Comments on: Got Kids? Read this Poem Every Day!

By: Mommaofmany

Mommaofmany — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:52:20 +0000

In no particular order, my girls suggestions are:

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting

The Princess and the Goblin by George McDonald (and all the others by him)

The American Girl series of books

all my girls have enjoyed Greek myths from books like “The Wonder Book” and “Tanglewood Tales”

The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

Mommaofmany’s last blog post..Pastor Steve Anderson…Domestic Terrorist

By: MotherHen

MotherHen — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:29:48 +0000

That’s one of my favorites. I just started reading that to her a few days ago! Thanks, Mary.

By: mary bailey

mary bailey — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:04:14 +0000

Don't forget Charlotte's Web by E.B. White! mary bailey’s last blog post..J. Vernon Says...

By: jess

jess — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:38:42 +0000

Rebekah of Sunnybrook Farm, Mary Poppins, Wizard of Oz, Seven Little Australians. and all the other suggestions. I can't wait to read to my Anna about the "Anne spelled with an E" jess’s last blog post..It's not the bad, but the good that traps me.

By: Keeley

Keeley — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:44:04 +0000

I love you with the love of a thousand burning suns. What an AWESOME poem. I have no recollection of actually reading it in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – but that’s not surprising as it’s been about 30 years since I read it.

I am printing it out and taping it across the front of my TV set.

The last sentence of that poem is true. My parents refused to have a TV in the house until I was 11 or something. I still contend it was the greatest gift they ever gave me. I’m so thankful they did that.

Sooooo…..How do I convince my husband to get rid of the TV? I’ve been trying for 15 years and nothing’s worked yet.

By: Krystal

Krystal — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:14:56 +0000

I have 5 girls — so I wouldn’t know what to read to boys. We love The Little House on the Prairie books, Heidi, the Little Princess, Pollyanna, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, Chronicles of Narnia, Nancy Drew, Black Beauty, National Velvet, Little Pilgrim’s Progress, American Girl books, YWAM books — lots of good women missionaries, and the Betsy Tacy series.

By: MamaOlive

MamaOlive — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:37:15 +0000

You’ve gotten some good suggestions, so I’ll just say thanks for the poem. It was the perfect pick-me-up after writing about my dog dying. I knew you’d have something cheerful.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:08:11 +0000

Little House on the Prarie (I still read this). Anne of Green Gables, Little Princess, Secrect Garden, Little Women, Black Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, Wind in the Willows, When she is older, any of the Jane Austen Books, Jane Eyer, The Age of Innocence, O Pioneers, Wuthering Heights Just to name a few...;-) Aimee’s last blog post..It is going to be a Good Day

By: snoopy

snoopy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:31:03 +0000

The Grandma’s Attic books by Arleta Richardson. Various books by Lois Lenski are a nice complement to geography. Marguerite Henry’s books (horses). The Wheel on the School by Meindert de Jong. Don’t forget Anne of Green Gables when Sally Mae grows older.

By: MotherHen

MotherHen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:54:50 +0000

Thanks, Maggie! Aren’t the Little House books super. Plenty of girl stuff for the girls and all that outdoorsy, manly stuff that Pa did. I love those. That’s actually the next series in line after we finish the Swiss Family Robinson.