Current Favorites:
- A Lot of Otters, by Barbara Helen Berger. I love the illustrations of the otters, especially their facial expressions.
- No, David, by David Shannon.
- Alice the Fairy, also by David Shannon. She has magic: she turns her dad's cookies into hers.
- Dragon Naps, by Lynne Bertrand. This one is so funny. The dragons can't sleep at naptime, so they give each other compliments and listen to Italian pop songs about werewolves, among other things.
- The Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown. I love the art, even though the mother bunny is codependent and creepy.
- I am a Bunny, by Richard Scarry. This one has beautiful illustrations, and what is cuter than a little bunny in overalls?
My Childhood Favorites
- Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing, by Judy Blume. My family still says, "Eat it or wear it."
- Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, also by the fabulous Ms. Blume. What can I say about this book that hasn't already been said?
- The Ramona series, by Beverly Cleary
- Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
- Daphne's Book, by Mary Downing Hahn. This book is one of the first truly emotional things that I ever read. The grocery store scene (if you've read it, you know what I mean--it's burned into your brain)--wow. It hurt my little fifth-grade heart.
- The Mister Men and Little Miss series, by Roger Hargreaves
- The Value Tales series, by Spencer and Ann Donegan Johnson. These are the best groovy-'70s books. Diversity, feminism--they had it all! These make me suspect that my mom was a secret hippie under the surface.
- The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner. My first-grade teacher, Mrs. Ammons, read this to us one chapter at a time. I really admired the ingenuity and resourcefulness that the kids had. They made being orphans living in an abandoned boxcar in the woods seem like a fun adventure, rather than a total nightmare.
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