<p>Another Chinaberry fan here. It still exists and I still receive catalogs and emails from them regularly - although I have to admit it’s been quite awhile since I’ve actually placed an order.</p>
<p>I was also going to mention Roxaboxen. Wasn’t there just a discussion of the value of play on another thread? Roxaboxen is the perfect book to accompany that discussion. It was one of many Chinaberry finds for our family.</p>
<p>Chinaberry is still around. Check it out on line. :)</p>
<p>Another Chinaberry lover here! I also found several good adult reads through Chinaberry.</p>
<p>Other favorite children’s books:
Stellaluna
Jesse Bear What Will You Wear?
the If You Give a Mouse… series.
Sheep in a Jeep</p>
<p>I absolutely love Stella Luna, forgot about that one! Agree with the others on PRJs list.</p>
<p>Thinking about some of the relatively obscure titles that multiple people here seem to have loved, I suspect that running beneath the surface of this thread is a very moving tribute to Chinaberry Books.</p>
<p>Since as I was growing up, I can count the books I owned before I was 10 on one hand-
Horton Hears a Who, Green Eggs and Ham- something about the kings of Hawaii ,Little House in the Big Woods & Black Beauty,
I would have never have known about many of these books except for Chinaberry. ( which I found out through Mothering magazine /Birth & life bookstore- also the newspaper that came with the weekly cloth diaper supply)
Especialy loved Tuck Everlasting & the Girl of the Limberlost.
My kids never liked it as much as I did- but the Seattle Children’s theatre did have an excellent production.</p>
<p>I love Chinaberry too, and still get their catalog and it’s “sister” catalog for adults. Can’t remenber the name but it’s probably in a pile around here somewhere if anyone is interested. I have and recommend the books and readings ( for sleep problems and such ) as well. Just wanted to jump in here and say several years ago I would read about books in the catalog and then order them from Amazon. At some point they said something about that in their catalog and I stopped doing it…</p>
<p>Things people on CC are never going to agree about: </p>
<p>state universities vs. Ivies, LACs vs. universities, public school vs. private school, parochial school vs. either, any school vs. homeschool, SAT vs. ACT, AP vs. IB, engineering vs. liberal arts, Obama vs. Clinton, teenage sex, teenage drinking, sleepover parties, sex worker shows, fraternities, sororities, athletes, URMs, AA, FAFSA, GCs, USNWR, Newsweek, Ron Paul, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, the Pope, global warming, For Better Or For Worse, There Will Be Blood, Juno, Merrilee Jones, holistic admissions, ethnic Chinese parents . . . .</p>
<p>Things people on CC agree about:</p>
<p>Chinaberry Books</p>
<p>JHS - True, but funny!</p>
<p>I never heard of it before. So, count me out ;)! </p>
<p>Sorry, just couldn’t take the unanimity.</p>
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<p>So did all the Chinaberry readers also get toys from Hearthsong?</p>
<p>Max Makes a Million and other books by Maira Kalman.</p>
<p>I have an older D- born in 1982- so I used to get the very first biobottoms catalogs when all they sold was diaper wraps, the Hanna catalog when it was mostly baby long underwear, Garnet Hill, when they made their own flannel baby clothes & when nurse midwives were in birthing centers- not hospitals.</p>
<p>We still get the heartsong catalog ( not sure why- they finally stopped sending me the American girl catalogs), I liked the beeswax crayons and the jointed wooden dolls, ( I also made a waldorfy looking baby doll stuffed with fleece I carded myself!) 
- but they sell so much other stuff that is either overpriced/available elsewhere, that it is hard to find things that are unique- + kids haven’t been that age for a long time.</p>
<p>There should be another thread for baby catalogs we miss.</p>
<p>I was never that into Hearthsong, and I don’t remember ordering anything from it. (But we ordered lots of things from lots of places, and catalog ordering was never my department, so I can’t swear to it.) Biobottoms and Hanna – oh, I remember those very fondly. (Well, to tell the truth, I’m not sure I remember actual biobottoms all that fondly, since my closest contact with them was often less than pleasant, and we ultimately went over to the Dark Side – disposables – when child #2 started to walk.) </p>
<p>I saw a baby in a Hanna onesy just last weekend, and I almost melted.</p>
<p>one of the posts above just reminded me of my favorite book when S was 18 months old: Solving Your Child’s Sleep Problems by Richard Ferber. </p>
<p>It made a huge difference in our house, and especially later, when D was born. She was Ferberized from day one…</p>
<p>Who had Penelope Leach’s book on the night table? ('fess up)</p>
<p>Yep, had Penelope Leach on the bedside table, along with one called (I think) Raising Your Spirited Child. 
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<p>Loved and still love Chinaberry & Heartsong, and <em>still buying</em> Hannas - even S2 is long out of onesies, but those soft, soft stripey shirts can’t be beat. I don’t go back as far as '82 with them, but I’ve been a Hanna buyer since D appeared in 1988. What a joy it was when they opened a retail store on this coast! </p>
<p>How about Cricket/Ladybug/Babybug magazines?</p>
<p>Our kids loved Sheep in a Jeep … and Sheep in a Shop, too.</p>
<p>We subscribed to Ladybug and of course Ranger Rick. You could not beat the softness of a Hanna.</p>