am i a lone in my intense hatred of that " we are going on a bear hunt" book?

Loathe Mr Men and Little Miss - shudder despise vomit; also anything 'written' by Disney whether bowdlerised or original.

Loved Big Bear Little Bear stories. Rainbow fairy (Daisy Meadow) got dd (now 6) reading for herself. Right now she loves Unfortunate Events (they're pretty hard to read, though - very long sentences!, but lots of long new words) and Harry Potter. Don't know Bear Hunt but will look at library.

Only just come across this thread. I don't mind Bear Hunt but has anyone else mentioned a hatred of the sodding Elephant and the Bad Baby? -can't abide it, neither can DP. Unfortunately DD cottoned on to this and took great delight in choosing that book for her bedtime story as often as she could just to see our reactions!

Oh lord, we've got two copies of Love you Forever - one given to me by my mum. I simply cannot read it, floods, floods, floods...

Dont mind bearhunt. If you want one to make you cry, try "I'll love you forever" by Robert Munsch
I've had to ban it because I can't read it without sobbing! Go on try it and let me know how you get on

Is Seuss more of a boy thing? do we have girls who love Seuss?...Just interested
ds loved them all...and dd has absolutely no interest...
ds does have a more intense imagination though...perhaps that's it

Hate bear hunt book, refuse to have a copy in the house, I have always know it as a rhyme that I used to do when I worked in preschool. Do it with my kids and get very grumpy when ds1 corrects me cos I am not using the words from the book has been brain washed at school

Love Hairy maclary books which is good as ds2 is obsessed at the mo, also big bear little bear, can't remember who by, Can't you sleep little bear is the best.

Can read each peach pear plum with out the book!

yes me too

we have ant and bee and the doctor

it has thinly disguised gay subtext

hilarious

I spent ages trying to find Ant and Bee books for DD only to find out they are now out of print and very expensive collectors items.

not read thread..we used to do a whole drama type improv to this one and others. kids loved it..me after 50 millionth time hated it

theres an official tune for the smartest giant ?

mine goes

'one of his socks is a bed for a fox
my shoe is a house for a little white mouse (etc etc)
buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut (pause) look-me-up-and-down
IIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim the smartest giantin town'

I hate it simply because when I worked in a bookstore instead of 'error' coming up on the system when searching for any book went wrong "we're going on a bear hunt" would come up instead... every bloody time!

Enid, I've got the Giant Jam Sandwich! Love it and remember it from my own childhood. If only I could find Huff the Hedgehog....

gomez, Peepo is about Allan Ahlberg's childhood during the war (he was born in 1938).
Yes, why does it make us all emotional? I think it's because the little baby is going to bed after his busy toddler day, everything is nice and normal, the cot made ready, his sister with his teddy, but meanwhile his dad's in uniform and bombs could be falling around them.I love the line "a mummy with a baby just like him" I guess we've all held a baby at a mirror and said "look, there's a baby like you" and watched the baby geek at himself....

Thought I just didn't "get" Bear Hunt - glad it's not just me!

Like Gruffalo though. And Hairy McClary.

Got to go - DS just woke up!

I loathe with a passion any Disney spin-off made into a ladybird book, usually by an illiterate half-wit with English as a fourth language who has never once read aloud to a child and does not understand that text should be accompanied by the relevant illustrations, not just put on a page with a screen cap frame that the picture editor told them to use.

I don't much care for the Gruffalo eihter, nor Preston Pig and there is a modern, well 80s version of Tootles the Taxi that has ruined the scansion by altering some lines of the original rhymes and introduced new vehicles like Susie the Scooter (so easy to park) ffs.

I love Bear Hunt, I have had actions to all the swishy swashy bits.

At the moment we love:-

Pooh is that you Bertie - this is really fab
Anything Dr Seuss
The Gruffalo
The Snail and the Whale

Not too fussed on:-

The Gruffalo's Child
The Smartest Giant in Town (DS2 always requires me to sing)
We're Going on a Bear Hunt

Hate:-

Sitting Ducks is that Jez what's his name?
Anything Thomas the Tank/Postman Pat/Bob the Builder - great cartoons but awful stories to read, yawn!

I LIKE Bear Hunt.
Like the illustrations too.

Like Gruffalo too but thought that Charlie Cook book was boring.

I detest Percy the Park-keeper. I call him Percy the Paedophile - he's so creepy.

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I love the Bear Hunt story - used to be a Rainbow Guider and they just loved the actions. Have happy memories of it - intend to get it for my dd soon.

Charlie and Lola could easily take Topsy and Tim in a scrap. And IMHO it's well overdue.

Green Eggs and Ham is by far the best Seuss. Fox in Socks second place.

Harry & his bucket of dinosaurs is currently flavour of the month here - no idea why, it's well ropey. Percy Parkeeper is running a close second (for some reason all the animals have northern dialects, odd that).

I've never taken to Gruffalo or, much worse, his child. Aarrggh, but the DC love them - DD's best Christmas present was a box of the audio CDs of all the Donaldson Scheffler stories - she loves 'em. My tune for the smartest giant is much better than the one on the CD. BTW we have a duplicate copy of the book and CD BNIB if anyone needs a copy.

When we've bought all the Charlie and Lolas we'll move onto Rascally Cake and other recommendations.

PS I love Owl Babies - you get to do a great voice for Bill and DS very early on would say "maybe a fox got her" with great concern which always creased me up

haven't read a shoe shop one!
...or have i... feck knows
...or the one where she fakes a sore throat just to get a bit of attention from 'doctor dad'