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Shay
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Posted: Wed Apr 25th, 2007 02:38 pm |
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As I'm reading aloud regularly to my last Pre-K'er, I thought I'd share what our family's favorite books to read aloud. I'd love to hear other's experience as well.
These 3 titles are bind-ups of Little Golden Books in hardcover, gold-edged form....beautiful illustrations... Highly Recommended! To top it off, they are economical and look great on the bookshelf. These are stories you remember as a child and will want to read to your grandchildren. Also, my older dc enjoy reading them to the younger.
1. Animal Tales: 13 stories. Includes Saggy Baggy Elephant, Home for a Bunny, Tawny Scrawny Lion, Animal Friends, Mister Dog and others.
2. Sleepytime Tales: 12 stories including The Pokey Little Puppy, The Color Kittens, The Sailor Dog (my ds's favorite.....I must have read this one a hundred times), The Sleepy Book and others.
3. Farm Tales: 12 stories including The Shy Little Kitten, Animals of Farmer Jones, Baby Farm Animals, Fuzzy Duckling, Little Red Hen, Two Little Gardeners and others.
The next ones are favorites and also bind-ups of many stories
1. Curious George and Friends: Contains stories that the Rey's wrote other than Curious George . INcludes Curious George, Cecily G. and the 9 Monkeys, Elizabite, Pretzel, Katy No-Pocket, Spotty, Billy's Picture, Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World
2. Virginia Burton Treasury : Contains Mike Mulligan, Katy the Snow Shovel, The Little House, and Maybelle the Cable Car (we personally couldn't get into Maybelle).
3. Curious George Treasury: A huge book filled with Curious George stories.
4. The Twentieth Century Treasury
5. Beatrix Potter (we love them all)
6. Richard Scarry's "Best Storybook Ever"
7. The Usborne Big Book of Things to Spot
We recently discovered that you can email a wish list to Grandma (for birthday or Christmas), she can just click and buy . My mother soooooo appreciated this last year as she gets overwhelmed walking into a bookstore and trying to pick out for the children.
What were/are your children's favorites at this age?
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AmyZ
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Posted: Wed Apr 25th, 2007 11:33 pm |
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Good list! Here are some my son particularly liked when in preschool:
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen
This was a Caldecott winner and while the illustrations caught my son's attention, the words stuck with him. Some of the phrasing just begged to be read with a French accent, which I obliged. Of course, I tend to ham it up for read-alouds. 
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
This was a must-read every snow day, and it still gets pulled out for old times' sake! I remember loving this story as well growing up, and I grew up where there was no snow!
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Son used to love to go to the furniture department of Hechts to look for Corduroy on the beds...
The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle
Yes, he liked Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, but I think The Very Quiet Cricket was his favorite Eric Carle book. Not sure if it would have gone over so well without the chirping at the end!
I'll have to go back through some old journals and find more!
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AmyZ
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Posted: Mon Apr 30th, 2007 01:20 pm |
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I just thought of this one! It's really for younger preschoolers, but it's fun for "big kids" to "read" along with:
Doggies by Sandra Boynton
Ham it up and get everyone woofing along! Just don't try to distract with it in church... 
Last edited on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 01:21 pm by AmyZ
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AmyZ
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Posted: Tue May 1st, 2007 06:31 am |
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More, more! These are the fun read-alouds to me!
Cassie, where are you?
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
"Caps! Caps for sale! Fifty cents a cap!" Don't read this one unless you want to hear that sung out now and again for no apparant reason. And then there's the occassional monkey impressions. "Tst! Tst! Tst!" It has to be good if he's repeating it, right? *grin*
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Shay
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Posted: Tue May 1st, 2007 02:31 pm |
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Yes.......Caps for Sale is a must read! And, if your dh has stacks of caps around (like mine does) your young child can stack them up on top of their head!
Here are some more: (How could I have forgotten Dr. Seuss??)
