Reading with my children is probably my absolute favorite thing to do merely when I tin can read books from my own babyhood with them it's fifty-fifty improve. Most of these vintage books are favorites from my childhood merely are also loved by my children. There is something extra special near reading books you lot loved as a child with your ain children. Do yous take a favorite that I didn't listing? Add it in the comments so we tin can keep this list growing.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
by Judi and Ron Barrett has long been a favorite. This volume takes you to another dimension in the way usually reserved for longer books or movies. In just a few pages you will swoop into the country of Chewandswallow and its magical weather. See Chewandswallow is a place where the food falls from the sky. Instead of rain or snow they get hot dogs and a drizzle of soda, or peas and carrots! Things started going wrong in Chewandswallow though and the conditions went nuts! I dear request children what food they wished roughshod from the sky and why later on reading this volume.
Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans was a childhood favorite and I think being a little girl and thinking I want to be just like Madeline considering she was so dauntless. She wasn't agape of anything and what always struck me was how proud she was of her scar. Something that little girls are told past society to hibernate because information technology makes us less than perfect physically. But Madeline hikes upward her nightgown and shows it off. Of my babyhood heroines Madeline was right upward there with Anne Shirley, Annie, and Brigitta from Sound of Music. As a teacher and parent, I adore Bemelmans' rhymes which at times are a stretch. But in a mode that gets kids thinking about what does and doesn't rhyme.
The Berenstain Bears' Moving Twenty-four hour period
past Stan and Jan Berenstain has been on my bookshelf every bit long as I take been able to read. I dear this volume and maybe its nostalgia or perhaps it's because I remember connecting with Brother Carry as he stepped into the unknown. This is a great book, and is specially powerful for children who are familiar with the characters. If a character they know has to move likewise, the unknown isn't so scary. Don't overlook this book only because it's part of a character franchise.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle. I remembering existence amazed that the caterpillar turned into that huge colorful butterfly! In academy, while studying elementary instruction I chose this book equally the literary inspiration for a cross-curricular unit study for grade one. I fabricated math lessons with fruit, scientific discipline lessons about observing insects and the butterfly life cycle and health lessons almost smart food choices. So teaching preschool I used this awesome volume to teach the days of the week, basic counting and more than.
When I was pregnant I chose this book along with a few other favorites to be my son's nursery theme. Now, that my girl is 3 we often pull downwards the Very Hungry Caterpillar felt board and play with it as we read the story just like I did with her brother. To me, this book is a given, and for every stage of my life, educatee, student teacher, instructor, mother it has come up forth for the ride!
Babar and Father Christmas 
by Jean De Brunhoff was one of my very favorite Christmas stories equally a child. As an adult, I have had some great belly laughs at some of its writing . Babar books in general beg to exist pre read , merely trust me. In this volume Babar goes looking for Male parent Christmas considering he wants to ask him to visit Elephant state. He searches all over Paris and finally ends upwardly in the Due north Pole and finds afterward much effort Father Christmas. I love the details in this book, as a kid I would lay looking at the pictures of Santa's workshop and imagine what visiting it would be like. As an adult I appreciate the smallest details like how Father Christmas's flying machine (not a sled) has P.N #ane on it , significant of course Pere Noel #1.
Babar and Zephir
past Jean De Brunhoff was my favorite of all the Babar books, most of which I have tracked downward and bought on ebay. What I loved about this book was we got to come across where Zephir came from, and become come across the fantastic world of hanging houses in Monkeyville. Babar books are always interesting to read again as an developed and this ane is no exception. Zephir comes to the rescue when a mermaid princess becomes a hostage. Odd yes, but it enthralled me as a kid and when I read it to my own kids, it fascinated them it besides.
Strega Nona
by Tomie dePaola delighted me as a child and still does. I dear the author's interpretation of the familiar magic pot folktale . Strega Nona's magic pasta pot is very powerful and when a villager thinks he can command it hilarity ensues.
Corduroy
by Don Freeman was a childhood favorite of mine and it hasn't lost whatever of its shine over the years. The story is near a lonely bear at a department shop who despite beingness a lilliputian disheveled finds a forever home with a kind little girl who needs him as much as he needs her. At that place are and then many levels to this book, equally a kid, I remember being awed by the thought of toys coming alive in stores when the doors are locked and the shoppers go out. As an developed, I see this every bit a touching adoption story . My son loves the escalators Corduroy travels on in the shop ! This is some other volume that has lasting power and tin can be read for years in your dwelling.
