
haha i was just trying to remember if that actully happened... i didn't say you were a jerk... i don't doubt that it did happen... i just wanted to know when... did i really do that? haha
yes except replace cookie with jalepeno pepper (do you remember that??)
no, cant say i remember, i was about 2 years old... haha
this goes down as one of the funniest ezabel exchanges ever.
haha for real? y? its not even funny
your sis knocked hilariously on height, then she felt bad and you just seemed confused the whole time, lol.
i was confused! i'm ALWAYS confused... :( its not funny... its more like pathetic... siblings should not be allowed to eZabel...
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
when i was real little i liked the book Peterkin, about the boy who takes a star home, but it gets sick from not being out in the fresh air, so he has to give it back to the sky.
... but don't take my word for it
haha! butterfly in the skyyyy
the lorax.. dr.suess, definatly a favorite.
It's definitely one of his best, but I think I prefer the Butter Battle Book.
I read a lot of Ramona Quimby books (or was it Quinby?). I even remember a tv series on PBS.
does anyone remember those?
Yeah..but I can only remember the fact that she had short brown hair and that it was raining in one of the shows..and maybe that she was sad. Did she suffer from depression or something?
haha...i dunno, maybe it was ADD
no, she just felt unloved... her parents paid more attention to her older sister... plus, she was always causing trouble so the only attention she got was bad haha i understood where she was coming from...
anyone remember the Amelia Bedelia books? that was the maid that did tasks on the list so literally. like i remember one time she had to cook dates or somethin, and she literally took a pair of scissors and cut the square dates out of the calendar and cooked them, haha, i liked her.
OH YES! I remember her. And she had to do the "roll call" so she set a dinner roll on the floor and called to it!
haha I remember those!
I remember one where she had to make sponge cake and cut bits of sponges in it...then she had to ice the fish and covered them in icing instead of putting them in ice...she was such a dolt.
one is that she had to "dress the chicken" and she put it in baby clothes and a little hat. or when she had to "draw" the drapes..instead of closing them..she drew them on paper.
so i guess this kind of falls under this thread... my sister recently got this book its called "love that dog" by Sharon Creech it is the cutest book in the world. Its about this little boy who is trying to learn how to write poetry and he is writing to his teacher about how he thinks hes not good at writng. i highly recomend that you all read it... its a kids book, very short, but its SO cute... i can't wait till i'm a teacher so i can read this to my class!
The yellow one. Where did that run off to I was looking for it to read last night...
i brought it with me to show it to my creative writing teacher..
No one seems to have mentioned the Winnie the Pooh books yet, so I thought I'd mention them. They're still funny even now. Oh, and has no one mentioned Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass yet?
Winnie the Pooh is the best ever... my whole room is filled with Classic Pooh... the stories out of the books r hilarious.. the best is when Piglet pretends to be Roo and Kanga goes along with it...and gives him a bath and fish oil and the whole time shes going "you better eat this, you don't want to be tiny like Piglet"..... o man its great...
The Wayside School stories were AMAZING! Like how there was no 19th floor but one day there was and once you were on it you never went home
YES! I was trying to explain this to a girl in school the other day because how that one kid got the tatoo of the potato and we were talking about tatoos..and man such good books!!
omg those were my favorites! i have them all.. including this special one that had math problems from Wayside school.. none of them made sense, it was GREAT!
I had that one TOO!!!!!! I didnt understand them tho
you did?? no kidding, weird. i never noticed. hey muffy mom sold your kitchen today!! HAHA!
yeah and i didnt see any of the proceeds!
lol any of the proceeds. haaha. you're a NUT.
hey, i gotta make a living too, and even if its only 25 cents off a twenty-five dollar kitchen, its worth having!!! Staples doesnt pay like it used to
yeah, those were sooooooo good, very unique....too bad i don't really remember them
I don't think any one has mentioned "Where's Waldo" books.... those were and are very entertaining.
I hate Waldo..why is he always hiding?
he is a shady character
Most definetly. It's those nice quiet guys that are serial killers yah know.
somebody should release a Where's Waldo series, where Waldo doesn't appear ONCE in the whole book, but nobody knows this and so they go luney trying to find him
my dad used to have this shirt just like waldo and everytime he wore it we'd all be like, where's daddy??? after many good long years of harrassment, he finally threw it out.
there is a kid in my class named waldomar and i just feel so bad for the kid cuz everyone is always asking "where's waldo?"
