My Favourite Childhood Book

When I was a kid I loved books.  Every night before bed one of my parents would read my siblings and I a book, or maybe a couple, depending on how long they were.

Two books particularly stand out as my favourite childhood books:

The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton. . .

and Jenny and Jupie by Gyo Fujikawa

The Going to Bed book takes the reader through the story of a bunch of animals getting ready for bed.  At the end of the particular copy of the book that my family owned, there was a song about Hippos dancing in mud.  Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a copy of the song but it still plays in my head immediately when I think of the book, though unfortunately I can't remember all of the words.

Shortly after my daughter was born my mom purchased a copy of the Going to Bed book in board book form for her.  I still love reading it and it's one of her favourite's too.

As for Jenny and Jupie, it was a huge favourite of mine though apparently pretty long as kid's books go.  I haven't read it now in years but I remember absolutely loving the pictures.  It was the story of a little girl who takes off on a space adventure with an alien.  As a child I always thought it would be really fun to have an adventure like that.

Do you have any favourite childhood books? What did you love about them?

30 Day Blog Challenge - Day 18

As I was putting my daughter to bed tonight I was thinking about the topic for this blog post, a book you could read over and over again and not get sick of.

It's a really good question because I can't say I've ever read a book that was at an adult reading level more than once.  I'm a goal oriented person and my goal is to reach the end of the book so it seems kind of silly to read it again after that. lol.  I've never read a book that was sooo good that I wanted to read it more than once.

I've bought books to share with others because I enjoyed them though.

So, hmmm. . . books that I can read over and over again and not get sick of. . .

These are the closest I can come up with:

We have a bunch of these books - That's not my Dinosaur, etc.  This was the first one we got:

I'm fairly certain it was a gift and it's been well loved.  I read this book at least a couple of times a week to my daughter and she enjoys it.  It's not my personal favourite but it's cute.

Then there's this one:

I love Little Wombat, the character in this story.  We read it almost every night.  My daughter loves pointing at the picture of Little Wombat curled up in a ball with his mom at the end of the book.  It's a great story and  the pictures are cute and sweet.

So. . .once I get back to reading something away from the children's section I'll possibly be able to suggest a book to be reread over and over but until then, these are the books I'm reading on an at least weekly basis that don't make me want to hurt myself. lol.

Do you have a favourite book?