I second the Tamora Pierce suggestion. Also definitely Gregor the Overlander! Suzanne Collin's lesser known series (she wrote Hunger Games). I recently finished reading (it's a 5-book series) and it was FANTASTIC. Just amazing. It's a YA series. The House of the Scorpion is also great, might be for your stronger readers. Eragon series is fun, and Dealing with Dragons is still one of my all-time favorite dragon books/series. Bruce Coville is a great author, and his work might be a little young but it's good to have a mix. I absolutely loved everything of his I have read, but especially Aliens Ate My Homework and the rest of that series. Most of these will appeal to the young men, hopefully.



When I was a young lady, I read pretty much anything, but I know a lot of boys like books with a boy main character. I really was a bit horse crazy, so here's some you might look into for your young ladies. The Saddle Club is a very long series about 3 girls and their horse-y adventures. It was really fun and it's great to find longer series because, if they like the first one, there's a lot to enjoy. (Oh a thought - you could always get the first one in a series, then just tell them to get the rest from the library or something, if there's budget concerns) I also liked the Thoroughbred Series and the wonderful Marguerite Henry horse books, especially the famous Misty of Chincoteague but really any of her books is a good read. My all time favorite horse series was and still is The Black Stallion by Walter Farley. Oh, how I loved that book.


There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom was fantastic the first time I read it, and I also like the "Wayside School" books which are both by Louis Sachar. Judy Blume is fun as is Beverly Cleary. Redwall gets a lot of kids into reading, you also might consider some high-level comics/graphic novels to reach a different audience. The Hobbit Graphic Novel has great illustration and I loved reading it so much when I found it one day in a store.


I found history pretty boring so avoided those books but I did enjoy The King's Swift Rider about Robert the Bruce and Scotland, might be the only vaguely historical book I remember reading around those ages. I tried to avoid mystery books more or less, but I loved Encyclopedia Brown (even though according to Amazon it's for younger ages). I enjoyed Harriet the Spy she was a pretty cool girl role-model at the time. My Side of the Mountain was absolutely fantastic and such a great adventure, though I enjoy everything Jean Craigshead George writes. I feel like Julie of the Wolves is pretty standard reading material, maybe not anymore, but what a great story. Oh my gosh, I just about forgot The Indian in the Cupboard, that was such a good story. Anything Roald Dahl is wonderful as is Jane Yolen, I especially recommend the Pit Dragon trilogy. The Golden Compass, So You Want to be A Wizard, Animorphs, Goosebumps, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Kiki Strike, Dinotopia, Song of the Gargoyle and The City of Ember.


I am sure that is way more than you need, but my mind started racing. It was hard to stop once I started -- thank you for that enjoyable tour through my past. Lots of great memories of time spent reading. Hope you find some of this helpful, at least.

Great collection!
My son is 18 months old. I've been stashing some books for him but he has his own thing going. He's a busy baby. I'm still waiting on him to get the patience to sit through a Dr. Seuss book. Here is a list of books he will endure in their entirety. Yes, I've memorized most of these books.


One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. This is the first book my son seemed to love. It was able to hold his attention at an early age. He still loves it, even though it's missing a couple pages. It's a board book too.

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed I read this one to him while he was in the womb. Once he was old enough it was one of his favorites. I lost it on an airplane a couple of months ago though.

Andy Warhol's Colors Wow, my 2 1/2 yr old niece also loves this book. It has nice illustrations and rhyming words.

Bright Baby First Words This is a set of 4 books. My son loves Colors and First Words the most at the moment… for some reason he likes to kiss the pink flower.

Night-Night, Baby! This is his favorite bedtime book at the moment. Strange because he didn't care for it as a small baby but it seems like that's who it's made for. It has simple black and white illustrations along with pictures of a baby, some fuzzy stuff and cut out stars.

Goodnight Moon Classic

Baby Animals I've also been reading this one to him since womb time however he's only now starting to pick it from the stack.

Dog and Friends Board Books This is a set he got for his 1st birthday. He LOVED these books to bits, especially Busy Day and On the Farm. They fell apart after much love/chewing. They seemed sort of stupid but he sure loved them. They were also convent to carry with in a purse because they're tiny.

Under The Sea This is the only touch and feel he ever liked very much.

Bunny Kisses What baby doesn't like kisses?

Love You Forever


A mother held her new baby and very slowly rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she held him, she sang:



I'll love you forever,

I'll like you for always,

As long as I'm living

my baby you'll be.



The baby grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was two years old, and he ran all around the house. He pulled all the books off the shelves. He pulled all the food out of the refrigerator and he took his mother's watch and flushed it down the toilet. Sometimes his mother would say, "this kid is driving me CRAZY!"



But at night time, when that two-year-old was quiet, she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of his bed; and if he was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him she sang:



I'll love you forever,

I'll like you for always,

As long as I'm living

my baby you'll be.



The little boy grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was nine years old. And he never wanted to come in for dinner, he never wanted to take a bath, and when grandma visited he always said bad words. Sometimes his mother wanted to sell him to the zoo!



But at night time, when he was asleep, the mother quietly opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor and looked up over the side of the bed. If he was really asleep, she picked up that nine-year-old boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked him she sang:



I'll love you forever,

I'll like you for always,

As long as I'm living

my baby you'll be.



The boy grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a teenager. He had strange friends and he wore strange clothes and he listened to strange music. Sometimes the mother felt like she was in a zoo!



But at night time, when that teenager was asleep, the mother opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor and looked up over the side of the bed. If he was really asleep she picked up that great big boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him she sang:



I'll love you forever,

I'll like you for always,

As long as I'm living

my baby you'll be.




That teenager grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a grown-up man. He left home and got a house across town. But sometimes on dark nights the mother got into her car and drove across town. If all the lights in her son's house were out, she opened his bedroom window, crawled across the floor, and looked up over the side of his bed. If that great big man was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked him she sang:



I'll love you forever,

I'll like you for always,

As long as I'm living

my baby you'll be.



Well, that mother, she got older. She got older and older and older. One day she called up her son and said, "You'd better come see me because I'm very old and sick." So her son came to see her. When he came in the door she tried to sing the song. She sang:



I'll love you forever,

I'll like you for always...



But she couldn't finish because she was too old and sick. The son went to his mother. He picked her up and rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And he sang this song:



I'll love you forever,

I'll like you for always,

As long as I'm living

my Mommy you'll be.


