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This seems like an opportunity to celebrate great children's books created with craft and care by humans. I'll start: John Rocco, How We Got to the Moon. (http

This seems like an opportunity to celebrate great children's books created with craft and care by humans. I'll start: John Rocco, How We Got to the Moon. (http://www.howwegottothemoon.com/ http://www.howwegottothemoon.com/)

awakeasleep 3mo ago
keeping on theme: Tomi Ungerer, moon man https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Man-Tomi-Ungerer/dp/0714855987 https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Man-Tomi-Ungerer/dp/0714855987
- defrost 3mo ago
  Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Moon ( with bonus book ban credentials: From the time of its publication in 1947 until 1972, the book was "banned" by the New York Public Library due to the then-head children's librarian Anne Carroll Moore's hatred of the book. According to children's literature expert Betsy Bird, Moore criticized Goodnight Moon due to the fact that she believed it lacked a meaningful narrative structure and educational value. )
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  - LooseMarmoset 3mo ago
    That is a great book. All my kids loved it. "Good night little house and good night mouse, good night comb and good night brush, good night nobody, good night mush" My kids loved the mush part. I still remember it more than a decade after I last read the book for the bajillionth time, often more than once per night, to a kid that wouldn't go to sleep.
  - K0balt 3mo ago
    She’s not wrong. But it’s still a great book for kids, for reasons entirely unknown to me. (Parent of 7)
AceJohnny2 3mo ago
obviously, David Macaulay, The Way Things Work So mainstream, it has a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work
- donkey_brains 3mo ago
  I’m so lucky to have had a copy of this as a kid. Loved that book. It really let you understand how all kinds of things worked, with beautiful illustrations you could pore over for hours. Thanks for reminding me of it.
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vunderba 3mo ago
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes anthology by Bill Watterson - a formative part of every kid's childhood growing up in our house. Dad: How's your math coming? Calvin: I don't do math anymore. I decided I'm more of a "visual" person. Dad: Good. Visualize being the only 45-year old in first grade.
mcphage 3mo ago
Locomotive, by the similarly named Brian Floca, is also a masterpiece of detail and charm.
RealityVoid 3mo ago
I recently discovered Shinsuke Yoshitake: "I won't give up my rubber band" is a sweet, imaginative, thoughtful exploration of the thing we get attached to in our lives. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58739625-i-won-t-give-up-my-rubber-band https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58739625-i-won-t-give-up... "I wonder where I am" is a exploration of maps in various forms, a bit over my 2.5 year old's cognitive abilities, but I think it's great. Can't wait until he's able to get it.: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204810909-i-wonder-where-i-am https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204810909-i-wonder-where... The books from Julia Donaldsson are classics. I am partial to Gozzle: Gozzle https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gozzle-Julia-Donaldson/dp/1529076412 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gozzle-Julia-Donaldson/dp/152907641... The snail and the whale: https://www.amazon.com/Snail-Whale-Julia-Donaldson/dp/1509830448 https://www.amazon.com/Snail-Whale-Julia-Donaldson/dp/150983... My kid had a loooong "The hospital dog" phase: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hospital-Dog-Julia-Donaldson/dp/1509868313 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hospital-Dog-Julia-Donaldson/dp/150... I skipped some of the native romanian books we read since there are no known translations that I am aware of. One of the main reasons I want to teach my toddler english is so that we can appreciate a wider selection of books, because there are many books not translated in Romanian. I also noticed that the quality of the translation matter immensely, probably more than for normal books. And a lot of books just don't translate all that well because they rely on rimes or alliterations.

awakeasleep 3mo ago

keeping on theme: Tomi Ungerer, moon man https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Man-Tomi-Ungerer/dp/0714855987 https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Man-Tomi-Ungerer/dp/0714855987

defrost 3mo ago
Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Moon ( with bonus book ban credentials: From the time of its publication in 1947 until 1972, the book was "banned" by the New York Public Library due to the then-head children's librarian Anne Carroll Moore's hatred of the book. According to children's literature expert Betsy Bird, Moore criticized Goodnight Moon due to the fact that she believed it lacked a meaningful narrative structure and educational value. )
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- LooseMarmoset 3mo ago
  That is a great book. All my kids loved it. "Good night little house and good night mouse, good night comb and good night brush, good night nobody, good night mush" My kids loved the mush part. I still remember it more than a decade after I last read the book for the bajillionth time, often more than once per night, to a kid that wouldn't go to sleep.
- K0balt 3mo ago
  She’s not wrong. But it’s still a great book for kids, for reasons entirely unknown to me. (Parent of 7)

AceJohnny2 3mo ago

obviously, David Macaulay, The Way Things Work So mainstream, it has a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work

donkey_brains 3mo ago
I’m so lucky to have had a copy of this as a kid. Loved that book. It really let you understand how all kinds of things worked, with beautiful illustrations you could pore over for hours. Thanks for reminding me of it.

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vunderba 3mo ago

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes anthology by Bill Watterson - a formative part of every kid's childhood growing up in our house. Dad: How's your math coming? Calvin: I don't do math anymore. I decided I'm more of a "visual" person. Dad: Good. Visualize being the only 45-year old in first grade.

mcphage 3mo ago

Locomotive, by the similarly named Brian Floca, is also a masterpiece of detail and charm.

RealityVoid 3mo ago

I recently discovered Shinsuke Yoshitake: "I won't give up my rubber band" is a sweet, imaginative, thoughtful exploration of the thing we get attached to in our lives. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58739625-i-won-t-give-up-my-rubber-band https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58739625-i-won-t-give-up... "I wonder where I am" is a exploration of maps in various forms, a bit over my 2.5 year old's cognitive abilities, but I think it's great. Can't wait until he's able to get it.: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204810909-i-wonder-where-i-am https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204810909-i-wonder-where... The books from Julia Donaldsson are classics. I am partial to Gozzle: Gozzle https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gozzle-Julia-Donaldson/dp/1529076412 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gozzle-Julia-Donaldson/dp/152907641... The snail and the whale: https://www.amazon.com/Snail-Whale-Julia-Donaldson/dp/1509830448 https://www.amazon.com/Snail-Whale-Julia-Donaldson/dp/150983... My kid had a loooong "The hospital dog" phase: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hospital-Dog-Julia-Donaldson/dp/1509868313 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hospital-Dog-Julia-Donaldson/dp/150... I skipped some of the native romanian books we read since there are no known translations that I am aware of. One of the main reasons I want to teach my toddler english is so that we can appreciate a wider selection of books, because there are many books not translated in Romanian. I also noticed that the quality of the translation matter immensely, probably more than for normal books. And a lot of books just don't translate all that well because they rely on rimes or alliterations.