Oh! Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and Chicken Soup with Rice and there's one about wicked oni, but I can't recall the title.
I'm going to be recalling my favorite childrens books at random times for the next month....
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Jan 04, 2005 11:10:14 am PST #2896 of 10002
DavidS - Jan 04, 2005 11:13:20 am PST #2897 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Any good suggestions? I'll take toddler through early reader. I think my mom is making him a bookcase.
Early board books Emmett liked: Goodnight Gorilla, Jamberries, Is Your Mama A Llama?, the Ruth Wise Brown ouevre. He also loved Curious George books quite a lot, though they seem to be in ill repute now. I don't know how you can turn down a book that advocates monkeys who get high on ether.
Rice's numbers do drop off precipitiously. Also, he suffers (as most 80s hitters do) from the advent of the steroid era, which makes 30 Home Run seasons look nugatory. There was a time when only the four or five strongest guys in baseball could hit an opposite field home run. Nowadays any flyweight utility player can do it. Anyway, you need to compare Rice's slugging against his peers to really get how dominant he was.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2005 11:14:45 am PST #2898 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Mickey in the Night Kitchen!
Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter! We bake cakes and nothing's the matter!
sarameg - Jan 04, 2005 11:15:28 am PST #2899 of 10002
Ah hah: The Funny Little Woman.
Ginger - Jan 04, 2005 11:16:34 am PST #2900 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Do children still read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Ferdinand the Bull and The Little Engine That Could?
juliana - Jan 04, 2005 11:18:17 am PST #2901 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Poor Ferdinand. I always felt sorry for him.
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2005 11:25:31 am PST #2902 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Ferdinand the Bull and The Little Engine That Could?
My kids did.
DavidS - Jan 04, 2005 11:27:28 am PST #2903 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Emmett loved Ferdinand and In The Night Kitchen.
In San Francisco, you can go to the Metreon and the Where the Wild Things Are attraction and eat at the Night Kitchen. They even have a little bread train, but it doesn't go anymore.
Allyson - Jan 04, 2005 11:29:09 am PST #2904 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
In the Night Kitchen gave me the creeps.
Tiki Tiki Tembo! Yay!
JZ - Jan 04, 2005 11:36:40 am PST #2905 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Allyson, this book, or really anything by Kevin Henkes.
Anything by Nancy Willard. When I was a kid I loved Simple Pictures Are Best more than anything, but now I'm more of a Visit To William Blake's Inn gal. (The inn is real. It is five feet tall and sits in a corner of her dining room.)
And I know Kat will join me in the Peter Sis love, though his books are so large and beautiful and shiny (and sometimes delicate, with cutouts and sliding panels and such) that they're strictly early reader rather than toddler. But so beautiful.
Rats. Stoopid work. Gone now.