Can you remember the first book you read to your children?
Can you remember the first book you read to your children?
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Can you remember the first book you read to your children?
The Giving Tree
Goodnight Moon
Flip, Flap, Fly.
A your adorable
Goodnight Moon & I’ll Love You Forever
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
Harry the Dog
We read Little Bird by Germano Zullo to our daughter in the hospital on the day she was born.
The little engine that could
The Color Kittens! My Dad read it to me, a really long time ago 😂
Go Dog Go!
Can’t remember the first book we read to my niece or nephew since we all started reading to them from the first day home from the hospital but I do remember when my niece was just a toddler how I had to read over and over and over again, The Pokey Little Puppy. At least when I wasn’t singing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star [particularly on one three hour car ride].
Goodnight Moon 🌙. And Moon was one of her first words after Mama and Dada
My niece – I’ll Love You Forever.
Goodnight moon, Very Hungry Caterpillar, and HUG
OMG I am such a bad Mom. I would read David Sedaris when she was an infant. Then she got a little older and we did Goodnight Moon and like that. But still. . . . Started with David Sedaris.
dr suess horton hears a who
A Child’s Garden of Verses.
a little golden book version of PINOCCHIO
The Monster at the End Of This Book, featuring Grover. 😊
…and The Spooky Old Tree
Especially trying to imitate Grover’s voice😆
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
12 dogs of Christmas
The one we read the most was Bambi and the Butterfly
Good Night Moon, I actually read it in English but I found a French version which I also read to my children.
Goodnight Moon
Pat The Bunny and the first chapter book was my favorite, Mio, My Son. I also read them Men of Iron by Pyle when my daughter was in 6th grade. She has called her father when she is down to read her Dr. Seuss’s Sneetches and Other Stories.
The Hobbit.
Jonathon Livingston Seagull.
I never had children, but my Momma to me from a collection of children’s Bible stories
The Velveteen Rabbit – and it still makes me cry.
No but I remember my favorite books I read to my children: Agatha’s featherbed by Carmen Deedy is one. And I loved the dragon trilogy: my father’s dragon, Elmer and the Dragon, and the Dragons of Blueland.
I wouldn’t necessarily read from the book, but the first book I would recite to them was The Owl and the Pussycat. My dad would recite it to me and my brother all the time and it just stuck with me. I still recite it in the car sometimes much to my kids’ annoyance.
That’s the one I remember Mom reading to me:)
Not really, but that’s because we have read so many I can’t remember which one came first. If I had to guess, I’d say either one his early Dr. Seuss books (hop on pop, OH the Thinks you can think, etc.) or. Goodnight moon. We a mare trying to get to 1000 different books before Kindergarten, but I think we will end up around 750 or so.
Guess How Much I Love You
Goodnight Moon and Shakespeare’s sonnets
No, I just read outloud whatever I was reading when they were newborns.
The Cow went over the Mountain.
Good night moon
The big red barn…I still have it memorized
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don Wood
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/682920
Discovery Toys book we had.
Love You Forever
Couldn’t finish it without tearing up. Every darn time.
The giving tree.
Good night moon, Runaway Bunny
A golden book, “Out of my Window” and Richard Scary books were his favorites when he was very young.
Good Night Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. They were board books so they were the first of many. They have seen their fair share of drool too as my son chewed on them as babies do.
Good Night Moon
I read my son Charlotte’s Web before he was born and Goodnight Moon in the hospital because they gave it to us as a gift. There were hundreds in between then and now. We listened to audio books like Harry Potter, The Magic Thief and Artemis Fowl on our way to hockey practice and games. Now we try to read the same book every couple months so we can talk about it
Where the Wild Things Are
Maggie Moo. My daughter was only few weeks old and, as a new mom, I was worried I wasn’t stimulating her brain enough. 😂😂
My daughter’s was Goodnight Moon. My son’s was Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee
chic a chic a boom boom
Madeline and Charlotte’s Web
Good-Night Moon
Hop on Pop. While they were still in the womb, and Charlotte’s Web as a chapter book.