When the son came home that night, he stood for a long time at the top of the stairs. Then he went into the room where his very new baby daughter was sleeping. He picked her up in his arms and very slowly rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while he rocked her he sang:



I'll love you forever,

I'll like you for always,

As long as I'm living

my baby you'll be.



EDIT; If you google it it's like the third link.

Oh, I <3 looking for books for my kids!! They are 14, 13, 12, 11, and 5. Our son is the youngest, and he loves all the books that his older sisters loved when they were younger. :D

Oh my gosh...Get those kids some books!

• This is my favorite children's book.
  
  
• The Story of Ferdinand.
  
  
• This is one of my son's favorites...IronMan!.
  
  
• The Day My Mommy Quit.
  
  
• Dragons Love Tacos.
  
  
• If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.
  
  
• I'd Know You Anywhere, My Love.
  
  
• The Day The Crayons Quit.
  
  
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
  
  
• Boom Chicka Rock.
  
  
• Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Mama Hook Knows Best: A Pirate Parent's Favorite Fables with CD.
  
  
• Are You My Mother?.
  
  
• Love You Forever.
  
  
• I Love You, Stinky Face.
  
  
• The Runaway Bunny.
  
  
• Oh, The Places You'll Go. Cool idea I saw on Pinterest with this book: Buy a copy and have each of your kids' teachers write a little note somewhere in it at the end of every year. Give the book to your kid as a graduation gift. I am doing this with our son now, I saw the idea too late to start it for our girls.
  
  
• Ten Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed.
  
  
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
  
  
• The Velveteen Rabbit. -- A HUGE FAVORITE!!
  
  
• Locomotive.
  
  
• Sleep Like A Tiger.
  
  
• The Lion And The Mouse.
  
  
• Blueberries for Sal.
  
  
• David Gets In Trouble.
  
  
• Press Here. This is a very fun book!
  
  
• The One and Only Ivan.
  
  
• The Polar Express.
  
  
• Flotsam.
  
  
• Only One You.
  
  
• Beautiful Oops!.
  
  I would love this book for our oldest daughter if I win, please.
  
  /u/DrUsual...can you think of any?
  
  Thank you for the contest!

I love this contest. I absolutely love reading with my children. They are 7 and 4 and they are such little bookworms! Reading with children is one of the most important things you can do as a parent (or an educator)!

That being said, I have a ton of books I want to recommend to you. My kids favorites thus far have been:

• Anything by Shel Silverstein, particularly The Giving Tree which is an actual story, or Where The Sidewalk Ends which is a collection of child-friendly poems that are sweet, silly, funny, cute, etc.
  
  
• Anything by Mo Willems, particularly the Pigeon and Duckling series. Our favorite was The Duckling Gets A Cookie!?. It's hilarious and adorable, and very fun to read! I like to put on voices for the duckling and the pigeon. The kids get a kick out of it!
  
  
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This one was my daughter's favorite from the time she was 2 til she was 4! She has it memorized now.
  
  
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle (author of Hungry Caterpillar as well).
  
  
• Love You Forever is a wonderful bedtime story.
  
  
• Madeline is a classic, and for a good reason! :)
  
  I have lots more but I'd be here all day if I don't stop myself now.
  
  If I win, I would love the second book in the Amulet series for my 7 year old. She is really into graphic novels right now and I just bought her the first one the other day, and she has already finished it. She really wants the second one! :)
  
  Green eggs and ham.
  
  Edit: I'm going to stick around and get suggestions for my own kids, as well :P This is such a great contest!

It's all about the kids.

Your kids deserve a great education. Don't force them into an environment where they get nothing but one-sided indoctrination. Teach your kids about religion (not just your own, although that's a great start.) Learning stories about different religions is great http://www.amazon.com/God-His-Creations-Tales-Testament/dp/0763622117/ is wonderful, so are similar books about Greek myths http://www.amazon.com/Greek-Myths-Marcia-Williams/dp/0763653845/ Indian gods, etc. It's an important part of our culture, current events, literature, world news and history, etc. to understand different faiths.

If your 12 year old is old enough to be into a book like http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Reality-Know-Whats-Really/dp/1451675046 that could be great, too... or tell him/her about cool stuff on reddit, related to any given interest. Internet access does wonders for broadening people's horizons.

>There are times when I wish my world was a bit larger

Your kids might wish this as well. Think about what you could do for them -- are there options for student exchange, travel, getting involved in anything, anywhere that broadens their circle of friends and acquaintances outside of a homogenous community? That should be a goal in raising your kids.

Entrepreneur Reading List

1. Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
   
2. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
   
3. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
   
4. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
   
5. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
   
6. Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers
   
7. Ikigai
   
8. Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
   
9. Bootstrap: Lessons Learned Building a Successful Company from Scratch
   
10. The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time
    
11. Content Rich: Writing Your Way to Wealth on the Web
    
12. The Web Startup Success Guide
    
13. The Best of Guerrilla Marketing: Guerrilla Marketing Remix
    
14. From Program to Product: Turning Your Code into a Saleable Product
    
15. This Little Program Went to Market: Create, Deploy, Distribute, Market, and Sell Software and More on the Internet at Little or No Cost to You
    
16. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
    
17. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
    
18. Startups Open Sourced: Stories to Inspire and Educate
    
19. In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
    
20. Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
    
21. Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business
    
22. Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
    
23. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
    
24. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
    
25. Eric Sink on the Business of Software
    
26. Words that Sell: More than 6000 Entries to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas
    
27. Anything You Want
    
28. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
    
29. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
    
30. Tao Te Ching
    
31. Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
    
32. The Tao of Programming
    
33. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
    
34. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
    
    

    Computer Science Grad School Reading List
    

    
    

35. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
    
36. Introductory Linear Algebra: An Applied First Course
    
37. Introduction to Probability
    
38. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    
39. Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
    
40. Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
    
41. What Is This Thing Called Science?
    
42. The Art of Computer Programming
    
43. The Little Schemer
    
44. The Seasoned Schemer
    
45. Data Structures Using C and C++
    
46. Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
    
47. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    
48. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
    
49. How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing
    
50. A Science of Operations: Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming
    
51. Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology
    
52. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
    
53. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
    
54. Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory
    
55. How To Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
    
56. Types and Programming Languages
    
57. Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Elementary Algorithms
    
58. Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Mathematical Methods
    
59. Commonsense Reasoning
    
60. Using Language
    
61. Computer Vision
    
62. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    
63. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    
    

    Video Game Development Reading List
    

    
    

64. Game Programming Gems - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
    
65. AI Game Programming Wisdom - 1 2 3 4
    
66. Making Games with Python and Pygame
    
67. Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python
    
68. Bit by Bit

> The second I got that textbook, I realized that the Latin I'd learned hadn't prepared me in any way whatsoever for what Latin actually is

I'm sure you're busy but can you please elaborate on this? If I am taking the wrong path with this, I definitely want to adjust. That being said, my goals for learning Latin are a little different than most, I think.