Babies (And so Tall Board Books)
by Gyo Fujikawa was an especially desired book to me when I was niggling because it belonged to my older sister. The books is actually very simple and it'south really just about what babies practice all day. Trust me though it will be a hit with toddlers.
Harold and the Royal Crayon 
by Crockett Johnson is the archetype story of Harold who draws his own world and goes on great adventures only to realize what he wants to draw about is a home to come back to. This is a story about imagination, trouble solving and i really absurd and apparently unbreakable crayon. My kids dearest it and reading it to them takes me dorsum to my ain childhood and the inspiration to create my own imaginary worlds.
The Duchess Bakes a Cake
by Virginia Kahl. I had to search this book out. I had forgotten the championship and author. All I remembered was that there was a child named Gunhilde! Give thanks goodness for Google! The story is very sweet with the Duchess giving her staff the mean solar day off considering she wants to bake a cake for her family. Unfortunately, things go awry. The cake ends up huge with the Duchess stuck on tiptop of it high in the air! Luckily the Duchess finds a solution and fixes things in the stop.
I loved ii things about this book as a child. First, the idea of everyone eating a giant cake to salvage the Duchess. Then, the Duchess was taller than the Duke. I recollect finding that funny and I didn't know a married woman could exist taller than her married man. That's the beauty of vintage books, even picture show books open children upwardly to new experiences.
Joe Kaufman's Volume About Busy People and How They Do Their Work
by Joe Kaufman was such a big part of my babyhood that I was nervous sharing it with my son, worried he'd reject information technology. He gobbled it up even though it is terribly out of date. ( I call back it was when I read information technology too!) The book is all near different jobs and all the responsibilities of them. I loved Trudy Instructor and similar my son who loved Fred Fire-eater, I skipped Carlos the Clown. Even as outdated as information technology is, information technology's useful for learning well-nigh community helpers. I didn't find the diverseness of the jobs and people in the book equally a child but appreciate it as a parent.
Leo the Tardily Bloomer
by Robert Kraus . This book it's a simple story about Leo who isn't doing what all the other animals his age are doing. His dad is more than than a piffling anxious but Leo blooms in his own good time. I loved this book equally a kid. Equally the youngest kid, I always felt backside the curve always having to play catch up. I could chronicle to Leo. As an adult, vintage books like this are more than for parents and is a great reminder to chill out. Let our kids bloom in their own fourth dimension and in their ain way.
The Story of Ferdinand 
past Munro Leafage is a classic tale about doing your ain thing and not letting whatever amount of pressure level change you. I don't e'er remember reading this volume as a child but I know many parents who do. Ferdinand is a bull simply just because he is a bull doesn't mean he wants to fight in the balderdash band. I love the message this book has nigh being who you are no affair what environment you are in. Kids love this book considering it's funny, the text is but the right length and the illustrations are so expressive.
Blueberries for Sal
past Robert McCloskey is a true classic, written in 1948 it's a simple tale virtually a little girl and her mom collecting blueberries to tin can. While mama picks them, Sal eats them and wanders off. But they aren't the only mama and baby out gathering blueberries. This book is chill and sweetness. The blackness and white illustrations make readers feel like they are on height of the mountain gathering blueberries besides.
The Seasons in Fern Hollow
by John Patience. This book takes a cute look at the globe of Fern Hollow where a large bandage of animal characters alive in a pocket-sized idyllic English village. The book itself is sweet, going through village life one flavor at a time. My favorite thing most this volume and the others by the same author was the map of the village at the start and terminate of each book in the series. I would lay in bed staring at the map, finding dissimilar means to go from 1 character'southward house to some other. This book inspired my imagination.
Curious George Goes to the Infirmary
past Margaret and H.A. Rey. I adored this volume as a child. Even though hospitals take changed a lot since this book was written, the story even so rings true. I recall reading this book before having to go to the hospital equally a kid and finding comfort in it. George gets into some trouble with a puzzle and ends up in the hospital with a bad tummy ache. It turns out that he swallowed a piece! The meat of the story is really the inside look at what happens in a hospital and how it's really null to be afraid of. It's a smashing book to read when yous need to calm fears before a hospital stay.
Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever (Golden Bestsellers Series)
is on a shelf in our playroom ( see if you can observe it in this post ) , well the French edition that I flipped through equally a young girl in Canada growing up. I loved the aforementioned things about it dorsum then that my kids practice today. The incredibly detailed pictures offer an unparalleled launching pad for a young imagination.
