Thursday Thirteen#8: Childhood Tales and Stories
By APOOO • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Thursday Thirteen •
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Welcome to another week of Thursday Thirteen. In keeping with this month’s Head of the Class spotlight and in honor of Book Blogger’s Appreciation Week this week’s Thursday Thirteen pays tribute to favorite childhood books. And, it’s a two-fer; meaning that there will actually be two categories. I’m going to showcase books that I enjoyed as a child and introduced to my kids and they also enjoyed. I will also feature books that my kids enjoyed and they became favorites for me as well. Reading is a family affair in the Coleman household and it’s so joyous at times to see the TV off, computers on standby, sometimes the I-pod is nearby but all of us are curled up reading a good book.
Thirteen Books From My Childhood That I Introduced To My Kids
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
- The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
- The Very Hungry Little Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- Stuart Little by E. B. White
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
- The Nancy Drew Series
- The Hardy Boy Series
- Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Clifford the Big Red Door Series
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Thirteen Kids Books That I Discovered Because of My Kids
- Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
- Colors Come From God Just Like Me by Carolyn A. Forshe
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
- The Berenstein Bears Series by Jan and Stan Berenstein
- Baby Dance by Ann Taylor
- Magic Schoolbus Series by Joanna Coles
- The Cheetah Girl Series by Deborah Gregory
- Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pikey
- Many Colors of Mother Goose by Cheryl Willis Hudson
- Psalms 23 by Tim Ludwig
- Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park
- Guess How Much I Loved You by Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram
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I see some of my faves on your list. My daughter loved Junie B. Jones. I love Harry Potter, she’s not into him too much.
I may have to steal this for next week.
Hey Jennifer …go ahead and take it…I’m taking your candy one for the month of October and Halloween.
You have a few of my FAVS!!!
Corduroy, Chronicles of Narnia, The Magic Schoolbus series, The Very Hungry Caterpillar…
I also liked The Snowy Day, The Paddington Bear series, and Hats for Sale (not sure if that’s the title but I know that’s what the man said…lol).
Darnetta’s last blog post..Thursday Thirteen #5…what was that u said?
Yep Snowy Day should have been on my list.
Boy, it strikes me that there weren’t/aren’t a lot of African American stories. I’ve never thought of that before. Was that hard? Is it hard for your kids? Sheez….
You do have great book taste!
On a Limb with Claudia’s last blog post..Thursday Thirteen : Thirteen Ifs
Thirteen books we introduced to each other:
Number 1 Favorite. All The Colors of the Earth, by Sheila Hamanaka
Number 2 Favorite. Honey I Love and Other Poems, by Eloise Greenfield
3.The Bear & The Fly by Paula Winter
4. Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
5. Hiroshima No Pika, by Toshi Maruki
6. How I Learned to Like Geography, by Uri Shulevitz
7. anything by Tommy daPaola
I have to end here, since I refuse to list the sexist, racist Disney books (and videos)that the kids find so endlessly endlessly fascinating! That’s why they grow up thinking it doesn’t matter whether Solange Knowles can utter a note as long as she looks like that!
nbmars AT yahoo DOT com
Anne’s last blog post..Winner of First Contest for Book Bloggers Appreciation Week
Many of our favorites are on your first list. I know only a few from the second.
Barbara H.’s last blog post..Thursday Thirteen: Commercials from my childhood
I didn’t read any of those as a child but I hve read a couple since becoming *cough* a mature adult!
Nicholas’s last blog post..Thursday Thirteen #65
I tried to interest my daughter in the Nancy Drew books, which I’d absolutely loved as a kid–she wasn’t interested.
Darla’s last blog post..TT #109
“Sweet Pickle Books”
“Roll of thunder, Hear my Cry”
“Nothing’s fair in Fifth Grade”
I loved those books!
A trip down memory lane…
1. A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
2. Any Dr. Suess
3. Encyclopedia Brown series – Donald Sobol
4. Any Beverly Cleary
5. Any Judy Blume (Who didn’t read “Are You There God It’s Me Margaret”?!?!)
6. The Little Engine That Could – Watty Piper
7. Mother Goose
8. Choose Your Own Adventure books
9. The Three Little Pigs
10. Goldilocks and the Three Bears
11. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
12. The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams
13. Corduroy – Don Freeman
Ms. Toni’s last blog post..Ms Toni gave 5 stars to: The Sweetest Taboo
1. Deenie By Judy Blume
2. Are you there God it’s me Margaret By Judy Blume
3. Nothing is Fair in the 5th grade By Barthe DeClements
4. Sixth grade can really kill you By barthe DeClements
5. How do you loose those 9th grade blues By Barthe DeClements
6. Seventeen and In between By Barthe DeClements
7. Wren
These are the ones that stick out to me.
I see most of my favorites posted already that I’ve read…..but I also enjoyed
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
Some of my OES sisters started a youth book club for the kids that kicked off on Sept. 8th, they are reading:
Kindergartens “Dr. Seusss Horton Hears A Who”
1st – 2nd “Charlotte’s Webb” by E.B. White
3rd -5th “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” by Ronald Dahl
6th – 8th “Tears of a Tiger” by Sharon Draper
I was a book nerd and I read a lot of adult books before I should have. I remember reading Donald Goines in the 6th grade along with “Coming of Age in Mississippi” Go Ask Alice and a few other dark titles.
Favorite authors not listed – Alice Childress, Walter Dean Mosley, S.E. Hinton, margaret Taylor,
My son turned me on to – Little Bill Series
I picked up the Cheetah Girls, June B
There were always books in my house and we went to the library all the time.
Some of my childhood favorites were:
Beverly Clearly books- Ramona was one of them and just happens to be my middle name.
The Nancy Drew series- The Clue in the Diary was my first and I still have it!
Agatha Christie mysteries.
Heck, I read everything and some things I had no business as Cilla did. LOL
With my daughter I was introduced to:
The Babysitters Club series
Anything to do with Strawberry Shortcake and family
When she was in high school, I loved her required readings more than her. We read Beloved and The Scarlet Letter together
Dera’s last blog post..I’ve Been Called Out
no kids but boy did you list some of my faves!
The Nancy Drew Series. Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret(what girl has NOT read this classic), anything with Dr. Suess, Sounder…Charlotte’s Web(cry every time I finish the book and don’t get me started with the movie version)
through nieces and nephews…
Goose Bumps, Chronicles of Narnia…too many to name
Lisa…oh yeah definitely Sounder!