I really loved "The Snowy Day" and "Miss Rumphius" I still read them when I am sick, sleeping in, or sad.

*hugs Muffin*

I actually memorized the words to Mercer Mayor's There's A Nightmare In My Closet. I could maybe still recite it if I tried... Awesome book. And I loved books about bunnies for some reason... Also, all the Sandra Boyton board books. I still adore her. And Dr. Suess, who I can also recite entire passages from. <3

Yayness for alive stuff on BaB! *hugs Muffin again*

"Mrs. Piggle Wiggle"! The kids in her books always did such crazy things like go roller-skating outside at midnight or eat supper from the garden rake or never take a bath! And she lived in an upside-down house.

I memorized chapters from Charlotte's Web in first grade, and The Trumpet of the Swan, too. I haven't read those in years. We have childrens' Christmas books that we bring out every year, though, and I reread them. Look at the illustration in Humphrey's First Christmas if you ever have a chance - they make me just about scream laughing.

Cheers,

lavendershy

Good Night Moon is a great kid's book. I still read it too. But what I really love is The Lorax. Once my (6th grade) class did a project on how the characters in the book depended on one another, and we drew webs on a big sheet of paper. One person's Lorax looked like a walrus.

When I was really little, I absolutely loved Is your mama a llama?.

I also occasionally read Goodnight, Moon too, so you're not the only one, Muffin!

P.S. Muffin, you're my favorite bug!

-CC

I've always LOVED Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs! Whenever we saw it at the library we (me and my sisters) would get it until finally my mama bought it for us. It's been made into a movie you know, but I haven't seen it.

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Hello, Muffin! I'm ecstatic right now (I'll post why in PP and possibly DtE later, but for now ecstatic will suffice), actually.

I don't remember my old favorites all that well, strangely, but I liked The Owl And The Pussy Cat a lot. I don't really read it now anymore, but every once in a while I take it out. Oh, and I liked... Um... What were they called again? It was 2 books in one, about a fox cub who ran away subconsciously and tried to get back home, and his mother eventually found him. The first book was from his point of view, and the back of it was written differently and showed the same event from her point of view. It was called, On The Trail Of Little Fox. I don't remember the title of the other one.

I really seriously loved The Cat in the Hat. I made my mom read it to me every night. 

Does Anyone Know where a Hermit Crab Goes? and Goodnight Gecko.

The first is about a little hermit crab named Kermit who goes on a mission to find himself a new shell, because his old one is too small. It's short and sweet, and I love the way it rhymes.

The second is about a little gecko on a Hawaiian island who is scared of the dark. As you know, geckos are night creatures, so his mother-gecko doesn't know what to do when he declares that he wants to go out in the day and pick flowers and explore the sea. His mother takes him to see all the wonders of the night. The gecko is no longer scared of the night, and wiggles out to see the moon with his brother gecko. Also, this one rhymes, too.

So you can see I have a thing for rhymes. I actually have both these memorized!

I loved Miss Rumphias too. (did I spell her name right?) I think my Mom loved it more than me though, because of the amazing illustrations. I also loved The Gift of the Magi (again, awesome illustrations), although I doubt that's meant to be a children's story, The Wuggie Norple Story, which is an awesome, life changing book, and One Morning in Maine, which also has amazing illustrations. Actually any picture book by Robert McCloskey is bound to be great. Everyone in my family also loves Martin's Hats, especially my brother, who is 21 and still reads it occasionally. My house has soooo many picture books. Looking at each one of them brings back sooo many memories!