I write fiction and I love to read. Latin has always interested me as the basis (mostly) for the English language, but I was often too intimidated when I was younger to even attempt to learn it or, really, had no interest. I'm 28 now, and just a few weeks ago, it kind of clicked in my head that I wanted to learn what I could about Latin. I have much interest in ancient Rome and the writings of Iulius Caeser and the rest. However, my true desire is to write fiction in Latin in order to better help people--and myself--learn and understand the language, from real easy 1st and 2nd year ghost tales to real intricate pieces for advanced learners. I want to be able to provide ways for people to enjoy learning what is far too often referred to as a "dead language". In order to do this, I'd like to, not only understand how to read the classical works of ancient philosophers but, be able to read and write modern Latin literature.

I ordered Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis, which is the Latin translated version of the first Harry Potter book. I plan on ordering Hobbitus Ille at some point, as well, which is The Hobbit transcribed in Latin. I desperately want to be able to read these and understand them. I can't yet really read through it as I haven't even touched past/future tenses.

So, with all of that, I have obtained Lingua Latina and the accompanying exercise booklet. I use that just a bit in combination with Rosetta Stone. I don't know if this is common practice with other learners, but I also write and speak, literally, every sentence I read in Latin in Rosetta Stone in an attempt to solidify it into my knowledge bank. I work with it every weekday morning, and have had a couple huge blocks on the weekends.

If my goal is to read modern Latin text, and create my own eventually, would it still be a good idea to drop Rosetta Stone? I am learning quite a bit from it, and it is fun and very useful--the methods in which RS teaches you. I also believe that conversations will be a part of not only what I write but what I read.

>Though its safe to say the owner isn't the subject, or else you would have used suus.

So, in the sentence maritus et uxor eius dormiunt, can you explain why it wouldn't be maritus et uxor suus dorimunt? I look at the sentence and I can already feel it's incorrectly used, but I can't grasp really why/when to use the bit of open endedness, unfortunately.

I think, however, your explanation is making much more sense.

By the way, thank you so much for detailed response. I think you may have cleared that one up for me, but I need to mull it over a bit. Too much bong resin in the brain. :)

Some help:

Maybe Yes, Maybe No (LINK)

by Dan Barker

In today's media-flooded world, there is no way to control all of the information, claims, and enticements that reach young people. The best thing to do is arm them with the sword of critical thinking.

Maybe Yes, Maybe No is a charming introduction to self-confidence and self-reliance. The book's ten-year-old heroine, Andrea, is always asking questions because she knows "you should prove the truth of a strange story before you believe it."

"Check it out. Repeat the experiment. Try to prove it wrong. It has to make sense." writes Barker, as he assures young readers that they are fully capable of figuring out what to believe, and of knowing when there just isn't enough information to decide. "You can do it your own way. If you are a good skeptic you will know how to think for yourself."

Another book is "Me & Dog" by Gene Weingarten.

And Born With a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story : Books 1, 2, 3

Here Comes Science CD + DVD

The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins

Bang! How We Came to Be by Michael Rubino.

Grandmother Fish: A Child's First Book of Evolution
Grandmother Fish, free in PDF form online

Also:

Greek Myths – by Marcia Williams

Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs – by Marcia Williams

God and His Creations – by Marcia Williams

"I Wonder" by Annaka Harris

"From Stardust to You: An Illustrated Guide to The Big Bang" by Luciano Reni

"Meet Bacteria!" by Rebecca Bielawski

See also Highlights for Children - this has materials for younger children.

Atheism books for children by Courtney Lynn

"It Is Ok To Be A Godless Me", "I'm An Atheist and That's Ok", "I'm a Freethinker", "Please Don't Bully Me" and "I'm a Little Thinker" etc.

Courtney Lynn has a couple more for grown ups as well.

Grandmother Fish, free in PDF form online

A child's first book of evolution.

15 Holiday Gift Ideas for Secular Families

Bedtime Bible Stories by Joey Lee Kirkman - for mature teens only

Coming up: TINY THINKERS is a series of books introducing popular scientists to children, by telling their stories as if the scientists themselves were kids!

These are the books I've kept from my sizeable home library on the off chance I have grandchildren. They are in no particular order.

• Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy -- Animals inspect a snowman, eat his nose and mouth, and then kids in hiding who watched it all put more food on the snowman for the animals, having planned for the animals to dine all along.
  
  
• Frosty the Snowman -- Adapted from the song by Annie North Bedford. There are versions that use the artwork from the animated TV special, but I prefer this one with vintage illustrations by Corinne Malvern.
  
  
• The Night before Christmas by Clement Moore. It's in the public domain, so there are many versions. Choose the artwork you like.
  
  
• Santa Cows -- A modern family is hanging out at home eating pizza. They hear the sound of hooves on their roof, and they spend the night with a herd of cows in their home. It ends with the family playing baseball in the snow with the cows. The text is reminiscent of The Night Before Christmas.
  
  
• The Polar Express -- It's a charming, peaceful book. It's nothing like the movie. The film made my kids cry... terror scene, calm scene, terror scene, calm scene, repeat.
  
  
• Countdown to Christmas -- This is a must if you are a Bill Peet fan, a prolific children's picture book author from yesteryear.
  
  
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
  
  
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer -- This is a reprint of the original from 1939 sold in Montgomery Ward stores. The author, Robert L. May, was an advertising copyrighter for Montgomery Ward.
  
  
• There are two Rudolph sequels. From Wikipedia: "May wrote two sequels to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The first is mostly in prose (except that Rudolph speaks in anapestic tetrameter), written in 1947 but only published posthumously as Rudolph's Second Christmas (1992), and subsequently with the title Rudolph to the Rescue (2006). The second sequel is entirely in anapaestic tetrameter like the original: Rudolph Shines Again (1954)."
  
