My Favorite Children's Books

We love Dr. Seuss at our house!  One of my all time favorites of his is Are You My Mother.  I couldn't tell you how many times my daughter and I have read this one.  She loved it from the time she was a tiny baby.  She used to laugh because I would read it doing different voices.

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Goodreads summary...
This is the classic from which many of our staff first learned to read, starting us on a path of unremitting bibliophilia. Are You My Mother? follows a confused baby bird who's been denied the experience of imprinting as he asks cows, planes, and steam shovels the Big Question. In the end he is happily reunited with his maternal parent in a glorious moment of recognition.

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Another of our favorite books to read over the years has been Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.  I'm not sure why she was so drawn to this as a toddler but she absolutely loved it.  It was a flea market purchase given to her by my Dad, who she calls "Papaw with the mustache". (Her other papaw does not have a mustache so obviously she calls him "Papaw without a mustache a.k.a "Nanny's Papaw)

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Goodreads summary...
Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel Mary Anne make quite a team. The inseparable duo digs the great canals for the big boats to travel through, cuts through the large mountains so trains can pass, and hollows out the deep cellars for the great skyscrapers in the city. But the introduction of gasoline, electric, and diesel shovels means big trouble for Mike and Mary Ann...

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My all time favorite book that my daughter and I have read together since she was a baby is our "bed time book".  It makes my eyes misty to think of all the nights we've said good night with this book.  I love it! And I love her!  Time sure does fly, and we don't read these books together much anymore.  She has moved on to bigger and better book.  They now sit on my desk as a reminder of all the special times we've had together with books.

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Goodreads summary...

In this delightful companion book to Caterpillar Spring, Butterfly Summer, a cute baby elephant shares his admiration for his mom's specialty talents - using her trunk (a colorful cloth-covered spring that runs through the pages) to reach up high, to play hide-and-seek with him, to give him a quick shower, and to cuddle and kiss him at goodnight.

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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss