Top ten, current favourites (Top Ten Childrens Books)

Member Name: charlhrdy

Product:	Top Ten Childrens Books
Date:	06/11/05 (371 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: All good books

Disadvantages: Again, Again

I have two boys at a year old and a niece at four and I never believed I would get sick of reading stories, being super mum & all that.
However, there are some books I am truly sick of - Disney Lion King or Tarzan, neither flows very well, makes it difficult to read and Miffy, poor Miffy, I used to love Miffy, but again doesn't flow and some of the rhyming is a bit off.

Here are the favourites:

The Other Ark, Lynley Dodd, Noah sets off with his two by two and leaves Sam Jam Balu to fill up the second best ark with creatures such as burrowing Flumps, candy striped camels, Armory Dilloes and butternut bears. A very pleasant book with lots on interesting creatures, great pictures. The four yr old likes this one.
£9.99 from Ottakas

Mr Men, Roger Hargreaves - Any of, short interesting simple stories which will amuse all ages, we have nearly all these and we enjoyed them as kids and my niece is reading them now.
£1.50 any leading bookstore

Paddington - Opposites, ABC, 123 & Colours, Michael Bond - Simple teaching books based on the Paddington character, the titles speak for themselves. Very nice pics with Paddington related images such as Marmalade Sandwiches and with a game at the back.
Cost is unknown I bought them from a second hand market.

The BFG - Roald Dahl, As with any of his books its good, my favourite. The Big Friendly Giant & Sophie conquer the bad giants and find Sophie a home, with all the magic of Roald Dahl, I can't wait to read it to my children when they are older. Would suit 8+
£2.99 any book store

Puddle Lane Series - Sheila McCullagh - These books are a reading programme from Ladybird, the full story is on the left of the page with a larger, shortened version on the right. The adult reads the story & the child reads the short bit. It has notes at the back for teaching children to read. The programme comes in three stages getting progressively harder. It follows the adventures of the people and animals in Puddle Lane. We had them as kids and I am trying to find the whole collection now for my children. I don't know where they are sold, but you can buy them from around 99p on Ebay and there is a good range.

The Tough Princess - Martin Waddell & Patrick Benson, the story of the king & queen who didn't get it right, of the bad fairy who wasn't good at being bad, of the daughter who wasn't beautiful but was tough and slayed dragons and was not afraid of goblins and ghouls. A brilliant alternative to fairy stories. Would suit anyone who liked fairy stories.
£3.95 walker books

Dr Seuss - Stan & Jan Berenstain, Who doesn't like Dr Seuss, The Cat in the Hat, Inside, Outside, Upside, Down, nonsense books for all, we have a few of these. We also have the Bright & Early Books for Beginning Beginners, very simple books for even younger children - He Bear She Bear - explains the male/female in rhyme & nonsense, and ABC - the alphabet Dr Seuss style. I love these, with the odd pictures they make great reading. The cost is unknown as again I picked these up at the second hand market.

When We Were Very Young - AA Milne, Poetry from the creator of Winnie the Pooh, a range of poems to be read to young children, about young children.
Buckingham Palace

They're changing the guard at Buckingham Palace =
Christopher Robin went down with Alice
Alice is marrying one of the guard
"A soldiers life is terrible hard"
says Alice

They're changing the guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice
We saw a guard in sentry box
"One of the sergeants looks after their socks"
says Alice

And so on, I highly recommend this book and the other poetry books he writes - Now We Are Six/Seven/Eight.
£1.99 any good book store

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle, is there anyone out there that hasn't heard this one, the story of the caterpillar who eats his way through a whole manner of things before changing into a butterfly. An excellent story for young children, the version we have has pages with holes in which the caterpillar has eaten through, you can get ones with a finger puppet caterpillar.
£1.25+ any good bookstore

Peepo - Janet & Allan Ahlberg, a book for young children again, story of a baby and where he goes through the day, rhyming is very good and plays Peepo throughout the book. Old fashioned in style, with lovely pics it will amuse any young children, I think this is my very favourite book

Summary: I wish I was a child again!