Woo hoo Celtic Studies! I feel inordinately proud of the fact that my library seems to contribute significantly to the size of that tag. ::geeky:: Karen
Oddly enough, I've been toying with a Liam-tag idea. Except this one is to create a "Liam" tag and then invite everyone to tag a single [children's] book in their collection as the one they'd most like to recommend to your little boy...
Time to stop toying! I'll kick off by suggesting the much loved (albeit non-Irish) Winnie the Pooh. Can't hurt to give the wee lad a taste of the classics, I feel. He might even take up Pooh Studies some day.
chamekke: Thanks! Recommendations much appreciated. Of course, whatever gets recommended it's probably going to be the lady who says hush from now till 18.
Of course, whatever gets recommended it's probably going to be the lady who says hush from now till 18.
Of course :-)
Really this is also a way to get people chatting about which kids' books they love. I have a friend who is tremendously fond of Dr. Seuss's Hop On Pop, thanks to the fond family memories that are bound up with it. (Especially the ruckus that ensued one morning when he got up early, found both parents asleep, and experimented with hopping on the belly of his own "Pop"!)
I'm busy cataloguing at the moment, but thought I'd take a moment out to check the blog.
Now you've made me go to the other side of the room to track down my favourite children's book, The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. I hope when he's a few years older that he finds it as enlightening I did.
Adding books is slow at the moment, and it's probably not a good idea anyway as I've partaken of a few too many St. Paddy's day libations. Why else would I be taking pre-emptive aspirin and checking librarything before I go to bed?
Anyway, best children's books ever = anything by Stephen Cosgrove, but the Serendipity books rock above all else. Man, I'm all misty-eyed as I remember ma reading those to me. Read that little fella to sleep with Bangalee, Flutterby, Leo the Lop, Gnome from Nome, Muffin Muncher, Serendipity, Trafalgar True. Gosh, I wish I was a wee'un again *sniff*.
I don't have much in my library for very young children, but I have two recommendations for when he is older: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper and The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. Each book is actually part of a larger series, which are worth reading in their entirety. They deal with similar themes: magic, coming of age, history, and legend. I recommend them for reading around the 5th grade level (the protagonists in both series are age 11). They are the kinds of books that instill a sense of wonder in the reader. They're great for kids and just as good for adults.
Alas, my most favourite children's books are OOP and were obscure even in their day. :( But 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea' (Judith Kerr) is still in print and much-beloved by at least three generations of our family.
I recommend Mo Willems' books to any parent (or non-parent) with a cartoonish sense of humour.
speaking of tag clouds, any idea when the tag cloud will display properly in Internet Explorer? Author cloud appears properly but tag cloud line spacing is all scrunched together. Since it appears ok with author cloud, isn't it a simple fix for tag cloud? Tag cloud does appear properly in Firefox, but since I send LT links to many people that use IE, they think the scrunched look is ugly and confusing, which I agree.
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Woo hoo Celtic Studies!
I feel inordinately proud of the fact that my library seems to contribute significantly to the size of that tag.
::geeky::
Karen
Oddly enough, I've been toying with a Liam-tag idea. Except this one is to create a "Liam" tag and then invite everyone to tag a single [children's] book in their collection as the one they'd most like to recommend to your little boy...
Time to stop toying! I'll kick off by suggesting the much loved (albeit non-Irish) Winnie the Pooh. Can't hurt to give the wee lad a taste of the classics, I feel. He might even take up Pooh Studies some day.
P.S. Belated HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY, Liam!
chamekke: Thanks! Recommendations much appreciated. Of course, whatever gets recommended it's probably going to be the lady who says hush from now till 18.
Of course, whatever gets recommended it's probably going to be the lady who says hush from now till 18.
Of course :-)
Really this is also a way to get people chatting about which kids' books they love. I have a friend who is tremendously fond of Dr. Seuss's Hop On Pop, thanks to the fond family memories that are bound up with it. (Especially the ruckus that ensued one morning when he got up early, found both parents asleep, and experimented with hopping on the belly of his own "Pop"!)
I'm busy cataloguing at the moment, but thought I'd take a moment out to check the blog.
Now you've made me go to the other side of the room to track down my favourite children's book, The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. I hope when he's a few years older that he finds it as enlightening I did.
Adding books is slow at the moment, and it's probably not a good idea anyway as I've partaken of a few too many St. Paddy's day libations. Why else would I be taking pre-emptive aspirin and checking librarything before I go to bed?
Anyway, best children's books ever = anything by Stephen Cosgrove, but the Serendipity books rock above all else. Man, I'm all misty-eyed as I remember ma reading those to me. Read that little fella to sleep with Bangalee, Flutterby, Leo the Lop, Gnome from Nome, Muffin Muncher, Serendipity, Trafalgar True. Gosh, I wish I was a wee'un again *sniff*.
I don't have much in my library for very young children, but I have two recommendations for when he is older: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper and The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. Each book is actually part of a larger series, which are worth reading in their entirety. They deal with similar themes: magic, coming of age, history, and legend. I recommend them for reading around the 5th grade level (the protagonists in both series are age 11). They are the kinds of books that instill a sense of wonder in the reader. They're great for kids and just as good for adults.
Alas, my most favourite children's books are OOP and were obscure even in their day. :( But 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea' (Judith Kerr) is still in print and much-beloved by at least three generations of our family.
I recommend Mo Willems' books to any parent (or non-parent) with a cartoonish sense of humour.
speaking of tag clouds, any idea when the tag cloud will display properly in Internet Explorer? Author cloud appears properly but tag cloud line spacing is all scrunched together. Since it appears ok with author cloud, isn't it a simple fix for tag cloud? Tag cloud does appear properly in Firefox, but since I send LT links to many people that use IE, they think the scrunched look is ugly and confusing, which I agree.
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