Hop on Pop was Dad’s book of choice for our kids. ☺
the complete works of Sandra Boynton
One of our favorite authors for kids!
and SO easy to memorize!
I recited poetry and sang to them until they were old enough to sit up inn my lap. Then it was board books until they were old enough to stop chewing on them. Probably Good Night Moon, Guess How Much I Love You.
Pat The Bunny!
Pat the Bunny and many Sandra Boyton board books.
The very hungry caterpillar
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
The Runaway Bunny. We read it so much that my son memorized it, as well as when to turn the pages, so it looked like he was reading way before he could … now he reads linguistic textbooks for fun … Runaway Bunny is still more my speed 🙂
Not the first one, but my girls loved to read and reread Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. They especially liked the poem Sister for Sale and could recite it at the drop of a hat😌
Llama llama Red Pajama for my daughter and Oh the Places You’ll Go and Puff the Magic Dragon for my son
Sang (horribly) and read this to all 3 kids. Their favorite book and probably the first songs they learned! ❤
Go Dog, Go!
The Poky Puppy. Three Little Pigs. The Little Engine that Could.
Goodnight Moon.
“Goodnight Moon” from a dear friend, and then “The Family Book” by Todd Parr became a favorite.
Goodnight moon!
When we found out my wife was pregnant we joined the Dr Seuss/month club. We received 2 books/month which I read to her belly. Since we already had the books we just repeated for our daughter.
Pat the Bunny
Not quite sure… I have 4 living, now grown children. I am thinking probably Peter Rabbit or Winnie the Pooh.
I Love You Forever
Not the first but my children always loved me to read them “I love you stinky face”
The Snowy Day
Goodnight Moon
are you kidding?? haha
I remember The Little Engine That Could, Ant and Bee, Richard Scarey books,
Yes- Snuggle Puppy by Sandra Boynton..
Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown! They are 23,21, & 19 years old and still recite it! ❤️
Richard Scarry’s Busy Busy World, what Do People Do All Day
It was either Peter Rabbit or The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Can’t remember the first but I have read some mentions on this list… and On the Night You Were Born, Skippyjon Jones stories and Walter the Farting Dog… love this post!
But not the Hippopotamus!
Go Dog Go
Little Bear, & my son was 3 mths old when I started reading to him. Read Where the Wild Things Are, & Goodnight Moon later, so many times, I had them memorized! I love every minute of those times, & my son grew to become a voracious reader♡
First Pat The Bunny..and tactile rhyming books..from day one..
Good night moon
Pat the bunny
I love you to the moon and back
It’s my 18 month old’s favorite book. I just bought her brother a copy today.
They Came From Aarrgg
goodnight moon😁
We had Baird books first, but the first read aloud was Goodnight Moon.
I read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire out loud while I was pregnant. Once she was born, the usual kids books, but I also read aloud whatever I was reading 🙂
Read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets out loud to my daughter when she was a few days old. 😀
The ABC Bunny
Good Night Moon maybe
I Love You Through and Through. One of my favorites!!
Brown Bear , Brown Bear what do you see?
Good Night Moon.
Love you forever!
Where the Wild Things Are
We read a ton of books to our boys but I think the highlight was teaching them both to read with Hop on Pop.
Goodnight Moon.
The Little Engine that Could.
A little gem called Suki the Cat an aunt sent him. Then the Spot the Dog series which we all adored. Other than that it was armloads from the library.
Green Eggs and Ham…..
Probably Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses.” Loved the rhyming with babies.
Casey at the Bat. 🙂
Goodnight Moon
The pokey little puppy
That was one of MY favorites as a child. Little Golden Books!
Moo Baa La La La. My daughter is almost 21. Still know it by heart.
Still one of our family favorites!
