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 02:51 am (UTC)You should do this meme, because I want to hear about the children's books you like! There's a ton that I just love, but Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is fun to read out loud, and always gets the kids going.
Today I was looking through one of my student's notebooks for his math homework, and I came across an assignment from his English class where he had to copy the first stanza of The Jabberwocky and invent meanings for the nonsense words. I recited the rest of the poem to him from memory, and he was amazed I knew it! I used to recite it to the older kids (4 and 5) at naptime.
Ah, books! ♥
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Date: 2010-09-21 05:13 am (UTC)Also, rather adore Stellaluna and Henry the Cat books.
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Date: 2010-09-21 01:51 pm (UTC)