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Favorite Books for Children
February 1, 2013
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
-Amelia Earhart
-Amelia Earhart
On the Exchange Facebook page we recently asked "What is your favorite children's book?" and here are the top ten responses...
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- There’s an Alligator under My Bed by Mercer Mayer
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
- The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
- The Very Lazy Ladybug by Isobel Finn
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Eugene, OR, United States
Happy to see Where the Wild Things Are on the list. I once heard Maurice Sendak speak. He said the book was originally Where the Wild Horses Are, until he realized he couldn't draw horses. He went on to say all the Wild Things were based on his aunts and uncles who used to tower over him, bend down, pinch his cheek and say things like, "I'll eat you up, I love you so!"
San Francisco, CA, United States
Please pass the following to Bonnie:
The book, The Giving Tree, listed in your “favorite books” today, is deeply flawed, sexist, and so not simply good for children. At the end of the book the boy is an old man who has lived a full life, but the tree, called “she”, is a defeated stump. I strongly suggest that people reading it to young children change the pronouns for both tree and human protagonist to “he” -- or better -- that they omit this book from their early childhood classroom. We must commit ourselves to teaching so that both boys and girls (and trees, for that matter) will flourish.
Warmly,
Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
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