Robin, I'm glad you liked
Middlesex.
I enjoyed it too and it felt good to hand it off to another person who would appreciate it.
Allyson, I have too many books to suggest!
Okay, for starters, I'm gonna recommend some lesser known ones I love:
I adore Grump by Janet Wong. "Look at Baby, Smart good Baby, Happy Baby, Making Gravy, Applesauce and ketchup gravy..." It has great rhythm.
Mice and Beans is so much fun. I love the color. Also, I have an extra one of these if you want one.
Diary of a Worm makes me laugh every time I read it because it's so clever and so funny.
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato. Bahahah... it's like an Alibelle sort of book.
Molly Bang is one of my favorite author/illustrators. Ten, Nine, Eight is one of the best pre bedtime books. Calmly written and illustrated. It's a complete antidote to When Sophie Gets Angry which is such a good read, especially for kids who look for ways to think about anger.
Anyhow, if you would like come look through my picture books. I have doubles of some and I'd be happy to go to the Scholastic Warehouse with you if you ever want to go.
oooh, Scholastic Warehouse sounds like a blast.
My mom better build that bookcase fast.
Happy Birthday ita!
When I was a kid, I loved a book called "The Wise old Dog", but I cannot find it anywhere now. I also loved Ferdinand, but Grover, sor some reason traumitized me. I think his rendition of "I'm so Blue" was too sad for me. Anyway. I burst into tears every time I even saw Grover, which was very sad for my mother, as she LOVED him.
I wasn't much into kids books, as my mother read to me from non-picture books from at least the age of 3. I loved The Boxcar Children, Little Women, and the entire Bobbsey Twins series (althoug now the Bobbsey twins AND the Boxcar Children remind me, unfortunately, of G-rated version of Flowers in the Attic. Damn that VC Andrews)
My favorite books as I got a little older (8 years old) were the Dorrie the Witch books. But most of them are out of print now and REALLY hard to find.
I came across a book in the attic the other day that I used to just love:
The Meanest Squirrel I Ever Met,
about a squirrel con-man.
Also found my old Fisher-Price abacus. Two of the bars are missing, though, so now it's base eight.
Too. Damned. Cool.
The world's first animation:
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I wish I could find a stuffed tiger that looks like Hobbes. My nephew looks a lot like Calvin. Maybe there's a pattern and I can make a Hobbes. Gah.
I'm totally sickeningly Auntie-fied.
Allyson, I love the Frances books and the David books. Emeline got 2 of the David's for Christmas.
And also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ITA!
Happy Birthday, ita!
I'm with Nilly and the Harold love. In fact, I loved that book so much, it's probably the first one I ever wrote in. It's still in my parent's house somewhere.
