/lit/ - Literature

>>18270764
At the picture book level?
>The Sneetches and Other Stories
>The Lorax
>How the Grinch Stole Christmas
>Horton Hears a Who
>The Monster at the End of This Book
>Where the Wild Things Are
>Goodnight, Moon

1. The one about two mouse brothers, one who lives in a city, and the other in a farm.
2. The one where the main character is a raven who loves eating cheese

Forgot what they're called, but they were really enjoyable.

>>18270764
Lolita

>>18270764
I remember reading a book called the "Scrambled Up States of America" which was about Kansas being sad he never gets to go to see the ocean or other countries like Mexico and Canada, so his best friend Nebraska organizes an event where all the states would swap places for a little while. It taught me a lot about geography and I used to read it every day at school.

>>18270764
Pic and Pinocchio.

>>18270764
My favorite book as a kid was The Giggler Treatment and I'm certain its surreal humor was a major formative influence one me as a child, but I'm not sure if I'd recommend it.

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>>18270764

The Phantom Tollbooth.

>>18270764
Not that anti-aristocracy crap

>>18270764

Nothing beats this. Nothing.

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>>18270843
so based damn. digits prove

This was a important book growing up for me.

what i saw on mulberry street

little black sambo

This was my favorite until I was old enough to pick up the Cam Jansen books

Goodnight Moon
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Where the Wild Things Are

When I was little I had a book about these weird little hippo looking dudes that dressed like humans and lived underground and in trees. They used small animals to fight, flew on birds, I think they had guns. The book covered their life throughout the 4 season....wish I could remember what the damn thing was called.

richard scarry books, kids love to look at complicated illustrations. there was also this german picture book about a town throughout the seasons like this, i used to love it as a kid but i forget what it’s called now.

I loved the BFG, james and the giant peach, the witches, matilda and the tashi series

>>18270764
This is going to be one of the most important and annoying tasks for me in the future, going through children literature meant for the age group 1-8 and filtering the leftist propaganda out of it. Op's pic is one of these.

>>18273092
take your meds

I heard that lots of people are fond of the movie, but it is pretty garbage after you read the book

>>18273371
What message is "The Rainbow Fish" conveying?

>>18270764
If I were to pick my top 5 favorite artists from my list:
1) Inga Moore's works, incl. A House in the Woods, Six Dinner Sid, her work on The Secret Garden
2) Sven Nordqvist's Pettson and Findus series
3) Maxfield Parrish's works, incl. Knave of Hearts
4) Alfred Bestall's Rupert annuals
5) (tied) Kay Nielsen and Fritz Baumgarten's works

My list in general is very good though. Picture books can be high-art.

This one is great, basically Animal Farm for kids

>>18271485
>Beautiful
Why is she so ugly?

>>18273828
I would also say I like Molly Brett's Tom Tit Moves House, Beatrix Potter's works, and Jill Barklem's Brambly Hedge series. Picking a top 5 is hard from my top 50 list.

>>18273695
Sharing is good *gasp*

>>18270764
The Phantom Tollbooth

>>18273850
Its a child, why does it matter
also, daughter on the cover is the "evil" one.

>>18270764
For me, its Green Eggs and Ham. It was the first book I read on my own, start to finish. I remember staying up late one night, and I got so interested in the challenge of reading it that I went through the whole book. It took what felt like an eternity, I must have been really sounding out words at that moment, and then trying to figure out what word the sounds related to. Beyond that, I really identified with the No, David! series or whatever it was called.

>>18275571
Also I have to mention this wonderful book.

I unironically recommend this to adults too. Absolutely singularely best children book.

>>18273844
is this >how goes the work duck? book?

>>18271954
This was the first book I ever read

I really liked this book as a little kid, my mom read it to me as a bedtime story a lot. Thanks to it I always called excavators "snorts."

>>18270764
Alright HOW do I know this fish

>>18276277
Yes

>>18276621
You were born in the 80s or 50s?

