to be clear i like books that are organically woke, i hate contrived ones like "activist baby!" designed to be given as gifts at baby showers
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bonus points if thriftbooks has included it in their summer reading kids books sale, i need to max this discounted cart out
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shel silverstein wrote some bangers
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when you haven’t seen a kid’s book since you were a kid
jul 29, 2025, 4:55 am • 1 0 • view
i've read a zillion childrens books since having my child, actually! pretty weird thing to say!
jul 29, 2025, 5:23 am • 2 0 • view
oh i was just kidding because shel silverstein was also from when i was a kid lol
jul 29, 2025, 5:25 am • 1 0 • view
I think I'm too late but I always thought Bear Day by Cynthia Rylant was very cute
jul 29, 2025, 2:03 am • 1 0 • view
i don't think we like "funny" books as much as other families do
jul 29, 2025, 12:30 am • 15 0 • view
We really liked the "Ordinary People Change the World" books by Brad Meltzer (maybe a little old yet for The Lads), everything by Sandra Boynton, Hug Machine by Scott Campbell, and I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
jul 29, 2025, 12:40 am • 1 0 • view
OMG Julia's House for Lost Creatures!
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okay i'm getting bread and jam for frances, outside over there, the seven silly eaters, the ox-cart man, abiyoyo, jamberry, emmett otter's jugband christmas, mouse soup, and the cricket in times square, and another copy of the jolly postman for a birthday present for their little friend
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Emmett Otter!! 🧡
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if you recommended a really good one and it's not in this list it's because we already have it!
jul 29, 2025, 1:30 am • 10 0 • view
here look it's not because i don't like your suggestion unless i didn't lol bsky.app/profile/spin...
jul 29, 2025, 1:45 am • 11 0 • view
I think you'd like the 70s books that were lent us while our daughter was small: a bunch by John Vernon Lord (I mostly remember The Giant Jam Sandwich), as well as My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes by Eve Sutton. (Newer-ish book rec: the rhythm in The Gruffalo is satisfying to read aloud.)
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I can't tell if you have Struwwelpeter on your shelf, which I enjoyed as a boy. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12116
jul 29, 2025, 1:55 am • 2 0 • view
Or Max & Moritz, which has English translations that preserve the verse and meter. I like the 19th century illustrations that go with the stories. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17161
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Charlie & Mouse series, Frog & Toad, Elephant & Piggie (I could write a treatise about the subtle and kind way "I Like Slop" addresses culinary racism). As bedtime books, Wish Tree by Kyo Maclear and Goodnight Everyone by Chris Haughton may both be a bit young-skewing for your kids, but the cadence!
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"The Hike" by Alison Farrell makes hikes with kids in Oregon more interesting - so many plants and animals they will see! I see you already have an Usborne lift-the-flap, but I suggest all of them - great car reading. Circling back: Elephant & Piggie has a resurgence in Kinder. Low cost-per-read.
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In terms of pure toddler boy joy, Buddy & the Bunnies "Don't Play with your Food" was a HUGE laugh hit, as were "Stop Following Me, Moon!" and "Pine & Boof: the lucky leaf"
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Hmm, Florence Sakade's (the anniversary reprint of the 1952? edition) Favorite Japanese Children's Stories and More Favorite Japanese Children's Stories might be a good fit in there; beautiful watercolor and ink paintings for illustrations
jul 29, 2025, 2:03 am • 2 0 • view
Any Kate Beaton books? Ask her stuff is a treasure
jul 29, 2025, 1:57 am • 3 0 • view
*All, curses.
jul 29, 2025, 2:02 am • 2 0 • view
Miss Suzy
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you don’t have the sandra boynton books?! dang, those were in heavy rotation with us for YEARS
jul 29, 2025, 1:27 am • 2 0 • view
i just don't really love them! i know everybody else does. more for everybody else!
jul 29, 2025, 1:29 am • 4 0 • view
I get it. It’s about what the kids latch on to *and* what you can read 500 times in a row without wishing for death’s sweet release
jul 29, 2025, 1:33 am • 1 0 • view
Not to be all up in your thread, but agreed! Sandra was great for the very first moments of reading to my kid - at 8 mo-1.5 years, buts they age out quickly.
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my 21 month old has about 40 words and one of them is “jamb” because he loves the book “jamberry” so much and always wants us to read it
jul 29, 2025, 2:11 am • 2 0 • view
Outside Over There TERRIFIED me as a child. Like genuine fear.
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i know it's scary as shit!!! scared the hell out of me too. but in a good way. that one might go on a high shelf for later
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EXCELLENT picks!
jul 29, 2025, 4:31 am • 1 0 • view
HELL YEAH CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE. GOOD CALL, WHOEVER THAT WAS.
jul 29, 2025, 1:31 am • 3 0 • view
A book I loved, but it was a funny book: www.macbarnett.com/triangle
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Birdsong is really beautiful
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And I met a penguin is cute
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Thank you omu and Saturday by the same author are nice. Saturday helped us teach taking deep breaths
jul 29, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
James Herriot had a collection of children's books. I'm not totally sure of the age range for them, but I loved Only One Woof when I was a kid.
jul 29, 2025, 12:41 am • 3 0 • view
Caleb Brown poetry books. Zimmerman, “fire fire hurry hurry” is really fun to read out loud.
jul 28, 2025, 11:40 pm • 1 0 • view
the Nora series of books by Satomi Ichikawa (not sponsored)
jul 29, 2025, 12:26 am • 1 0 • view
These or anything else from Hazy Dell Press www.thriftbooks.com/w/klyde-the-... www.thriftbooks.com/w/dont-eat-m...
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Peter Spier in general is great, his "People " is worth spending time checking out the pictures. A more modern cat book is David Wiesner's "Mr. Wuffles". Both books focus on illustrations.
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Let me tell you. I used Harry At (By?) The Sea with my students and they L O V E D
jul 29, 2025, 12:01 am • 3 0 • view
idk if they are in print anymore but I adored the garth pig books as a kid and I think you'd find them fun
jul 28, 2025, 11:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Actual woke, not Politician's Kid Had Book Printed
jul 28, 2025, 11:33 pm • 9 0 • view
exactly yeah. beautiful stories about people acting bravely and with great love, yes. "the smash the patriarchy ABCs" i can take or fucking leave
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Any of Shel Silversteins poem books.
jul 28, 2025, 11:35 pm • 2 0 • view
One of my sons loved Runny Babbit, too.
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They're a little young for this, but you should buy it and put it on a shelf they'll only see when they're ten.
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