I just thought of some other great ones!!:
Grover- There's a Monster at the End of This Book!! (so exciting)
Elmo- Wait for Me (My favorite book as a kid)
one of mine and annalisas favorite activities is to read there's a monster at the end of this book pretending how we can't turn the pages and doing it in all stressed out voices.
that's how my mommy used to always read it too!! It was the best. She can still do it cause I saw her read it to a cousin of mine once.
hahahah. she can still do it. of course she can. she's a mommy. you sound so shocked that she hasn't lost her touch.
Well..I mean she was REALLY good at it, and sometimes you just lose that stuff over time. She'd do the voices for me on Elmo's "Wait for Me" book too..I loved that.
ok sum one said the giver and i thought of that book The Giving Tree... does ne body else remember that book? it was great... about that tree that gave this boy all she had.. it was so sad
That's the saddest book ever! I love it!
shel silverstein is one of my favorite authors-remember where the sidewalk ends and a light in the attic
Mrs. Twitter the babysitter
I think she's a little bit crazy
she thinks the babysitter is supposed
to sit upon the baby
"if you have to do the dish
instead of going to the store
but if you have to do the dishes
and you drop one on the floor
maybe they won't let you do the dishes anymore"
vanessa and i used to recite this poem to our parents all the time while doing the dishes and saying how we were gonna drop em.
Shel Silverstein owned children's poetry. I was so upset when he died. I read The Giving Tree last week at Books A Million and I still get that unsettled, reflecting feeling. Good stuff.
My fave was that poem in Where the Sidewalk Ends about that kid that comes up with like 80 exuses not to go to school and then finds out its Saturday and is suddenly miraculously cured.
I love that book. just the other day i stood in Target and read the whole thing. i got all choked up and left without getting what i was gonna get, lol.
did anyone ever read tuck everlasting or the giver? Both were super amazing children's books.
I read Tuck Everlasting..such an upsetting story!
i loved it so much...the theme was really powerful for a kids book.
more like SUCK Everlasting!..THE MOVIE WAS HORRIBLE!!!....I never read the book though...Hmm..maybe I just disliked the move cause it had that chick from the gilmoure girls in it, and, I dunno she freaks me out...HER MOM IS HOT in that show..hotter than her...that doesn't happen in real life @ all, I mean, moms just simply cannot be hotter than their daughter, it's impossible
read the book...its awesome...forget the movie
oh, i'm trying to forget the movie, believe me...although it sucked, it seems like a very cool premiss for a story though...
definitely a cool concept...which would you choose...to drink or not to drink?
"sigh"...THAT is a toughy....both have benifits, both have drawbacks....if I could share it w/somebody else, I'd definately drink it...living forever in a world of mortals would be HORRIBLE...like imagine falling in love w/somebody, KNOWING that you will outlive them, and have to see them die
yeah, that would be the worst thing ever....if that were the case, i wouldn't drink it either.
yea..i love this book..never saw the movie..it made me sad though.
we have it. we'll watch it when you come over ;)
...please move this to the macking forum
perrrrrrrfect..sorry i never got to call you back last night...it was past my bedtime. ;) haha
and i'd liek to know why *MY* comment was marked off topic? these ALL were off topic!
yo i think you guys don't understand how this works. i asked ian so that i would be doing my job better. i have to mark the first comment that goes off topic as such so that all that follow will be filtered out. i've marked myself as off topic so just live with it.
ohhhh forreste is gettin FIESTY! haha love you dear. :-D
um did i kill bryan?? he must've gone on interviews
you know what made me sad?..phenomenon....john trevolta...
the giver was one of the best books i ever read
yeah, its so amazing...even if it is a kids book...i still think of it as one of the best books i ever read too
i liked uncle wiggly, or something like that. i think it was a golden book. they made a clay statue of uncle wiggley that the wolf ate and had tummy aches from....that's all i remember.
