Which children's books have most impacted you?
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@Laurel-Aylesworth bloom arrived at ours today all the way from America. Woohoo
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anything by Barbara Reid (Two by two and Foxed Walked ALone might be my favorites but also her Night before christmas one) or robert Munsch/michael Marthchenko (love you forever as one example but I love Martchenko illustrations even tho he didn't do that particular book!)
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Click, Clack , Moo was so funny!!!
The Cow who clucked - love those illustrations!
The Broken ornament by Tony Diterlizzi
my kids loved The Bone series of books and we all loved Tintin too. And Calvin and Hobbes (goes without saying really!)))))
I'm sure there's more but I am forgetting , might write more later, these ones just popped to top of my head!
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@peteolczyk It's so good!
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I like Usborne books, from UK
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@CLCanadyArts yes me too! The Berenstain Bears written and illustrated by Stan and Jan Berenstain husband & wife duo (and now their son) and also the series Franklin the Turtle illustrated by Brenda Clark are probably the two most influential series of picture books for me. Both with pretty clever illustration styles (B. Bears did some out-of-the-box things I really appreciate with their double-page spreads) and moral lessons of substance not just cute.
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I recall trying to read this book of collected fairy tales when I was in elementary school, but the writing was a bit of a slog... I was much much more interested in the art. Janet and Anne Graham Johnstone were the sibling artists, and their work made a HUGE impact on me in ways that I didn't really understand until I grew up.
