This is the thread where we find a children's book that everyone has read.

Isn't that the story with Badger and Mole, if I remember right?

Nichole it's about the ickle wabbits that all die. *sniff*

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I'm thinking by country might be a good idea, because it's occuring to me that I may have never read a childrens book set in the US.

What happened to Winnie the Pooh? I thought it was doing O.K. but I must have missed something!?

NOW you're talkin, Carey! Loved both of them, though (stuffed) Babar was easier to cuddle up to at night.

I only had curious george on tape, but I think I read a friend's copy of barbar.

And to answer the question up-thread, the Pippi Longstocking books were popular over here too. We're suckers for Scandinavian kid-lit.

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and it was still hot.

Now you've read Where the Wild Things Are, you nutballs.

I've read a lot of what was mentioned. Other books that popped to mind that haven't been mentioned:

Just So Stories
Stuart Little
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
The Rats of NIMH
Amelia Bedelia stuff, Ramona Quimby

I probably mention this on every children's book thread, but "The Elephant's Child" from Just So Stories is the coolest children's story ever.

I dunno if it got mentioned earlier but WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT FROM? I totally forget. If it's one of the "Just So Stories" I don't even remember the story itself.

While on this tip, I'd like to give a shoutout to the Seven Chinese Brothers. One could drink a lake.

One day Chang falls in the well, and his brother has to run all the way up the hill and say "Honorable Mother, Chang has fallen in the well". And the mother calls a bunch of people and they pull Chang out. But then T.t.t.n.s.c.b.u.p.p.p falls in the well and Chang has to run all the way up the hill and say "Honorable Mother, T.t.t.n.s..." but he gets out of breath and all muddled up and it takes a long time and they don't get the older brother out in time.

I think it is about why favouritism is a bad idea.

It was the 5 Chinese brothers. But I dont remember that one as well. One wanted to get married, I think.

I think one Chinese Brother got arrested for stealing (or summat) and the townspeople planned to excute him:

1) They tried to drown him (or the one they THOUGHT was him, but the fifth Chinese Brother could hold his breath underwater for eons);

2) They tried to behead him (but the fourth Chinese bro had a steel ring round his neck);

3) They tried to burn him, but the third Chinese bro couldn't be burned;

4) They tried to hang him, but they couldn't handle that, either.

...so they didn't catch on and he was let go. Lesson for today? If you're going to become a criminal, have superpowers.

(a book i took to heart during my days in the overcrouded public school system because it was about alphabet letters being all smooshed together or something}

I hated the book about Ping the duck that had to get onto a boat otherwise his ass would get paddled and turn RED RED RED
it was very melancholy...