helena Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Why didn't I read Winnie the Pooh to my kids?? :sad: We've read (and they've read on their own) a lot of books. I know you can't hit them all... :001_smile: But, as the kids get older so does that little sad voice in my head "Wah, they never took to horse themed books" or "Wah, I never read them the nursery rhyme book that I grew up with". My youngest just turned ten and I'm looking through our books wondering if I can just squeeze in some of these younger titles. So, I'm curious Have you come to realize that the kids somehow missed some goodies? Which books passed you by? Last year I got the girls to read the My Fathers Dragon and Catwings series. :tongue_smilie: They humored me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Why didn't I read Winnie the Pooh to my kids?? :sad: W the P has a lot about human nature in it, and I find it worthwhile read in grown ups. Ditto the Little Prince. My Father's Dragon, however, needs a magical window, and HOW I loved reading it with my father, when I was 7. Same with The Light Princess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted October 2, 2011 Author Share Posted October 2, 2011 W the P has a lot about human nature in it, and I find it worthwhile read in grown ups. Ditto the Little Prince. My Father's Dragon, however, needs a magical window, and HOW I loved reading it with my father, when I was 7. Same with The Light Princess. The Light Princess?? What's that? Off to Amazon! :auto: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In the Rain Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I agree with Kalanamak, try reading Winnie the Pooh to your kids! There are things about human nature that are only apparent to older readers. Dh and I enjoy the stories as much as our girls do. My dd enjoys Milne's poems more now (at 10) than she did when she was younger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraphina Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 From time to time I pull out book from when my kids were little and read to them, they love it, but I can't think of any that I missed. Good idea though, perhaps you can read the books you missed to grandchildren some day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggieamy Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I'm pretty sure I'm going to be reading aloud to Little Librarian when she's 18 just because I love all the stories out there for children and want to be able to share them with her. The Secret Garden is one of my all time favorites and I read that to myself at least once a year. I'd throw Winnie the Pooh in the car the next time you are going somewhere and let them read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I read Stuart Little to ds last spring and felt the same way. E.B. White had a way with words. My reading it started out as a writing/narration exercise. I desperately needed to shorter easier book and most of our things were still in storage. It worked out great. I may have to sneak a few more in that way, as a writing exercise. ;) Books ds has never read and I've never read to him (me reading to him is his favorite thing): Charlotte's Web (I hate spiders and I knew he'd tease me incessantly. May have to dig it out now) Little House on the Prairie (We read Caddie Woodlawn instead. I meant to have him read it, we just never got there.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I read aloud until everyone went to college! Great books are great at all ages! Just go ahead and read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tullia Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 If Mark Solomonovich can use quotations from Winnie the Poo in his geometry textbook, I'd say it it's not too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suppleasthewind Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I never read Winnie the Pooh, Frog and Toad or Velveteen Rabbit to my older boys. When I read them to my younger one, the older ones (age 8)listened so that made me happy that they aren't missing out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasharowan Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Mine still love Pooh Bear!!!!! Even the 15yo comes and listens when I read the stories!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photo Ninja Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 My dd is in college and took Winnie the Pooh and House at Pooh Corner with her! She also has them both as mp3 so she can listen to them. She had them on tape from the time she was about 4 yo and could probably quote them if she tried. But the point is, she is in college and thought they were essential to take with her. Just read them aloud to your dc. You are never too old for Winnie the Pooh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 Okay, I pulled out our Winnie the Pooh books. :001_smile: Next I want to read through our My Book House set. I loved that series as a kid, it'd be a shame if they didn't read those! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 Thanks for the encouragement! