{"id":498,"date":"2011-08-22T15:08:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T21:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2011\/08\/22\/what-are-the-top-10-classic-books-parents-should-read-to-their-kids\/"},"modified":"2011-08-22T15:58:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T21:58:35","slug":"what-are-the-top-10-classic-books-parents-should-read-to-their-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2011\/what-are-the-top-10-classic-books-parents-should-read-to-their-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are the Top 10 Classic Books Parents Should Read to Their Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Top100KidsFilms_KidsFirstLogoSM.jpg\"<\/a>This question was posed to the Kids Marketing Group I belong to on Linked In. What To Do With The Kids Special Report posed this question and received suggestions from hundreds of people from around the world with more than\u00a0300 different books recommended.\u00a0\u00a0I found that all but of the books suggested have been released to DVD and most are included in our KIDS FIRST! Top 100 list. Here are the top 10 suggested:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0 1.\u00a0 Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
\n\u00a0 2.\u00a0 Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
\n\u00a0 3.\u00a0 The Giving Tree by Shel Siverstein
\n\u00a0 4.\u00a0 The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
\n\u00a0 5.\u00a0 Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
\n\u00a0 6.\u00a0 Curious George by Hans Augusto Rey
\n\u00a0 7.\u00a0 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
\n\u00a0 8.\u00a0 Charlotte\u2019s Web by Elwyn Brooks White
\n\u00a0 9.\u00a0 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. & John Archabault
\n\u00a0 10.\u00a0 Green Eggs & Ham by Dr. Suess<\/p>\n

Goodnight Moon<\/a> was produced by\u00a0HBO Home Video (2005) in a wonderful version with guest stars such as Susan Sarandon, Tony Bennet, Natalie Cole, Billy Crystal and Patti Labelle. The kids and celebs collaborate in presenting classic bedtime stories including, the title story, Goodnight Moon. It’s truly an evergreen title. Weston Woods\/Scholastic also created an anthology that is distributed through New Video and contains Goodnight Moon, A Creature Was Stirring and Gladys Goes Out to Lunch.<\/p>\n

The Velveteen Rabbit<\/a> has been produced by a number of companies. Last year, in our Film Critics Search Campaign, we featured the one starring Jane Seymous and Tom Skerritt, directed by Michael Landon Jr, produced by Feature Films for Families and distributed by Anchor Bay.<\/p>\n

Where the Wild Things<\/a> are was released as a feature film by Warner Bros and is now available in DVD or Blu-Ray. There is also a shorter version included as part of an anthology with other Maurice Sendak stories (The Nutshell Kids and In the Night Kitchen) produced by Weston Woods and available through New Video<\/a>. There is also a version from Rabbit Ears narrated by Meryl Streep (2003).<\/p>\n

Stone Soup was included in an anthology released by Weston Woods called, The Amazing Bone and Other Caldecott Classics<\/a>. Other book based videos included are Where the Wild Things Are and Googles.<\/p>\n

The Curious George<\/a> books have been turned into many DVDs and are available through Universal both as a TV series and as DVDs. Recent DVD releases include: Curious George Goes Green, Curious George: Follow that Monkey!, Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas, Curious George: Beats the Band and More, Curious George: Camping with Hundley, Curious George: Sea Monkey. Weston Woods also includes it in an anthony\u00a0which includes Curious George Rides a Bike, The Great White Man-Eating Shark, Flossie and the Fox, The Happy Lion and Cat and the Canary.<\/p>\n

The Very Hungry Caterpillar<\/a> was released by Disney in 2006 as part of an anthology of Eric Carle’s most popular stories including Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, The Very Quiet Cricket and I See a Song. It is also included in the HBO DVD Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales<\/a> and New Video’s Strego Nona…and More Caldecott Award-winning Folk Tales (Scholastic Video Collection 2004).<\/p>\n

Charlotte’s Web<\/a>, the classic story of loyalty, trust and sacrifice was released as a feature film by Paramount i 2007 starring the young Dakota Fanning with Julia Roberts playing the voice of Charlotte. It is available in DVD and Blu-ray.<\/p>\n

Chicka Chicka Boom<\/a> is offered as part of a collection through New Video which includes\u00a0four animated children’s books\u00a0 (Trash Town, Rosie’s Walk, and the Caterpillar and the Poliwog) produced\u00a0by Weston Woods.<\/p>\n

Green Eggs and Ham<\/a> is part of the Seuss collection released by Universal that includes The library says that it contains:
\nThe Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, Pontofell Pock and His Magic Piano, Green Eggs and Ham, Sneetches, Zax, Grinch Night, The Grinch Grinches and Cat in the Hat and The Hoober-Bloob Highway.<\/p>\n

If you are a new parent or grandparent or well-meaning auntie or uncle, your\u00a0efforts to wow\u00a0the child in your life will be well rewarded by including some or all of these to your DVD library.\u00a0All are available online at amazon.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This question was posed to the Kids Marketing Group I belong to on Linked In. What To Do With The Kids Special Report posed this question and received suggestions from hundreds of people from around the world with more than\u00a0300 different books recommended.\u00a0\u00a0I found that all but of the books suggested have been released to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-82","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}