Curious George is a character from my childhood. When my daughter was a baby I could not wait for her to be ready for longer books. We read books from the time our oldest was a few days old.
In the Musings from Me house it is never too early to read books! A few books became our go-to, every night books — Goodnight Moon. While a few became our “let’s not read this one again and can I safely put it away so that I don’t have to read it again.” I’m talking to you: Love You Forever
with your odd storyline about a mother who rocks her baby and her toddler and her elementary schooler and her college student and finally her grownup son who she has to climb through a window to rock. Uh, and then she dies. Depressing.
Now my husband’s least favorite book was The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body — not because he hated the storyline, but because the book took “4 days to read” per my husband due to illustrations and sidebars. Not that he exaggerates or anything!
But, Curious George was such a good book about a happy go lucky monkey. I could have done without the pipe smoking and the hunting down a monkey in the jungle and putting him a sack, but aside from that Curious George is a good story. My middle daughter’s first word was “Mon Mon.”
My younger two loved Curious George, the TV show. In fact, it was the one show that a 2-year-old and a 6-year-old could watch together! No arguments about what’s on TV!
When my youngest was about 3, his first movie in a movie theater was…Curious George!
You can imagine how thrilled our family was to get a prescreen copy of the new movie: Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas! We got to see it before anyone else…kind of like a movie premiere in your family room! Saweet!
Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas will premiere on PBS on November 25 (the day before Thanksgiving on PBS Kids). It will also air on PBS (locally on WETA TV 26, but check your local listings) on Saturday, November 28 at 7:30 AM and air again on Monday, November 30 at noon. Visit PBSKids to learn more about the series and play A Very Monkey Christmas game!
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green eggs and ham when i was a kid
My favorite kids book is where the wild things are
Maurice Sendak’s ‘where the wild things are’.
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Good Night God is my favorite children’s book.
“No, David!” is my favorite Children’s book! Thanks for the chance!
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I used to read curious george to my son when he was little it is a priceless memory of mine..
My favorite is How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Suess.
I loved the Ramona books growing up! I read the series
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My favorite children’s book it the The Little Engine that Could.
dr suess cat in the hat is a favorite in our house
hop on pop is my fav
My favorite books are The Little House on the Prairie series.
I always liked The Little That Could!
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My favorite all time book is Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess
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My daughter loves Curious George! This would be great! 🙂
My favorite children’s book is The Giving Tree.
I love Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
My favorite kids book was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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It has always been “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein.
My favorite book was Where The Wild Things Are. I remember being completely entranced by the illustrations. Thank you for the chance to win.
My favorite book when i was a kid was The Giving Tree
I loved the Pokey Puppy when I was a child.
“Good Night Moon”!
Where the Wild Things Are has always been my favorite. Thanks 🙂
Mine was FROG AND TOAD ARE FRIENDS
I loved the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar, thanks!
I loves the book Velveteen Rabbit, one of the all time best.
My favorite kids book is a book called Tuesday by David Wiesner. It’s all pictures, about flying frogs.
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Hmm We always liked Are you my mother?
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I loved Where The Wild Things Are.
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A favorite is “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’
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The Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber.
My kids like “I Stink”
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We read a lot of picture books right now. We love anything by Laura Numeroff, like “If you take a mouse to the movies.”
WE love the Dr Seuss books!
I loved The Very Hungry Caterpiller.
I can still recite “Tweety’s Little Blue House” by heart and I’m 62 years old. I guess it was my favorite.
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Where the Wild Thing Are is my favorite kids book.Thanks!
Green Eggs and Ham was one of our favorites 🙂
Hmm, probably a tie between Brown Bear, Brown Bear and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Curious George is her all-time favorite character though!
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My favorite kids book is Where the Sidewalk ends.
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Green Eggs and Ham by Seuss.
The Very Hungry Caterpiller is my favorite kids book.
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my favorite book as a kid was how to eat fried worms, it was everyone’s favorite, you could never check it out in the school library because it was always out
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Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb was one of my favorites and now I read the exact same book from my childhood to my kids. Courtesy of my mom keeping everything.
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i loved if i ran the circus by dr seuss!
Popeye climbs a mountain 🙂