A cow says…, The sheep says…, 3 singing pigs… — LOVE SANDRA BOYNTON! My oldest turns 21 next month and my youngest 17 in July. If I am lucky enough to be a grandmother, I hope to still recite/read them!
One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish. My oldest would sit at 9 months of age and listen with complete absorption in the book. We read it so much, we had it memorized. No wonder that she is my total bookworm still at 24. She just bought a third bookcase for her apartment because the other two are filled.
Goodnight moon, and we say it every night before bed.
Probably Good Night Moon or an Eric Carle book…
Goodnight Moon.
Chapter book: Charlotte’s Web
Goodnight Moon
The Little Train that Couldn’t.
Pat the Bunny, followed by Dr Sues Hop on Pop and Red Fish Blue Fish
On the Night You Were Born
No but I can remember the one I read the most. Don’t forget the Oatmeal. Lol
Mine loved all the Dr. Seuss books. Remember reading Goodnight Moon alot too
I read My Truck is Stuck to my oldest son multiple times a day for probably two years. He is 12 now and I can still recite it.
Moo Ba Lalala by Sandra Boynton
Brown Bear!
When my daughter was born I was just about to begin reading “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, so at a few days old I read the book out loud to her.
Go Dog Go to William.
Fairy Tales, Mother Goose
Taxi Dog
Not the first but most often their favorite, Curious George. I hate those books.
Mother Goose
Goodnight Moon!
We especially loved it because the dedication was to Devin, my son’s name.
Sweet! I got introduced to it and many others while I was teaching Pre School in the 70’s, and then brought them to my kids.
Mr. Toad.
Goodnight Moon.
And when she grew old enough to choose, it was always one she picked.
Goodnight Moon and Pat the Bunny.
Heroes, myths and legends! By age three my daughter knew there was a Minotaur in the labyrinth in Crete and that Cyclops had only one eye! Too funny!
Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom. Loved the rhythm.
Got me! I edited.
I should have left it. Didn’t think of that! I still buy the book for friends who have small children. It’s a really fun read.
Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs
Pat the Bunny
Black Beauty
Technically, the first book I ever read was the one given as a gift in hospital’s infant care package. But once I got home, Goodnight Moon!
Cosimo and Luigi enjoyed “All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From My Cat”. 😸🙀
Probably whatever I happened to be reading at the time! By third grade he was reading most anything I read.
First book? Probably “Pat the Bunny” or one of the “Spot” books. First read – – something from National Geographic…
Pat The Bunny!
Good Night Moon; Guess How Much I Love you; Dr. Seuss books also.
Hop on Pop
Pat the Bunny – packed in my suitcase for the hospital. I can still recite it by heart.
I give it as a gift at all baby showers I go to or to new parents I know.
Winnie the Pooh
Hop on pop!
can`t remember specific titles ,but they were little golden books.
I’m on the Pat the Bunny list. I don’t have children but it’s in every BabyShower gift I give
Good Night Moon
Good night moon
Goodnight Moon
Picture book, “Have you seen my duckling?”
Hundreds of board books, but first “book”, The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl.
No, so many. Too many to remember.
“Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”
The Curious George series.
Do alphabet books count?
Everything counts!
Anything Richard Scarry
I bought an entire box set of Curious George books for my son on his first Christmas. He was three weeks old. Books have always been part of his life.
My son loved curious George!
I don’t remember exactly, but lots of Dr. Seuss board books and the Monster at the End of the Book.
I am a ,Bunny.
Your First Word Will Be Dada. And it was!
Read Charlotte’s Web out loud to her when I was pregnant.
Yes
Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls.
Goodnight Moon
Oh yes, same here. I still have the little hardcover with a broken spine and a taped page. My children are in their mid 30’s to mid 40’s and now I’ve read it to all 8 grans.
Goodnight moon
Yes I can. It was Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
Good Night Moon
The Cat in the Hat……………
Are You My Mother?
Pat the Bunny
No children, but my mom always read There’s a Monster at the End of this Book to me.