1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up discussion

Hi! I was so excited to find this group. I am currently working on the 1001 books for adults. When I saw this group, my daughter and decided we could work this challenge together. Is the group still active with the monthly book club?

Hi April! I've just joined too. I'm so excited to work on this challenge (even though I'm a grown-up and I don't have any kids!) I don't know if the group is still active, but the two of us are here at least!

Hi April and Briar Rose. I too would love to work on this list. I've been a member of this group for quite some time, but I never see it active.

I don't know what we can do. Maybe contact the moderator and ask if they will let someone else either moderate or co-moderate the group so that we can get it active again. Just a thought.

Sounds good to me! Or, I guess we could decided among the three of three of us what we want to read? I guess it doesn't have to be formal. I don't know!

Hi gang - I'm still here too. Working my way through the 8+ group at the moment and enjoying it immensely! My 10 year old is also keen on some of the books that I've found for him along the way.

Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda has to be one of the best 8-10 yo books ever written. She is a truly remarkable author.

I don't have time to moderate, but would gladly join you in choosing a book each month to discuss. Perhaps even a picture book each month as well.

I would join in if this went ahead too!

Cool! Well I'm glad that there are a few of us interested :)

We may as well start with preliminaries - anyone have a preference about which age group or decade of publication to start with? Linda, you said you're reading the 8+ group so what if we started there?

I just wrote to the moderator Roland. I'll let you know how it goes - hopefully we can get this started!

Count me in too! My daughter is 4, so we will be particularly into the books for little ones. Meanwhile, I'm working my way through the adult lists (about 10% of my way into it...).

Hi Beth, glad you could join us! I'm sure we could do a 3+ book each month as well, since they're so short & easy to read.

Well ... easy to read for us grown-ups anyway!

Beth, my daughter is 4 too! So we will be on the same page.

Hey I'll be happy to join you guys if you get this going! I write for this age range and just love what's out there. But I'm based in the UK so I might be able to contribute some titles you won't have heard of.

I just heard back from Roland, and he's happy to make one of us moderator. Does anyone want the job? I'm willing to do it if no one else puts their hand up, but let me know if one of you would prefer to take the job!

Well, looks like I'm the new moderator! I've sent out an email so we can vote for a May read. Please vote. It'll be great to get the monthly read going again.

Briar Rose wrote: "Well, looks like I'm the new moderator! I've sent out an email so we can vote for a May read. Please vote. It'll be great to get the monthly read going again."

You go Girl!

Awesome effort - & we'll try to make it easy for you.

Oh yes, and in my spare moments I'll go back to adding books to the bookshelf. I'll see if I can export/import my own 1001 bookshelf (but that may be just wishful thinking ...)

Unless someone knows of a quick way of creating the list other than manually?

Thanks Linda, that would be wonderful. I'm afraid I don't know any other way of putting books on the group shelf apart from one at a time.

I'm still around! Had to take a brief break from my 1001 challenge due to family and work issues. BUT summer's here and hopefully I'll be reading a LOT more!

Hi Garsy! It'll be great to hear your thoughts on the books as summer progresses :)

Hello :)

I joined seeking people who know lots about kids chapter books, particularly from the early 70s or so.

There is this one book that I can only just sortof recall, but I remember that I loved it. The only thing I can remember is that the two main characters (who I think were a brother and a sister, but not sure about that) found, or maybe fell through a hidden entrance, to an underground forest world passageway. The entrance was at the base of a very large tree.

What I can remember vividly is the description of the roof of the tunnel they were walking through, once they entered this passageway. It described what looked like many intertwined branches overhead, which were the trees roots, and not branches at all.

Stuck with me forever, the way the book pointed out that root systems underground were as wide and many, as what you see aboveground in the branches.

I can't remember anything about what happened after they passed through this passageway, or what happened before ... but I would LOVE to find the book again, and re-read it. Find out why it's stuck in my mind for 4 decades or so :)

MK wrote: "Hello :)

I joined seeking people who know lots about kids chapter books, particularly from the early 70s or so.

There is this one book that I can only just sortof recall, but I remember that I lo..."

MK, you might also want to ask this question at the What's The Name of That Book??? group, if you haven't already.

Tiffany wrote: "MK wrote: "Hello :)

I joined seeking people who know lots about kids chapter books, particularly from the early 70s or so.

There is this one book that I can only just sortof recall, but I remembe..."

Thank you, Tiffany :). I haven't, but I will !

Someone in another group knew the book, it had also been a childhood favorite of hers, one of a handful she'd kept these many decades :-).

The book - Magic in the Park, by Ruth Chew.

