Best Childrens Book

[Skyryder]

Just been on Pointless Drivel and some childrens books are mentioned.

So what is the best Childrens book ever.

I'd go for Peter Pan. It's got everthing. Pirates, fairys, the perfect family, adventure and a happy ending.

Skyryder

[skidMark]

Ferdinand the bull. LOL

MA

[Hitcher]

Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying. A classic.

[Motu]

Go Dog Go.

[myvice]

The Yellow Pages, you don’t so much read it to them, as hit them around the head till there asleep!

[Scorpygirl]

Noddy and Big Ears. Little Black Sambo (Oh, no, sorry they are now banned by the PC Secret Police!!!! ) WTF. :angry: :doh:

[Pixie]

Fungus the Bogeyman

[Virago]

Dr Seuss's Sleep Book, or indeed anything Dr Seuss.

[Mooch]

Thomas the Tank Engine

[Sniper]

Curious George and the High Voltage fence.

[SARGE]

Penthouse Letters

[XTC]

The Lorax by doctor suess.

[manuboy]

Wizard of Oz / Bad Jelly the Witch (the worm was cool!)

[MSTRS]

Pindi Poo
The Hairy McLarey series

[BuFfY]

We're going on a bear hunt, By Michael Rosen
How to live forever By Colin Thompson, This book has amazing pictures with a lot of intertextuality... I loved it!

[Badcat]

We're going on a bear hunt, By Michael Rosen
How to live forever By Colin Thompson, This book has amazing pictures with a lot of intertextuality... I loved it!

intertextuality???

WTF?

[BuFfY]

intertextuality???

WTF?

It's when a book puts pictures of famous paintings (like the Mona Lisa) or characters into their pictures. It can also be when a TV programme mentions characters from a movie etc. It can be used to provide depth to the fictional reality they are creating.
Authors also refer to their own books in other books to encourage people to read them!

[Biff]

The Gruffalo.....

Amongst others already posted here, including Winnie Pooh, Charlie Chocco farqtree etc

And pretty much everything ever written by Roald Dahl.

[ManDownUnder]

The cat in the hat...

"ahem* (from memory...)


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GREAT book.

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Or "Too many Daves" (Seuss again)
Or "The Sneeches" (same dude)

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Hell I read them (and the kids liek them too...)
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Twist of the wrist 2, my 3yo duznt get it tho!!! might have to get her checked for birth defects....

[ManDownUnder]

Twist of the wrist 2, my 3yo duznt get it tho!!! might have to get her checked for birth defects....

Keep in mind that if you'd been reading "flick of the wrist 2" you wouldn't have a 3yo...

[Sniper]

And pretty much everything ever written by Roald Dahl.

Amen.......

[Beemer]

The Velveteen Rabbit - brings tears to my eyes every time! The version I've got has the most gorgeous illustrations in it too.

Another favourite is I'll Always Love You, about a boy and his dog.

[Colapop]

The story about the giant and the wall he builds around his garden.... Can't remember the title?
The version we've got at home is by Orson Wells - very powerfully written, but ok for kids to understand.
We've got a storybook with various stories that are all pretty good. Many is the night I kept reading the story out loud after they've gone to sleep.

[Cookie]

Where The Wild Things Are.

[Biff]

Where The Wild Things Are.

Oh yeah - I forgot about that one. Big rispekt.

[mstriumph]

....................

So what is the best Childrens book ever.

I'd go for Peter Pan. It's got everthing. Pirates, fairys, the perfect family, adventure and a happy ending.

Skyryder

........... DEFINATELY the bible

its contradictory, written in archaic language, full of arcane concepts, makes overwhelming but improbable promises/dire threats and is so mainstream to our culture that everyone has to deal with it sooner or later .........

