favourite books for reading aloud to children ...

[weepiper]

Another vote for Where the Wild Things Are - I think I've read that to little weepiper so often I'll still be able to recite it off by heart to my kids' kids. My other two favourites were also my own favourite when I was little - 'The Elephant and the Bad Baby' ('...and so the elephant stretched out his trunk and took an ice cream for himself and an ice cream for the Bad Baby, and they went rumpeta rumpeta rumpeta all down the road with the ice cream man running after....') and 'The Terrible Tiger' ('the tiger leered, the tiger sneered, he snorted through his nose: "What is this nonsense you propose? I'll eat your fruit, you poor buffoon, but then before the clock strikes noon, I'll swallow you just like a prune, your head and then your toes!" And gobble, gobble, down he went, for what the tiger said he meant...') Genius

 

[pennimania]

I've just remembered ' I'm Coming to Get you!' by Tony Rossi ( I think)

all my kids both loved and feared this book, but always asked for it! The monster apparently was terrifying even though they knew he was the size of a tack!

Really recommend (sp) this one

 

[Thora_v1]

My other two favourites were also my own favourite when I was little - 'The Elephant and the Bad Baby' ('...and so the elephant stretched out his trunk and took an ice cream for himself and an ice cream for the Bad Baby, and they went rumpeta rumpeta rumpeta all down the road with the ice cream man running after....')

Oooh, I remember that one! One of my favourites too.

My absolute favourite as a child was 'Dogger', about a little boy who had a little toy dog called Dogger. Although the word has different connotations now...

 

[ice-is-forming]

the "Child Down Well" thread in general has been derailed somewhat by a discussion about Stanley Bagshaw.
So lets carry on the discussion and broaden it out here ...

So my faves to read aloud to my son were Stanley Bagshaw - the rythm and rhyme are great and you get to do a comedy northern accent and there's loads of extra little stuff going on in the illustrations that you can point out when you're reading it for the umpteenth time.

Burglar Bill is great too - just because I really enjoyed saying "that's a nice toothbrush, I'll have that"

When I was little I used to love having Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories read to me - specially the one about how the elephant got its trunk ...

winnie the pooh

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

If I keep this up, I'll get all sentimental.....