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Hi Backtrack users,
I have a 2wire 2701HG-G router (router+modem) and I am trying to have access to the advanced management panel. Let me explain.
This router comes from my ISP (and I bought it, not rented). There is a basic administration panel that I have access to where I can forward ports, setup my WiFi, remote access and more. This panel is available at my gateway address through HTTP.
There's also another administration panel (more advanced) allowing me to bridge connections, increase WiFi signal power, blocking websites and even more. This panel is available at a hidden URL ( http://192.168.1.254/mdc ), but it requires a password (serial number according to the label). I tried the one on my box and it isn't working. 2wire have a couple of keys on their site, but I tried them all. Not working.
Also, I found that my router is accessible remotely by default. This option can only be turned on from the "advanced" panel. It's available through SSL, port 50001. The protection there is an .htaccess.
I'm a bit pissed off to have all these functions unavailable. I read a lot on the Internet, and nobody seems to have accessed this "advanced" panel. The only way to do so (that I found) is to flash the firmware using a firmware from another company (since the 2701HG-G is not available on the Internet). The bad thing about that is that the firmware isn't for this exact model, leaving some functions behind and probably making the router a bit unstable in some cases.Code:root@azerox:~/hydra/dico# nmap ********* --version-all -PN Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-01-06 00:22 EST Interesting ports on ************* (***************): Not shown: 999 filtered ports PORT STATE SERVICE 50001/tcp open unknown Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 75.22 seconds
There's also a couple of exploit to reset the password available online, but I tried them all. I also read this post ( http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ny-signal.html ) and it didn't gave me much information.
I contacted the tech support of my ISP (Bell Canada) and they don't want to help me out. They told me they don't have this information, but they sure do. They can reboot remotely any router they sold, and the only way the could is through this "backdoor".
The only ways I see to break in is by:
- Cracking the http://192.168.1.254/mdc form
- Cracking the .htaccess
The good thing about cracking the HTTP form is that I only have to find the password, so only 1 field to have good. The bad thing is that the router reply after a request is really slow.
The good thing about cracking the .htaccess is that it's kind of fast (3000 tries per minute). The bad thing is that if I have the wrong login, I have to start all over again. I guessed the login to be admin or root.
The password list I am using is the "RockYou" one on this site: http://www.skullsecurity.org/wiki/index.php/Passwords.
I also thought about doing a "MITM" attack, by connecting myself between my router and the phone line, sniffing the path and asking them through tech support to reboot my router.
When they send the request, I would intercept it. Since it's SSL 128-bit, I guess it's impossible to decode any information out of it, but still, just saying in case.
Any other idea to simplify this task?
I am running hydra right now. If you have any idea, please, reply!
Thanks a lot!Code:hydra -S -s 50001 -l admin -P english.txt MY_IP_ADDRESS https-head / -v -V -t 30 -o match.txt
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Official Short: New York City Natural Gas Supply Enhancement Act
Long Title: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to allow the construction and operation of natural gas pipeline facilities in the Gateway National Recreation Area, and for other purposes.
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Upper part of fermentors (tanks) used to produce penicillin and vitamin B12.
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Stages in the growth of yeast inside a fermenter: 1, lag in growth; 2, growth acceleration; 3, rapid growth; 4, slowing growth; 5, stationary growth; 6, growth decline.
|Fungi have been used for thousands of years to modify foods
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flat bread dough causes the dough to rise during baking. The result is the soft
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other modified foods. Yogurt, beer, and wine were invented in Europe and the
Middle East. Saki, soy sauce, miso, tempeh, ont-jom and similar products were
invented in the Far East. The distinctive flavors and textures of Camembert,
Brie and blue cheeses are due to fungi.
The soft texture of bread results from Baker's yeast. The yeast converts small amounts of sugars in the dough to carbon dioxide and alcohol. Carbon dioxide trapped in the dough makes it rise. The alcohol evaporates in the oven. Fermentation is the name of the process that the yeast uses to make carbon dioxide. Three things are required for fermentation. First, fungi or bacteria must be present. Second, no oxygen must be present. Third, an organic compound must be present. How fast fermentation occurs depends on temperature. The starting compounds determine the products. Sugar produces carbon dioxide and alcohol. Other products are made by changing the fungus and starting compounds. These products include vitamins, hormones, antibiotics, enzymes, acids and alcohol.
The yeast experiment page, Yeast_exp.htm, shows fermentation in action. Yeast added to soda produces carbon dioxide that blows up the balloon. The balloon keeps out oxygen. If oxygen is present then the balloon stays limp. If sugar is missing then the balloon does not inflate. If the balloon stays limp, then fermentation is not happening.
Biotechnology, one of the newest businesses, is based on fermentation. About 200 chemicals are made. Most of the chemicals are antibiotics. The most money is made from antibiotics and other drugs.
More alcohol is made than any other chemical. It is an important solvent. It is also the starting point for making other chemicals. The need to reduce gasoline use has increased the need for more alcohol. Most is used to make gasohol that contains 10% alcohol. Even more alcohol will be needed to make E85 fuel that is 85% alcohol. E85 is used in flex-fuel vehicles to save even more gasoline. To produce that much alcohol requires scaling up the process. The pop bottle used in the yeast experiment becomes a fermenter. Tubes for adding nutrients and paddles for stirring are added. A computer is used to check and control conditions. Equipment is added to extract products. Other equipment is needed to dispose of excess heat and waste. A large plant spreads over acres and needs rail and road service. The world's largest fermenter was 200 feet high, 25 feet in diameter and held 736,300 gallons. It was used to produce yeast for food.
What happens inside the pop bottle (fermenter) when yeast is grown? At the start, oxygen and nutrients are plentiful. Once the yeast is added, yeast cells start to grow and multiply. Growth is slow in stage 1; then increases rapidly in stage 2. Growth doubles every hour in stage 3. Growth and nutrient supply are in balance during this stage. At the end of this stage, there are so many cells that there isn't enough oxygen or nutrients. Growth slows down as a result (stage 4). Growth is very limited during stage 5. Oxygen is absent or nearly gone. Growth declines during stage 6 when nutrients are depleted.
Different chemicals are made by the yeast in each stage of growth. Growing cells make carbon dioxide, enzymes, amino acids and some vitamins (stages 1, 2, 3). Enough carbon dioxide is made to put the fizz in soft drinks. When nutrients are unbalanced (stages 4 and 5) normal growth can't occur. Some chemicals are made; some are not made. Some chemicals that are steps in making the final products in normal growth build up. Antibiotics and some vitamins are released when growth stops (stage 5). In stage 5 there isn't enough oxygen for normal respiration. Fermentation starts and produces less energy than respiration. Cells survive but growth stops. Cells release alcohol and lactic acid during stage 5. Carbon dioxide is not made.
Different fungi make different products in stage 5. Rhizopus stolonifer, bread mold, makes a dye called carotene. Cheddar cheese is dyed with carotene to make it orange. Penicillium chrysogenum makes penicillin. Penicillin was the first miracle drug. More than 600,000 tons of citric acid (vitamin C) made by the fungus Aspergillus niger is used every year in soft drinks.
Cells and protein made during the growth stages are also valuable. Yeast cells are sold as Baker's yeast. Protein from Fusarium venenatum cells is used in meat substitutes. More than 20 million Europeans eat meat substitutes made out of fungal proteins each year.
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SNOHOMISH — Leah McNatt didn't have romantic notions when she bought Uppercase Bookshop last year.
She knew owning an independent bookstore would be a challenge. There's competition from nationwide booksellers like Barnes &Noble and Amazon. And the rise of e-books has created more uncertainty for mom-and-pop bookshops.
