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

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

I'd add Tamora Pierce to the list (YA fantasy, mostly female protagonists). She was a guest at Darkover last year and is coming back this year.

[marag.livejournal.com]

Diana Wynne Jones! The Shoes books! Paddington! Bellairs' House with a Clock!

I think I love you :) Seriously, those are all favorite kids books of mine. (Although my fave Diana Wynne Jones is The Magicians of Caprona, followed by Dark Lord of Derkholm.)

I also love books by EL Konigsburg and about a million other authors I can't think of because my daughter is shrieking like a banshee on my lap.

[kfitzwarin.livejournal.com]

Lloyd Alexander (anything by him)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
31 Brothers & Sisters (great coming-of-age & gender story set in tribal Africa)
Lucky Mrs. Ticklefeather and her Puffin Paul
Phillip the Flower Eating Phoenix
EL Konigsburg (especially From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler)
Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials
C.S. Lewis - Narnia books
Susan Cooper (anything by)
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
All of a Kind Family (the whole series)
The Boxcar Children
Swallows & Amazons

(Hm. I sense a Half.com shopping trip coming, or at least a big library run!)

I wouldn't say the Arrows stories (by Lackey) were "kids books".

What ages?

[kandy-elizabet.livejournal.com]

Some (very much with the "some" part)

For very young: Ok, I'm dredging from when I was very young, so titles might not be accurate...)

*Jenny's Birthday (about a cat named Jenny with pet friends bringing her gifts for her birthday...I think there was another one about the same cat)
*Babar
*Make Way for Ducklings

later years: (I'm not sure when these would be right for... I read them all "way too early" according to the librarian at school and the local library)
* Little House (yup)
* Anne of Green Gables series
* The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (and the other Narnias)
* Nancy Drew (but that's more young adult, isn't it?)
* Aesop (particularly a nicely illustrated one; I had a great one as a kid)

Now, there's another picture book that if I can ever find someone to help me figure out the title of, I would happily search out for any friends with kids. It was done with photographs, a doll and teddy bears; the doll was lost and the teddy bears took her in. I remember we checked it out about every other library trip (those were weekly as I grew up -- says a lot about me doesn't it)

[galinalady.livejournal.com]

1) Winnie the Pooh (we have that one for Sarah)
2) Babar the elephant (I remember this one vividly from my childhood)
3) The Little house series
4) Bear Snores On (Sarah loves this one)
5) Goodnight Moon (Sarah's top favorite book... we are about to get it in a hard copy paper pages. She is wearing out the boardbook)
6) Where the wild things are
7) The napping House

Sarah being 3 years old makes my favorite book selections a bit on the younger side.