#kid's books

[velvet-vhs]

from 𝑰 𝑺𝒑𝒚 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 (1994)

[thelatestkate]

So cute 😆 If you're interested in a copy for yourself or a loved one you can find retailers listed here < ! 🙂

[arconinternet]

Little Lost Kitten (Book, Lois Lovett & Dale Maxey, 1962)

You can digitally borrow it here.

[mbrainspaz]

kid from work got me to read the Magisterium series. I just started book two and I—this 12 year old (or whatever) pondering his evilness is way too funny to me. I remember being 12. The melodrama. It's so silly but I can't say it's unrealistic.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

ALL MY TAILS HAVE POINTS UPON THEM. ALL MY TEETH ARE SHARP AND BLUE."

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1205×760 -- Spotlight on a double-page spread of a three-headed European mythology-style dragon, artwork by the late, great Eric Carle (1929-2021), from the 1988 children's book "Dragons, Dragons and Other Creatures that Never Were."

"Let me tell you about me. Children love me, You're a child. All my heads are green and handsome. All my eyes are red and wild. All my toes have claws upon them. All the claws have hooks. I blow smoke through all my noses. It is hotter than it looks. All my tails have points upon them. All my teeth are sharp and blue. I won't bite you very badly, I am fond of you. All my scales are shaped like arrows. They will hurt you if you touch. So, although I know you love me, Do not pet me very much."

-- "Dragon" by KARLA KUSKIN

Source: www.fairyroom.ru/?p=56315&fbclid.

[intothestacks]

Adventures in Librarian-ing

I've found another book that makes little kids lose their minds: Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown.

They already get riled up at the title, but they really lose it at the last line of the book, where the main character's mom says "[Children] really are the worst."

"WHAAAT!"

"Excuse you!"

"We are NOT!"

And then they lose their minds all over again when the last page reveals that the bear cub now wants an elephant for a pet.

[herebegods]

Y'all like shorks? Check this out! The third book in a series about shorks is live now on kickstarter! Written and illustrated by friends of mine (English translation edited by yours truly), this book is about the pirate adventures of a bull shork and his ragtag crew of otters, a beaver, a crab, a salamander, a rat, and a pair of crows, as they take on expensive yachts and large container ships that block canals. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/siyann/the-revenge-of-captain-darkreef/

[shutterandsentence]

"It was so wonderful to be there, safe at home, sheltered from the winds and the cold. Laura thought that this might be a little like heaven, where the weary are at rest."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter

Photo: Galena, Illinois

[best-kids-media-adult]

So who is the best kid's media adult?

Adults in kid's media tend to be useless, enabling the young protagonists' adventures. They tend to be bad, an antagonist for your young heroes to band together against. They tend to reflect the many ways adults in the real world are terrible to children, from the banal to the monstrous. They tend to be, in other words, The Worst.

Here, we set aside those adults in favor of the best. The ones who serve as helpful mentors, who give insightful advice or desperately needed aid, who are just plain fun to watch or to imagine yourself around.

This tournament is inspired by @best-childhood-book and @character-of-all-time. (Feel free to mention other relevant brackets in the notes!)

[angelx1992]

[ezraomii]

And because a puzzle wasn't enough....,,,, I bought this book for kids 😀😀😀

[velvet-vhs]

from 𝑰 𝑺𝒑𝒚 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 (1994)

[madfishmonger]

When I was a kid in the 80s I had a book about some ragdoll sisters who lived in a cottage in the woods and one had a strawberry garden. I really can't remember much more than that, does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

[arconinternet]

Charlie Brown's Super Books of Question and Answers (Books, 1978)

You can digitally borrow them here.

These were later packed as Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia in 1980/1981 and 1990; various volumes of both versions of the 'Cyclopedia can be found here.

[hellwrites]

It took me almost 20 years to remember the title of a book I read as a kid. All I could recall was that the cover was crushed velvet and it was had a were-badger in it.

The book was called Creepe Hall by Alan Durant, and apparently it's a series, so one day I'll have to fine them all and read them.

Pour one out for all the stories you'll never find again, that you barely remember in totality, but that left an impression on you that you'll never forget.

The short stories from standardized tests that you only had a few minutes to read, but those minutes will last a lifetime.

The books on the library display shelf you used to occupy time until your mom could come pick you up from school.

The graphic novel you picked up when you were first getting into comics and could never find again.

The single lines or themes from stories you otherwise don't remember, save for the one thing that you saw and internalized as a new part of your personality.

Let's pour one out for the books that built us, even if we never could find them again, and couldn't of we wanted to.