"The publishing landscape is changing," McNatt said. "It's like we're white-water rafting most days."
Despite ups and downs and changes in ownership, Uppercase Bookshop has survived. It celebrates its 20th year in business this summer. McNatt plans to give the shop a long future.
"People feel very passionately about not losing this store," she said.
Don Baldwin is one of those people.
He has shopped at Uppercase since 1997. In that earlier time, Baldwin would drive up to Snohomish from Redmond to help feed his "book fix." Uppercase, which features used and vintage books as well as a small selection of new ones, has always been a great store, he said. Baldwin, however, believes Uppercase has even improved since McNatt bought the shop with her mother, Cheryl Steele, in early 2012.
"They're very friendly people and they have a great selection of used books and new books," said Baldwin, who visits the shop weekly.
McNatt had only lived in Snohomish about six months when she and Steele, who was living in California at the time, bought Uppercase. A few months after taking over the shop, the two women relocated Uppercase to First Street, into a storefront that McNatt thinks better suits a bookshop. The store's previous location, at Second and Cedar, had too much of a warehouse feel, she said.
Spread over three floors and 4,000 square feet, Uppercase is home to 50,000 titles. On one wall, clocks tell the time in mythical lands such as Narnia, Hobbiton, Panem and Oz. And the cupboard under the stairs? It's a re-creation of Harry Potter's bedroom in anticipation of the wizard's birthday party on Wednesday at Uppercase.
Such personal touches, and the shop's book club, distinguish it. Having previously worked for Barnes &Noble, McNatt knows the shop can't compete on price, especially when it comes to new books. That's why she stocks only a small offering of new books that are likely to sell well.
To combat online competition, Uppercase prices used books comparatively with Amazon. Customers can walk out with books in hand rather than paying for shipping and waiting for their purchases to show up.
Regular customer Baldwin sometimes buys e-books through Uppercase's online storefront on Kobo, an online retailer headquartered in Canada. He uses Kobo's app for Android devices to read books, particularly while traveling. Baldwin thinks there's room for both paper and e-books.
"There's something somehow more satisfying about a paper book and the experience of reading it," he said.
Baldwin isn't alone. Despite Barnes &Noble's declining stock price, many analysts still see a strong future for the bookseller, particularly if the company is separated into three divisions: the retail chain, the Nook device digital business and college bookstores.
"Print books still have value," Michael Norris, an analyst for Connecticut-based Simba Information, recently told Bloomberg News. "People still buy millions of them to give as gifts. That tells me print isn't as unhealthy as people think."
Another local independent bookstore owner, Kristine Kaufman, also sees a long future for print. She has owned Snow Goose Bookstore in Stanwood for 15 years. The shop has been in business for more than 30 years.
"Personally, I don't think the paper book is ever going to disappear," Kaufman said.
With more than three decades in the business, Kaufman has seen various trends in publishing and bookselling come and go. Successful locally owned shops distinguish themselves, she said. Snow Goose has a Shakespeare reading club and a newly adopted kitty, named Jenny, in the shop. Uppercase has Harry Potter parties and a regular book club. Both draw from their respective towns.
Kaufman believes that's how independent shops like Snow Goose will stay in business, by being part of their communities.
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PHOTO: Baby North West holds Kim Kardashian's engagement ring
(Yahoo!) - The year 2013 was one worth celebrating for Kim Kardashian.
The 33-year-old reality star became a mother and got engaged to Kanye West. (Oh, and she also earned $10 million between June 2012 and June 2013, according to Forbes, but who's counting?)
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EVERETT — Snohomish County prosecutors say a billing dispute between a Monroe contractor and a couple who hired him to build a house was more than a business squabble.
Prosecutors are calling what the longtime contractor did a crime.
James G. Platt, 65, was charged earlier this month with first-degree theft. Prosecutors allege that Platt stole about $190,000 while he was building the couple a house in the Kellogg Lake area in east Snohomish County. The builder is accused of inflating bills from subcontractors and forging invoices to justify the overbilling.
Snohomish County deputy prosecutor David Hiltner charged the case as a major economic offense, based on the amount of money and the sophistication and planning that went into the alleged theft. That leaves the door open for prosecutors to seek a stiffer sentence if Platt is convicted.
The Monroe man is scheduled to be arraigned on the charge later this month. He doesn't have any prior criminal history.
Charging papers say the case already has been aired in civil court. The unhappy customers sued Platt in 2008 and a settlement was reached three years later.
Yet, "given the scope and the nature of the theft, criminal charges appear to be warranted," Hiltner wrote.
Investigators say Platt and the couple in 2006 signed a contract which included a 17 percent supervision fee for Platt on top of what the subcontractors billed. Construction began and the first bill was submitted in January 2007.
Prosecutors allege Platt overinflated what subcontractors actually charged and based his fee on the bogus bills. He is accused of taking more than he was entitled from an escrow account.
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Initially, Snohomish County sheriff's deputies spoke with the customers in 2010 about the case. At that time, the couple said they were concerned a criminal investigation would jeopardize their lawsuit, court papers said. Prosecutors spoke with the couple last year and decided to move forward with filing a criminal charge.
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Shakira Going to be a Mommy AGAIN!!
Rumors started flying in Shaki's native Colombia that Shakira and her soccer player boyfriend Gerard Pique are going to be parents again.
All because of her UNUSUALLY conservative outfit worn following the "Hips Don't Lie" singer's performance before the World Cup final between Germany and Argentina.
And now the rumors are confirmed: SHAKIRA and GERARD are expecting baby #2....and she's reportedly 3 months along. CONGRATULATIONS!!
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"AIP releases new app for authors and reviewers – 04 Aug 2011
AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has announced the release of its new app, iPeerReview. The new app allows authors and reviewers to use their iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices to access a broad range of information on papers submitted to any of AIP's journals in Peer X-Press, AIP's manuscript submission and review system.
Once logged in, users can perform a number of activities related to their papers. They can access a list of all active and completed papers, view the status history of a paper, view and save a paper in PDF format, email a paper, and link to a paper on AIP's Scitation platform if it is in production or to Peer X-Press if it is under review.
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Miley Cyrus says she's a woman of many talents. When she stopped by Tuesday's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the star thanked the host for complimenting her hosting job on last weekend's "Saturday Night Live."
Miley came out to sit down with Jimmy wearing nothing but an oversized white button-down with a bra hanging over the top. When she complained about how cold the studio was, the host joked that usually guests "have to wear clothes."
Between segments, her mother came and brought her a blanket to cover up. The star's new album Bangerz came out Tuesday, and she spoke about some of the big collaborators on it including Britney Spears who is featured on the title track. Miley said that Britney "represents pop music to [her]" and was the first album she ever bought, which is something many of her own young fans relate to.
Before she came out, Jimmy showed an acoustic version of "We Can't Stop" that Miley recorded with him and The Roots. It was shot on a "Brady Bunch" style split-screen with Miley in the center square.
She also took part in one of the host's recurring guest sketches called "Jacob's Patient," in which the two used mannequin arms in place of their real ones. Miley closed out the show with a performance of her other single "Wrecking Ball."
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The Navel twins have an exciting life. As the children of two world famous explorers, they spend their vacations trekking through jungles, riding Mongolian ponies and exploring cursed graveyards.
The Navel twins do not WANT an exciting life. All they want to do is eat cheese puffs while watching television...lots and lots of television...preferable cable. Alas, it is not to be.
When their father enters a foolish wager with the evil Sir Edmund, the twins are forced to accompany him to the frozen heights of the Himalayas in search of the Lost Tablets of Alexandria. While there they encounter many dangers including a Yeti, the Poison Witches and the Demon Fortress of the Oracle King.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
What is the Best Childrens Book of All Time?
