Today is World Read Aloud Day. Thought it would be fun to share a couple of things:
What are your reading RIGHT NOW (as in, today)? (book, magazine, daily newspaper)
2.What was a favorite read aloud book with your child? The one you especially loved or the one they wanted over and over again?
I’m currently reading One Day In December by Josie Silver.
Anything Berenstain Bears. All 3 kids adored the books and son keep his collection in her room on display for a VERY long time!
I’m currently reading two books: The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart and The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni (for a IRL book club).
Impossible to pick a favorite read aloud with my children, too many from which to choose.
Right Now: The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell. It’s a Victorian ghost story book. Our library didn’t have the one I was looking for, and this popped up as the closest match. It’s OK.
Also Dino Lernt Deutsch - 4 short stories for German learners.
Kids books:
My favorites as a kid: Put Me in the Zoo, and Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Reading to the kids: So many, but I remember Hand, Hand, Fingers Thumb, and Wacky Wednesday. Older S also liked anything with trains.
Currently reading The Oxford Book of Historical Stories. I am extremely ill right now, and I find the short story format is a good length before I have to sleep or have another coughing fit. It has stories from 1200BC to the 20th century, many by famous authors like Hardy, Faulkner, and Doyle, but others less known.
So many good children’s books, but let me vote (pun intended!) for Duck For President by Doreen Cronin. It is a sequel to Click, Clack, Moo (also a classic), but S23 really loved DFP. We have given it as a baby gift to an entire second generation of parents. Sure, you have to explain some of the Nixon and Clinton references to your three year old, but S23 couldn’t get enough of it. He was constantly staging mock elections and started a years long interest in American history. Best of all, for parents reading it repeatedly, there is that feeling of recognition that this is exactly what politics seems like anymore- all flash and no substance, but with a Duck!
D17 loved Life Story by Virginia Lee Burton, which is a great preschool (and later) summary of time from the Big Bang on. Anything by Burton is good, but The Little House is my favorite of hers.
I have to respond for a couple of reasons!
First of all, I hope your health improves. <3
Secondly, Doreen Cronin books are 
!!! A delight for the adult reader as well as kids!
And finally, The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton is MY childhood book. The one I checked out from the school library over and over and over. 
I always have an audiobook going and am three quarters through The Forever Witness by Edward Humes.
I’m reading I Am Not Who You Think I Am by Eric Rickstad
The book both my boys adored and still talk about is The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
I am currently reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovksy. I could tell you it’s about intelligent spiders who keep ants as slaves who are fighting humanity for the right to their planet in a novel that spans thousands of years. Or I could tell you it’s a fascinating way of looking at what makes us who we are, and how we make decisions about what kind of life we should encourage. Is humanity a dead end as a species if we keep making the same mistakes?
Favorites in the picture book realm for out loud reading were Donald Crew’s Freight Train and Ed Embersey’s Go Away Big Green Monster! The former was the first book my kid memorized/read and I can still hear him saying “Moooving”. The latter I always give to new parents at baby showers. It makes small fry feel so powerful.
I never read anything over and over after the picture book stage, though my kids often reread things I read to them. (Like me, my youngest was obsessed by the Lord of the Rings. I read it at least once a year between the ages of 11 and 21, and off and on after that. It was fascinating to me what an 8 year old boy sees in a book versus an eleven year old girl, it’s almost as though we were reading two different books.) Arthur Ramsome’s Swallows and Amazons and the sequels is one set of books I never minded rereading out loud.
@abasket, we are all so different. I can’t stand the Berenstain Bears. Hate the stories and the pictures creeped me out.
I’m reading “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus. It’s not as light and fluffy as I expected. It’s about a woman who was a chemist back in 1954. I can related to some of her difficulties as a woman in a male-dominated field, but she had it much rougher than I did. I’m almost finished, which is good, since I’m hosting our book club discussion on it tomorrow night.
