Today, because it’s Friday…and due to fact that Halloween was yesterday, I am thinking some of you may have blood-red face paint stuck in your bathroom sink, there might be a few burnt out jack o lanterns on your front porch, and you may or may not have consumed more chocolate than you had planned on. No? I guess it’s just me then. 🙂 In any event, the spooky holiday is over and I feel like talking about books rather than food. If you have a strange loathing for books, then come and see my bright and early Monday morning, and we will discuss food in the form of my November Menu Plan. Deal?
For as long as I can remember I have loved books. It’s a little something my mother passed on to me, a hobby we share together I suppose you could say. (You can follow me on GOODREADS by clicking HERE, if you so choose). Books for children are especially fun, and I have a great one to share with you today.
I’m The Scariest Thing In The Jungle, written and illustrated by David Derrick Jr. is a darling children’s book with captivating illustrations and a fun story.
Inside the front cover are sketches of all the different animals that are in the book. My kids had a great time searching for them throughout the story.
You can see MyLittleTwinBoyAaron here trying to copy the sketches. My kids love this book, as do I. I recommend it to any of you with children or grandchildren. It would make a great Chirstmas gift. 🙂 You can buy signed copies, with an original drawing, found HERE. Davids books are also available on Amazon and can be requested at most book stores.
The author, David Derrick Jr. has generously offered to send a signed copy of The Scariest Thing In The Jungle, a copy of his book Sid The Squid, a jungle T-shirt and a flashlight key chain to one of you lucky readers. To enter the giveaway just leave me a comment below telling me the name of one of your favorite books for children. This Giveaway will be open from today until Thursday November 7th. I will announce the winner bright and early Friday November 8th.
Disclaimer: Prize package sponsored by David Derrick Jr. , thoughts and commentary regarding the book are my own.
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My favorite book as a child was “The Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister
My favorite book would be “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” We LOVE books too. Every once in awhile, we will restrain ourselves and actually leave a few of the library’s books at the library for others to check out! Otherwise, it is so hard to not want to bring a truck load home!
One of our favorites is “A Bad Case of The Stripes” by David Shannon.
My favorite children’s book is “Love You Forever” written by Robert Munsch. I’ve been reading this book to my children for years and now our youngest, 18 months, enjoys settling in and listening to the heartwarming story…
My favorite kids book (currently) is “If you give a mouse a cookie.” And the Dr. Seuss books. And the Madeline series. Oh goodness – do I have to limit it to one?
Love books by Robert McCloskey like Homer Price and Lentil because of his illustration! I’m a volunteer in the library at my kids school and when I’m putting the books back on the shelves I can get totally side tracked by looking at the books 🙂
My favorite book as a child was The little engine that could. I can remember sitting and reading that book over and over as a child wishing for the train to “think it can, think it can” and get over the hill!
I Will Always Love Where The Wild Things Are. I Think I Will Go Read It Now!
I love you through and through is my very favorite for little ones
I love “The Runaway Bunny” — I have several that I love but I do think it’s my fav.
We love chicka chicka boom boom
I love The Kissing Hand. It was such a great book to share with my son when he went to kindergarten so sweet!
Flutterby by Stephen Cosgrove a much needed message. My children now my grandchildren love it.
Our current favorite is “Wish Come True Cat.” I’d love to have a new bedtime story!
Loved “Are you my Mother” and so did my children. We read it every night and they had it memorized 🙂
Horton Hatches an Egg is one of my all time favorites by none other than Dr. Seuss. Also collection of poems Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silversteen (sp?)
Pete the cat and his four groovy buttons.
by Eric Litwin
I LOVE children’s books. It’s hard to pick a favorite. A couple favorites – The Very Hungry Caterpillar, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Rough Faced Girl
I loved The Cat in the Hat.
I have so many favorites, love Robert Munsch’s book, Stephanie’s Ponytail.
One of my favorite books is “I Need My Monster” By Amanda Noll. It is a classic and everyone loves it!
I’m a bookmobile librarian and the Scariest thing in the jungle would be great for my kids that I visit each day!
We love any of books by Mo Willems, especially the Pigeon books and Elephant and Piggie books. I think we check one of his books out everytime we go to the library.
my eldest’s favorite was Mog the Forgetful Cat. my youngest two prefer the “Llama Llama” series. Personally, “The Monster at the End of This Book” starring my favorite Muppet Grover was a true winner!
My favorite book would be “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”. I purchase a copy for my son as a gift for his HS graduation he is in fourth grade now 🙂
“The Monster At The End Of The Book” was always a fun read for me. 🙂
My favorite children’s book is “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore”. This book is a wonderful story for anyone, no matter what age you are. My son loves it just as much as I do!
My favorite is Everybody Needs A Rock by Byrd Baylor. When I first read this book my little guy was so into picking up rocks and finding the special thing about each one. The book totally described my boy. And the illustrations are simple, yet interesting.
I have so many, but I really love The Giving Tree
What a great gift for my grandsons visiting me for the first time at Thanksgiving!
My favorite is “A Bad Case of Stripes”. I love the story and the pictures are gorgeous!
Sorry. My favorite children’s book is Molly’s Moe. I think it is out of print now. My grown daughters and I still say our brains are full of noodles when we forget something,
The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man is a favorite around our house.
The Cat in the Hat was a favorite book for me to read in my preschool class. I would love to have this one to read to my Head Start class.
At our house we love one fish two fish, and the squeaky lion.
With 3 girls, ‘pinkalicious’ is a favorite.
We love the book, ” Llama Llama Red Pajama.”.
The Little Red Hen has always been a favorite. When my children were little I would buy them books rather than toys most of the time.
We have lots of favorites but tend towards the funny ones: Click, Clack Moo, Cows that Type and Snowmen at Night–in fact anything by the Buehners is great!
I LOVE children’s books! Last night I read “Fancy Nancy” to my 4 yr old while we cuddled after trick or treating, so that’s my current favorite.
Hamilton is by far my favorite book from my childhood. I was terrified of wolves and finally the wolf gets his from a huge pig that tries to eat him!
I really liked On Beyond Zebra as a child.
My favorite book was Fly Homer Fly, by Bill Peet read to me by my daddy. He would also read Bartholomew and the Horrible Ooblick. By Dr. Suess. Loved it when dad read to us!
My boys love it when I read Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann. They imitate the faces Gloria is making and then giggle. Love a good book and to hear a good laugh.
My favorite book is “The Kissing Hand”. I am a working mother and I always have kissed my kids hands so they will have it with them all day while I am away!
My littlest loves “No David!”, my oldest loves the Boxcar series, and my middle, Jonah, he looooooves any book with wild animals!!! He would absolutely love everything in this giveaway! Love your blog!
We love “The Big Red Barn”…we love it so much it had to be duct-taped back together more than once!
I love children’s books, but one of my favorites is Where the Wild Things Are, but my grandson’s current favorite is Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons.
My favorite children’s books are written my Robert Munsch…..Love You Forever and The Paper Bag Princess are just two!
A favorite in my house is Karma Wilson’s “Bear Wants More”. The whole series is great, and I love the illustrations!