Hm.

[conuly]

I have a theory about why some picture books are acclaimed and others aren't (beyond the obvious of publicity), but... before I go into my theory, I thought it'd be good to get some confirmation of my idea from... well, youse guys.

So, questions. What pictures books did you enjoy when you were under four or so? Which ones did you enjoy during your later childhood, such as it is? Which picture books did you not grow up with, but enjoy now? Links are helpful, por favor.

Edit: An explanation as to why you liked a book (the rhyme, the story, the pictures) is good, as is talking about books you hated or books kids you know liked.

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[leora.livejournal.com]

Oooh I do like several of those quite a lot. In Elementary School we did a play version of Miss Nelson is Missing. I didn't have an interesting part, but it was so much fun anyway. This is also when I learned that when in a play, I will be very nervous until I am actually performing. As soon as the curtain rose, I was calm and prepared.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is cute. It's one of the first few books I've read in Braille. I admit, the ending was very predictable to a twenty something, but I bet it'd have been much cooler had I been a really young. Still a good read.

And I utterly adored Where the Wild Things Are. To the point that when I had to pick a children's book to translate into Spanish my senior year of high school, that's the one I picked. I spent hours upon hours (about 3 hours per page) on the illustrations, because we were donating the books and I wanted the kid or kids who read mine to have something they could really enjoy. I'm quite proud of the copy I made. It was a little hard to part with it.