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diana B Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 I've been thinking about what books I need to 'cram in' before it gets to be too late. Winnie the Pooh is definitely one that we need to read. We've read a few Roald Dahl books which were stupendously fun at this age (7-8 yrs old) and I got the Secret Garden read to him this summer as well. I was pleasantly surprised that he enjoyed it as much as he did - since he tends to lean towards fantasy and lots of adventure. We just started our new family read which we COULD have waited on, but he really wants to read it NOW so we are going with it. I think we're going to start Charlotte's Web in a couple weeks and I'll have to see what else I can dig up. :) Watching this thread with interest! :) ETA: I'm really sad that I didn't get in more picture books. It's hard to get him to sit for them now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhotoGal Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 I just squeezed in a few that were on the edge for my second grader. He still prefers that I read him picture books rather than chapter books. So in a way that buys us time. (Though I was looking forward to reading "All of a Kind Family" to him and he ran away screaming - he doesn't want any chapter book that isn't Harry Potter, I guess!). Our just barely made it books: "Caps for Sale" Todd Parr books "Chrysanthemum" "I'm Gonna Like Me" "Blueberries for Sal" What I wish I would have read earlier: more fairy tales / folktales - I know even adults can enjoy these, but ds isn't really interested at least for the moment. I think he would have been more interested a couple years ago. Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel - this would have been perfect for ds's heavy machinery stage in preschool, but I didn't know about the book back then. The Runaway Bunny - I've never read this one, but it seems like a classic. The Little Engine that Could Peter Rabbit / more Beatrix Potter (going to try this one anyway, but not sure how ds will react) Pulling out Winnie the Pooh and Paddington right now. We'll see how it goes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyD Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Agreeing that it's never too late for Winnie-the-Pooh. My boys, especially my 3yo, are absolutely obsessed with Winnie-the-Pooh, and the audiotapes of Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner (the ones by Judi Dench et al) are in constant rotation. They reenact scenes from the books all the livelong day - -most notably, the scene from The House at Pooh Corner in which Pooh (played by my 6yo) falls on top of Piglet (the 3yo). All done with pitch-perfect English accents, thanks to the tapes. It is hilarious. While I confess that I sometimes beg them to change the CD to something, anything else, just because I can't take it any more, I have to agree that the books and characters themselves are just wonderful, for any age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 I just finished reading Winnie the Pooh with my 5 yo. My 13 yo ds was in the room doing his other schoolwork as we read a chapter each day. He enjoyed it as much as my 5 yo. Every so often he would laugh out loud. :) I agree. You are never too old for Winnie the Pooh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubiac Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 This guy read aloud to his daughter until her first day of college, which makes me think it's never too late! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Okay, I pulled out our Winnie the Pooh books. :001_smile: Wonderful! My sons were about the ages of your olders when we read Winnie-the-Pooh. Then we found a dramatized version of it and it made WtP even more fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diana B Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 This guy read aloud to his daughter until her first day of college, which makes me think it's never too late! This is my plan. :) OK, maybe not quite that dedicated. We have 'family reading time' in our house. My husband and I take turns reading and our son cuddles up and listens. It's so wonderful to know that we've shared these books together as a family! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evolving homemaker Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 lol...you can always read them the Tao of Pooh as teenagers and then read them the book afterwards so they can see...it is a really cute book about how wise Pooh really was. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evolving homemaker Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 oh! i just saw the post about The Reading Promise. i bought that book the first day it came out and love, love, love what they did. highly recommend it, especially to families that value the importance of reading aloud with kids! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6packofun Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 I committed the cardinal sin of homeschooling, I believe, by not reading the Little House books to my girls. They just never took to them. :( My kids are older now, but I'm considering reading them aloud anyhow this winter. LOL (Partly because of this thread reminding me!) It makes me so sad when new books come out that are too young for us. (I still have a 5 and 10yo, but we can't fit them all in and some are more for girls. *sigh*) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyNellen Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 My 14, 13, and 11 year olds still love when I read Winnie the Pooh. I definitely don't think your kids are too old!