Meanwhile, this question has not yet been asked on this blog:
Which book do you think is the best children's book of all time?
I know what a difficult question this is. So many incredible books to choose from.
I'm going to close my eyes and choose................. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
What about you?
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- Christi Goddard said...
Where the Red Fern Grows is my vote.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:11 AM
- Shaka Bry said...
Have to name the top 3.
1) Alice in Wonderland
2) Charlotte's Web
3) Phantom Tollbooth
In that order.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:11 AM
- Dawn Maria said...
Without a doubt, I'd have to say WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:11 AM
- Taylor Napolsky said...
Probably Alice in Wonderland
But my personal favorite: Redwall
- August 10, 2011 at 10:14 AM
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite books. It involves children -- but I don't think of it as a childrens book . . . Chronicles of Narnia
- August 10, 2011 at 10:16 AM
- mk_moore said...
Bridge to Terabithia.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:16 AM
- Liberty Speidel said...
My favorite little kids book growing up was "Happy Birthday Moon".
The first book to make me cry was "Beauty" by Bill Wallace, so that would get my vote.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Cynthia Lee said...
Definitely Alice in Wonderland.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Summer Frey said...
My Side of the Mountain.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Francis Gibbons said...
My favorite growing up was The Westing Game. Also loved The 21 Baloons.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- CourtLoveLeigh said...
I liked Frindle by Andrew Clements :]
- August 10, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Simon Haynes said...
The Borrowers, Mary Norton.
Please expunge that cruddy hollywood movie of the same name from your memory.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Watcher55 said...
I remember Watership Down was a favorite of mine nearly forty years ago (what does a ten-year-old know about first editions? sniffle).
- August 10, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Stephanie Barr said...
I know the ones I liked reading the most to my daughter:
I Wish I Were A Butterfly
The Little Engine That Could
How Much Do I Love You
I personally love fairy tales of all types and that's what I remember most fondly from my youth, as well as a book I haven't seen since I was a kid: Matilda and Her Kittens.
I've got a special place in my heart for the Pooh stories by A.A. Milne. If I had to vote for just one, those stories would win.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:21 AM
- abc said...
Another vote for Where the Red Fern Grows.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Matilda! Or anything by Roald Dahl, really. And, of course, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
To Kill a Mockingbird is an incredible work of fiction, but I don't necessarily think of it as a children's book.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Caren E. Salas said...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl
- August 10, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- Ben said...
Most of the children's books I read before cutting my teeth on Louis L'Amour westerns were not very good--Hardy boys and Boxcar children type books.
That said, my pick would probably be Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the last book in the series that really feels solidly in the category of children's literature.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:24 AM
- JD said...
Charlotte's Web.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:24 AM
- Brooke Johnson said...
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Nothing compares.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:25 AM
- ganymeder said...
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- August 10, 2011 at 10:26 AM
- Marlana Antifit said...
Alice in Wonderland hands down. :)
- August 10, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- Guilie said...
I agree with Taylor; To Kill A Mockingbird isn't my idea of a children's book, but I LOVE it and, if you hadn't come up with it first, I might have :) But since you did and I can't, I'll say Hurry Home, Candy (Meindert DeJong, 1953). It's harrowing, so well-written and the end just sufficiently "possibly happy" to qualify it as a fantastic story for children. I read it when I was 11 or 12, and I've never forgotten it (and I cried every single time I reread it).
- August 10, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- Karen Harrington said...
Where The Red Fern Grows was my favorite as a child. Now, I'm reading The Wizard of Oz to my little girls and they are loving it.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- janesadek said...
The children's book which carries my favorite childhood memories is The Littlest Angel
- August 10, 2011 at 10:28 AM
- Fuse #8 said...
Yep, I'd agree with the folks who point out that To Kill a Mockingbird may star children but it's not for children.
And this week my favorite is The Secret Garden.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:30 AM
- Carrie Filetti said...
'Where the Red Fern Grows'. This book taught me, at a very young age, it was okay to cry.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:30 AM
- Giles Hash said...
I gotta say I thought SUMMER OF THE MONKEYS was really good. And THE GIVER. But my favorite? THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- L. Shanna said...
Bridge to Terabithia or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- August 10, 2011 at 10:32 AM
- Suilan said...
Treasure Island
- August 10, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- Debra Lynn Lazar said...
My two favorites are:
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
Phantom Tollbooth
My favorite to read to my kids when they were little:
Goodnight Moon
(Fun question! Tx for asking.)
- August 10, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- Laurel said...
Another Narnia vote, here. Also, Half Magic by Edward Eager. And I loved Watership Down, too.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- Sommer Leigh said...
You wouldn't think it, but this is such a loaded question for me.
I also love To Kill a Mockingbird, but I read it when I was an adult so I have a hard time thinking about it as a kid's book.
Like others, I would also vote for Where the Red Fern Grows. I still love it, but thanks to my 4th grade teacher reading it out loud in class, and me crying my eyes out in class at the end, I ended up bullied and beat up after school for it, so I kind of associate the event with the book.
So I'm going to have to go with Coraline by Neil Gaiman. I read it as a young adult and then shared it with my step-sister. We read it out loud together and it is the only thing we ever bonded over.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:44 AM
- Charli Armstrong said...
Everyone, so far, has named many of the ones I thought of. I'll add "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street."
- August 10, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Lynnea said...
James and Giant Peach has always been my favorite, but the previous comment is right, Coraline is excellent too. Dilemma.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- Loree Huebner said...
Lot's of good picks there.
I still say Charlotte's Web.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:55 AM
- Leila said...
Chiming in to agree with the folks who don't consider To Kill a Mockingbird a children's book.
Current favorite: Anastasia Krupnik. And Harriet the Spy. And The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
Okay, also The Westing Game.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Richard Gibson said...
A vote for The Wind in the Willows.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:57 AM
- Valentina Hepburn said...
I loved Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, first released in 1930, about two groups of kids sailing their boats across to an island. I so wanted to be part of the crew.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:57 AM
- Amy Rogers said...
For read-out-loud fun, Tingleberries, Tuckertubs, and Telephones by Margaret Mahy, one of the most underappreciated children's writers.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:59 AM
- Sierra McConnell said...
I had a book I carried with me a lot. I think it was called "A Rainbow in My Pocket and Other Short Tales". I know that's a book no one else probably remembers, but I had it in third grade and I remember having it and I remember reading it over and over.
I just don't remember what happened to it. It probably got tossed out by my mother who liked to clean and she would throw out EVERYTHING.
But I remember the story of the princess with the screaming hair. The paintings that came alive because of the monster living in them. The boy who was cursed to be made of glass because he cussed a lot. The rainbow that got shorter and shorter with every wish. And I know there were others. But those I think must have been my favorite. Because the princess had a cat (that's why she had screaming hair, she cut his whiskers and he cursed her).
Ah...I don't think I'll ever forget those stories.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:02 AM
- Matthew MacNish said...
Interesting that you said best and not favorite. For best I guess I would go with The Call of the Wild, although it might not be considered a children's book anymore.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:06 AM
- Kathryn Elliott said...
I'm going with The Secret Garden. I've tried to get my kids to read it – but alas – they are boys, and much more interested in stories involving mass destruction, bodily functions or zombies. Ah..parenthood.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:06 AM
- The Sasquatch said...
"It" by Stephen King
- August 10, 2011 at 11:08 AM
- J E S S I C A said...
The Giver by Lois Lowry. Changed my life as a kid, changed it again as an adult. SO GOOD.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:09 AM
- Vivacia said...
