RECENTLY I put a call out on Facebook, asking my 'friends" to name their favorite children's books. This was in preparation for an ALL SIDES WEEKEND/BOOKS broadcast.
My guests were WOSU's wonderful book critic Kassie Rose, Ryan Buley, Youth Services Manager at the New Albany branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, and Melia Wolf, owner of the Cover to Cover bookstore.
Author Ben Hatke joined us on the phone. his latest graphic novel is a re-telling of Jack and the Bean Stalk: Might Jack
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE CHILDREN'S BOOKS? LEAVE A NOTE HERE ON THIS POST!
You can find the show archived at http://radio.wosu.org/post/all-sides-weekend-books-17
I had over two hundred replies!
Here's the list of people's favorite children's books.
* = multiple votes
I'm delighted that so many titles I loved 50+ years ago are still loved and read today.
I also found several titles I forgot I had loved.
It was like being re introduced to beloved old friends after a long time.
Such are the gifts and emotional ties of books!
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Favorite
Children’s Books
For an ALL
SIDES WEEKEND broadcast (August 18, 2017) on children’s books, I asked my
Facebook friends to share their favorite titles.
I got lots
of responses-thank you!-that is a good problem to have.
Here we go!
*Charlotte’s
Web
Emil and the
Detectives
Goodbye
Mister Chips
*The Secret
Garden
Goodnight
Moon
A Tree Grows
in Brooklyn
The Giving
Tree
*The Phantom
Toll Booth
Winnie the
Pooh and the A.A. Milne books
The Wind in
the Willows (my favorite)
Sylvester
and the Magic Pebble
The Country
Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
*A Wrinkle
in Time
The Little
Engine That Could
*The Hardy
Boys series
*Nancy Drew
series
*Johnny
Tremaine
Heidi
*Where the
While Things Are and all Maurice Sendak
*Dr. Seuss
Curious
George series
Pipi
Longstocking series
Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang
James and
the Giant Peach
The Snowy
Day
Harriet the
Spy
We Shook the
Family Tree
The Wizard
of Oz
The
Velveteen Rabbit
Good Dog
Carl
Brave Cowboy
Bill
*The Boxcar
Children (Margaret Warner)
Mike
Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Are You
There God, It’s Me, Margaret (Judy Blume)
Momo and the
Yellow Umbrella
*Alice in
Wonderland
Prince
Caspian
*Narnia
Series
*The Black
Stallion
Misty of
Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Jan Brett
books
The Castle
of Grumpy Grouch
The Stinky
Cheese Man
Honey Bunch
Series
*The Little
Prince
Stand Back
Said the Elephant, I’m going to Sneeze!
Black and
Blue Magic
The Treasure
of Alphoneus T. Winterborn
Betsy Tacy
Series ( Maude Hart Lovelace)
*All of a
Kind Family series
*Five Little
Peppers and How They Grew
Beverly
Cleary books: Henry Huggins, Ramona
*Make Way
for Ducklings
Marjorie
Morningstar
Grimm Fairy
Tales
Geraldine
Belinda
Treasure
Island
Robin Hood
*Black
Beauty
The Happy
Hollisters
The Way
Things Work
Bambi
The Princess
and Curdie
Ginger Pye
John Henry
Lad, a Dog
The Monster
at the End of This Book (with Grover)
The Pokey
Little Puppy
Harold and
the Purple Crayon
Ferdinand
the Bull
In Beyond
Zebra (Seuss)
Huckleberry
Finn
Cheaper by
the Dozen
Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory
The
Puschcart War
The Red
Balloon
Alexander
and the Magic Mouse
Danny Dunn
series
Little Women
The Little
Princess
Mr. Bear
Squash You all Flat
Bartholomew
and the Oobleck
A Series of
Unfortunate Events
My Father’s
Dragon
Peter Rabbit
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