  
• Olive the Other Reindeer -- This is a popular story about a dog who hears the song lyric "all of the other reindeer," decides he must be a reindeer, and heads to the North Pole.
  
  
• Santa has a Busy Night -- This is an unremarkable telling of the nuts and bolts of Santa Claus, but I wanted one book that told the basic myth in plainer detail than The Night Before Christmas. It mentions Santa travels to places where it's summer, and that kids don't get everything they want because he can't carry everything in his pack, but doesn't explain how he enters homes that have pipe chimneys or no chimney at all.
  
  
• Robot Santa -- This is a sequel to Santa's Twin, written by Dean Koontz, a horror fiction writer. I don't own the first book and didn't realize it was a sequel until now. It's for a kid age 5+, not scary, but maybe too developed a story for a young child. A much older child, or maybe just parents, might enjoy the Die Hard and Home Alone picture books.
  
  
• Night Tree -- A family's annual Christmas tradition is to walk into the forest and cut down a tree find the same live tree from last year and decorate it with food for the forest animals to eat. It's by prolific author Eve Bunting. I really enjoyed this story.
  
  
• Auntie Claus -- I can't vouch for this book as I have little memory of it, but my wife is upset to learn while I was compiling this list that I apparently culled it from our collection.
  
  For a Nutcracker book, visit a good bookstore. You'll want to find the right balance between the heft of the words and the style of artwork. Some Nutcracker books have gorgeous illustrations while others are cartoonish.
  
  A lot of my recommendations are only available for sale as used copies because my collection was built from attending garage sales and scouring thrift stores every week for more than a decade. You can use AbeBooks to search for books in used bookstores across America.

I was attending a small private Catholic high school when the LotR movies came out. My friends and I were already fans of LotR (I had already read it nearly ten times), but to us the surging popularity of LotR in addition to the strong Catholic identity of Tolkien and his mythos combined to make his work a really big deal among my group of friends.

I think that of all my friends, I was the most familiar with the broader lore of Middle-Earth. I gobbled up the Appendices, the Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales. I was fascinated by the detailed backstory and Tolkien's incredible attention to culture and especially the languages and alphabets. I can remember taking notes in class using the runes used in the Hobbit, and writing stuff in the Tengwar as well.

Our high school taught Latin as part of the curriculum. In my final year of high school, a friend and I started a project to translate the Hobbit into Latin. Our traslation sucked in hindsight, and we didn't get very far, but it was a lot of fun to work on. (We posted it online if anyone's interested).

I still love Tolkien's works, but my life doesn't revolve around them the way it did then. The recent release of Mark Walker's Hobbitus Ille was very exciting though!

I love The Little Book of Hygge - it's a fun read!

You might also like The Cozy Life. It is very similar.

I also enjoyed The Nordic Theory of Everything. It's not about hygge particularly. It's more about relationships and Danish culture/lifestyles, but it's a nice read.

And this might be an odd recommendation, but I love to read children's books like [The Christmas Wish] (https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Wish-Lori-Evert/dp/0449816818), The Polar Express, and The Snowman - and not just at Christmastime! They're a great way to spend 15 minutes relaxing by the window on a cool, rainy evening.

Happy reading!

It might be helpful if you give us a list of any books you've read that you did enjoy or genres you think you might like.

I have never met a person who didn't love Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but it may not be your thing if you don't like wacked-out sci-fi so some general idea of your interests could help a ton with suggestions.

A Short History of Nearly Everything is a solid non-fiction

Robot Dreams is a great set of sci-fi short stories

Ender's Game gets a ton of hate but is a pretty great sci-fi

On A Pale Horse is an older series that I'd consider fantasy but with sci-fi elements

Where the Red Fern Grows is well loved fiction

A Zoo in My Luggage is non-fic but about animal collecting trips for a zoo and is hilarious.

Seven Chinese Brothers is an all time classic. I bought it for my girls. Younger but fun.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School used to be pretty short, but I think someone's turned it into a series now? Still super fun.

Miss Nelson is Missing is another classic. Bought this again for my kids too.

For slightly older, The Three Investigators was my go-to. Read everything a few times. Chapter book.

The Boxcar Children is another neat series of mysteries I loved as a young boy. Chapters also, IIRC.

Love love love reading to my two daughters - 1 and 3. My grandmother was an elementary school teacher, so we grew up always being read to and were quick to learn to read ourselves - and now am definitely passing that along to my kids. Each of them get three books before bed at the very least, and are always bringing books over for us to read to them. I love it when they're at the stage where they're just really learning to talk, and babble their way through pretending to read a book. :-)

Some of our favorite books lately have been:

• So Big!
  
• Bear Stays Up for Christmas
  
• Zen Shorts
  
• How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten?
  
• What Makes a Rainbow?
  
• Is Your Mama a Llama?
  
• The Very Quiet Cricket
  
• Five Little Monkeys
  
• Are You My Mother?
  
• Goodnight Moon
  
• I Love You Stinky Face
  
• (Any number of Clifford books)
  
• (lots of Dr. Seuss books)
  
  I still have my collection of books from when I was young - I am looking forward to introducing them to Beverly Cleary and Roald Dahl as they get older.

This is the one I have but I haven't gotten a chance to read any others, so I don't actually know how good it is. I personally would really love to know about translation differences as well. I've been experiencing similar problems with The Kalevala. Most translations are translated from Finnish, to German, to English, not directly from Finnish to English, and I just got my first copy that was a direct translation, omg, SO much better. I honestly could get more than a few pages into traditional Finn-Ger-Eng translation, but I'm devouring this direct Finn-English translation, it's great.

I was going to suggest the Wayside School books, despite them not being fantasy. I LOVED them as a kid.

I don't remember the reading level of this, but this was another book I loved in elementary school. It's not high fantasy, but it does have magic in it. Half Magic

Edit: there are also other similar magic-related books by Eager, if he tries that one and likes it.

Edit edit: Anything else I'm thinking of right now is too old for him. However, for when he is a bit older (I picked it up in 4th grade, but I was a strong reader so he might want to wait a little longer) I found Tamora Pierce, a wonderful fantasy young adult author. Most (not all!) of her main characters are girls, but that isn't a reason for a boy not to read them! I started with Sandry's Book, book 1 of the Circle of Magic.