Are You My Mother? by P.D Eastman
Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire
Ten Apples Up on Top? By Seuss
Yertle the Turtle ? Seuss
Also, my ds likes these golden oldies:
Wonders of Nature by Jane Werner Watson
Guess Who Lives Here by Louise Woodcock
The two above titles are Little Golden Books and can be found individually, OR in a bind-up book of 9 beloved classics titled Eloise Wilkin Stories. I would say that the majority of these books would appeal to the younger Pre-K crowd......many of the stories would appeal to 1, 2 and 3 year olds. The illustrations are gorgeous.
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AmyZ
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Posted: Thu May 3rd, 2007 05:56 am |
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
How could I forget this one??? 
"Chicka Chicka Boom Boom--will there be enough room?" We chanced into an edition with an audio tape. I can't remember who was doing th ereading, but it disappointed me. Of course, that meant I had to read aloud more... :lol
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew by Dr. Seuss
One of my all-time favorite Dr. Seuss books, but not exactly a PC message in this day and age. It ends:
I bought a big bat
And so, now you see,
My troubles are going
To have Troubles with me!
It's my mantra.
I picked up Six By Seuss when son was microscopic (plan ahead!) and that has been a favorite, especially The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. I wouldn't have guessed that one. Another good Seuss book is Sneetches, which contains several stories including, in addition to the title story, "What was I Scared Of?"
I said and said and said those words
I said them
but I lied them...
My son is going to wonder why mom suddenly wants to read all his Dr. Seuss books aloud... :lol
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 04:07 am |
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Robert Munch!
My daughter loves all of his books. She gets the humor and likes them to be read to her over and over.
We don't have I Will Love You Forever. I find that book creepy. I know it one of those love it or hate it books.
Jessica
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Cassie
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 09:20 am |
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Here I am!
You know, it would be impossible for me to list all our favorites (mostly because it is hard for me to recall- even though I still have a 4 year old!) All of the Before Five in a Row books are first class. Their list is here:
http://www.fiveinarow.com/before/booklist.html
The interesting thing is that all three of my kids have had different "favorites". I think you have to just find a book that clicks with the child, and to do that you have to check out a lot of library books!
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Posted: Wed May 9th, 2007 04:49 am |
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Jessica, that is an odd book. I hadn't seen it before. We need an "Odd Book" thread...
Almost forgot Ricki Tiki Tembo (No Sa Rembo Chari Bari Roochie, Pip Peri Pembo...), There are some discussions about whether this book is a good thing ...
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Posted: Wed May 9th, 2007 02:12 pm |
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I grew up with Ricki Tikki Tembo and can recite it all (maybe there is something there- I am the second child, and a girl at that!  ). I can see how it is un-PC, but I still like it. When the kids were younger I did edit out some of the more harsh 2nd son stuff, but now the boys are old enough to understand why that was said. It is a classic- so it is good enough for me. I read the other day that some think that Babar is a bad book!
Forgot to mention the Olivia books-- a lot of the humor is over a preschooler's head, but the drawings are priceless!
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AmyZ
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Posted: Thu May 10th, 2007 01:18 pm |
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Bad on me... That should be Tiki Tiki Tembo. It's Riki Tiki Tavi that's the mongoose....
I will not post when sleepy any more!!
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AmyZ
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Posted: Mon May 14th, 2007 05:05 am |
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How could I forget The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf?? This is one I loved growing up and I remember the first time I read it to my son when he was about three years old he was so enthralled he whispered, "Ferdinand!" when I read the question in the book "And do you know who that was?" I had to ad lib a "that's right" in there...I hope Mr. Leaf doesn't mind....
Georgie the story of a good-natured ghost by Robert Bright was another time after time favorite. I think it was the repetition in the story phrasing that appealed to my son at that age.
One more: Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag (say it "gog"). The refrain,
There were hundreds of cats,
Thousands of cats
Millions and billions and trillions of cats
has worked its way into a few conversations with the boy ("hundreds of cicadas, thousands of cicadas...")
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Posted: Fri May 18th, 2007 03:03 am |
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Another favorite I was recently reminded of is "Stand Back, " Said the Elephant, "I'm Going to Sneeze!" by Patricia Thomas. A very funny story of animals begging the elephant not to sneeze. He laughs instead.........lots of fun to read.
