"I do no like green eggs and ham! I do not like them, Sam-I-Am!"

Watch the Stars Come Out? I missed that one, but it sounds interesting!

The first books that come to mind are those I've read in recent years to nieces and nephews, or friends' kids, rather than those I had as a kid.

I can still quote big chunks of them...

"In the great green room..."

"Do you like my hat?"
"No, I do not. Good bye."

edit: and how could I forget Dr. Seuss' tongue-twisting Fox in Socks, which got its own stamp:

When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.

I absolutely loved the Princess story picture books with beautiful illustrations. I don't mean disney princess books. Just illustrated versions of classic fairytales. That picture of the picture book of The Twelve Dancing Princesses brings back lovely memories. Actually, I still enjoy going to the library, getting out a nice big stack of picture books, and sitting down to read them and look at the pictures.

One of my favorite picture books is called The Four Gallant Sisters. I'm not sure who it's by. Have any of you heard of it? It tells the story of four sisters whose mother died, and they are left poor. To make their way in the world, they disguise themselves as men and each learn a trade.

I always liked Green Eggs and Ham. Just the other day I was in Wal-Mart with my friend reciting everything I could remember from it. She was trying out pillows and wanted to know what I thought of them, but all I would say was 'Try them! Try them! And you may. Try them and you may, I say!' It's one of my life's goals to have it memorized.

And all the other Dr Seuss ones were awesome as well. Particularly One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. One of my other favourites (and all my brothers' favourite as well) was this one:

(The tiger was our favourite.) We all thought it was a Dr Seuss one, simply because of the Cat in the Hat in the corner. Apparently, we never noticed the author's name even though it was big as life there on the bottom. A month or so ago, I decided to (and my little brothers joined me) pull out all our old kids books and we still fought over Ten Apples Up on Top, and I just had to read it out loud, which everyone but me was sorry about, because I went around the next day saying 'I can do nine, and hop and drink! You cannot do this I think.' once every 5 minutes.

I can't remember much else in the way of books, except for a few German books about cats that I had. (It was before I could read, so it didn't matter that I didn't know German. As far as I knew, they were English. ) I also had a version of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid which I recently found, but I remember it gave me nightmares, so it ended up in the box destined for the thrift store, despite the fact that I never give away books.

The Twelve Dancing Princesses! That's one of my favorite fairy tales! Thanks, Valiant.

I love fairy tales, Mother Goose rhymes, The Berenstein Bears, Puss in Boots, etc. Okay, I can't remember anything else 'cause I'm kinda in a rush.

Of course, when it comes to children's books, there's always Kipling's Jungle Books and Just So Stories, Ballantyne's The Coral Island, and Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. Do these sound familiar?

Did anyone else think this was almost a children's horror story? Hehe. Some of the pictures were rather disturbing.

gazer, that is one of my very favourite lines from Go, Dog, Go. We have two different copies of the book, one is the full version, and the other is a board book with most of the pictures but a different set of words. The favourite line from that one is:
Stop dogs stop! The light is red.
Go dogs go, it's green ahead!

*loves Dr. Seuss* I don't think I've ever read that one, hyaline. I'm going to have to find a copy now...

One of my very favourite children's books is Puppy in the Garden by Dennis Kyte. I shall have to scan some of the pages as there seem to be no readily available images on the internet.

Go, Dog, Go is one of my favorite Seuss books too. My family still quotes the hat line.

I loved this book while growing up:

It's such a beautiful story of honesty. And the pictures are lovely.

I absolutely loved this book! "Corduroy" by Don Freeman was my standard bedtime story!! *sigh*I just love happy endings

How did I forget Corduroy? I'm still reading it in my 20s! Thanks, A_Narnian_Ship!