Childhood regression time

[3rdragon]

Last week I made a Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne joke. No one got it. This fact, combined with the inordinate amount of work and stress that I and everyone I know was experiencing last week (and is experiencing this week, and will experience next week and the week after that) led me to conclude that it was time to bring some children's books to college and read them aloud.

So, for vorindi's library hours this afternoon, I brought a few of my favorites, and we read them in between doing serious work. The three I picked were:
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton
Possum Magic, by Mem Fox (which is a really cute Australian children's story; I have some pictures from it on my door) and
TACKY, the Penguin by Helen Lester
I think that this was a very good thing to do, but now I have a really strong desire to read A Special Trade. It's probably a good thing that I didn't have it, or I might have collapsed into a puddle like the Wicked Witch of the West, only without the soapy water. But it would be a good thing to read next week. I hope that Forbes has it.

Over dinner, Talia suggested that we should read Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, and something by Dr. Seuss. My vote goes to the one about Sneetches, or The Lorax, or The Places You'll Go.
Oh, and Freight Train, by Donald Crew.

What other suggestions do people have?

Comments

[vorindi]

I have The Bungling Ballerinas by Ellen Shire, for next week.

[annyihra.livejournal.com]

In A Scary Old House by Harriet Ziefert's a good one. It's one of my top three favorite picture books. However, my copy is currently hiding somewhere in Missouri.

[annyihra.livejournal.com]

Oh, and In the Night Kitchen and that one story that takes place at Halloween with the eyes that turn out to be adorable black kitties that go on a total power trip at the end of the book.

[3rdragon]

?

[annyihra.livejournal.com]

. . . apparently I was the only little kid who loved "horror"?

[3rdragon]

I don't know about only, but I didn't.

[3rdragon]

And on the same topic, I went to the reading-children's-books session in the campus center this evening. For the record, Carol Christ is a decent reader of children's books, but not exemplary. Patrick Connelly does pretty well.
On the whole, it was a good hour and a half, but I feel that we could have done without the "fable for our times" about the boy solving problems. That one was just depressing.

Afterwards I shared TACKY, the Penguin with Talia. I think that I need to read that book aloud more often. It makes me very happy, and I have lots of fun reading it. Also, I should get my own copy so that I can stop borrowing my mom's.