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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:23pm |
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Following on from Stacey's post about 1000 books, I am wondering what books you have and what are hits in your household?
So far Tom has a small but growing collection of Hairy McLarey, a spot book, a farm animals book, some sparkly books and all my little golden books etc.
What are the good buys?
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:28pm |
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Spot is GREAT!
Daniel loves the wiggles colour book (theres a pic in the photo gallery section on a thread sparkle started) of me and him looking at it. It's got sparkly bits in it. It was about $5 from the warehouse
Ummm he loves lots of cheap warehouse books that have textures or flaps that open up and loves them to bits and knows where the "touchy" bits are hehe
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:29pm |
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Ellas faves are the farmyard sounds one and "i love you sun I love you moon"...that is the one she likes me to read her best of all. Her upstairs book is "five little xmas trees"..she loves that one!
And we have a squeaky one of hippos...I say "hippo" in a real deep voice and she giggles...and the tiger one we use to learn to count...we are up to 1 2 3 4...and pointing.
She also favours a few fairy tale ones i got (grannie doesnt like them!)...but we make up the story as we go...and a snappy dinosaur one that daddy is really good at reading to her.
Her fave and only grannie reads it successfully to her for some reason is "Corderoy" - apparently the raggedy ann doll in the story is ELLA and they have all sorts of adventures going to the shops for mummy...it is a book but words have been majorly changed! LOL!
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:39pm |
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Maya's fave as a baby was That's Not My Teddy, and now the gremlins also have That's Not My Monster and That's Not My Mermaid.
Spot was also a big hit when Maya was a bit younger, Peepo, Hairy McLary, Bunny My Honey... she has so many books!
The gremlins love two books they were given for their birthday about Googly Eyes, and any touchy feely books, and they're big into animal books atm.
We probably own close to 500 childrens books. We have most of the "classics" plus a heap of board books, touch and feel and lift the flap books.
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:44pm |
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Gotta buy more books!!! Where does everyone buy them from? Normal shops or something like doubleday?
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:47pm |
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I get most of ours from Whitcoulls, I used to pretty much buy a book a week and every time I go in to buy a birthday pressie or stationery or something I inevitably come out with more books!
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:49pm |
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Warehouse, especially for board books which are the best at the young age. Can't rip the pages and can chew on them a bit. Nice and cheap and lots to choose from.
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:49pm |
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Noah's absolute fave is Hairy Maclarey. He just loves those stories - esp the bit with Scarface Claw. So we have a few of those ones now but he only really likes Scarface Claw and the classic Hairy Maclarey. Oh and he has this Halloween one where it goes "Whoooo are you" and he is really in to that at the moment and sits there and reads it to me now with his little "whooo whoooo" on all the pages. Cute!!
We (read DH) takes him to the library a couple of times a week and get him a few books at a time so that we keep rotating what we have at home without having to buy lots and lots but I am slowly building up his own collection.
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:50pm |
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I just crept into her room to see what else is on her bookshelf, she's got a full set of Dr Seuss, heaps of Ladybird classics and Little Golden Books...
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:51pm |
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I try to avoid bookshops because I cant buy just one! I come out with HEAPS!
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:51pm |
Even wee Iggle Piggle has her own collection of cloth and crinkly books 
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:55pm |
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Whitcoulls have great sales but I always seem to like the ones that aren't on sale.
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:57pm |
off to rejig my budget and see if I can put in a book fund (education fund  )
edited so it made sense 
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:59pm |
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Books can be bloody expensive I reckon. I budget $20 for birthday present books but it's getting harder and harder to find any decent ones at that price.
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 9:59pm |
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Oh I love crinkly books, I bought Spencer one from Countdown for $8, best thing I have ever bought.
We also buy lots from warehouse, the board ones, he loves all his books and will play with them for ages as well as me actually reading them to him. We also have a vtech nursery rhyms book which is interactive that he loves too. (although I don't love hearing twinkle twinkle little star played 20 times in a row).
I keeping meaning to join the library as well because he is quite good now and doesn't really chew the books that much anymore.
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 10:04pm |
We buy mainly from The Warehouse. It's my vice, I have to control myself 
Also when I was working, we had one of those companies (actually there was 3 different ones) that brought in "stuff" and left it in the staffroom. We could look at it and order what we wanted. I got sooo many cheap books from there.
And a couple of years ago I went to a Scholastic sale (at their warehouse somewhere out Tamaki way I think???) and got sooo many books for my classroom for crazy prices of like $2. I've never been able to find out that sale again though... I think it was in the last few months of the year.
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 10:06pm |
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I've been to it once too Arohanui, it's just before Xmas. It was great!
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 10:11pm |
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I love it when kids I know get to about 8, then I can buy them their first Roald Dahl book (usually the first) I always buy " The Twits" that was my first, and I loved it
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 10:16pm |
 Maya wrote:
I've been to it once too Arohanui, it's just before Xmas. It was great! |
Yeah I left with massive boxes filled with all sorts of books! You'll have to let us know if you hear of when the sale is on again...
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 10:16pm |
I Roald Dahl! The BFG was my fave even tho I was terrified of giants after I read it lol, and The Witches and Fantastic Mr Fox and Matilda...
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