Favorite Books

Well, we are all moved into our new home and have started orientation for grad school... so in honor of me not being a preschool teacher anymore (I guess I should change the name of my blog, huh?) I am posting my list of favorite kids books which was another thing I found in the moving process (I definitely planned to do this a long time ago, you know how it is....)

So, I made this list for Jason when he started working at a bookstore so that he could be a children's book expert.  I don't think he ever used it, but I am glad I made it so I can remember which books I like the best.

Favorite author/illustrators:

• Don & Audrey Wood:  The Napping House (my very most favorite); King Bidgood's in the Bathtub 
  
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• David Shannon:  No, David!; How I Became a Pirate; A Bad Case of Stripes
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• Kevin Henkes: Chrysanthemum (another very favorite); Owen; A Weekend with Wendell; the Lilly stories; Kitten's First Full Moon
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• Eric Carle: The Very Hungry Caterpillar (classic!); The Very Quiet Cricket, etc. etc.
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• Jan Brett: The Hat; The Mitten; The Umbrella
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• Lois Ehlert: Planting a Rainbow; Leaf Man; Growing the Alphabet
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• Dr. Seuss: One Fish Two Fish (my most favorite Seuss); The Foot Book; The Cat in the Hat (I could recite much of this...); The Sneetches; The Sleep Book... just to name a few

Other random favorites (with commentary, of course):

• Robert Munsch:  He wrote the tear-jerker "Love You Forever" but most of his stories are really funny and best if you get them as audiobooks with him reading... hilarious
  
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• Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park:  Junie B. is this generation's Ramona Quimby, but even funnier (although with worser grammar); very exciting for early "chapter books"
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• Fluffy series by Kate McMullen: also chapter books, about a guinea pig with a big ego... they're pretty cute
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• Froggy books by Jonathan London:  he always has something to be embarrassed about ...
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• Curious George books: also classic =)
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• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
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• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: there are many "spin-offs" of this...the original is my favorite
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• Click Clack Moo Cows that Type: just very silly
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• Goodnight Moon
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• Parts; More Parts; Even More Parts--by Tedd Arnold: all about how kids misunderstand common idioms... really funny for adults, amusing for older kids, just kinda freaks out/confuses the little ones.

That's all I have for right now... again, if anybody actually reads this and has anything to add, I'd love to hear it!