.......making it the perfect means of introducing kiddlies to the realities of leases, hire purchase agreements, insurance proposals and the million and one OTHER bits of legalistic paper that's gonna litter their pathway thru adulthood to the grave ...... :wacko:

[MSTRS]

Keep in mind that if you'd been reading "flick of the wrist 2" you wouldn't have a 3yo...
"You must spread..." DAMN that deserved a greenie

[Krayy]

...
Or "Too many Daves" (Seuss again)
...
I love reading this story to the girls as you can go completely manic when going through the names. The only suspect moment is when Suess suggests that one of the Daves be called "Soggy Muff" :rofl:

But my favourite Dr Suess story is "The Big Brag" where a Rabbit and Bear try to outdo each other and are finally trumped by a smart-ass worm.

[miSTa]

A mate bought a friend of his a book the other day "The Joys of Anal Sex" from Borders - it has adventure, fairies, and a happy ending. Probably not really suitable for children...

Seriously though Skyryder, for what age and sex, i.e. best for who?

BTW I like Bimbo and Topsy, Enid Blyton.

[sunhuntin]

big bad bruce, by bill peet. i have fond memories of being read that book by dad, and his name is bruce. we have quite a stack of bill peet books. i usually make cards for the parents for their birthdays. one year i drew big bad bruce on the front of dads....he still has it.
http://www.billpeet.net/PAGES/index.htm
also loved go dog go, anything by babette cole [princess smartypants rides a norton!!]
graeme base is great too....his illustrations are the best.

[What?]

Green eggs and ham!

[yungatart]

Badjelly the Witch, and The Ugly Duckling- oh, how that used to make me cry! Poor little fella- bullied and picked on...

[In The Breeze]

The Lion the witch and the waredrobe:niceone:

[Swoop]

Wizard of Oz / Bad Jelly the Witch (the worm was cool!)

You refer to Mudwiggle, the worm!

Anything by Spike is excellent. Rommel, Gunner Who? for example... (OK, needs clarification on the intended age group here)

[chris]

Silly Verse for Kids by Spike Milligan. Great illustrations in the book as well.

[Swoop]

Silly Verse for Kids by Spike Milligan. Great illustrations in the book as well.
Oh YEEESSS!!!!!!


One afternoon
a silly baboon
decided to fly
to the sun.

[WRT]

Give 'em the dictionary to read. It's not got much of a plot, but at least it explains each word as you go along.

& it wiL hlp stp ur kds frm writiN lIk DIS

[Darryboy]

One that I had as a child was Struwwelpeter (http://www.fln.vcu.edu/struwwel/struwwel.html). A translation from a German book that teaches that if you suck your thumbs a crazy scissor man will cut them off; or if you play with matches you'll burn to death; and other "don't do this or this will happen" scenarios.

[Swoop]

Give 'em the dictionary to read. It's not got much of a plot, but at least it explains each word as you go along.

& it wiL hlp stp ur kds frm writiN lIk DIS

An excellent idea. Much more useful than books that are novels, like "the bible"...

[Skyryder]

Seriously though Skyryder, for what age and sex, i.e. best for who?

BTW I like Bimbo and Topsy, Enid Blyton.

I think a good childrens book crosses gender. For example Biggles, great for boys, but girls well perhaps in this day and age, but not when they were written.

Rupert the Bear is another one. OK so its got pictures but while that is another childrens book there were so many stories it would be difficult for me to place that in the catorgory that I am speaking of. Biggles incedent lwould be in the same vein as there are so many stories. Both rely on the charector.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves I rate pretty high but though I have not read Harry Potter and he's got to be up there with the best.

Still Peter Pan...................is my pick.

Skyryder

[Scorpygirl]

The story about the giant and the wall he builds around his garden.... Can't remember the title?


The story is the Selfish Giant and it is by Oscar Wilde. Cool story indeed and one that was often played on the 1ZB children's story time.

[kro]

anything Dr Seuss.

Darn tootin

[Scorpygirl]

My favourite children's story was a Golden Book called "Big Red" about an Irish Red Setter. Later on I enjoyed Manx Mouse and the Snow Goose by Paul Gallico.

[Hitcher]

For example Biggles, great for boys
Biggles Flies Undone. A personal favourite...

[DMNTD]

How about...

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