Difficult to choose just one, but Tom Sawyer is definitely up there. I still love that book.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:13 AM
The Hobbit.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- Elanor Lawrence said...
The Hobbit by Tolkien, and The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Two books that I loved as a child and that have changed my life.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:15 AM
It's between two:
Horton Hires a Ho
Wake UP! Grandma's Dead!
- August 10, 2011 at 11:19 AM
- Erin M. said...
Hands down ultimate favorite: A Wrinkle In Time.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:19 AM
- Rick Daley said...
"Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume. It made me want to keep reading and opened me up to her greater body of work.
I guess it's a gateway book ;-)
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- August 10, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- Deb said...
Are these the BEST ever? I don't know. But certainly worthy of being on a list ...
Are You There God, It's Me Margaret - Judy Blume
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E. L. Konigsburg
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
- August 10, 2011 at 11:27 AM
- Carmen Webster Buxton said...
I'm going with THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I was surprised to see only one other vote for it. I have read it probably 20 times, including the two times I read it aloud to my two kids-- who both loved it, BTW.
One reason I love it so much is the two kids in it change from spoiled rotten to fairly nice people.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:29 AM
- Sara said...
My favorite was/is ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. Also, THE SECRET GARDEN. Loved both.
PS: That post a week or so ago about the challenge of managing many different social media is becoming more and more apparent. Posted my picks in G+ this morning, then wondered if I should also post here. lol. Ah, to be a modern human ;)
- August 10, 2011 at 11:32 AM
- mageraine said...
THE PINK MOTEL by Carol Ryrie Brinks. It's fun while teaching acceptance on a large scale. It will always hold a very special place in my heart. <3
- August 10, 2011 at 11:33 AM
- Robena Grant said...
The Box-Car Children.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:36 AM
- cwsherwoodedits said...
Anne of Green Gables.
(Also agree that To Kill a Mockingbird is an adult book)
- August 10, 2011 at 11:38 AM
- D.G. Hudson said...
Alice in Wonderland for its use of imagination, or Black Beauty, one of the first books I read by myself.
As for small quick read books: Robert Munsch.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- Cynthia Chapman Willis said...
To Kill a Mockingbird is my all time favorite book. Love it!
- August 10, 2011 at 11:48 AM
Little House on the Prairie series. Read to my daughter in the 70's - she loved them. (NOT the TV series. Awful. Original TV movie based on the book was OK, but still nothing like the book.) Anne of Green Gables. (TV series good, but mostly the first set. Early Megan Fellowes was good. Anything after mostly cloying.) All the first All Creatures Great and Small series. Personal faves as a boy in the fifties: Hardy Boys mysteries. Maybe not the "best" children's books but to me thoroughly enjoyable.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:48 AM
- Stephanie McGee said...
My top 3 (in no specific order):
Charlotte's Web
Champion Dog Prince Tom
The Trumpet of the Swan
- August 10, 2011 at 11:56 AM
- Mira said...
Best Children's Book of all time? Not MG or YA, but children?
My pick: Winnie-The-Pooh.
Close runner up: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
People are picking all of my favorite, beloved children's books! I'd like to add that as much as I love the Secret Garden, I love The Little Princess even more. But that's probably gender specific...
- August 10, 2011 at 11:59 AM
- mary-j-59 said...
I also don't consider "To Kill a Mockingbird" a children's book. It was not written or published as such.
That said, I do love it. I also really, really love "The Chronicles of Narnia" and L.M. Boston's beautiful books. Of those, "The Children of Green Knowe" is my favorite.
I really don't think it's possible to choose a single "best" title - there are just too many. Good question for discussion, though!
- August 10, 2011 at 12:02 PM
- Nathan Bransford said...
On TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD being a children's book, it may not be how it was originally conceived, but it's a book that just about everyone in America reads when they're a child. Seems to me like whether or not it was the intent it is a children's book.
- August 10, 2011 at 12:03 PM
Sorry, but I too don't think of To Kill A Mockinbird as a children's book.
My picks are Watership Down and almost anything by Dr. Seuss but especially The Lorax for its underlying environmental theme. Perfect.
- August 10, 2011 at 12:09 PM
- Javid Suleymanli said...
- August 10, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- Lauren B. said...
Agree that this question is too broad! Just childrens, or also MG and YA?
Some of my favorites as a kid were:
The Redwall Series
Little House On the Prairie
A Wrinkle In Time
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Little White Horse
The Secret Garden
The Serendipity series
anything by Bill Peet
And, of course, Harry Potter, though I was not a child when it came out :)
If I have to pick *one* as the best of ALL TIME, I'd go with "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", closely followed by "Redwall" and "A Wrinkle In Time".
- August 10, 2011 at 12:12 PM
- Lauren B. said...
Oh! "Matilda" is pretty awesome, too. I love children's books where empowerment is the theme :)
- August 10, 2011 at 12:14 PM
- Becky Levine said...
My Father's Dragon, by Ruth Stiles Gannett. PERFECTION.
Second place tie between The BFG & Anne of Green Gables.
- August 10, 2011 at 12:16 PM
- Laurapoet said...
Gosh thats a tough one. Personally, I was never a fan of books where a main character/dog dies, which for some reason my elementary and middle school loved making us read. We probably read 5 or 6 books like that from 4th through 7th grade. I know it's important for children to understand how to cope with death, but really, enough is enough!
Anyway, I love pretty much all children's classics:
The Wind in the Willows
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
But if I had to choose my favorite one of all time...
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo :)
- August 10, 2011 at 12:19 PM
What a fun question--I look forward to checking out some of the books I've never heard of.
Books I read over and over as a kid:
The Birthday Bird (Dr. Seuss)
The Pooh books
King of the Wind (my favorite of all the horse books by Marguerite Henry)
A Wrinkle in Time
The Hobbit
- August 10, 2011 at 12:23 PM
Taking "children" to mean 12 and under, for me it's a tie between Charlotte's Web and Wind in the Willows. - Jean
- August 10, 2011 at 12:24 PM
- Taylor Napolsky said...
To Kill A Mockingbird is high school reading, and high schoolers aren't children, they're teenagers.
- August 10, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- Mister Fweem said...
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O'Brien or Melba the Brain, by Ivy Ruckman.
- August 10, 2011 at 12:31 PM
- Katherine Hyde said...
Winnie the Pooh. There simply is no childhood without Winnie the Pooh.
- August 10, 2011 at 12:33 PM
- elephanta said...
Right now I am feeling like: Charlotte's Web. That book is really special to me.
- August 10, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- Stephanie Garber said...
The Chronicles of Narnia.
Those books are the reason I wanted to become a writer
- August 10, 2011 at 12:43 PM
- Christy Elkins said...
"The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein by far! I love most everything he wrote and out of past true "Children's" books I think this is the one that has the best message. He helped shaped my writing so today's best children's book is my own "Willy Nilly Sorta Silly". :D
- August 10, 2011 at 12:45 PM
- Christy Elkins said...
Oh sorry one more…this is one I read not too long ago and falls more in the preteen category but it's "Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning" by Danette Haworth. It was a feel good coming of age story; very well written.
- August 10, 2011 at 12:50 PM
- Megan Stirler said...
So many of my favorites have already been said... I echo the Chronicles of Narnia and the Little House books, but also The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit and The Maze in the Heart of the Castle by Dorothy Gilman. That book was an epiphany - both as a child and an adult.
- August 10, 2011 at 12:52 PM
- Jennifer Cary Diers said...
"The View from Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg.
- August 10, 2011 at 12:58 PM
- Stephanie Allen said...
