Tag: I’m it!
Jennifer tagged me with this:
As part of this blogging challenge, Melissa from Banana Migraine tagged me with this reading meme: “The rules are simple: List your (and your kids’) current seven favorite children’s books, along with their authors. Then, if you’re so inclined, tag seven fellow bloggers to do the same.â€
Madison’s:
1. Best Best Friends by Margaret Chodos-Irvine (pink underwear! pink cupcakes! conflict!)
2. The Daddy Mountain by Jules Feiffer (daddy loves it, too)
3. Once Around the Sun by Bobbi Katz (she and Brett quote this to each other)
4. An African Princess by Lyra Edmonds (she got this book from Jessica’s fiance’s sister for Christmas last year)
5. On the Way to the Pond by Angela She Medearis (this is a pretty boring early reader but she took a fancy to it)
6. The Cuddlers by Stacy Towle Morgan (Noah loved this book even more than she does, truthfully)
7. The Napping House by Audrey Wood (because, really, who doesn’t?)
Noah’s:
1. Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary (I limited him to ONE Beverly Cleary book)
2. Ginger Pye by Eleanore Estes (he went on a kick this summer and read all the Moffat books, too)
3. Mandy by Julie (Andrews) Edwards (can I just say how pleased I am to have a boy who reads across gender expectations?)
4. Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (he listened to these on tape a long time ago but this is the first time he’s read them)
5. Frindle by Andrew Clements (he loves all of this guy’s work)
6. The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket (actually he likes them all but is the last one he re-read)
7. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (he just read this and liked it a lot)
Noah likes books about ordinary kids best — thus his continued love of Ramona and Henry as well as his binge on Eleanor Estes books this summer. It’s also why he read Mandy. Sometimes he’s stuck for a book to read and he’ll come downstairs to where most of the kids’ chapter books are (about 1/3 are up in his room) and ask me to help him pick something out. I keep trying to get him to read some of the fantasy series that I loved but he always sighs and rolls his eyes at me and says, “I just want a book about regular kids.”
Hey, thanks for playing! I love your choices (or your children’s choices, I should say…)
That picture is the cutest!
I love Natalie Babbit! And pictures of young children reading.
The Lemony Snicket books turned my daughter Noah’s age from a non-reader into a reader (when she finished them she blazed through all the Harry Potters), and The Ersatz Elevator is her favorite. I think it’s Esme’s enslavement to what’s “in” that fascinates her, as well as Jerome’s ultimate inability to bring himself to help.