tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303338240948428759.post4403492463005442316..comments2024-03-24T18:32:45.563-04:00Comments on Black and White: First Read-Aloud Fantasy Chapter BooksAnne E.G. Nydamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02406524149458743460noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303338240948428759.post-87734857615479006562011-04-19T11:20:53.851-04:002011-04-19T11:20:53.851-04:00I think reading aloud might have been my favorite ...I think reading aloud might have been my favorite part of being a mother. It filled entire summer days, and it's a wonder I still have any voice left. <br /><br />The Green Knowe books--what treasures. So good to read all the familiar titles listed here. What can I add? Lots of E. Nesbitt. And all the Moomintrolls, perhaps my daughter's favorites.Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03628939745894807912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303338240948428759.post-3246017871075366152011-04-17T22:15:47.438-04:002011-04-17T22:15:47.438-04:00Charlotte, I totally agree about being nervous for...Charlotte, I totally agree about being nervous for my favorite books! I put off "A Little Princess" until now for fear it wouldn't be as special to them as it was to me. (Luckily my daughter T, at least, loved it.) That's really funny to save some books for the captive audience!<br /><br />Pax, we have since read "The Borrowers" and the first two "Green Knowe" books (which are my favorites of the series), but both of those were when the kids were a few years beyond that very first read-aloud chapter book stage.<br /><br />So many wonderful books!Anne E.G. Nydamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406524149458743460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303338240948428759.post-26277416971436530062011-04-17T18:09:08.610-04:002011-04-17T18:09:08.610-04:00Great list! Mine are almost three years apart, wh...Great list! Mine are almost three years apart, which means a bit more trickiness to chosing the right books...and some of my favorites I've been afraid to read them myself, lest they be rejected (like The Wind in the Willows). Those I save for long car trips, when they have no choice but to listen....Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835101886202235868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303338240948428759.post-50782924049620127102011-04-17T09:37:28.425-04:002011-04-17T09:37:28.425-04:00That sounds wonderful! I definitely have fond mem...That sounds wonderful! I definitely have fond memories of my mother reading to me and my brothers, and I have no doubt it contributed to my love of reading now - both on my own and aloud to P and T.Anne E.G. Nydamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406524149458743460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303338240948428759.post-34199649821976247442011-04-16T21:57:55.223-04:002011-04-16T21:57:55.223-04:00Once upon a time, when the children were young, we...Once upon a time, when the children were young, we did a lot of reading to them as we drove around the country. The Interstates and reading to the kids went together like Saint Patty’s Day and green ribbons. Actually, Mama did most of the reading since I did most of the driving. Especially on long trips, on our 1983 trip across the U.S. and on those frequent drives to Philadelphia to visit relatives a great deal of the adventure and excitement was supplied by the wonderful children’s books that we borrowed from the public library or else were a part of our own collection. Thus, a by-product of this practice was my own belated exposure to the children’s classics and I reckon I enjoyed them as much as did the kids. I just was unable to retain all that I heard as well as they did.<br /> Nowadays Mama reads many of these same old creations to the grand children and I get a second bite of the cherry, from my quiet chair in the next room. They don’t seem to mind my laughing aloud at the situations along with them.<br /> The Dr. Doolittle series, Swallows and Amazons by the irrepressible Arthur Ransome, Penrod, The Centerburg Tales (who will ever forget Homer Price and “Forty-two pounds of edible fungus”?), The Borrowers by Mary Norton, Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House series, A.A. Milne, Anne of Green Gables, and the L. Frank Baum Oz books. We gulped them down and cried for more. It did keep civility in the cramped quarters of our car and created a common and shared culture for the children.<br />By the way, nowadays we read aloud to one another as we travel. It's a great tonic for a relaxed marriage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303338240948428759.post-86968641946098345342011-04-16T17:23:08.435-04:002011-04-16T17:23:08.435-04:00Ah, yes, I remember fondly the joys of reading alo...Ah, yes, I remember fondly the joys of reading aloud after lunch on lazy summer days. One of our favorites was "The Wheel on the School" by Jan de Hartog, and the Swallows and Amazons series. Other series I remember were the Borrowers, and Green Knowe. But perhaps my children were older by that time.Paxnoreply@blogger.com