My favorite growing up was Little House on the Prairie, and that was the book series that really got me to love reading. So that is my answer.
- August 10, 2011 at 12:59 PM
- Darlene Underdahl said...
Although I loved The Secret Garden, I'd have to give the honor to The Dagger, the Fish and Casey Mckee.
I read it twice. I almost never do that.
- August 10, 2011 at 1:04 PM
- Steve Masover said...
Stuart Little
- August 10, 2011 at 1:07 PM
- GalaktioNova said...
And I'd say...
The Wizard of Oz. Plus The Lord of the Rings and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as close seconds.
I don't really think Alice in Wonderland qualifies as a CHILDREN's book... I remember myself as a child, I couldn't care less, it seemed so boring and meaningless... "grownups' stuff". Original illustrations didn't help much, either :-)
- August 10, 2011 at 1:10 PM
- Jenny Maloney said...
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing - Judy Blume. (It's also my favorite.)
But it's the BEST because it's funny, heartfelt, and perfect both in tone and matter for the age group that reads it (about 2nd-4th grade). And...right along with with your contest...there are certain things in there that are always funny. We know what it's like to have siblings and pets and parents....
- August 10, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- salima said...
So hard!
i love so many of the books that have already been mentioned, but also: The Neverending Story, The Last Unicorn, Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, A Little Princess, Jacob Have I Loved, The Light Princess, Peter Pan, James and the Giant Peach, The Dark is Rising....
- August 10, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- SBJones said...
I liked Summer of the Monkeys. Also all of the Zork style choose your own adventures were great too.
- August 10, 2011 at 1:13 PM
- Lydia said...
A Wrinkle in Time~Madeleine L'Engle.
- August 10, 2011 at 1:20 PM
- Kristi said...
Depends on the age of the child.
For the 3-and-under-set, I'd vote for any number of Sandra Boynton books. Moo, Baa, La La La, Hippos Go Berserk, Barnyard Dance (Shall I begin reciting them? think I know them by heart...)
My 7-year old daughter loves Junie B Jones and The Magic Treehouse series.
I remember reading Beverly Cleary (The Mouse and the Motor Cycle, Ramona, etc) and Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, etc).
- August 10, 2011 at 1:23 PM
- Jasmine Walt said...
A lot of the classic ones were mentioned in the other comments that I really love, but I'd have to say that my favorite series I read as a child were the Artemis Fowl books.
- August 10, 2011 at 1:25 PM
- Cynthia said...
This is hard there are so many!
THe Velveteen Rabbit
Alice In Wonderland
The Chronicals of Narnia
A Separate Peace
Grapes of Wrath
Are all some of my favorites.
- August 10, 2011 at 1:25 PM
- The English Teacher said...
Since WHEN is To Kill A Mockingbird a "children's book"?!
You've GOT to be kidding me!
- August 10, 2011 at 1:27 PM
- Nathan Bransford said...
The English Teacher-
Since when is it not one? What's your definition of a children's book?
- August 10, 2011 at 1:29 PM
- Laura Marcella said...
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite novels! I don't consider it a children's book, though. It's told from the POV of a child, but I think it's more an adult book.
So you if you mean the best book of all time from a child's POV, I agree Mockingbird is it! But the best book of all time actually written for children would have to be, in my opinion... Anne of Green Gables or James and the Giant Peach!
- August 10, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- jesse said...
If we're including YA, my vote goes to Enders Game. Otherwise I'd pick any Berenstain Bears book, or the series as a whole.
- August 10, 2011 at 1:43 PM
- Hart Johnson said...
Where the Red Fern Grows is the first book I deeply loved (I was 9)--it's a great one.
As a mom, I think I'd go with Roald Dahl's BFG, and the Harry Potter series.
- August 10, 2011 at 1:47 PM
- Dawn Pier said...
I must have read Watership Down five times by the time I was 13. I didn't do that with any other books except perhaps Dr. Suess's Green Eggs and Ham.
- August 10, 2011 at 2:07 PM
- abc said...
Horton was a john?
There are so many wonderful books being listed here. Although I stick with Where the Red Fern Grows, many are bringing back lovely memories--The Velveteen Rabbit and The Secret Garden! And as a parent I'm appreciating children's books in a whole new way and having new experiences as my daughter's taste runs more towards fantasy. She's currently obsessed with the Warriors' books about cats. And together we are reading The Phantom Tollbooth which is pretty darn awesome. Dahl is fantastic, too!
As for picture books, I have to give props to everything by Martin Waddell, Kevin Henkes, Margaret Wise Brown, Jane Yolen, Jan Brett, and Astrid Lindgren. They top my favorites list. There are countless others, though.
I have to say my favorite part of parenting has been all the glorious children's books and trips to the library and bookstores and discovering new authors and illustrators.
- August 10, 2011 at 2:09 PM
- Emily White said...
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
Is there any child who hasn't read that?
- August 10, 2011 at 2:22 PM
- Cossette said...
My favorite children's books growing up were, without a doubt, The Chronicles of Narnia, and King of the Wind and Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry. Also, the Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald is amazing. Golly, ya'll are making me want to go grab a stack of children's books right now and start reading!
- August 10, 2011 at 2:31 PM
- SonyaTerjanian said...
My kids and I found the Mary Poppins series to be absolutely enchanting, but if we're judging by literary merit I'd have to go with Charlotte's Web.
- August 10, 2011 at 2:31 PM
- Joanna Roddy said...
The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Anne of Green Gables
- August 10, 2011 at 2:40 PM
- M.A. Leslie said...
Bridge to Terabithia & The Chronicles of Narnia. Can I have a tie?
- August 10, 2011 at 2:48 PM
Charlotte's Web
- August 10, 2011 at 3:00 PM
- Jaime said...
For me it's definitely
Charlotte's Web.
E.B. White is my hero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- August 10, 2011 at 3:09 PM
- Darley said...
I'm gonna say The Little Prince.
- August 10, 2011 at 3:27 PM
- The Pollinatrix said...
As a child, I loved a lot of the books already mentioned here, but would add the Black Stallion books, which I didn't see mentioned. And one I'd add that I discovered as a parent and read to my kids is Abel's Island by William Steig.
- August 10, 2011 at 3:32 PM
Nathan, you and Posh Spice share a favorite book! (she named her daughter Harper). I love that one too...I also love (still love!) Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series, as well From the Mixed up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, all the Anne of Greene Gables books, all the Betsy-Tacy-Tib books, and everything by Madeleine L'Engle. I also loved "Little Women," which maybe this crowd wouldn't say was a kid's book either, but I read that and To Kill a Mockingbird when I was about 9 or 10.
- August 10, 2011 at 3:34 PM
"On TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD being a children's book, it may not be how it was originally conceived, but it's a book that just about everyone in America reads when they're a child. Seems to me like whether or not it was the intent it is a children's book."
I'm with you on this one. What you said.
- August 10, 2011 at 4:00 PM
- Maia Powloski said...
Three-way tie between "Half Magic" by Edward Eager, "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine, and "The Secret of Platform 13" by Eva Ibbotson.
I re-read these books countless times between the ages of 9 and 14. Later, as a teenage camp counselor, I read a chapter or two of "The Secret of Platform 13" to my campers each night before they went to bed, and sometimes during the day as a coveted reward for good behavior. (If you haven't read "The Secret of Platform 13"...Eva Ibbotson came up with the idea of a London train station platform as a portal to a magical world before Rowling wrote about Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.)
- August 10, 2011 at 4:02 PM
- Heather said...
Either The Indian In the Cupboard or Shiloh. The former was the first book I read where I felt like I was really inside the story instead of reading it. And the latter because it deals with bravery and how kids can do big things in small ways.