I know funky mentioned this, but I loved the Chronicles of Narnia books. I read the entire series in 5th grade I think. good stuff. And I've heard its got a bunch of Christian symbolism, but as a kid, I didn't pick up on it, and it was just good fantasy.
yeah i love those books. i read them all the time. to this day when i reread them i don't pick up on it. maybe its stupidity but i just see a childrens book.
i love them too...i still keep my set on my bookshelf instead of packed away in the basement with all the other books i was "too old" to read but couldn't bear to throw away. (cough *nerd* cough)
the boxcar books and baby-sitter books made me think of this----SWEET VALLEY BOOKS. with the two twins elizabeth and jessica. i started out reading sweet valley kids and then as i got older they had middle school,high school, college. i still read them when my lil sisters aren't.
Does anyone remember the tv show Sweet Valley High? I was a big dork and would come home after middle school and watch that and a show called Breaker High - about some kids who went to school on a cruise ship.
yes!! i remember the tv show and then i was n't allowed to watch it cuz it would be a bad influence on my young mind cuz all they thought about was dating. i wasn't supposed to read the sweet valley high books either.
YES!! i used to love the sweet valley books... they had a TV show too called Sweet Valley high... man those were great
what about the babysitters club? They were so gay, but i loved them.
yeah thats one book i remember all the girls reading, i think they still read them, then they made a tv show.... you are right, soo gay...
I had the Babysitters Little Sisters books..they babysat cats or something.
yo i have every single book in that series,,, form #1 up to like #110 lol plus all the "Super Specials" and the Mystery ones and the little sister books... man they were great
wow, thats insane! I used to just borrow them from the library. Who was your favorite?
Definatly Claudia... she always seemed so cool... i remember once she like made sumthing out of a bent fork... man she was awsome... who was your favorite?
yeah, she was cool, very creative.
Originally i liked Stacey, because she was so sophisticated and cool.
Then, i started to like Kristy, i think mainly because she was a tomboy, and i just thought that was coolest thing...i always wanted more brothers growing up and i loved playing sports and doing stuff outside.
I think one of the reasons people liked the books so much, was because all little girls could relate to at least one of the girls.
my girlfriend just told me stacey was her favorite. maybe the same reason as your but more b/c she liked the way she wrote her "S's" they were fancy. And thats why she writes so fancy now, b/c of stacey.
Stacy is a pretty eighties name huh....
i remember she used to put little hearts over all her i's too
yep and she had big blonde hair too...she was one of the "mature" ones
that definetley makes me feel better because for a time i used to write like stacy too. then i stopped. but my favorite was dawn. she was from california, she surfed, she had freckles. i thought she was awesome.
yeah, dawn was pretty cool, thinking back to it...but at the time, i didn't like her because i thought she was weird
yeah we still have tons of those books all over our house
i remember reading boxcar children, there was i think a whole series they were good. I think it was about orphans catchin rides on trains. i really don't remember
No! They were orphaned but they had heard that they're grandpa was a mean old man so they found this boxcar in the woods and lived in it and got all their stuff from a garbage dump and they built a pool out of damming up a river and made a fridge in the cool water. HOWEVER! Violet gets sick and they help her by bringing her back to civilation..and it turns out their grandpa is rich and really nice and they move in with him and he brings the boxcar and puts it in their backyard.
oh man..... thats right. that is so much better then how i described it, I remember all that now, i felt really bad for violet. but i thought they were cool for survivin on their own that was impressive, it made me think i could too
these books are from years ago right?
Uhh..when we were little kids?
oh! i forgot another! the little house on the praire books...i LOVED those! i liked the begining ones better then the later ones cuz they got progressivly more sad.
I loved those too until I got this one where they had their pictures in it..man they were all hideous.
wait, really? i never saw that..which book? my favorite was either "little house in the big woods" or "farmer boy" whenever i read it, i thought of the people on the TV show.
Mmm..it was either like "the first four years" which is about Laura and her boy Almazo and the hardships they had after getting married, or the one after that..but I think it's the first four years one.
haha, i read those too
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good one ian... i'd mark it as funny.. but i can't since .. you didnt give me full ezabel moderator power... shame on you.
you're lucky ian gives you any moderator power... i'm blood and i get nothin cept for a login.
dont laugh-Pinochio-NOT THE DISNEY VERSION-by the origianl writer whom I cant think of his name it begins with a C, trust me, I've read it like 30 times!
