Cool kids' books resources

[bunnyjadwiga]

Booksense's summer picks:
http://www.booksense.com/bspicks/kidspicks/sum05index.jsp

Summer Reading recommended by Hornbook editors:
http://www.hbook.com/booklists/summer.asp

Summertime favorites, listed by the National Endowment for the Humanities:
http://www.neh.gov/projects/summertimefavorites.html

International Digital Children's Literature (online books!)
http://www.icdlbooks.org/

Burlington Public Library kid's books lists:
http://www.bpl.on.ca/kids/books/lists/listsmain.htm

Seattle PI suggested summer books:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/178766_kidsbooks21.html

So, what are your favorite kids' books?

Some of mine would be:
1) Winnie the Pooh
2) Charmed Life (Diana Wynne Jones)
3) Skating Shoes (Noel Streatfeld)
4) The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis)
5) A Bear Called Paddington
6) Cricket in Times Square
7) The House with a Clock in its walls
8) The Little House series...

Comments

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

1. Barbapapa series
2. Caddie Woodlawn
3. The Dark is Rising series
4. Redwall series
5. Tale of Despereaux
6. Garth Nix's Sabriel trilogy
7. Sorcery and Cecilia

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

Eek! How could I forget:

1. Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series
2. Mercedes Lackey (Arrows trilogy)
3. The Sunfire historical romances (YA)
4. Nancy Drew

ooh...

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

Just bought a copy of Time Cat for one of my nieces (it's in the car somewhere, *sigh* but Prydain is one of my favorite series too.
Then there's Trixie Belden... I even read Bobbsey Twins and Happy Holisters as a kid, and I still pick up all the Boxcar Children books.

[marag.livejournal.com]

Sorcery and Cecelia is one of my favorite books of all time. I just gave it to my niece :)

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

Have you read The Grand Tour yet (sequel)? It's supposed to be out in paperback here in a while.

[marag.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I borrowed it from someone and it was a lot of fun :) I was so excited just to have a sequel after rereading the original so many times.

Sequel

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

It's not as good as the original but it's quite good. And of course there are Wrede's books set in the same universe. Its a toss up between Mairelion the Magician and Magician's Ward.
Have you read Elizabeth Marie Pope's _Perilous Gard_ and _Sherwood Ring_ ?

oooh...

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

I forgot Dark is Rising and didn't put in Sorcery and Cecilia or the other DWJ's (like Howl's Moving Castle) or Robin McKinley because I was thinking kid's books.
Caddie Woodlawn is great too.

blast, another one!

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

Garth Nix-- I'm not as big on the Sabriel books but The Keys series (Mister Monday, etc.) are great.

Professor Diggin's Dragons

Four Story Mistake, And Then there were Five and other books by that author. YUM!