She wrote many childhood books, the earliest ten or so of which I remember reading and loving :-). Link -http://www.ruthchew.com/about-the-books/

MK wrote: "Someone in another group knew the book, it had also been a childhood favorite of hers, one of a handful she'd kept these many decades :-).

The book - Magic in the Park, by [author:Rut..."

Oh, yay, I'm glad you were able to find it!

Me too, Tiffany! Thanks :))

Hello everyone. My name is Sandra and I'm a mom of 8 beautiful kids from 11 months to 16 years old. I'm an avid reader, and I love read children books. As you can guess I read a lot of children literature. Hope to share some great discussions and title with you all!

Welcome to the group, Sandra!

Welcome to the group Sandra

Just joined. excited to go through this list with my boys.

Welcome to the group, Teresa! How old are your boys?

Good morning! I've just embarked on a project focused on classic children's literature. When I went looking for a group, this was the most relevant one I could fine, although I'm primarily focused on middle grade/YA literature that is more than 20 years old (think A Wrinkle in Time & The Railway Children), as opposed to picture books. I thought I'd join up and read along with some of your book selections where they fit in with books on my list.

Moonlight Reader wrote: "Good morning! I've just embarked on a project focused on classic children's literature. When I went looking for a group, this was the most relevant one I could fine, although I'm primarily focused ..."

Welcome to our group!

You can look at our bookshelf and see that we have books categorized by age level, so you might be particularly interested in the "ages_12_and_up" shelf.

Welcome to the group

Hello! I discovered this group accidentally somehow but delighted I did. I've recently decided to dive into this list. I'm a Primary School Teacher in Australia but currently on leave recovering from CFS so it felt like the perfect time to read loads of kid lit in preparation to returning to work. Besides, I just love children's literature and am excited to find some new treasures.

Heather wrote: "Hello! I discovered this group accidentally somehow but delighted I did. I've recently decided to dive into this list. I'm a Primary School Teacher in Australia but currently on leave recovering fr..."


Welcome to the group Heather. I hope you enjoy our group and I also hope that you have a speedy recovery.

Heather wrote: "Hello! I discovered this group accidentally somehow but delighted I did. I've recently decided to dive into this list. I'm a Primary School Teacher in Australia but currently on leave recovering fr..."

Welcome Heather! We're having lots of fun making our way through the 1001, it's great being able to discuss them with others :)

Hello,
My name is Karin. I'm working on the 1001 before you die list were I learned about the children's version. Looking forward to read the list books.

Karin wrote: "Hello,
My name is Karin. I'm working on the 1001 before you die list were I learned about the children's version. Looking forward to read the list books."

Welcome to our group Karin, I am so happy that you have joined us. I look forward to discussing the books we read as a group with you.

Hello,
I'm Isobel and this group brings back memories. I was a member of the group for the grownup version 1001 books to read before you die, then I had kids. Since then, sadly, many really good books just frustrate me because I don't have enough time to myself to appreciate them.

Luckily I adore kids books. Story time is the best time at our house (for me at least).

Hi Isobel, welcome to the group :) story time really is the best time! I don't have kids so I'm lucky enough to have time to keep reading both the adult and the children's 1001 lists - at a snails pace mind you. Hope you'll join us for the monthly group reads.

Isobel wrote: "Hello,
I'm Isobel and this group brings back memories. I was a member of the group for the grownup version 1001 books to read before you die, then I had kids. Since then, sadly, many really good bo..."

Welcome to the group, Isobel!

How old are the kids?

Cataluna6 wrote: "... I don't have kids so I'm lucky enough to have time to keep reading both the adult and the children's 1001 lists - at a snails pace mind you. ..."

That's my story, too! Snail's pace and all :)

Welcome to to the group Isoble

Hi Cataluña6 Tiffany and Stephanie. As you can tell by the lateness of my reply I am the worst group member in the world and I expect I will continue to be. My daughter is 2 and my son is about to turn 7.

Tiffany wrote: "Cataluna6 wrote: "... I don't have kids so I'm lucky enough to have time to keep reading both the adult and the children's 1001 lists - at a snails pace mind you. ..."

That's my story, too! Snail'..."

I wish I didn't have so many things to read, I'm always envious of people reading the lists finishing 50+ each year!!

Isobel wrote: "Hi Cataluña6 Tiffany and Stephanie. As you can tell by the lateness of my reply I am the worst group member in the world and I expect I will continue to be. My daughter is 2 and my son is about to ..."

I'm just as bad sometimes, ( case in point this month), work has been ridiculous the last couple of weeks, I've had kinder visits this week so I've been concentrating on that.