- August 10, 2011 at 4:17 PM
- Kristin Laughtin said...
ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS by Scott O'Dell was my favorite as a child, but I think overall Roald Dahl has to take top honors. THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE; BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA, and anything by Shel Silverstein or Louis Sachar ranks pretty highly, too. Ahh, it's too hard to choose--which is funny, because my word verification is "comit", and makes me think of how I'm unable to commit to anything in this post.
- August 10, 2011 at 4:18 PM
- The Sentence Sleuth said...
The children's book that sticks in my mind the most is "Blubber," by Judy Blume.
- August 10, 2011 at 4:20 PM
- Pete Grimm said...
I like your choice because of the life lessons To Kill a Mockingbird can teach young people. However, when you said children, I imagined myself even younger than the child ready for To Kill a Mockingbird. My parents read short stories, fables from the bible or Hans Christian Anderson or the Brother's Grimm to my sister and me. Most were just the right length for a bedtime story. Later the Wizard of Oz books (there were many not just the one made into the movie) became favorites, before I graduated to anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cheers, Pete Grimm
- August 10, 2011 at 4:27 PM
- MJR said...
really hard to pick one:
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
James and the Giant Peach
Goodnight Moon, Madeline, Babar
Chronicles of Narnia
The Secret Garden and The Little Princess
Martha Speaks
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Pat the Bunny
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
I also love Voyage to the Bunny Planet, a boxed set of 3 small books by Rosemary Wells
- August 10, 2011 at 4:32 PM
- Jadi said...
When children's books were considered age-appropriate for me, well, I didn't read.
Now as a YA reading children's, I like Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles.
- August 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM
- Diana said...
Now see, when you say "children's book," I think little kids. And the best of the true children's book for me will always be "Goodnight Moon."
- August 10, 2011 at 4:48 PM
- Ramona's Story Time said...
I think "Holes" by Louis Sachar is one of the most perfect books ever written. Pure/unadulterated gold.
- August 10, 2011 at 4:49 PM
- Janie Mason said...
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- August 10, 2011 at 4:51 PM
- Jaimie said...
Gonna go with my favorite as a child, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE.
- August 10, 2011 at 5:35 PM
The Horse and His Boy. But any of the Narnia series, really. Closely followed by The Hobbit, and The Prydain Chronicles.
- August 10, 2011 at 5:43 PM
- G said...
"Rumble Fish" and "The Outsiders" has my vote.
- August 10, 2011 at 6:07 PM
- Raquel Byrnes said...
ooh! Girl with the Silver Eyes.
- August 10, 2011 at 6:16 PM
- Nicole Zoltack said...
Anne of Green Gables or The Chronicles of Narnia
- August 10, 2011 at 6:19 PM
- sally apokedak said...
I don't think this is the best children's book ever, because, come on...how can we possibly pick? There's Narnia, Treasure Island, Airman, The Bark of the Bog Owl, City of Ember, The Giver...no way can I pick. So I'll tell you the book I've read more often than any other: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
- August 10, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Pick one, huh? I'm cheating, too.
A Wrinkle in Time
Lassie Come-Home
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- August 10, 2011 at 6:26 PM
- Hollister Ann Grant said...
I'm reading To Kill A Mockingbird right now -- bought it for 50 cents at the public library sale last weekend. I saw the classic movie ages ago, but never read the book. It's fabulous... but while it has a child telling the story, it's definitely not a children's book. They don't give the Pulitzer to kid's books (I don't think, anyway).
Best kid book? I can't think of a single book, but these are among my favorites:
Wind in the Willows
A Wrinkle in Time
Half Magic
Alice in Wonderland
Chronicles of Narnia
The Hobbit
Charlotte's Web
Phantom Tollbooth
- August 10, 2011 at 6:30 PM
- Margie said...
Mine was Where The Red Fern Grows and my daughter's would be
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkeban.
- August 10, 2011 at 6:32 PM
- Nathan Bransford said...
The Yearling won the Pulitzer as well.
- August 10, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- writingbabe, aka Flora said...
I agree with so many: Charlotte's Web, The Hobbit, A Wrinkle in Time.
I'll add a couple I didn't notice in the list: The Neverending Story and the Little House books, which I checked out of the Marcy Elementary School library again and again.
And for the very littlest kids, Goodnight Moon.
- August 10, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- Caroline Starr Rose said...
The Phantom Tollbooth. I make everyone read it.
- August 10, 2011 at 6:36 PM
- Robert said...
For me, it's Where The Wild Things Are.
- August 10, 2011 at 6:42 PM
- Unknown said...
Five Children and It
- August 10, 2011 at 6:46 PM
Another vote for Wizard of Oz, though I'd add the Chronicles of Prydain and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe as close seconds.
(And another vote for Mockingbird being an adult book, not a kid book. ^_^)
- August 10, 2011 at 6:51 PM
- Reina said...
I adore To Kill a Mockingbird too, but agree with those who said it is not a children's book. When I was a girl, I loved the Little House books, E.B. White, The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats), Goodnight Moon, Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad, Little Bear...I still read children's books of all kinds (not just beacuse I have 2 young sons) and newer favorites include Karen Cushman's books, The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall, and Steamboat A'Comin (a picture book and fabulous tribute to Mark Twain)...I could go on--I love children's books! :)
- August 10, 2011 at 6:53 PM
- Deborah said...
My favorite books when I was a kid were Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss and The Black Stallion books by Walter Farley.
- August 10, 2011 at 7:02 PM
- Laura said...
GOODNIGHT MOON, definitely.
But also Charlotte's Web, A Wrinkle in Time, anything by Roald Dahl, Peter Pan, The Westing Game, anything by James Howe, and Tuck Everlasting.
As for To Kill A Mockingbird... I would agree that it's a children's book in the way that The Outsiders is a children's book.
In other words, if you consider teenagers children (which I don't).
- August 10, 2011 at 7:02 PM
- Hollister Ann Grant said...
Hi, Nathan.
I'm sorry to say The Yearling is another classic I haven't read. I just looked it up and interestingly enough, Gregory Peck played in both the film versions of The Yearling and To Kill A Mockingbird (obviously representing a type of character). I will add The Yearling to my TBR pile.
I can't win a discussion about whether To Kill A Mockingbird is truly a children's book or not. I'm on page 80 right now. So far, while the author tells the story from the point of view of a child, she includes many adultlike nuances that would have gone over my head if I'd picked the book up as a kid.
I think I could have appreciated the book if I'd read it in my late teens, though, after I'd suffered a little and seen a few things in life. When we talk about children's books, we are looking at a huge range of ages.
- August 10, 2011 at 7:11 PM
- JJ Toner (euclid) said...
Daft question. How old is a child? How long a piece of string. Going with the spirit of the question, I would choose
The Wind in the Willows.
I hated Alice in W and Through the Looking-glass. They gave me nightmares.
- August 10, 2011 at 7:35 PM
- Karen Rickers said...
Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery was a childhood touchstone! I also loved Harriet the Spy and The Pushcart Revolution!
- August 10, 2011 at 7:36 PM
- Moonbird said...
Nathan, you shouldn't have left it so wide-open! I divided mine roughly into ages - they were all my favorites for at least a while:
If I Ran the Circus - Dr. Seuss
Ramona Quimby - Beverly Cleary
Half Magic - Edward Eager
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein
Huck Finn - Mark Twain
and, when I was a teen I loved
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Joanne Greenberg
...and just about every book mentioned above. ;-)
- August 10, 2011 at 7:40 PM
- CageFightingBlogger said...