Also, an old-fashioned gem that my dc really enjoyed at about age 5 is Favorite Uncle Wiggily Animal Bedtime Stories by Howard Garis. Tells of the adventures of the "Littletail" family of rabbits and some narrow escapes from danger. This one had them begging for "just one more chapter, pleeeeeeese?"
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Posted: Fri May 18th, 2007 12:59 pm |
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How could I forget Uncle Wiggly??? Those stories are great--orginally read on the radio in the evenings as a service to help get children ready for bed.
Aesop Fables are fun to read and kind of act out sometimes. Project Gutenberg has a beautifully illustrated one for free on line if you'd like to read to your children from the computer for a change of pace. You want one of HTML versions of Aesop for Children illustrated by Milo Winter.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19th, 2007 03:50 am |
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I really feel bad to say this, but I've tried to read The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne umpteen times to each of my dc and it flops every time. We absolutely adore the videos that we have of the ....but for some reason or another, neither the dc nor I can get into the books.
We read Erandi's Braids by Antonia Madrigal a few months back. My 4yo surprised me by asking me to read "that book about the girl who sells her hair." It is a truly lovely story about a poor girl in a Mexican village who makes a touching sacrifice to help her mother.
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Posted: Fri Jun 22nd, 2007 12:40 pm |
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Shay, thanks for starting this thread!
I was going to wait until I could remember all the goodies, but I realized that day would never come so here is our list as a start probably more to come as my memory gets better.
Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown For younger pre-k'ers. My dd loved this one so much, I recorded this one on cassette tape which she played on a portable cassette player over and over.
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans I remember reading this one myself in elementary school. This is my dd's all-time favorite book when we were reading out loud together. She couldn't get enough of Madeline and was one of 3 tv shows she was allowed watched as pre-k'er. She had the whole book memorized, amazing my mother who believed she was READING! 
The Night the Toys had a Party by Enid Blyton I believe it is not in print anymore, but you can still get copies. I've read this one countless times to my ds. Beautiful pictures with great detail and all the toys are adorable. He especially likes the bear in the story that keeps getting out of his "owner's" bed and says "ooooomph." He gets in trouble too when he does things without considering the feelings of his toy friends. I laugh all the time when I read this story.
Too bad, we went to see Heffalump, I read A.A. Milne's Piglet Meets a Heffalump yesterday with ds and all my ds kept saying was that the story was wrong because it didn't match what he had seen in the movie. Because he already had a visualization of story, he had trouble making up his own story in his head. I'm going to try to avoid having my kids watch "the movie" before reading the book because I think it spoils the fun and learning of reading. Too late on this one.
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Posted: Thu Jul 5th, 2007 10:04 am |
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I think my ds' all time favorite read-aloud book is Hermie, a Common Caterpillar by Max Lucado.
This one was picked out by my dh when we were at the flea market. The illustration is like a still of a Pixar movie. It deals with the subject of prayer and the virtue of patience. It is the story of a caterpillar who can't understand why he is so common and prays to God and asks him why he is so common. It is such a charming story, I don't mind reading it everytime he brings it to me.
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Posted: Sat Jul 7th, 2007 06:46 pm |
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Two favorites of my 3.5 year-old:
The Day the Babies Crawled Away by Peggy Rathmann
Fireman Small by Wong Herbert Yee
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Posted: Sun Jul 15th, 2007 04:04 pm |
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If anyone is looking to buy any of these books used or new, please visit Amazon.com through the above link to help fund Afterschoolers.com!
My son tells me I need to be sure to include The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle as he loved it when he was little and still likes it today.
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Posted: Fri Aug 17th, 2007 06:45 pm |
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Oh, good! Amy, I'm glad you provided this link. I wasn't sure if AS got credit for purchase on used books.
Does anyone know what reading list Story of Ferdinand is on because our local librarian (not too informative, sigh) says all the copies are out?
Today my dd4.5 and I read Painting the Wind by Patricia MacLachlan & Emily MacLachlan and illustrated by Katy Schneider. Beautifully illustrated with paintings using rough brush strokes. This one would be a good book to pick up after an art lesson on portraits, landscapes, or still lifes.
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