>>18275579
Frogs remind me of these books, which I liked. I liked the comfy art style

>>18277077
There go dem bois o shit waddup

>>18270911
>>18270998
>>18271480
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>>18273092
>>18273371
>>18273850

>>18270764
>>18276420
These two really resonated with me; I don't think I've seen the covers to these books since I was a child.

>>18277077
brothers

>>18273092
My parents are on the left and they disliked the message of this book.

>>18274153
Give up what makes you special because it makes losers jealous and they won't play with you if you don't.

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>>18270843
I feel quite silly, but quite vindicated.

>>18271099
What a grand and intoxicating innocence

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>>18278092
NO!!

>>18278092

>>18278092
MY SOUL

>>18278092
>Dad will be writing these words for me

Sorry I don't understand the implications of this message, did his dad die? Sorry if I'm being insensitive I'm just confused.

>>18278276
Oh I understand now, I'm retarded.

>>18276896
Realest answer.

>>18278092
I didn't ask to feel these feels

>>18277077
Fuck does anyone remember like a maybe British like kids book or cartoon that maybe had a frog as a character where one of the characters is by a body of water and having an existential crisis. Please help.

>>18270840
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
iirc it has multiple iterations of it

>>18278092
>Love Jesus and keep trusting him

BASED MOM. Rest in peace in paradise

>>18270764
Aesop's Fables

The only true answer.

>>18278092
tears are almost coming out anon, this is so sweet and beautiful. God bless you and your mother, as well as your father.

>>18270843
I fondly remember my Mom reading me this. Great book, very based.

>>18270948
Hell yeah.

>>18279232
gogol for kids?

>>18273092
Just go straight into Shakespeare and the Bible. No need for children's books.

i reas schopenhauer and nirtzche as a zygote

>>18274153
>Sharing is good *gasp*

>>18270843
my mother used to read this to me and then she went insane, real fucking shame

>>18273092
Kek, nice bait

>>18270764
For me, it's the Phantom Tollbooth. Or anything Roald Dahl, that nigga based.

>>18272042
it's probably not but maybe the Moomins?

>>18270764
Anything illustrated by Ted Rand.

>>18270764
I loved Kipling's Just So Stories

Does anybody else feel some strange sadness when looking at childrens books? Theres just something so pure and innocent about some of them that I, even if I didnt read them as a child, get a very hard to describe feeling.

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>>18281297
I also posted a lot of good picture book illustrations here: >>/lit/thread/S18132709

>>18281110
>Moomins
Sadly, no. the illustrations in this book were closer to someone who studied wild life painting, and then just inserted these weird little dudes who have armies and wars.

>>18270764
the rainbow fish is one of the worst

>>18270764
The rainbow fish is communist propaganda

I loved this as a kid and my kid absolutely loves it now

>>18273371
(I'm >>18273092)
The story is pretty shitty. A fish goes to a another fish with shiny scales, asks for one of them without giving a reason besides 'he has so many' or offering something in return, gets a no and proceeds to tell the 'friends' of the rainbow fish what happened, The 'friends' don't want to do anything after that with the rainbow fish. They don't even talk to him, they just swim away. He goes to an octopus who advises him to give all his shiny scales but one to his 'friends' and the guy at the beginning to become happy, which he does, happy end.

>>18274153
>Sharing is good *gasp*
More messages:
>Mutilate yourself if you stick out to get social approval
>give other people you don't know what you own if they ask for it
>the 'friends' were totally okay for cancelling the friendship for not giving his scale away and not even talking to him
>get friends by giving your stuff away or repair 'friendships' by giving them gifts

>>18280956
>Kek, nice bait
OP baited me with this shitty book first, besides that I meant it seriously.

>>18277077
Legendary series

>>18282052
based

>>18275579
absolutely based, thanks for the memory impact. remember the uggly art really sticking with me.

>>18276646
I wish i had a hard working duck wife like this.

>>18278276
God damn you're fucking retarded.

>>18278092