Cosmic Encounter by A.E. Van Vought..best book I've ever read...The title sounds generic, I know, but, it's NO indication @ all as to the nature of the book, it's anything but the usual read..think - Sphere(Michael Crichton, psycholigical sci-fi thriller) meets Pirates of the Caribean(the book, NOOOTTT the movie)
Soo..no Johnny.. Depp? Why?
uhh, from what I heard the movie was horrible....and, this book, being anything but horrible, I didn't want to relate them to eachother....BUT, if you'd like, while reading the book, you can imagine one of the characters as looking like jonny depp...I've tried it & it doesn't really enhance the experience for me...you might enjoy it though
people who read the book are always so condescending.... "oh i read the BOOK... it was MUCH better"... "oh really, you read the book? you know what i liked about the movie? no reading. took me 2 hours. then i took a nap." (thanks to jim gaffigan for the applicible anectdote)
haha, I'm just saying i heard it was a bad movie..I haven't gotten around to seeing it...but, yeah, I get your point
Who told you such lies? Almost every single person that I know who saw the movie loved it. I only met two people who didn't, and their opinion doesn't count cause they obviously cannot see true beauty when its right infront of them.
You obviously have an insane lust for jonny depp....and this therefore would mean you'd enjoy watching anything he plays in, lol, he could be like an extra in the movie "Big Bird's Adventures In Toyland" & you girls would love it just cause his face appeared in the movie, lol
no. although i enjoyed johnny depp in this movie, it was also hysterically funny. laughing the whole time!! and part only witness kids got (like when he calls the guy a eunuch and nobody in the theater knows what it means) or adventure and amazing special effects. i reccomend it
i loved this movie too...it was so weird...johnny depp looked really STRANGE in the movie but at the same time insanly attractive. haha...i like the black eyeliner look i guys i guess...he's so hot though.
Only some guys should wear the black eyeliner even though it's extremely hott. I suggested it to my boyfriend but then I realized that he's so extremely white that he'd look like a drag queen.
haha, yea..i guess for like dave navaro (is that how you spell it?) guitarist from janes addiction...well..he looks hot w/ it.
wha, huh, WHAT?..umm, so, lemme get this straight, make up, on GUYS..is now considered, attractive?...man, I must live under a rock or something...cause uhhh....this is definately news to me...I'm sure other guys in this here ezabel community are at least somewhat stunned by this new standared in the male image too (on a sidenote, now that I know it's accepted, I now feel a lot less weird about that time when I was 5 & my mom caught me putting on her lipstick..hahaha...j/k)
i'm surprised. i went to this little shindig and this dude was wearing black eyeliner. he looked like benji from good charlotte.
i didnt say "make-up" it would NOT be cool if i guy was wearing blush and lipstick....and even the black eye-liner..like i said..only SOME guys can pull it off w/o looking gay!
nah, make up on a dude is gay, no matter what. make-up is meant to accentuate without drawing attention. girls have forgotten that rule. any make up on a guys face is in poor taste orrrr they are cursed with a silly girlfriend who enjoys immasculating men. it just aint meant to be, people.
bring it on thursday night and i'm bringing the cd for you
I would, but don't have it right now, cause Neville went w/his family to Ohio to visit relatives(including his BEAUTIFUL cousin)...He stole this book from me so he could have something new to read while he was up there...I'm assuming he wanted to have some sort of activity to distract his mind from naughty incestual thoughts..his cousin being so gorgeous..(did i mention, his cousin is insanely attractive?)
poo i guess ill check the library out or buy it
best author for the kids: edgar allan poe. seriously. not scary at all.
"CRAZY GO NADS"
is that right dan?
anything by dr. seuss was amazing. i love the cat in hat comes back and just re-reading it so many times.
but don't take MY word for it (lavar burton's classic line)
oh! you just reminded me of the funniest book I ever saw on Reading Rainbow - "Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch . . ." I LOVE that story!
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I just remembered some more: The Phantom Tolbooth, Mr Popper's Penguins and Cheaper by the Dozen.
Mr Popper's Penguins was the coolest, I made the best poster for that with fuzzy sticker penguins and everything.
phantom tollbooth rocks my socks!!
yes!!!! i read this in 7th grade and its awesome.
i really liked the phantom tollbooth! i also liked the narnia books, before i realized they were full of subliminal messages and alternate meanings.
