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November 19, 2006
78, or 77? I Got a Different Number the Second Time and I'm Not Counting Them a Third
Oh, bother. Everyone else is doing it....
Mark the selections you have read in bold. If you liked it, add a star (*) in front of the title, if you didn't, give it a minus (-). Then put the total number of books you've read in the subject line.
*Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
*The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
*Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
*The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
*Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (On a good day, I can recite much of this book from memory.)
-Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch
*The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (I have to recognize the faults in this as an adult, but I loved it without reservation as a kid.)
*The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Another one I have almost memorized because I've read it so often.)
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
*The Mitten by Jan Brett (Read it in storytime just this week.)
*Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (Let's not forget "Good Night, Margaret Wise Brown.")
*Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
*The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
*Where the Sidewalk Ends: the Poems and Drawing of Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein (I have such fond memories of this being read aloud to me in school when I was in the fourth grade.)
*Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (I seriously just finished this two weeks ago.)
*Stellaluna by Janell Cannon (Stellaluna's visiting WPL in April.)
*Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss (It's not my favorite Seuss, but it will do.)
*Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
*Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst (Story of my life.)
*Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
*Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
-The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (I read it when I was a kid, and even then I thought it was completely sappy. Sue me.)
*A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (I agree with Wallace Wallace.)
*How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
*The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
*Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault (Yesterday I was up behind the circ desk looking for the book while muttering "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" to myself when my coworker Tim of Spoonful of Vicodin -- drummer in clip -- provided the "Will there be enough room?" Then we had a brief discussion about the animated version by Weston Woods, which we agreed is very fun. Full of surprises, that Tim.)
*Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
*The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
-The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (I listened to this on audio and HATED the reader, and that's really colored my opinion of the entire series.)
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
*Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
*Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The BFG by Roald Dahl
*The Giver by Lois Lowry
*If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
*James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (This has to be high up on my most-frequently-reread list, and I didn't read it for the first time until I was perhaps 28.)
*Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
*The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
*Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
-The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
*Corduroy by Don Freeman
*Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
*Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
*Matilda by Roald Dahl
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
*Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (I like to booktalk the part where Fudge swallows the turtle.)
*Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
*Are You My Mother? by Philip D. Eastman
*The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
*Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
*One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
*The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
*The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
*The Napping House by Audrey Wood
*Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Although it always makes me cry....)
*The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
*Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
*The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
*Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
*Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss (This was one of my late husband's favorites. He would frequently quote it in everyday conversation.)
Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus (I've never even heard of this book or this author.)
-The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper (The clown, the clown, the clown. *shudders*)
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
-Curious George by Hans Augusto Rey
Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox (I've read many other books by Mem Fox, of whom I'm very fond. I had a brief conversation with her at a conference in which she told me that her book Where is the Green Sheep? is no good unless you read it aloud, which is true. Between that and the cool accent, it's really hard not to like her.)
*Arthur series by Marc Tolon Brown (I haven't read them ALL, but the ones I've read are fun.)
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
*Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
*Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
*The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
*/-The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown (I can't decide on this one.)
*Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
*Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
*Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
*A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
*Stuart Little by E. B. White
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
*The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Art Lesson by Tomie De Paola
*Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina ("You monkeys you!!!")
*Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
*Heidi by Johanna Spyri
*Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss (Ditto above.)
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
-Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney (*retching sound*)
*The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch
Posted by adrienne at November 19, 2006 08:31 AM
Comments
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant - an elephant's faithful one hundred percent. Yeah - who could NOT love Horton?
I always loved Curious George when I was a kid. Recently I read through it at my niece's place and discovered that it's horribly...well...for lack of a better word, racist. Too bad...out of context George is still a cutie.
Posted by: shnootre at November 19, 2006 07:25 PM
This makes me think that I really need to keep my book thing account (or whatever its called) up to date so I can keep track of all the books I've read. It drives me mad when I know that I've read a book, I sort of know what its about, but I can't remember the title or who wrote it. bLEFH. (I meant to do that). More work. But I love it! I think.
Posted by: Cathy at November 20, 2006 11:34 AM
Ah, that is one of the lines Bri loved to quote. :)
Cathy, You reminded me to update my Library Thing. Sometimes I forget to add things I've read, but I've found it handy more than once now to find books I remembered but couldn't quite remember the title. I also used it to help pull together booklists more than once. I think it will get more and more useful as I use it more and add more titles, although, goodness knows, it's another thing to keep up with. So many things, etc....
Posted by: adrienne at November 20, 2006 12:18 PM
But then it's so much fun to go to some poor unsuspecting library and say "I know I've read this book and it's about this and I don't know the title/author but I'm sure it's a blue book" and that's when said unsuspecting librarian gets to play detective with all kinds of keyword searches. (Can't CARL sort books by color?!)
Posted by: Pat at November 20, 2006 02:27 PM
Where's Babar? Old Yeller? The Black Stallion?
I think I used to like "Mr Popper's Penguins". "The Trumpet of the Swan" made me sad. "James and the Giant Peach" freaked me out, I found it rather abstract, but I always read ahead of my self.
Posted by: Sally at November 20, 2006 03:02 PM
I tried resisting, but I'm finally giving in and offering my own random list of books I've read and ewnjoyed muchly. This has nothing to do with children's or YA lit, though.
WOODY ALLEN, WITHOUT FEATHERS
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN, TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA
KAREL ČAPEK, WAR WITH THE NEWTS
JIM DODGE, FUP
CHARLES G. FINNEY, THE CIRCUS OF DR. LAO
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
DANIEL KEYES, FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
ANITA LOOS, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
ELIZABETH McCRACKEN, THE GIANT’S HOUSE
H L MENCKEN, IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN
TIM O’BRIEN, THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE, A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
WALTER WANGERIN, JR., THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW
NATHANIEL WEST, A COOL MILLION
E.B. WHITE & JAMES THURBER, IS SEX NECESSARY?
Posted by: Craig at November 23, 2006 01:02 AM
Craig - for those of us who didn't have time to read the book, you'll have to give us the answer... Is sex necessary???
Posted by: JJ at November 29, 2006 08:39 AM