What Your Favorite Kids Book Then Says About You Now

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Everyone had a favorite book as a kid – you know, that tattered old thing you carried from room to room and made you parents read out loud to you over and over again, the one that you quoted until you were, um, a little too old to be doing so.

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[Mary Daugherty]

10:52 PM on 04/12/2011

Well, now I know why I like Where the Wild Things Are.

[Knothare1230]

07:43 AM on 04/12/2011

The Tuning Fork-Lol . I remember my mom getting a little serious and asking me why I loved that book. I was clueless to her apprehension. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears is another I loved and i grew up loving folklore and still do. My fav to read to my Kids( they're only 2 and 3) is the Runaway Bunny. While they prefer anything with dinosaurs (esp How do dinosaur say good night) and Harold and the Purple Crayon.

[RobJames]

03:46 AM on 04/12/2011

Dr. Seuss's ABC "Big A little a what begins with a? Aunt Annie's Alligator A,A,A!!!"

[New Yorker]

01:28 PM on 04/11/2011

Most of my ability to read today began with comic books my father would regularly bring home that he bought off the news satnds where he bought the newspapers he read. Donald Duck, Scrooge Mc Duck, Goofy, then there were the 'Classic Comics' which were comic book versions of things l;ike HG Wells 'Journey To The Center of The Earth' or 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea', and many other titles. By siblings and I always scored far ahead of our classes in school in our ability to read and to comprehend what we read. I have been a raeder of books all my life. I consider it a tragedy that more children have not the advbantage of comic books, as i had, and especially those excellent 'Classic Comic' series that have been out of print for 50 years. They sure beat the hell otta, "see spot Run" which sounded moronic to me by the time they made me read it in school.

[naschkatze]

12:34 PM on 04/11/2011

My favorites are not up there. Boy of the Pyramids. All-of-a-Kind Family. Katrinka, Story of a Russian Child. They do indicate my life long interests however.

[Woods-shade]

12:28 PM on 04/11/2011

Stone Soup. Loved it, still love it. I keep a goodly sized stone in a pouch to make my own "stone soup". ( potato, chicken, etc. ) It's fun.

[marika48]

12:23 PM on 04/11/2011

An interesting idea, but confusing article. I think the intro "made your parents read aloud over and over", could only apply to children's picture books, such as "where the Wild Things Are" If, as a toddler, my child begged to be put to bed with readings from, say, " Lord of the Flies", wouldn't that be a little disconcerting?
The picture books I loved as a beginning reader remain seared in my memory, I could probably recite the stories now, at 50. My favorites were often about anthropomorphized animals, such as "Ferdinand the Bull" and "Little Bear".