My kids liked Berenstain Bears a lot, so I read that frequently. The book I remember reading MOST was “Go, Dog, Go!” by P.D. Eastman. My middle kid struggled to learn to read, and I’m convinced that this book helped him get over the hump. Then he ended up majoring in English. 
Your post hit home, especially when you wrote, “The book I remember reading MOST was “Go, Dog, Go!” by P.D. Eastman.”
I think we read “Go, Dog, Go!” to our daughter every night for a year (or at least it felt that way). To this day, we’ll occasionally turn to each other and say, “‘Do you like my hat?’” “‘I do not.’”
Just ready to start “Bad Blood” about the Theranos situation.
Dr. Seuss, Mercer Mayer and Eric Carle were authors I most remember reading to my children.
Before jumping on this site I was looking to see if there were any updates for College Football Signing Day.
I’m currently finishing up “Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead” by Olga Tokarczuk.
Fave read alouds with the kids were “How Groundhog’s Garden Grew” by Lynne Cherry, “Mr Bear’s New Baby” by Debi Gliori, the “Brambley Hedge” books by Jill Barklem, “Chrysanthemum” and “Wemberly Worried” and the other mouse books by Kevin Henkes and later the Harry Potter books.
I am reading Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I would recommed them both, although Hamnet is very sad.
Really impossible to choose one kids book, Sandra Boynton and Go Dog Go were a common requests in our house too though - along with Mo Willems
I love Freight Train too. My literacy program was recently given some copies of another Donald Crew train story - Shortcut. I was excited…until I read it - it’s about children playing dangerously on a train track, hearing a train coming, hoping to get out of the way of it and then deciding not to tell “mama” what they did. While I can see the value of the story and it receives high reviews, I felt it wasn’t appropriate or would be controversial for our intended program audience, 3-5 year olds. 6 or 7? Sure. But I was glad I read it first!
I sometimes dreaded the BB books - they at times seemed SO wordy - but they were loved by my kids!
When I first saw this thread earlier, I was reading the local newspaper (in paper). My ebook is always lined up with junky romance novels.
My favorite book to read son was The Day the Goose Got Loose. It might not have been his favorite, but I loved the rhymes and illustrations.
When he was quite young, we had an illustrated Mother Goose with six matching tiny hard page books. He loved finding a rhyme in a little book and making me find the match in the big book.
I’m reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zezin. I haven’t read any of it yet today but I will tonight. This morning I read the LA Times online.
My oldest loved Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Woods. I give it to every new family. Hated Bernstein bears and luckily my kids weren’t fans. The most annoying was one of my kids wanted to read the Little Mermaid every night.
I am reading “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver, one of my all time favorite authors. It is very good. Of course.
My kids. Yikes. Oldest loved Richard Scarry books “Cars and Trucks and Things that Go”? maybe was one name. 2nd son loved “Where the Wild Things Are”, 3rd son “Goodnight Moon”.
They all loved “The Monster at the End of This Book” and other Sesame Street ones, Beranstain Bears books (“The Spooky Old Tree”), Corduroy books, Curious George, Dr. Seuss ABC Book.
When I babysat GD for a year, she and I had a new batch (to me) and I loved them with her. The only old books were “Corduroy” and “Goodnight Moon”. I love “Giraffes Can’t Dance” and The Little Blue Truck books and Sandra Boynton books. New generation, new books. Never too many books.
I’m also reading “Demon Copperhead”. I was on the library waitlist for quite a few weeks. I have a travel day ahead of me tomorrow, so hopefully I can really get into it.
Lots of Berenstain Bears, Clifford, and Dr Seuss were read aloud at our house.
I have queued up The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager. It is a skip the line library e-book, with a starred review by PW. Hoping for the best.
The Berenstain bears were banned in our house. Sorry to all those who enjoyed them, but the characters were too sanctimonious for us, haha.
We read books all the time. One toddler/young child favorite was The Napping House. I can still recite it from memory.
The last books my younger daughter and I read out loud to each other were Inkheart, Inkspell, and a couple of others by Cornelia Funke.