Roald Dahl's Matilda. Taught me one thing: ALWAAYS question the authorities. They are not always right. Aside from this, an entertaining story for all. 8+
- August 10, 2011 at 7:43 PM
- irishoma said...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Little Engine that Could
Red Shoes for Nancy
- August 10, 2011 at 8:05 PM
- Trish said...
I agree with CageFightingBlogger. Matilda by Roald Dahl.
I love the story, the humour and best of all, the writing. This book shows kids that they don't have to believe everything that adults say, especially rotten ones. I had a teacher just like The Trunchbull, really I did. She was a bully and stopped me from learning. So to me, Matilda rocks!!! She kicks ass. Go Matilda and God bless Roald dahl.
- August 10, 2011 at 9:58 PM
A Little Princess.
Goodnight Moon.
I don't think of To Kill a Mockingbird as a children's book at all, though it is an all-time favorite.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:26 PM
- Lani Wendt Young said...
I agree with a lot of the previous comments - TO kill a mockingbird - wouldnt have thought that was a kids book. Hmm.
Best Childrens book in the entire universe and all the other parallel universes and all the other rabbit hole type universes and even those go through a black hole and emerge into a new universe? In all of those...Best Kids book is: Narnia Lion, witch and the Wardrobe.
And if you doubt me, you just need to go check out allllll those other universes and see they're all rockin the Narnia book too. (No lie.)
- August 10, 2011 at 10:33 PM
Best PB "mike and the steamshovel", Harold and the Purple Crayon,because they unleashed my imagination and I could waste hours wondering about their lives after the book finished and giving them different endings.
I was animal buff as a middle grader so, Old Yeller, Black Beauty and any of the works of Marguerite Henry. Still LOVE, LOVE Misty and the Chinquoteague.
Still am a HUGE fan of Judy Blume but my number one YA book was Saturday The 12th of October. I have always resolved to buy a copy and if it isn't in print to buy the rights and republish it.
HEE HEE, still have my purple crayon dreams!
- August 10, 2011 at 10:33 PM
- Lem Thomas said...
Lots of greats in the comments already, but Ben and Me by Robert Lawson deserves a nod.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:37 PM
Same Anonymous from above...
Shoot just typed in Sat 12th of October published in 1971 by Norma Mazer. Still in print. Still quadzillion stars on Amazon
But I forgot one... The Rats of Nimh. Lost days of my life inside my imagination... Still also in print with bazillion stars on Amazon.
Sharpening my purple crayon... again.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:40 PM
Silly Fred
- August 10, 2011 at 10:48 PM
- kllamp said...
I read To Kill a Mockingbird in highschool.
I have 2 picks, one a younger picture book, the other an older novel:
Possum Magic by Mem Fox, great australian children's author
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
But really there are so many amazing children's fiction to choose from, we really are spoilt for choice. I think I need to boost my kid's library with some more classics! Or at least get them to the library more!
- August 10, 2011 at 11:02 PM
- Marie R said...
Anne of Green Gables
The Last Unicorn
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle (series)
It may not hold up to an adult reading, but one of my favorite books as a kid was The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key. About a boy with amnesia and the ability to read minds. I think I still have my original battered copy. I remember so clearly the images that flooded my mind as I read it.
To me, the best children's books are the ones you remember on a visceral level. The scenes and characters are all jumbled together with your memories of your mom making spaghetti and that time you first rode a bike.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:26 PM
- Anne R. Allen said...
No one has mentioned the Wizard of Oz. My favorite after the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:28 PM
- John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur said...
"Maniac Magee"
and my daughters all loved "Star Girl" so I'll give it a vote for them.
- August 10, 2011 at 11:42 PM
More Pies!
by Robert Munsch
- August 10, 2011 at 11:51 PM
- Tess Cox said...
Charlotte's Web
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
James and the Giant Peach
- August 11, 2011 at 12:27 AM
- Melissa Adams said...
OMG, I've read and loved them all, from Alice to Winnie, The Borrowers, Wrinkle in Time, Red Fern, Charlotte, Half Magic, Dr. Seuss & Wind in the Willows. My daughter wanted to hear Goodnight Moon for a solid year before bed when she was young. For my son it was Where the Wild Things Are. I studied Alice in Wonderland in college (Victorian lit). While it's a book many kids enjoy, there's ample fodder for adults that will go over most kids' heads. Great post...makes me want to stop writing and just READ!
- August 11, 2011 at 3:12 AM
Star-Crossed Rascals by Patricia Puddle. I don't think I've ever heard my kids laugh so hard. A second one would be I Capture the Castle by Dodi Smith. I found the atmosphere in that one brilliant.
- August 11, 2011 at 3:29 AM
- Natasha said...
This Can Be Happening At McDonald Hall
-Gordon Korman
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
-Judy Blume
- August 11, 2011 at 4:27 AM
My top 3:
1:The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
2:Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
3:Now We Are Six (children's verses) by A.A Milne
- August 11, 2011 at 4:39 AM
My vote is for Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh)
I was going prevaricate it with Judy Blume, but someone beat me to it.
it is showing my age, but I SO wanted to be Harriet when I was young (despite being a boy) and I had a crush on Sport (again despite being a boy)
- August 11, 2011 at 4:41 AM
- Erica Naylor said...
I'm too indecisive to have a favorite and of course as I read everyone else's vote, I want to change my answer.
Still, I would vote for the Nancy Drew Series, The Mixed-Up Files Basil E. Frankweiler and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which is the book I pull off the shelf year after year.
- August 11, 2011 at 7:21 AM
- CJ Black said...
Charlotte's Web
Not sure if this is considered a children's book but a close runner up would be Black Beauty.
- August 11, 2011 at 8:23 AM
The titles in these comments have brought back so many sweet memories--of my own fave books and my kids'. We all liked the Pooh books, with their magical drawings, and after that anything by Roald Dahl, especially The Phantom Tollbooth and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Then came the Harry Potter years...
I have always felt the book I was most fervent about as a young bookworm was Harriet the Spy. The humor, the characters, the predicaments Harriet got herself stuck in . . . just delicious reading. As yet another adolescent girl in love with horses, I also could not get enough of Misty of Chincoteague, The Black Stallion, or anything else with horses in it.
And of course Charlotte's Web and The Secret Garden. I could go on . . .
- August 11, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- Nicole said...
Oh, SO many great books in this comments thread! I'm feeling a sudden need to pull out all my old favorites (Boxcar Children! Island of the Blue Dolphins!). There are so many, but the ones that stuck with me most over the years are:
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- Bridge to Terabithia
- A Wrinkle in Time
- August 11, 2011 at 9:43 AM
- Angela Brown said...
Another vote for Narnia.
But I was also into Judy Blume...my favorite being Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret. Perhaps I got into it a little before I should have, but I loved it.
- August 11, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- Nathan Oser said...
Best of all time...?
I'm thinking Peter Pan or The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Favorite of all time...?
Chancy and the Grand Rascal by Sid Fleischman
Good question though! Reading through the comments brings back a lot of good memories
- August 11, 2011 at 10:37 AM
- Heather G. Davis said...
For a picture book, I vote for MILLIONS OF CATS by Wanda Gag. Happily, it's back in print. My teenaged son still brings up the refrain..."Hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats!"
This is a little off subject, but the best books I found for getting little boys to read are Calvin and Hobbes compilations and Tin Tin comics.
Others have covered most of my other candidates.
- August 11, 2011 at 12:17 PM
- John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur said...
The 21 Elephant Restaurant is absolutely brilliant and - sadly - out of print last time I checked.
- August 11, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- Lindsey said...
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
It was the first book that told me the truth about life: that it wasn't all sweetness and light and that cruelty, in fact, existed.
