What Was Your Favorite Book at 5 years old??

The monster at the end of this book. Sesame Street

That was a long time ago, but the books that pop into my head are "Harold and the Purple Crayon" and "Andy and the Lion"; there was another one about a gentle bull named Ferdinand, but I don't remember the name.

Little Black Sambo

Winken, Blinken and Nod (it was a poem about a sleepy child)

The Great Guppy (about a red n white striped horse)

PS Little Black Sambo was removed because it was "racist". Nevermind it wss about a clever little boy who talked a group of tigers out of eating him.

A Wrinkle in Time.... I was 7. Very weird

Goodnight moon.
FTW

A Fly Went By

My thoughts exactly. Mine ws "The Saggy Baggy Elephant".

5 yo: sendak, where the wild things are
6 yo: the way things work (dad got tired of explaining, bought me a copy,lol)
7 yo:ANYTHING by e a poe (yeah, dark and twisted for a long time now)
8 yo: still poe (though more into his mystery shorts by then)
9 yo: anything on the occult, and norse mythology
10 yo: above, and egyptology
11 yo: my epiphany "slaughterhouse 5" by vonnegut
12 yo: bermuda triangle, ufos, vonnegut
13 yo:"the shining" by king
14 yo: fabulous furry freak bothers comics, zap comics
15 yo: chilton auto repair manuals, gun mags, high times

On Beyond Zebra...and all the other Dr. Seuss classics.

The ABC Bunny.

Little bunny foo foo hopping through the forest, picking up the field mice and BOPPING them on the head!

Richard Scarrys Busy Town and Peanut comics by Charles Schultz

The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton


Just magical!

The Faraway Tree is a series of popular novels for children by British author Enid Blyton. The titles in the series are The Enchanted Wood (1939), The Magic Faraway Tree (1943), The Folk of the Faraway Tree (1946) and Up the Faraway Tree (1951).

The stories take place in an enchanted forest in which a gigantic magical tree - the eponymous "Faraway Tree" - grows. The tree is so tall that its topmost branches reach into the clouds and it is wide enough to contain small houses carved into its trunk. The forest and the tree are discovered by three children named Jo, Bessie, and Fanny, who move into a house nearby.
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My son is 6, and if I read pokey little puppy to him he would probably laugh at me.

There are so many books these days for children. I wish there were that many when I was a child.

My son love Zac Powers, and Beast Quest.

In the first novel in the series, Jo, Bessie, and Fanny move to live near a large wood. One day, they go for a walk in the wood and discover an enormous tree whose branches seem to reach into the clouds. This is the Faraway Tree.

When the children climb the Faraway Tree they discover it is inhabited by different magical creatures, including Moon-Face, Silky the fairy, The Saucepan Man, Dame Washalot, Mr. Watzisname and the Angry Pixie. They befriend some of these creatures, in particular Moon-face and Silky. At the very top of the tree they discover a ladder which leads them to a magical land. This land is different on each visit, because each place moves on from the top of the tree to make way for a new land. The children are free to come and go, but they must leave before the land moves on or they will be stuck there until the land returns to the Faraway Tree.

The lands at the top are sometimes extremely unpleasant - for example the Land of Dame Slap, an aggressive school teacher - and sometimes fantastically enjoyable notably, the Land of Birthdays, Land of Goodies and the Land of Take-What-You-Want.

The first land the three children visit is The Roundabout Land, where they give some cake to two rabbits, and the rabbits dig a hole for themselves and the three children.The last land they visit in this book is The Land Of Birthdays, where the brownies and the inhabitants of the Faraway Tree celebrate Bessie's Birthday

I loved Enid Blyton when I was a child. I recently read the Faraway Tree to my children.

I also loved the Famous Five.

I started 1st grade at 5, also, but I couldn't read a letter and never heard of the alphabet. My parents weren't very involved.

^^^This.

Man o man, my memory does not work that good. But I think maybe it was a Dr. Suess book, and it had a lot of different colored spots. The title probably had something to do with spots? My oldest daughter, anything Bernstien Bears, my middle child Hop on Pop , my youngest child, Go Dog Go. So I guess Dr Suess is popular in my family at a young age.

Put Me in The Zoo

Loved this one as well

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Dr. Seuss' McElligot's Pool

Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue by Maurice Sendak was my absolute favorite.

I was an avid reader. Hands down my favorite book at that age was The Dragon in the Clock Box. I cannot recommend it highly enough for someone in that age group. I just loved it. Unfortunately, it is very pricey to buy now, but they might have a copy at the library.

read the hobbit to my son at six. started reading on my own at five, but can't imagine reading the hobbit ot myself at five. my favorite book (weirdly) was a heavily illustrated book about waterloo.

It's a WONDERFUL read-aloud book. All those great tiger voices and growling. I loved it and so did my son and neither of us are racists.

was also keen on edward lear, a child's garden of verses, and a children's bible (the kind you used to see in doctors' waiting rooms)