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 :iagree: about Winnie the Pooh! We have the Peter Dennis Audiobooks, and the big collection on our bookshelf. My 8yo loved Pooh at 3&4yo...he thinks it's all hilarious now. One day, he just literally busted a gut laughing at the "I can't remember if twice 7 is 12 or 22." and from then on, he's been catching those things as we listen. *I* enjoy these too. They are calming for mommies...they give perspective when you need it.;) I've read most of these already. I'm :bigear: for books to read especially before age 10yo. I know I'm missing some good ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted October 4, 2011 Author Share Posted October 4, 2011 I committed the cardinal sin of homeschooling, I believe, by not reading the Little House books to my girls. They just never took to them. :( My kids are older now, but I'm considering reading them aloud anyhow this winter. LOL (Partly because of this thread reminding me!) It makes me so sad when new books come out that are too young for us. (I still have a 5 and 10yo, but we can't fit them all in and some are more for girls. *sigh*) Us Too!! I read the first one and they didn't care for it. I also have been thinking about reading them in the winter... Maybe as a fireplace cozy read aloud? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairyMom Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 I'm pretty sure I'm going to be reading aloud to Little Librarian when she's 18 just because I love all the stories out there for children and want to be able to share them with her. The Secret Garden is one of my all time favorites and I read that to myself at least once a year. I'd throw Winnie the Pooh in the car the next time you are going somewhere and let them read it. How old were you when you read The Secret Garden? It's part of our curricula to read this year, and dh is reading it out loud at bedtime. The girls aren't that into it yet. Do you think 7 (almost 8) is too young? Maybe 3rd grade instead? She enjoyed Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, another 2nd grade book to read this year, but not this one. How about A Little Princess? It's next in line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlebug42 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 My girls and I (ages 9 and 7) just had a great time for story time tonight reading Mother Goose. I guess some things we don't outgrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggieamy Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 How old were you when you read The Secret Garden? It's part of our curricula to read this year, and dh is reading it out loud at bedtime. The girls aren't that into it yet. Do you think 7 (almost 8) is too young? Maybe 3rd grade instead? She enjoyed Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, another 2nd grade book to read this year, but not this one. How about A Little Princess? It's next in line. Sophia is seven and enjoys it but she first listened to it as an audiobook before I read it so that probably helped a lot. I'm no professional reader. I mess up words. Lose my place. All kinds of poor reading techniques. :001_smile: How far into the book are you? I'd give it until at least you meet Colin before you give up if it hasn't been a hit yet. I've never read A Little Princess but we've listened to it as an audiobook and it's well loved around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 I just squeezed in a few that were on the edge for my second grader. He still prefers that I read him picture books rather than chapter books. So in a way that buys us time. (Though I was looking forward to reading "All of a Kind Family" to him and he ran away screaming - he doesn't want any chapter book that isn't Harry Potter, I guess!). Our just barely made it books: "Caps for Sale" Todd Parr books "Chrysanthemum" "I'm Gonna Like Me" "Blueberries for Sal" What I wish I would have read earlier: more fairy tales / folktales - I know even adults can enjoy these, but ds isn't really interested at least for the moment. I think he would have been more interested a couple years ago. Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel - this would have been perfect for ds's heavy machinery stage in preschool, but I didn't know about the book back then. The Runaway Bunny - I've never read this one, but it seems like a classic. The Little Engine that Could Peter Rabbit / more Beatrix Potter (going to try this one anyway, but not sure how ds will react) Pulling out Winnie the Pooh and Paddington right now. We'll see how it goes! I still have to read picture books each night before we get to the chapter book we are reading, and my 7 yr. old frequently picks out the Beatrix Potter books from the library for me to read to them. It's not too late. I'd still read Mike Mulligan, The Runaway Bunny and The Little Engine That Could if I were you. I've read all of them to my boys and not necessarily that long ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairyMom Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Sophia is seven and enjoys it but she first listened to it as an audiobook before I read it so that probably helped a lot. I'm no professional reader. I mess up words. Lose my place. All kinds of poor reading techniques. :001_smile: How far into the book are you? I'd give it until at least you meet Colin before you give up if it hasn't been a hit yet. I've never read A Little Princess but we've listened to it as an audiobook and it's well loved around here. No, we haven't met Colin yet. Thank you so much! Daddy is reading the second book of Peter And The Starcatchers (Shadow Thieves) right now. I am so excited you encouraged us to hang in there. We will keep going until after Colin at least! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ereks mom Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 I read aloud until everyone went to college! Great books are great at all ages! Just go ahead and read! :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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