Read a Child a Book You Like Day

Do you read to your kids? Do you read to your sibling's kids? Do you read to your friends' or neighbors' kids? Do you read to kids???

My personal experience with reading to children is that there are about five books at any given point in time with which the child is in love and will insist that you read to them over...and over... and over... and OVER... again. Well tomorrow is your day to choose the bedtime story and it gets to be a book that YOU like! While it may be tempting to read some Poe to little Johnny or Susie let's at least try to remain professional and keep the title age appropriate. With that in mind, here is a list of child appropriate stories in no particular chronological order.

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All my friends are dead. When I first saw this book I thought - OMG that is AWESOME! Then I thought, Wow... *snicker* That might be kinda rough for a kids book. Then my 3 year old nephew read it to me and giggled uncontrollably as he told me "All my friends are bread!" As it turns out, this book is pretty hilarious. For both kids and adults. Available at Amazon this qualifies as a book I like.

     

Where the Red Fern Grows is the first book I read growing up where I identified with the characters enough that I cared about what happened to them. I'm not going to say that I cried like a baby, but I'm not going to say that I didn't either. This book is definitely for the more mature "child" and is more of a marathon than a bed time story, but it ranks highly on the "books I like" list.




Anything by Dr. Seuss is probably a good bet, and for the most part they have at least some educational value be it learning to rhyme (One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish), understanding that being different doesn't make you better (The Sneeches), that the environment is something that should be protected (The Lorax), or that you should eat your greens (Green Eggs and Ham). It is hard to go wrong with "The Doctor"

For the adult children in your life a quick list of adult books that I like follows:

The Hobbit
The Dark Tower (series)
Lord of the Flies
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
1984
Dracula
World War Z