Book recs

[serai]

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rabidsamfan just posted a request for book recommendations. She asked for children's and YA books, and I posted a list. I thought other folks out here might be interested, so here is my list:


All of E.B. White
All of Edward Lear
The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden
All of the D'Aulaire books
Padddle-to-the-Sea, by Holling C. Holling
Dr. Seuss, of course
Takes from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb
Books by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Tejima's picture books
The Glass Slipper, by Eleanor Farjeon
The Pippi Longstocking books (These were a great inspiration to me as a girl growing up!)
Anything illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
The Good Master, The Singing Tree, and Philomena by Kate Seredy
A.A. Milne
J.M. Barrie
Bambi, by Felix Salten
L. Frank Baum
Mercer Mayer
Chris Van Allsburg
The Little Prince
The Ship's Cat, by Richard Adams
The Gnu and the Guru Go Behind the Beyond, by Peggy Clifford - a grand book!
The Sheep of the Lal Bagh, by David Mark
Faithful Elephants, by Yukio Tsuchiya - the best inoculation against war I've ever read
The Cookie Tree, by Jay Williams
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and the Jungle Books
All of Marguerite Henry
Edward Gorey - I loved morbid humor as a kid
Books by Roald Dahl - The Magic Finger really bent my brain, but not all his books are quite that weird; Fantastic Mr. Fox is lovely.
Blue Willow, by Doris Gates

and last but certainly not least:
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norman Juster


These are all books that I love dearly, and I think should be available to kids everywhere. Many of them are classics, as you can see, but some are out of the way and hard to find. But they're all gems. (I've included links so you can check out the lesser known ones.)


What kid's books do you have fond memories of?

Comments

[carolina30363.livejournal.com]

Hi, my mum just brought to me your Christmas card ( you sent it to my folk's address) and it was such a nice surprise!

thank you very much!
Hugs

[serai1.livejournal.com]

*smile* I'm glad you got it!

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and of course my all time favorite, Tico and the Golden Wings (after which I named Tico). (Those are both little kid books)

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

You mentioned Pippi Longstocking and I would add anything by Astrid Lindgren - especially Ronia, the Robber's daughter, The Brothers Lionheart and Mio. :)

[serai1.livejournal.com]

I've never read any other Lindgren books. Thanks for the rec!

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

No? She is very popluar over here. In fact, there are schools being named after her here. :)