Over at Bayou Quilts, I stumbled upon a nice little quiz:

1. Name your 3 favorite children’s series.
2. Name your 3 favorite non-series children’s books.
3. Name 3 favorite children’s books characters.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PLAY ALONG IN THE COMMENTS SECTION! For this post, I invited my brothers to share their personal favorites, but only Mike has replied.  Perhaps this public shaming will convince Matt to chime in…  This excercise was very revealing for me!  It helped to make distinctions between my favorite STORIES and my favorite CHARACTERS.   It has also shown me which books had been the most influential to me.

But without further ado, the results:

MIKE

Series:

1.        The Great Brain – John Dennis Fitzgerald

2.       Encyclopedia Brown – Donald J. Sobol

3.       Choose Your Own Adventure – Various authors

Non-Series

1.       Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein

2.       The Grouchy Ladybug – Eric Carle

3.       Empire Strikes Back See and Hear record book.

Characters

1.       The Great Brain

2.       Encyclopedia Brown

3.       Henry Huggins

JEFF

Series:

1.        The Boxcar Children – Gertrude Chandler Warner

2.       The Hardy Boys – Edward Stratemeyer and others

3.       Henry Huggins (hey, what do you know?  Same as Mike!) – Beverly Cleary

Non-Series

1.       Tacky the Penguin – Helen Lester

2.       Amos:  The Story of an Old Dog and His Couch – Howie Schneider

3.       There’s a Monster at the End of This Book – Jon Stone

Characters

1.       Koo, the Haiku spouting Zen Panda

2.       Amelia Bedelia

3.       Grover

Tags: Children's Books, Literacy, Storytime

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