Too sweet. Get a good rocking chair and Savor the moments. Take lots of pictures and video. You'll love looking back in the years to come.

Uncle JT also knows the perfect cocktail for teething... Anbesol, Melatonin, Children's Motrin and the book Love You Forever https://www.amazon.com/dp/0920668364/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_9gjQCbPTY1M9J

Don't fight the tears when reading this book. Every. Single. Time.

Big hugs from Kansas City

I'm glad someone's doing something like this again! I think this is a really great way to "recycle" your things and I plan on doing similar things with my stuff as I clean my room up this summer.

Onto the main reason I'm here! I'd like a Kindle because I've been buying a lot more books lately than I normally do and I've no more room for books. I have books stacked everywhere in my room. It'd let me get rid of a few that I can get on E book. I'd also like it for trips (I take a lot with my grandparents) and it'd be easier to pack one thin item with 10 books than 2 or 3 books because that's all I'd be able to fit.

http://www.amazon.com/Alices-Adventures-Wonderland-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486275434/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371313365&sr=1-1&keywords=alice+in+wonderland

I'd really like Alice in Wonderland to my first book on there because I LOVE Alice in Wonderland (Plus this version is free, so it says as I post this and I'd feel bad making you spend more than shipping for the Kindle).

Check out KaBOOM! studios has a couple of Fionna and Cake graphic novels available right now. They would definitely fit the bill and they're kid appropriate, but hold up well for older readers as well.

I picked up the A Wrinkle in Time graphic novel recently and it would probably also be a good choice. I don't think the rest of the series is available in graphic novel format, but if they enjoy the comic, the books are very accessible to YA & preteen readers.

My favorite book as a child? That's hard because there were a lot but I'm going to say The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien and Sabriel by Garth Nyx.

I have several children's books on my Books and Things wishlist but my 7 year old, who is just getting more interested in reading, really wants How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Dr. Suess is his absolute favorite author and How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey is his favorite movie.

Thanks for the contest!

Anything by Oliver Jeffers! He's a new author and illustrator, so I don't know him from my childhood, but I follow him because I'm interested in illustration. He's wonderful.

The Little Prince!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ronald Dahl (Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the giant Peach)


Little Critter books by Mercer Mayer (I remember this one fondly)

The Giving Tree

Goodnight Moon.


Do you have girls or boys or both? For girls I'd recommend Junie B Jones, The Little Princess, and The Secret Garden

Get those kids some books!

Yeah, I second the book idea. Not totally unique but I think three to five books for kids that you loved when you were a child or that your child loves are great. That's what I always go with and that's what we used to do when I would go shopping with my mom. My faves that aren't super obvious (i.e. not "Good Night Moon") are Jamberry, Jesse Bear What Will You Wear (that's my name, so, I loved it, obviously), Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (huge hit for me and later for my sis, which would make sense if you know the plot), Snow Day, and Happy Birthday Moon.

If you want to go absolute classics, these are some of my faves: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, In the Night Kitchen, The Giving Tree, and Harold and the Purple Crayon (Probably my favorite children's book of all time).

Hope that helps!

Edit: formatting

The Hobbit in graphic novel form is really amazing, and readable at all ages. Graphic novels generally might be a great option. Also manga books might be good.

Some links:

Wrinkle in time graphic novel:
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374386153/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_baA4CbY2SYGER

The Hobbit
The Hobbit (Graphic Novel) with a subtitle of An illustrated edition of the fantasy classic https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345445600/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_WaA4CbW3CW7JR

Blankets (more for young adults, very good though):
Blankets https://www.amazon.com/dp/177046218X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_pbA4CbV1CPP6M

Good list:
https://www.npr.org/2017/07/12/533862948/lets-get-graphic-100-favorite-comics-and-graphic-novels


The Watchmen, imho, is one of the greatest books ever written, but dunno...it’s more action-y/comic book esque . Some girls may like it.

Ha, that's adorable to think that there's something fundamental about comics that women could not possibly enjoy. Comics are not all superheroes either. They can be about ANYTHING, which is exactly why they SHOULD be able to appeal to women.

Perhaps they should check out Princeless, which is about a Princess who saves herself and was nominated for an Eisner award. Or Courtney Crumrin which has haunting art and great storytelling. New York X was unfortunately discontinued but is still one of my favorite X-Men comics because it features an all female cast and is delightfully dark. The comic adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time is also wonderfully drawn and of course who could hate Madeleine L'Engle.

But you know... none of that would appeal to us. They aren't REAL comics, tight? /s

Congratulations! :)

Goodnight Moon was my favorite bedtime story. Anything by Eric Carle is wonderful too.

Personally, I like 8 the best it reminds of this Little Prince cover for some reason. Best of luck with the book!

I think it’s out of print now, but this book introduced me to all the major myths in the most beautiful way. It’s a children’s book in comic book format

Link: https://www.biblio.com/book/greek-myths-young-children-williams-marcia/d/1043236771?aid=frg&utm_source=google&utm_medium=product&utm_campaign=feed-details&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-dSBzc7H2gIVVrjACh27GwV9EAQYBSABEgLqC_D_BwE

EDIT: THANK ZEUS! It is STILL in print! Here’s the paperback on amazon Greek Myths https://www.amazon.com/dp/0763653845/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_8Dt2AbM25K073

it reminds me a bit of love you forever in that it's really targeted as adults. the good thing is, love you forever is immensely popular, so there is a potential market for this type of material. just be very clear who your audience is.

Berenstain Bears on the Moon. This was the first book I can remember reading by myself at age 3.

Also, my parents used to read a book called The Clown Arounds to me when I was a baby. Read it to me so much the cover fell off from use.

The last major influence on my young life was Canadian author Robert Munsch. Most Americans I find are familiar with his heartwarming story Love You Forever which was a big hit with baby showers when I worked in a book store. Little did anyone know that he writes a ton of other books that are hilarious to kids. Such as Mortimer which is about a kid who doesn't want to go to bed. Or I Have to Go! about a little boy and his finicky bladder. The big one though was The Paper Bag Princess about a princess who has to go rescue her handsome prince after the dragon burned down her castle, but all she has to wear is a dirty paper bag. My mom even took me to see this guy live when I was like 5 years old, performing his own stories. I used to love the stories, and when I have kids, I'm going to stock their library with all of them.

i started my wishlist with books i want to share with my grandkids, expanded from there. i always wanted to read that Zen book. there are red, blue, and purple editions, love 'em all! and i know the nephews would be in awe of The Five Chinese Brothers !

fun contest!

Congratulations!! I'm guessing she was born at 1:37 pm.

Roll Tide baby.

A book my grandma read to me as a kid was Love You Forever. I always loved it. :)

1. This literally smells like sharpened pencils
   
   
2. Lisa Frank was all the rave!
   
   
3. If the teacher can't smile, her stamp will
   
   
4. Time for Math!
   
   
5. If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!
   
   
6. Give me a Pea! P! You got your P, you got your P!
   
   
7. Yum! Dunkaroos
   
   
8. As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be
   
   
9. Who you gonna call?
   
   
10. This one time, at band camp...
    
    Bonus 1:
    
    Bonus 2:
    
    In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson

"I'll love you forever

I'll like you for always

As long as you're living

My baby you'll be."

It's from I'll Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. It's a story of a mother who sings that to her son at different stages of his life.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but securing a portal.

Love it! I need this book, because I want to teach my kids about [Giving] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Giving-Tree-Shel-Silverstein/dp/0060256656/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=3OP7N8Q0ZOXDV&coliid=I1W7WYJ9PWW4LR)

Strong recommendation for David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Dutch clerk in late 18th/early 19th century Dejima, lots of depth, gorgeous prose) and for Walter Moers's Rumo and his Miraculous Adventures (fantastical but oddly profound; I'd pick it up even if it doesn't sound like something you'd enjoy). I finished both of these very recently and they were amazing. They hopped right on my list of favourite books, if I'm honest.

Otherwise, I'd very much recommend my all-time favourites: Le Petit Prince (in French or English), Under Milk Wood, Cloud Atlas, and To Kill a Mockingbird (which is always worth a re-read, too).

I included Amazon links so that you know exactly which books I'm talking about, but please consider buying from local bookshops!

1. I swam in the Panama Canal once.
   
2. I'd like to give this book to my friend for her son.
   
3. There's a penguin on top of the telly.
   
   Thanks!!

Ack, and I can't believe I forgot to mention Madeleine L'Engle. Her books may be YA but they can be enjoyed equally by adults. Pretty much everything she's written has Christian themes, some more overt than others. (Example: Many Waters, in which two teenagers time-travel back to just before the flood.)

Labor day!!! Harriet the Spy on my books wl for my Munchkin!! Used is always acceptable to keep cost down and gift more! :)

"because you're my biggest fan, my biggest defender and my biggest critic."

"because if you could manage to sneak past Dad at night, you'd do the I Love You Forever thing."

"because, squicked though it makes you, you honestly want me to tell you about the wierd clubs I go to and my corset collection, just so you can know what's going on in my life."

"because you call me in the middle of the night to tell me you wrote something on my Facebook Wall, no matter how many times I say you don't have to."

I started the Narnia Series around then and The Oz series (don't stop with just the Wonderful World).

Dragon's Milk (Involving girls and dragons and awesome.)

Finally, a classic I don't see mentioned much, Half-Magic, about a group of kids who find a magic token that grants half a wish. Hijinks ensue.

I love the Madeline books..."and the shortest one was Madeline." plus, she's super tough. here

Ok I thought of one more author: Madeline L'Engle. Beyond her A Wrinkle In Time series (<3 Many Waters <3), there's A Severed Wasp and The Arm of the Starfish both of which are departures from The Wrinkle in Time series but still great.

For my 7y old, I've used the Marcia Williams series to learn about various mythologies. She also has a book on God and His Creations if you want a basic exposure to Christianity alongside.

I've also used a book called One World, Many Religions to teach more about the various religious practices active today.

For the parents:

I got this in the book gift exchange and it is really good:

The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips, and Advice on First-Year Maintenance


For the kid:

Turntable Timmy

Where the wild things are

Miss Nelson Is Missing!

Goodnight Moon

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

My favorite books as a kid that I remember fondly:

The Rainbow Fish

Stellaluna


Longer books for when she is older

Amelia Bedelia

Madeline

An oldie, but a goodie... Where the Red Fern Grows. It just rips at your heart.

Adults are just outdated children. Seriously, my husband plays with the kids toys more than they do. XD

This would make me the happiest right now. I went to look for my physical copy of the book and it is missing. I am beyond devastated because I wanted to share this book with my children. I opted to read poems from Where the Sidewalk Ends instead, which is also awesome, but totally not as powerful as The Giving Tree.

Sounds like this book. The family name is Herdman.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Christmas-Pageant-Ever/dp/0064402754

Love You Forever -- a children's book, but it's beautiful.

Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel also The Little House that was another of my favorites. Katy and the Big Snow was also pretty damn good, those three books are involved in some of my fondest childhood memories...

Here's a few we've picked up for our daughter (these also count among her favorites):

Brave Irene by William Steig

Imogene's Antlers by David Small

I like me! by Nancy Carlson

Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelman

Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola

Was it The Herdmans from The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (and various other books with similar titles)?

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever? Or maybe its sequel?

Love You Forever https://www.amazon.com/dp/0920668372/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_70rGAbKE5BA9N

Love You Forever https://www.amazon.com/dp/0920668372/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ZoouDbXYX869F

It's called Love You, Forever. https://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Forever-Robert-Munsch/dp/0920668372

I'll Love You Forever

I'll Love You Forever

I don't think it is specifically quite what you're looking for but it may work. Love You Forever is written to/about the author's two stillborn babies. This book is a standby for many parents who don't even realize it's true backstory.

Reminds me of this book. Thank you for bringing up a happy childhood memory.

Trees grow from the top, not from the bottom. Source: The initials carved in The Giving Tree don't get higher up as the boy grows older.

I am reading a book right now about ER stories, in real life.

Some are funny, some are gruesome, some are extremely poignant.

Emergency!

Also: Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

What about bringing them in with Ancient Greek Myth (there are children's versions though some are still a little mature). You could read them as bed time stories and talk about different myths being considered religion. Introduce them as stories.

I'm not a Father so I have no idea if this would be interesting. I know I was read Greek Myth as a little kid though.

You might want to talk to Grandma about this.

