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Subject: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: VirginiaTam Date: 31 Oct 09 - 11:57 AM Wasn't sure where to put this thread. Under Review or BS. Chose BS to be safe. When I was training to be a teacher, I started collecting books. Wanted to share a few favorites with Mudcat friends as they are great to read out loud littles and grands. Please also share your favorites. 1. The Man Who Lit the Stars, starts dark and sad, ends .... well you read it. The Man Who Lit the Stars 2. The sign of the Seahorse. Incredible artwork, riveting story and it is now set to music. I would love to see animated, but how does that mesh with the artist illustrations? They are stunning. Sign of the Seahorse review The Sign of the Seahorse Graeme Base gallery 3. One World. Wonderful lesson on ecology seen through a tidal pool. One World And there were two in collection of fairytales. 4. The Light Princess. She had no gravity (physical or emotional) due to a witche's curse. My girls loved this one. The Light Princess 5. A Chinese Fary Tale - about an abused servant boy at an artists school, who is drawn into a painting to be taught by a great master painter. If anyone can find anything on this story I would be most grateful. Please share your favorites. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: GUEST,TIA Date: 31 Oct 09 - 12:20 PM Tatterhood Fairy tales from many lands filled with strong girls and women (no damsels in distress) |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: VirginiaTam Date: 31 Oct 09 - 12:26 PM Tatterhood Thanks Tia, Can you name any more of those fairy tales with strong heroines? |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: CarolC Date: 31 Oct 09 - 10:56 PM Sideways Stories From Wayside School I think I probably read hundreds of books to my son, but of all of them, the Wayside School books made me laugh the hardest. My favorite character was Sammy the dead rat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: Joe Offer Date: 31 Oct 09 - 10:59 PM Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, by Simms Tabak, is a wonderful retelling of the Yiddish song. I've alsways liked Where the Wild Things Are and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day, but Joseph is my most recent favorite. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: Bettynh Date: 01 Nov 09 - 12:38 PM Not a book but a story, The Golden Drum was a favorite for my kids. They had their own cassette players from the time they were two years old. They were younger than the recommended 7 years old when they listened to it a lot. Listening to good stories has always been separate in our family from reading books. No bedtime story reading ever ended without The Sleep Book by Dr. Seuss |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: VirginiaTam Date: 01 Nov 09 - 02:20 PM My daughter Andie adored the Sideways Stories. I adored Where the Wild Things Are as an adult, reading to my kids. And the Lorax. I like the description of The Golden Drum. Intriguing that I made an assumption that the Joseph Had a Little Overcoat would be a retelling of the coat of many colours of Old Testament fame. How wrong of me. When I was a small, my Mom bought me a membership in a children's book club. I loved all the beginner books: One Fish, Two Fish Go Dog Go Put me in the Zoo Green Eggs and Ham Are you My Mother Snow Oddly enough and didn't like the Cat in The Hat. Too anxiety provoking for my prim little sensibilities. Too much naughtiness going on in that book. Thinking of starting a best novels for 9 to 13 year olds thread to add the following: A Wind in the Door and A Wrinkle in Time Jacob Have I Loved Bridge to Teribithia Mrs. Osbourne the Mop The Secret Garden Can't remember the titles of two I had as a child. One, about a little girl from the Civil War south who loses her family and is adopted by a couple who are part of the Underground Railroad. All about how she helps to hide and guide escaping slaves. And another, about children hiding the gold when German soldiers come into the town. All I can remember is something about loading the kid's toboggans with the gold and how heavy they were and how the kids had to keep pretending they were having fun climbing the slope past German soldiers when they were tired and afraid of getting caught. What the heck was that book? Thank you for your contributions. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: Bettynh Date: 01 Nov 09 - 04:54 PM I forgot to mention that Syd Lieberman was another favorite for my kids, and his stories are free for the download. Great for listening to in the car. Be careful with littles, tho. Yiddish stories and family stories by him are great, but Poe is scarey, and the Johnstown Flood is all too real. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: SINSULL Date: 02 Nov 09 - 01:46 PM The Twits The Giving Tree were favorites at my house. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: Bettynh Date: 02 Nov 09 - 03:21 PM I could never get through The Giving Tree without crying. My kids had to wait until they could read it themselves. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: Leadfingers Date: 02 Nov 09 - 08:33 PM Good Old Rudyard Kipling and the Just So Stories , Best Beloved ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: katlaughing Date: 02 Nov 09 - 11:51 PM Wonder Tales of the World absolutely captivated me and informed my world. It was my dad's from when he was young and I have it still. There are several strong women in those stories. You may read it all online or download it. I esp. love "Cap O'Rushes." I loved Uncle Wiggly books and Billy Goats Gruff and yes, Kipling! We used to also love the poems of James Whitcomb Riley as well as some other poets. I had a bookseller's email the other day from Biblio which noted folks are really into buying picture books, that is old books for their picture covers and inside artwork. Did any of you see THIS SITE which gargoyle started a thread about? Pretty neat. My grandson loves that you can "turn" the pages with a mouse. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: GUEST,Helen, cookieless Date: 03 Nov 09 - 01:16 AM A modern Oz classic picture book is: Mem Fox: Possum Magic Stories: Eleanor Farjeon: The Little Bookroom Older readers: Ruth Park: Playing Beatie Bow Virginia, The one about the underground railroad might be in this list: booklist - Subject: Underground Railroad › Fiction I used Google search terms: fiction civil war slaves underground railroad Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan I used Google search terms: fiction Germans sleds gold Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: New(ish) Storybook-favorites From: VirginiaTam Date: 03 Nov 09 - 06:03 PM Kat... love that site and I did see it when gargoyle posted it. Helen - Spot on with Snow Treasure. But I went through the list of Underground Railroad stories and didn't see mine. Remember more about the story. The little girl had measles or some sort of fever so could not travel with her family when they were leaving the south and Civil war. Her family were drowned in a river crossing, when she was left behind with either friends or family she was not very close to them. They were strangers to her. She discovered accidentally that they were part of the underground railroad and at first thought she should report them. Later changed her ideas and helped with hiding, taking food to and guiding them to the next stop on the underground railroad. Most delicious scene from a children's book (I don't know which one) about tapping maple trees, the sugaring process and dippers of maple syrup poured out over fresh snow. Children, wrapping the snow crystal laden maple toffee on forks. Don't you just want to do that? Still looking for that Chinese Fairy tale. |