Is Cheaper by the Dozen about a family with 12 kids? Cuz if so, there's a movie coming out by the same name that has Ashton Kutcher and Tom Welling in it....yum.
Did anyone ever read the original Grimm Brothers fairy tales? They were pretty scary before they got modified to be kid-friendly. There was one about a chicken that ended like "...the chicken died. And the people died, and the forest died, and everything was dead. The end." WhatintheWORLD?
yikes! how disturbing . . .
yeah it really was. can you imagine reading that to your kid as a bedtime story?
yea, i have heard that, and alot of the happy disney stories originally werent so happy. the only one i remember off hand is the original cinderella story. the step sister's cut off parts of their feet to try to fit it in teh slipper, it was just pretty gory.
ever see that made for t.v. movie the 10th kingdom?? its a retelling of all the stories in a land where they are all true. and when they get thrown in prison there are the grimm brothers signatures scratched into the wall.
no, but that sounds pretty cool.
its so amazing!! the whole opening scene is how nyc breaks apart and turns into a fairy world. like walls move out to form a castle, grass starts growing. special effects are amazing. but i don 't know if you'd have the time to watch it. its 8 hours long. i only saw it cuz it was the made for tv movie and it was 4 nights of 2 hours each and i was sooo hooked. but to sit down for one sitting???? its great but you'd ahve to space it.
they sell it...my friend has it. the bride from Father of the Bride has a starring role among other familiar faces.
me and my little sisters used to argue over who got wolf cuz we thought he was so hott. saw him recently on gilmore girls. the fact that he was the moms boyfriend made me not want him anymore.
Freckle-Juice, tuck everlasting, matilda, i loved the "goosebumps" books by R.L. Stein...and 5th grade, Christopher Pike books were all the craze.
i read like 30 FEAR STREET books by R.L. Stine
omg i loved those R.L Stine books... but i wasn't allowed to read them, so i would borrow them from kids at school and hide them in my room LOL man was i a rebell! haha
haha did you watch are you afraid of the dark? at other people's houses you little rebel you
of corse! Jackie Burn and i watched it like every day after school sh! don't tell mom
are you serious? looooser you should've been watching kids incorporated and MMC with me and SBTB since mom and dad thought it was a teen soap opera
hahahaha.... i remember kids used to have those. i would always make fun of those kids.
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I was such a big nerd when I was little. I read EVERYTHING. The bearenstein bears and Blueberries for Sal were key when I was little. But then my Mom got hardcore and wouldn't let me read things under a certain age level or without a caldecott or newberry honor medal. So I would sneak off to the library and leave books in my desk at school. I liked the Boxcar children and Roald Dahl books (Matilda, The Twits, BFG, James and the Giant Peach)--way funny. And the big tearjerker, Where the Red Fern Grows. Man I loved that book.
aw man . . . that was my FAV book back in the day . . . Where The Red Fern Grows . . . I'm actually getting teary-eyed reminiscing about it right now . . .
Roald Dahl is awesome! Did you ever read Danny the Champion of the World? That one was great. I also loved the Anastasia books and I was completely hooked on anything by Cynthia Voigt (Homecoming, Dicey's Song, etc) or Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle In Time)... hmm looks like I was a big nerd when I was little too. Oh wait, I'm still a big nerd. haha
A Wrinkle in Time is pretty much my favorite book ever
i don't understand this...that book comes up periodically, we always decide it's demonized, adn yet still it's forreste's favorite book
demonized?? you are off your rocker old man dan
the bearenstien bears
yeah that one is a givin.
yeaa.. this guy.. DUHHH!!!!... this guy.. him...
those r my favorite too!
I used to like those "Little Miss" and "Mr." books that were supposed to teach you values. My favorite was always "Mr. Messy", because my room was always clean, so I never understood how a person could be so messy. Upon further reflection, I think the book may have been about Brian's bedroom . . .
dannngggg, it's like that, bruv? puttin' me awn blast like that?! you aint loyal! i said YOU AINT LOYAL! anyway, yet another book i liked was the Wheres Waldo Books. they came out when i was a lil older, but man they entertained me so much. i just appeciated the picture detail and the backrounds--forget waldo, elusive piece of crap!
oh, you thought I was talking about YOU? haha . . . sorry - I should've been more clear . . . oh yeah, I WAS talking about you. Nevermind, then - just be cool my baby
i will cave your head in with your bass drum. and that...will be that.
that's okay, as long as we don't damage the drum - I do have extra drum heads, though
summer has all of those!!
sweeeeeeeeet - can i borrow them?
doubtful she's pretty overprotective of all her childhood stuff since i ruined her prized strawberry shortcake dolls right mel?
