Comments | brits_americans: This is prompted by a discussion in my journal.

conuly in brits_americans

This is prompted by a discussion in my journal.

Mar 31, 2005 09:30

In fact, it is the discussion in my journal, and I direct comments thataway. Which picture books would *you* consider classics? Where are you from? Did you yourself grow up with those books?

(If you're curious, that discussion was prompted by the reply to this post.)

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alielle March 31 2005, 14:35:35 UTC

'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' is definitely a classic to me. I was read it and read it myself so many times when I was little. We read it at playgroup too.

Also, 'Topsy and Tim'. I think I had all their books when I was little. They did stuff like fly on an aeroplane and go to the dentist.

Oh and I'm from the UK.

calchandler March 31 2005, 14:48:42 UTC

Little Bear and the Golden Books were more the books I grew up with (looking at your list, I didn't read/see many of those books, in fact just Dr. Suess, Beatrix Potter and the Bernstein Bears)

I spent the first three years of my life on an American military base in Germany with a (native) Thai mother, so I also remember stories from a number of Thai books (titles I can't remember).

When I got older (my parents claim around 7 or so) they started buying me the Illustrated Classics books, and so I was reading Call of the Wild and Black Beauty and such along with many Dahl books.

conuly March 31 2005, 16:21:50 UTC

Golden Books... I keep forgetting those.

jedthehumanoid March 31 2005, 16:42:27 UTC

Forget the rest, Where's Wally (or Waldo, whatever) is the king.

thekumquat March 31 2005, 16:58:31 UTC

Mr Men! Not the Little Misses though, and certainly not the 'new' Mr Men books written recently by Roger Hargreaves' widow.

Beatrix Potter, Thomas the Tank Engine, Rupert the Bear, Roald Dahl. I devoured comics aimed at 4-5 year olds called Pippin and Playhour, which had stories from the Magic Roundabout, Larry the Lamb, Camberwick Green, etc.

Having multitudes of older American cousins, I also got lots of American books. Dr Suess, the Berenstain Bears, and this series of animals with one for each letter of the alphabet with a defining ssame-lettered characteristic were all fab.

missmuse March 31 2005, 17:03:50 UTC

ok.. here we go ....

Definetely the Mr Men!!
Beatrix Potter,
Roald Dahl (i used to re-read the BFG over and over again) .. i can't really remember to be hoenst.. but i do think Harry POtter is now definetely a childrens classic ... and adult for that matter.