- August 11, 2011 at 2:08 PM
- Bryan Russell said...
The Hobbit
Watership Down
The Prydain Chronicles
- August 11, 2011 at 2:19 PM
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD isn't classified as children's literature. It's classified as one of the first YA novels with mature themes.
- August 11, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- Holly Vance said...
Superfudge and Where the Red Fern Grows.
And remember when Are You There God, It's Me Margaret was like porn to us tweens?
- August 11, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- Tammy said...
My personal favorite is Shadow Castle by Marian Cockrell.
- August 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM
- adam.purple said...
Barbara Byfield's, "The Haunted Spy". Long out of print, but beautifully written and illustrated. Find it if you can.
- August 11, 2011 at 4:05 PM
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is on the 7th/8th summer reading list at my daughter's school (ages 11-14). It also is required summer reading for my other daughter's high school freshmen class. Many of the kids were excited to hear this because they already read it in junior high. Check out this website:http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews
See what they say about the age level. Go Nathan! You know your books.
My book picks = THE SECRET GARDEN
- August 11, 2011 at 4:32 PM
the Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
- August 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM
- Reagan Philips said...
Watership Down
Favorite children's book to hate every time I read it, but still read it because I love/hate it though:
Animal Farm
- August 11, 2011 at 6:43 PM
- Sheila JG said...
Wolf Story, by William McCleery.
I cannot believe that it's out of print.
- August 11, 2011 at 7:00 PM
- John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur said...
"The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster (not Dahl, he did the illustrations but Juster wrote the book) is excellent.
And another out-of-print classic, "Prince Umbra," the best book I've ever seen in terms of taking the elements of fantasy and myth and putting them into everyday life. Really unparalleled, but sadly out of print.
- August 11, 2011 at 7:11 PM
- Terri Lynn Coop said...
When I was a kid we moved a lot and my family had it pretty hard. Someone gave us four books from one of the young readers classics sets and I read them all until the bindings cracked and wore thin. Still the best in my opinion because they took my reading to the next level:
1. Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2. The Peterkin Papers (taught me a ton about comedic timing)
3. Pinnochio
4. Grimm's Fairy Tales
And I just happen to have all four on my Kindle right now from a public domain collection!
- August 11, 2011 at 8:13 PM
Some old faves: Horton Hatches the Egg; The Lorax
Some new (the kids and I both dig them): Bosch's Secret Series and Ardagh's Eddie Dickens and Unlikely Exploits series...dark and hilarious.
- August 11, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- Gail Shepherd said...
I don't know if it's the best of all times, but I have a soft spot for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
- August 11, 2011 at 8:53 PM
- Just Another Day in Paradise said...
Funny, that everyone should get so "hot about "Mockingbird". Whether you think it's a children's book or not; it should be. Read it to your children, discuss it with them. It's never to early for great literature and especially the lessons therein.
- August 11, 2011 at 9:42 PM
- veela-valoom said...
Somehow this feels terribly cliche BUT at the same time I feel like while we're so sentimental about older books maybe we don't recognize the greatness that is still growing.
So I'm going to say Harry Potter.
Maybe in 20 or 30 years I'll be proved wrong. But I think it's brilliant and it's gong to live on for years and years. It may not have been my childhood, but it's been a wonderful adulthood. I expect that it will define a lot of childhoods still yet to come.
- August 11, 2011 at 9:48 PM
- chitrader said...
Best children's book depends on the age. To me, in that middle ground, ages 10-14, has to be Treasure Island.
Other finalists: Johnny Tremain, Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Curious George (I can still remember the picture of his house alone on the top of the hill, or was it alone on planet earth?), Twas the Night Before Christmas (depending on how richly illustrated your copy was--it was a family tradition of ours on Christmas Eve. How can you top that for lasting memories?)
- August 11, 2011 at 10:08 PM
- marion said...
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.
Holes by Sachar comes close second.
- August 11, 2011 at 10:30 PM
Superior post Nathan. I am going to print it out so I can read some of the ones I haven't yet... There is nothing like reading or re-reading these books in the summer time to remind you where your summers have gone...
I even came back a second night to peak at the last entries.
- August 11, 2011 at 10:37 PM
- Diana said...
When I was a kid, we didn't have the middle grade readers, young adult, and all the other categories of children's books that we have now. I went from reading The Bobbsey Twins and Nancy Drew to reading Gone With the Wind and James Michener. To Kill a Mockingbird and The Hobbit were shelved with the adult books, so it's kind of difficult to think of them as children's books.
My contribution of great children's not young adult books would be: The Dr. Seuss books, the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy series, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the Harry Potter series.
- August 12, 2011 at 2:08 AM
Bed-Knob and Broomstick (A Combined Edition of: "The Magic Bed-Knob" and "Bonfires and Broomsticks") by Mary Norton.
This, and not the Disney movie, read to us in two different grades of elementary school by teachers, was a book to take you to different lands.
(There are so many wonderful children's books. This one came immediately to mind upon hearing the question.)
- August 12, 2011 at 2:46 AM
- Jan Morrill said...
Picture book: I'll Love You Forever
Reader book: Charlotte's Web
- August 12, 2011 at 9:44 AM
Add my votes for
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Howl's Moving Castle
Literature Gold, in my opinion.
- August 12, 2011 at 1:23 PM
- Scott Stillwell said...
I have the most personal attachment to "My Side of the Mountain," and the entire "Choose Your Own Adventure" series. I wonder if that's in any way a reflection on my secret nerd desire to be a rebellious free spirit.
- August 12, 2011 at 3:36 PM
- Matt Phillips said...
I agree with those not classifying TKAM as a "children's" book. To me, a children's book is one that's appropriate for children from a wide range of ages to read (or have read to them). A novel in which a black man is accused of raping a white woman doesn't fit that definition for me. Appropriate for high school, maybe middle, but not elementary.
My vote would go to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; the Prydain Chronicles; and/or The Hobbit.
- August 12, 2011 at 4:17 PM
I just thought, "Nobody's said My Side Of the Mountain yet!"and lo and behold, it was the next comment.
I side with the opinion that TKAM, as I fondly call it, is not a children's book.
I am a young adult. This book was my required reading for junior year. I am sure I can safely say that no one in my class has read it before, for more than one reason. One, it's a "classic." I have read a lot of classics and consider myself well-educated and well-read, more so than others my age, and I would not have picked up TKAM if it had not been required and I had not heard so many good things about it. No teenager or child reads "classics" because they think they're going to be just like Dickens (which, I confess, I haven't had the courage to pick up again.)
Secondly, this book has some adult themes-rape being among them. I don't know about you, but I don't want my seven year-old reading about rape. (Yeah, I know Scout's seven or eight.) It's good for kids to learn about prejudice and death and life, and if you'll excuse the mild languge that's going on, it's a great book for middle grade-age and YA. But there are some things I don't think are for kids, and besides, isn't one of the best points of the book that we're looking at this from a child's eyes but we understand the bigger things that are going on? A child looking through a child's eyes isn't the same.
I enjoyed TKAM but I don't think it's a children's book.
- August 13, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- Ms. McClory said...
The Giver- by far it will forever be my favorite!
- August 19, 2011 at 9:16 PM
- chris said...
I can't believe I got so far down the page until someone mentioned Where the Wild Things Are. Has there ever been so much said with so few words?! And the illustrations are unsurpassed! A true children's book.
- August 19, 2011 at 9:35 PM
I'll have to go with THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDOBE.
- August 23, 2011 at 10:13 AM
My new favorite children's book of all time is, "A LOVE DOODLE" by Jordi Solari (a modern-day Dr. Seuss!)
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