<p>I was just thinking about the substantial the books we read, the books our kids read, and the books grand children will read. I feel children’s books are a stepping stones to education and a great influence on how children will develop. </p>
<p>As a child what where your favorite children’s book? I am not talking chapter books. Literal children’s books.
I think it would be cool if everyone could post what the books they read where like. What were their favorite characters and why.</p>
<p>MOST IMPORTANTLY:::::: I think it would be a great idea to discuss what would have been good topics for childrens books that can help today’s children be more ready to take on the world. A world that is very unique and different than our own. For example problem solving. Would you purchase your child a book about problem solving if it was done in a fascinating way?</p>
<p>Chapter books ARE children’s books. Are you talking about picture books? M favorite children’s books were all chapter books, except for maybe Make Way for Ducklings and Mr. Bear Goes to Boston.</p>
<p>Time2Learn, are you trying to quiz us to complete an assignment??? Not the most likely post for someone who BRAND NEW to the board and who has posted nothing else. </p>
<p>What would be most helpful for children to be ready to “take on the world” would be that they have parents/caretakers who just choose to read to them in general - regularly and often - because a variety of books will open a child’s eyes to things in their world and things outside of their own experiences. </p>
<p>A majority of children’s books ARE about problem solving. Once you get past board books, picture books on up have a beginning, middle and end - often solving a problem/issue or resolving something. </p>
<p>When they were young, I did find my girls an interesting book about problem solving. It wasn’t about little ethical dilemnas, any sort of causes, or ordinary decision making. More the sort that might intrigue a kid, show applications of math and science, encourage then in a pre-engineering way. At the time, one was a little math-head and fascinated with math problems. No go. </p>
<p>My 18 year old D and I read the Velveteen Rabbit in French before she headed back to college in January. I think it is a great topic to help children take on the world - it doesn’t matter what you look like, what is important is love.</p>
<p>@lookingforward. So the book indeed encouraged your child’s exploration with the maths. They got a taste of it and decided they didn’t like math. Was the interest in math pre-existing or was it initiated by the book. What do you think you would say? </p>
<p>All very great posts. Re-reading a childhood book is very interesting. </p>
<p>We still have all our picture books from when our older boys were small (17, 18, 14). It’s a good thing we kept them as we were gifted with a little “surprise” who’ll be 2 in April! Some of our favorites were: Owl Babies, The Father who had 10 Children, Two Bad Ants, Sody Sallyratus, Green Wilma, A Bad Case of the Stripes, Goodnight Gorilla, Goodnight Moon, Verdi, Stellaluna, The Emperor’s Egg, The Giving Tree, The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree, Harold and the Purple Crayon, James and the Giant Peach, Yertle the Turtle, Guess how Much I Love You?, all the Berenstain Bears books, and the Mercer Mayer books. :D. We love books!!! </p>
<p>A Child’s Book of Poems–with Charming Illustrations by Gyo Fujikawa. I received this one Christmas when I was young. It really captured my imagination back then. I still have my original copy (it has reappeared lately, so apparently a lot of other people liked it, too). I memorized a lot of poems from that book, and haven’t forgotten them. My kids have enjoyed the book, too.</p>
<p>No, OP, they weren’t the least interested in the book. D2 was already a math head and stayed one. She liked the raw challenge. Til, in college, she discovered where her driving interests were. (Not STEM.) Both are good problem solvers, one especially talented in the navigation of “office politics.” From their approach to info and how to reach goals, both would make super attorneys. But they have other ideas. </p>
<p>As a parent would anyone prefer a book that attempts to ease them into a certain mindset focused on molding the child into a charismatic problem-solver that is able to learn from others mistakes as well as their own. I kinda wish I had that as a kid. You feel me?</p>
<p>My favorite book as a child was The Man Who Was Magic by Paul Gallico. My oldest son’s favorite book was The BFG by Roald Dahl. #2’s favorite was Captain Underpants…which says alot about that child. </p>
<p>speaking professionally, any book that is attempting to “do” anything other than tell a great story ( in the case of fiction) is doomed to languish on a shelf. Bibliotherapy is not successful,generally, either critically or commercially. </p>
<p>When DS was young, a neighbor/friend was reading the book, the Chronicle of Nania, with him. (I think it is the book’s title.) She is a very devoted Christian. Is it a popular children’s book (albeit a little bit religious)?</p>
<p>I often hunt down many good puzzle problems in math for DS to solve when he grew up. I also tried to teach him LOGO, a computer language for young children, via a kid’s computer application called “Microworld”. A Christmas gift from him in one year was a simple video game designed by him. It’s a Pacman-like video game – but he called it snowman. (I believe the whole program consists of a little bit over one page of LOGO commands only but he got the “taste” of a simple scripting computer language by this even in elementary school!) But he’s nerver much into computer programming in the end. When the school started to teach a computer language like C++, he considered it as “school work” and was not interested in it anymore. (Sometimes I feel that as soon as a subject is introduced to a child in “school’s way”, it becomes “work” for children and they often lose interest in it.)</p>
<p>I also thought he learned some problem solving skill by playing some higher quality video games. I remember that there used to be a video game call “Kirby” (a pink balloon-like main character, whose main “weapon” is to blow the air.) He and his friend used the “pause” function of the game to record every move of the “boss” to beat the “boss” - not bad for a young child to come up with this idea.</p>
<p>He was the best player on such a game like Tetrics Attack on the game console in his suite in college. His suitemates refused to play such a gane against him because it would be too discouraging for them. So they played games like Mario Kart occasionally instead.</p>
<p>I had some lingering concerns that DS may end up playing too much games. When the online games came along, we intentially kept using the dialup instead of cable modem/DSL. It saved money and discouraged him to play such online game too much. When he was in high school, he played less on games and we introduced some computer music recording applications like Cubase (and later Garageband/Logic when Mac OS became “better”) and he got hooked on the computer recording and sequencing stuff. We did invest some digital piano, guitar, bass, microphone, preamp, DI boxes, and MIDI gears. He just turns 26 and he is still playing with these gears occasionally as of Today. He got an electronic drumset last year, and upgraded his Logic application in the past holiday. The only difference today is that he often plays his instrument live and uses this computer application as accompanyment as he becomes better at playing his chosen music instrument live today. (He prefers to “jam” with his music friends though.)</p>