In the Night Kitchen (Caldecott Collection)
by Maurice Sendak is one of the many vintage books I remember exactly where I was when I kickoff read it ; Coquitlam Public Library sitting in the shag carpeted row boat amazed that the primary character Mickey had no clothes . Mickey falls out of bed and into the dark kitchen where the bakers try to bake him. Ultimately he saves the solar day and falls dorsum into bed and dorsum to sleep. For me, this story is about ability and freedom. How kids don't get to feel that twenty-four hour period to day simply free from reality at night in their sleep they can.
Even as a little girl giggling at the pictures in the book I read the words and felt the liberty from existence little that Mikey felt. When I read it to my son he giggled and giggled at Mickey's body. I was sorta hoping he'd be more mature than I was at five. We ever await the best from our kids right? Like me, he understood the heart of the story and expressed that Mickey was naked because he was dreaming and got to do whatever he wanted.
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak probably doesn't need an introduction but if by risk you are non familiar with this book, it'southward a story of a lilliputian male child Max who is sent to his room for being wild and his imagination turns it into another world, filled with Wild Things he gets to control and freedom from rules. Ultimately though Max's heart pulls him back domicile where he is loved best of all, even when he'due south wild. I read this to my son all the time. Even though he tin can read the words effortlessly at present he ever asks me to read it. Because it's just not right any other way.
The Giving Tree past Shel Silverstein. This book makes me incredibly sad. I don't like how horrid the boy is to the tree, how spineless the tree is. I never saw it every bit a lesson in giving like so many do but a lesson in taking. Recently, I read it to my son and we talked. Nosotros had a smashing talk well-nigh taking advantage of those who love usa, and how information technology hurts anybody. Yes I don't like this book but it is useful. It can be a great tool for instruction children virtually what makes a bad friend. I have never hidden that I don't like this book because it'due south so sad. But that equally a lesson, it's worth the sad story.
Amos & Boris
past William Steig is a touching story nigh the power of an unlikely friendship and helping others. Boris the whale rescues Amos the mouse when he goes overboard in the middle of the sea. After the rescue, they develop a tender friendship despite their obvious differences. So, they continue their separate ways with full hearts. Many years after though it is Amos' turn to rescue Boris. We are all reminded that size does not equal ability to aid a friend. This book made my son become "the gulpy feeling" which is our expression for trigger-happy upwards. It's a powerful story.
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
by William Steig is i of the vintage books many of you may recognize from your ain childhood. I remember the sweet story from my own. Sylvester is a little donkey who finds a magic pebble and later discovering that it grants wishes he makes a terrible error and turns himself into a rock. Every bit a rock he is unable to wish himself back into a donkey and is left to sit silently while his parents are frantic, search and finally grieve. Sylvester near gives up himself until by chance his parents come beyond his stone and the magic pebble and he turns back into his "true cocky".
My son loved the story and I loved how when nosotros talked about it he expressed so much empathy for Sylvester and his parents. The obvious message that yous have to be careful what yous wish for is a powerful 1 for kids learning about consequences. The other messages which for the states were the more important ones were that family bonds can intermission through annihilation and that no matter what even if he is a rock I would never surrender on him.
The Monster at the Terminate of This Book 
by Jon Stone volition be instantly recognizable to many of you. We didn't grow upward with Elmo (well maybe some of y'all young whippersnappers did). We had Grover. Loveable blue monster and narrator of this story. This book is completely interactive in that Grover is speaking direct to the reader and request them not to turn the pages. Information technology put me in fits of giggles as a child. But equally a mom, I love the reminder to never guess a book by its cover.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 
by Judith Viorst was another childhood favorite that I take enjoyed sharing with my own son. This book is beautiful, even though it may take a few reads. Information technology's not a story about a whining little boy and so much a lesson that sometimes things do not go our fashion. Days tin can suck. It's just the way it is. As a child, I related to Alexander'due south feelings of frustration and things being unfair. How ofttimes to y'all hear a child say "No Off-white!" probably a lot. This book taps into that feeling, being little is hard. Just merely considering you lot are mad, or your twenty-four hour period was bad, doesn't mean you get your way.
Corking book to talk nearly anger and frustration with your kid, and information technology's funny too! The magic of this Vintage book is that the finish isn't happy. Alexander goes to bed withal mad and that's okay, sometimes days are bad.
Which vintage books did I miss? Add your favorites that I didn't mention in the comments.
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