Miss Obsessive Compulsive Clean-aholic likes to do what she can while Mr. Messy is wiped out on the couch napping. It's so hard, I want to clean that room SOOOOOOO BAAAAAAAAD.
Ok, i LOVED Green Eggs and Ham (Sam I am). I have the book and silk boxers to prove my love for it. If you ask real nicely i might show you the book...
Perfect 10's. was always a cult classic
what was that book where the kid ate so much chocolate that he got bumps? they were like chocolate chicken pox or sumthing.. any way, i don't remember the name, but that book was great...
do we have it? i think chocolate and i can only think of superfudge
ok i just looked it up... it was called Chocolate Fever... man that book was great..
haha, i remember that one, even the water fountain at school was chocolate somehow.
I remember the book you're talking about...Choclate Touch. A boy who ate so much choclate he was taught a lesson by recieving a coin that supposedly entitled him to a free piece of choclate. Once he ate the choclate everything he ate became choclate, even his toothpaste. I remember in one chapter he kisses his mom and she turns into choclate.
Like King Midas and his golden touch.
anybody ever watch wishbone??? when the dog would act out all these good books. somehow the midas one always stuck with me and when you said this it immediately reminded me of this.
Oh yes, a BIG after school favorite. WAAAAAAY better than cliff notes.
exactly i didn't even really read tale of two cities cuz that one kept repeating when i was supposed to read it so i just watched it a bunch of times and got an A.
I read..most of that. Ok, maybe part of it. Sydney Carton rules!
yeah i started to read it but everytime i tried i would get into that mode where i'm not really understanding the words just reading them and then i had no clue what i just read.
I do that a lot too. But I think I read all of the first part, half of the second and the last page of the book.
Chocolate Touch or was its Chocolate Fever?
They're two different books, in Chocolate Fever the protagonist gets an illness which causes choclate bumps to appear all over his body. In chocolate touch the protagonist over indulges in choclate and gets a midas like choclate touch. Both are cute, the latter is my favorite.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/ref=dp_sr_00/103-5566676-0253412
i liked that hawaiian story "riki tiki tembo yo sa rembo!" and that "it's raining meatballs story..." i also read a story as a kid about a bunch of kids who get into a brutal bloody rock fight. so strange.
hahahha i remember the meatballs thing. and people sailed away on giant waffles...
i also loved "how to eat fried worms!"
ohh yeah. 20 worms? or 50? a worm per day. with ketchup. the kid got a moped! score!
Yes!! That book was soo gross and I think about it every time it rains and there are worms around.
man this book was so crazy and so much fun to read!! saying all the names. and it end.."that is why they no longer name children with long names in china." i was actually gonna say this book if nobody else did.
when i was out in service in MA we were discussing the book "the 5 chinese brothers"...which i thought was quality
That book was quite enjoyable because it's all about cooperation. BUT what about the 7 chinese brother book?
alexander and the terrible horrible no good very bad day
i love this book and still read it when i get really upset on a bad day.
aw! i loved that book! ok but my favorite childrens book would have to be The Stinky Cheese Man! That book took all nursey rhymes but changed them around so that they didn't make sense at all. For example, instead of the story where the lonely old couple makes a gingerbread man, they make a man out of stinky cheese and he goes running around and people die because he smells so bad! Its a really great book! My favorite story was the Little Red Hen because she got so mad that no one was helping her bake her bread... and she just keeps appearing at different points in the book and complaining to everyone. I highly recomend you all go out and read it :)
hahaha watch out for the fox
When I was in high school, my middle school aged sister brought that home from the library. After I made fun of her for checking out a nursery rhyme book, I read it and laughed my head off.
My favorite book by this same author is The Real Story of the Three Little Pigs It has the toungue in cheek sort of humor. When I was little he had a book reading of The stinky Cheese Man at a library I got his autograph. He's pretty nice.