That's the concept behind the book Half Magic. :)

[Rascal] (http://www.amazon.com/Rascal-Sterling-North-ebook/dp/B00DYX9LO6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394286528&sr=1-1&keywords=rascal) by Sterling North

[The Secret Garden] (http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Garden-Frances-Hodgson-Burnett-ebook/dp/B0083Z614S/ref=sr_1_36?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394286833&sr=1-36) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[Harriet the Spy] (http://www.amazon.com/Harriet-Spy-Anniversary-Louise-Fitzhugh-ebook/dp/B00EX4E29Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394287171&sr=1-1&keywords=harriet+the+spy) by Louise Fitzhugh

[Superfudge] (http://www.amazon.com/Superfudge-Judy-Blume-ebook/dp/B00630NYN6/ref=sr_1_129?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394287388&sr=1-129) by Judy Blume

[Mr. Popper's Penguins] (http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Poppers-Penguins-Richard-Atwater-ebook/dp/B0051WIWP2/ref=sr_1_130?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394287388&sr=1-130) by Richard and Florence Atwater

[The Cricket in Times Square] (http://www.amazon.com/Cricket-Times-Square-Chester-Friends-ebook/dp/B00HBQ2D5Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394288058&sr=1-1&keywords=the+cricket+in+times+square) by George Selden

[Justin Morgan Had a Horse] (http://www.amazon.com/Justin-Morgan-Horse-Marguerite-Henry-ebook/dp/B009K58TT0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394288175&sr=1-1&keywords=justin+morgan+had+a+horse) by Marguerite Henry

[Sarah, Plain and Tall] (http://www.amazon.com/Sarah-Plain-Tall-Patricia-MacLachlan-ebook/dp/B00BS8SO9M/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394288419&sr=1-1&keywords=sarah+plain+and+tall) by Patricia MacLachlan

[Until the Last Spike] (http://www.amazon.com/Journal-Sullivan-Transcontinental-Railroad-Nebraska-ebook/dp/B00C2YWJEW/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394288867&sr=1-4&keywords=my+name+is+america) by William Durbin

[The Giving Tree] (http://www.amazon.com/Giving-Tree-Shel-Silverstein-ebook/dp/B00DB2QZPI/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394288987&sr=1-1&keywords=shel+silverstein) by Shel Silverstein

[Falcon's Dragon] (http://www.amazon.com/FALCONS-DRAGON-Luli-Gray-ebook/dp/B005FG2ANO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394289481&sr=1-1&keywords=falcon%27s+egg) by Luli Gray

[Ella Enchanted] (http://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Trophy-Newbery-Carson-Levine-ebook/dp/B008XOAJQA/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394289716&sr=1-1&keywords=ella+enchanted) by Gail Carson Levine

[Aesop's Fables] (http://www.amazon.com/Aesops-Fables-new-translation-Aesop-ebook/dp/B0082VCQZQ/ref=sr_1_573?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394290310&sr=1-573) by Aesop

[Caddie Woodlawn] (http://www.amazon.com/Caddie-Woodlawn-Carol-Ryrie-Brink-ebook/dp/B007MB5CEE/ref=sr_1_745?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394290700&sr=1-745) by Carol Ryrie Brink

[Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher] (http://www.amazon.com/Jeremy-Thatcher-Dragon-Hatcher-Magic-ebook/dp/B009YA49Q8/ref=sr_1_917?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394290956&sr=1-917) by Bruce Coville

[The Last Holiday Concert] (http://www.amazon.com/Last-Holiday-Concert-Andrew-Clements-ebook/dp/B00710P1JM/ref=sr_1_17?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394291315&sr=1-17&keywords=andrew+clements) by Andrew Clements

[Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds] (http://www.amazon.com/Cam-Jansen-Mystery-Stolen-Diamonds-ebook/dp/B002CMP95K/ref=sr_1_1127?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394291705&sr=1-1127) by David A. Adler

[Alice in Wonderland] (http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Wonderland-Illustrated-Fairy-eBooks-ebook/dp/B00A64NSSG/ref=sr_1_534?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394289796&sr=1-534) by Lewis Carroll

The Phantom Tollbooth

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel was always one of my favorites.

Love You Forever.

Oh Dear god- the tears are coming.

CONGRATULATIONS! Roll Tide baby

My guess is 8:21 PM. Is the book for the older daughter or younger? I'm not sure of her age, but when I was young I really liked A Bad Case of Stripes, Madeline, Ruby the Copycat, Pigsty, or The Berenstain Bears' New Baby

Yes, the first 10 minutes of UP are a killer. Pixar's good at that, though... Jessie's song in Toy Story 2, and LOTS of stuff in Toy Story 3, especially when the clown doll is telling Lotso's story. Also, most of Fox and the Hound.

I got out my dad's obituary today, to try to get my seven-year-old to read it (he wasn't interested... I'll try again in a year or so). Couldn't get through that without crying. (My dad was a prominent local historian; a week after he died, a reporter from the LA Times called to fact-check something with him... when I told her of his death, she asked what she could do, and I said "Make sure there's a great obituary of him." She succeeded!)

Edit: OH, and I totally forgot! We have this book called Love You Forever, and I basically can't read it to my kids because it just makes me bawl every. single. time.

Sounds like the storyline for Love You Forever.

All I have to do is mention that book and it makes my mom cry...now that I'm older and a parent it gets me too.

That sounds like Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

Half Magic by Edward Eager has a magic coin and some time in Camelot. It was one of my favourites as a kid.

https://www.amazon.ca/Half-Magic-Edward-Eager/dp/0152020683

Madeline? ( http://www.amazon.com/Madeline-Ludwig-Bemelmans/dp/014056439X )

Madeline gets her appendix out. Everyone admires her scar.

Ok this is going on my list. I don't speak or read Latin, but I'm enough of a linguaphile that I have to have this!!

Edit: aaaaand it's pre-ordered. For those of us in the US!

Goodnight Moon and It's Okay To Be Different. Anything by Todd Parr, really.

Yup. https://www.amazon.ca/Love-You-Forever-Robert-Munsch/dp/0920668372/ref=lp_936770_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511590786&sr=1-2

And that's a new book. Used books tend to work just as well.

