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From: Jean Hildreth <jhildreth>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:09:55 -0500
I hope not to repeat any wonderful picture book authors/illustrators already mentioned, but would hate to miss some of my family's timeless favorites.
I grew up hearing my father's sonorous impromptu recitations of Kipling's Just So Stories which, for many years, I actually thought he had made up on the spot. One mention of the "gray, green greasy Limpopo River" and I am back on my father's lap, mesmerized. Also imbedded in my childish brain are not only the marvelous stories of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the Pooh, but Milne's wonderful poetry, which is so often overlooked (see Now We Are Six, and When We Were Very Young).
Add to this list the following: anything by Barbara Cooney (esp. those she both wrote and illustrated, like the luminous Island Boy), Jane Yolen's Owl Moon, Frances Hamerstrom's Walk when the Moon Is Full, anything by Clyde & Wendy Watson, Robert McCloskey, Helen Oxenbury, David Wiesner, Laura Numeroff, Virginia Lee Burton's classics, Sendak's Nutshell Library and In the Night Kitchen, Russell Hoban's Frances books, and The Rain Babies, by Laura Krauss Melmed (ill. so memorably by Jim LaMarche). Oooh! And don't miss Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows ! One afterthought: there is a beautifully illustrated version of James Herriot's Dog Stories which should be in the library of any child who ever loved a dog. Ditto for cat stories!
The picture books available to today's children seem to me to be a virtual embarrassment of riches! And they're equally grand the second time around, with one's grandchildren.
Jean Hildreth Luxemburg-Casco Middle School Casco, Wisconsin
Received on Tue 12 May 2009 01:09:55 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:09:55 -0500
I hope not to repeat any wonderful picture book authors/illustrators already mentioned, but would hate to miss some of my family's timeless favorites.
I grew up hearing my father's sonorous impromptu recitations of Kipling's Just So Stories which, for many years, I actually thought he had made up on the spot. One mention of the "gray, green greasy Limpopo River" and I am back on my father's lap, mesmerized. Also imbedded in my childish brain are not only the marvelous stories of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the Pooh, but Milne's wonderful poetry, which is so often overlooked (see Now We Are Six, and When We Were Very Young).
Add to this list the following: anything by Barbara Cooney (esp. those she both wrote and illustrated, like the luminous Island Boy), Jane Yolen's Owl Moon, Frances Hamerstrom's Walk when the Moon Is Full, anything by Clyde & Wendy Watson, Robert McCloskey, Helen Oxenbury, David Wiesner, Laura Numeroff, Virginia Lee Burton's classics, Sendak's Nutshell Library and In the Night Kitchen, Russell Hoban's Frances books, and The Rain Babies, by Laura Krauss Melmed (ill. so memorably by Jim LaMarche). Oooh! And don't miss Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows ! One afterthought: there is a beautifully illustrated version of James Herriot's Dog Stories which should be in the library of any child who ever loved a dog. Ditto for cat stories!
The picture books available to today's children seem to me to be a virtual embarrassment of riches! And they're equally grand the second time around, with one's grandchildren.
Jean Hildreth Luxemburg-Casco Middle School Casco, Wisconsin
Received on Tue 12 May 2009 01:09:55 PM CDT
