Book Meme Day 13
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apple_pathwaysDay 13 - Favorite childhood book OR current favorite YA book (or both!)
I love children's books. One of my favorite things about working with kids is the excuse to read their books. I don't get to read to the kids I tutor now, but when I worked for a daycare I used to love reading to a group of kids. I go all out, too: different voices, big gestures--encouraging the kids to shout out the parts they know. So much fun!
One of my favorite books to read out loud is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. It has it all: a good rhyming rhythm, a repetitive chorus for the kids to chime in with, and dramatic moments where you can raise your voice and make the kids jump and giggle.
A told B and B told C: "I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree!"
Chicka chicka boom boom, will there be enough room?
My other favorite children's book is The Giving Tree, which makes me weep like a river. I was babysitting once and reading the story to a three year-old. She was so concerned when I started choking up at the end!
As far as young adult novels go, I'll leave off with a simple list of books I loved as a teen and still love today: The Catcher in the Rye, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Separate Peace, Little Women, The Mists of Avalon, Jacob, Have I Loved, Maniac Magee, Jane Eyre.
I love children's books. One of my favorite things about working with kids is the excuse to read their books. I don't get to read to the kids I tutor now, but when I worked for a daycare I used to love reading to a group of kids. I go all out, too: different voices, big gestures--encouraging the kids to shout out the parts they know. So much fun!
One of my favorite books to read out loud is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. It has it all: a good rhyming rhythm, a repetitive chorus for the kids to chime in with, and dramatic moments where you can raise your voice and make the kids jump and giggle.
A told B and B told C: "I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree!"
Chicka chicka boom boom, will there be enough room?
My other favorite children's book is The Giving Tree, which makes me weep like a river. I was babysitting once and reading the story to a three year-old. She was so concerned when I started choking up at the end!
As far as young adult novels go, I'll leave off with a simple list of books I loved as a teen and still love today: The Catcher in the Rye, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Separate Peace, Little Women, The Mists of Avalon, Jacob, Have I Loved, Maniac Magee, Jane Eyre.
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Date: 2010-09-21 02:26 am (UTC)A Separate Peace! ♥ I haven't read that book in so long, now I kind of want to dig it out and read it again.
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Date: 2010-09-21 03:01 am (UTC)I need to read A Separate Peace again, too! I was so in love with Phineas when I was 15; in my head, I would pretend to be his girlfriend from a girls' school across the river. (While other girls were obsessed with The Backstreet Boys, all my pretend boyfriends were literary characters! I
wasam a huge nerd, but I'm kinda proud of that now.)