The Five Chinese Brothers what an obscure reference. I didn't realize the book was well known

> http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/0920668372/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/191-1063875-3818567

Oh god why. D:

792

Can you choose which copy to send someone? I'd love a physical copy of Alice in Wonderland (one of my childhood faves), but I don't care if it's one of the used copies for $0.01 plus shipping.

http://www.amazon.com/Alices-Adventures-Wonderland-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486275434/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375143489&sr=1-1&keywords=alice+in+wonderland

The author of the giving tree looks like a psychopath.

This one is even worse.

Niagara Falls.

This thread reminds me of the Robert Munsch book, Love You Forever. I used to read that to my daughters and I don't think I ever got through it without choking up a bit.

Let's not forget arguably the most famous Madeline....

My son is 2, we rotate through a number of books..

Some on the current rotation:

• Goodnight Moon
  
• Love you Forever
  
• Matt / Sam (Bob Books)
  

Stay away from this one then. Can't read it without tears dammit. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0920668372?pc_redir=1411538020&robot_redir=1

You can get it from [Amazon](Hobbitus Ille: The Latin Hobbit https://www.amazon.com/dp/0007445210/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_b5yAybNP5CS8Z)

Is it Love You Forever

I know where this is going

The Five Chinese Brothers

Goodnight moon

http://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Forever-Robert-Munsch/dp/0920668372

http://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Forever-Robert-Munsch/dp/0920668372

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

http://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Forever-Robert-Munsch/dp/0920668372

don't judge me

Mike Mulligan!

Love You Forever

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Goodnight Moon

Wynken, Blynken, & Nod

This

You're off by two.

http://www.amazon.com/Five-Chinese-Brothers-Paperstar/dp/0698113578/ref=pd_sim_b_2

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. For me it brings up a heavy mix of nostalgia and tears something in my eyes.

Love you forever by Robert Munsch

Reminds me of this.

There’s a book with this sentiment that my mom always read to me as a kid:

https://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Forever-Robert-Munsch/dp/0920668372

My Lord. I just read the two pages available in the Amazon preview. I'm already in pieces.

https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Mulligan-His-Steam-Shovel/dp/0395259398/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=mike+mulligan+and+his+steam+shovel&qid=1572715539&sprefix=mike+mulligan&sr=8-1

Have you read this? Have some tissues handy the first time you read it...

Pre-order now; Shipping Sep 13th (source)

These are from my childhood:

Caps For Sale

Strega Nona

Madeline

Madeline always reminds me of this hilarious video from German director Werner Herzog.

Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch

When my kids were born, just came over me all of a sudden

Reading Love you forever to my daughter

That is essentially the plot of this book.

Reminds me of this book.

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Bread Keeper


Plus More

Many Waters

Reminds me of:

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Still have my copy from childhood.

This shows both the ISBN 10 and 13

Not entering but this book will forever make me cry... Seriously.

I was going to say this, but boy that song is sad. Even thinking about it weighs my heart down. It's like that book "Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch
that made me cry so hard in second grade.

Songs about growing up and getting old really wreck you.

Anybody else read Half Magic and its sequels? Don't know why, but they've always really stuck with me.

And on that note, this book

I nannied for a little girl who had this and it was SO hard to read it all of the way through without tearing up...and I don't even HAVE kids!

FINALLY got all of my christmas shopping done! Woo! The hardest part was my mother, at the book store it dawned on me that i should get a favorite of hers. My sister tore up the copy we had since I was REAL young.

-phew- no more worrying about what to get people!

Love You Forever. The fucked up thing is that it's supposed to be for, like, preschoolers.

That would be because I said the wrong author. D'oh.

Here it is: www.amazon.com/books/dp/0920668372

>I'm typing from a tablet right now. That's a thing.

Really? How long did it take you to mold the silicon from sand? Everything you own is the result of society.

>Now you're getting somewhere. Finally.

What is somewhere? How do you know there is somewhere? Why is it finally somewhere?

>Or you could work with them, which could be far more beneficial. Also, there are more of them, so they could theoretically kill me. Is it worth the risk?

The assumption is that it is not beneficial to work with them and the power is in your hands. It's "worth the risk" to commit moral atrocities all the time. And you endorse them.

>Go back and look again. I did not.

You did.

>I never said that either. Why should I talk to you when you just make stuff up? Why don't you link me to things I ACTUALLY SAID?

Everything is written down. I suggest you take the time to sort through your own filth.

>I said that, in the end, such concepts are probably just as likely

Yeah, which is the exact same thing.

>we are barely more advanced as a species than other apes

And here we have yet another severely autistic comment to add to the list.


>Boy, you don't know jackshit about ethics

Says the living impersonation of the unibomber.

>slavery, rape, racism, homophobia, and smiting the little plebians

Except not at all.

>homophobia

Laughable to even use this word because it has the slur built into it and isn't even etymologically correct. You might as well call racism "niggerphobia."

>Go read a better book. Try "The Antichrist" by Frederick Nietzsche, or on an ancap note, "The Machinery of Freedom" by David Friedman.

You should try this book. It might help you to discard your serial-rapist tendencies and it's certainly at your reading comprehension level.

Some serious hate over at Amazon, and rightly so it seems: http://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Forever-Robert-Munsch/product-reviews/0920668372/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one/189-3547767-0902803?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0

I'm not trying to ruin the funny, but this is definitely the saddest book ever published. http://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Forever-Robert-Munsch/dp/0920668372

I've never heard of this book, and I'm 36 with two kids.

Does that mean I have terrible parents, or I'm a terrible parent, or both?

BTW, it's available on Amazon for $0.01 used, so it might be a bargain.

I cry all the dam time. I have a children's book, the giving tree, If I can make it to the end without shedding a tear I know my estrogen is running low. If I'm in tears by page 10 its running high.

"The book that makes daddy cry"

I can't even read this one.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Rainbow Fish

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

No, David!

Are You My Mother?

The Berenstain Bears

Amelia Bedelia

Stellaluna

Brown Bear, Brown Bear

Max

Clifford

The Little Engine That Could

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Madeline

Corduroy

Arthur

Franklin

Edited: to add some more.

Congratulations! :D

A bigass handbag. General rule of thumb: stay away from chicks with a bigass handbag full of shit.
I was shagging a chick back in the eaily '90s. She had a bigass handbag full of shit. One day she pulled out a Canadian children's book Love You Forever and told me how it made her tear up. That fucking did it for me: never again a chick with a bigass handbag full of shit.