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[pasvorto]

When my daughter was just a small child, we sat down one rainy day and I read Jonathon Livingston Seagull to her, cover to cover. She asked for the book and I gave it to her. Now, she is grown and has a daughter of her own. The book is still in her bookcase and she says she can't wait until her daughter is old enough, and the time is right... I guess that is how traditions start. :-)

[beachgrl]

My favorite is Love You Forever by Robert Munsch too.  It was released while I was teaching preschool.  I first heard it read aloud by Mr. Munsch at a teacher's conference, fell in love with it and purchased it on the spot.  I have read it to my sons, my students over the years and now to my own grandaughters.  It is a timeless story of mother love no matter how old you are.

Thank you to Oberon and Harvey for another great contest.

[ferretluver]

I got my love of reading from my mother. We both enjoy the Chicken Soup for the souls books. She does not have a Kindle yet so I am going to get her this book.

[Maxx]

My mom always read to us before bed when we were little kids (all four of us at once)  She has also spent a lot of time reading to her grandchildren.  She bought many books from the Scholastic book club pamphlet sent home from school and we also owned several anthologies of children's stories.  This one sticks out in my mind for some reason.

[egh34]

I, also have to go with GOODNIGHT MOON. I read it so much to my kids that my daughter could recite the entire book by age 2. I can still hear her tiny voice in my head when she said "...good night noises everywhere."

[Susan in VA]

I, also have to go with GOODNIGHT MOON. I read it so much to my kids that my daughter could recite the entire book by age 2. I can still hear her tiny voice in my head when she said "...good night noises everywhere."

DD's dad and I once spent a whole hour discussing whether that phrase was supposed to be saying good night to the noises, the way the rest of the book says good night to everything, or whether it was saying that there are good-night-noises around everywhere, like book pages turning and pillows being fluffed up.  We couldn't decide.  (OK, when you're short on sleep with a toddler around, conversations are a little weird sometimes.)

[Marie]

This was one of my favorite books as a young Mother.





My Mother and I would share Erma Bombeck books all the time, and we both thought they were "laugh out loud" funny.

[B-Kay 1325]

My mother was the proud mom of 7 seven kids so I don't remember her reading to me very much but she always made sure that I had books to read.  She would make sure that I got to the library to check out books and I received books on Christmas/birthdays (on the same day).  I especially loved Heidi, Little Women and the Little House on the Prairie series.  Mom is no longer with us, but I thank her for making sure I was able to read the books I wanted.  I do have a funny (to me) story about a book I bought for myself when I was a teenager, I had gone out and bought (with babysitting money) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Too Afraid to Ask and hid it in my bedroom.  I had it for a couple of years and Mom found it.  I thought she was going to have a fit but instead she asked me if she could borrow it, I found it extremely funny that she (after 7 kids) wanted to read this book.  I'm not sure I ever got my book back.  Rest In Peace Mom.

Thank you Harvey and Oberon for this great contest.

[Andra]

This is a tough one, as my mom and I spent lots of time reading together.  But one of my favorites is Judith Viorst's My Mama Says There Aren't Any Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Demons, Monsters, Fiends, Goblins, or Things.

I love how the recurring theme in the book is "Sometimes even Mamas make mistakes..."

[sbell1]

The Curious George books were the first books I brought home from the library visits with my mom. She instilled in me my love of reading.

Saturdays were library days with Mom!  At 82, Mom is still an avid reader and wants a Kindle for her 83rd birthday!

[Harvey]

I'm really enjoying these memories and stories. Thanks for sharing them.

[crebel]

What a great thread - reading with Mom as a child brings back great memories.  I can't remember a time when she didn't read to us and always had a book at hand as we were growing up.  I don't think I can pick a favorite, but the first "chapter" book I remember reading together is:



A bargain book too - I just downloaded it because of the memories!  The only book my mom ever forbade me read is  The Exorcist (no kindle link).  Of course I read it anyway and hated it and it still gives me the creeps!  Thanks for another great contest!

[patrisha w.]

My mother was the poster child for a bad mother especially with me, her older child. The way she treated me has been the source of much therapy for me during the seventy-plus years I have lived. But there is one good thing she did that I remember and that is that she read to her two daughters. Of course she read what SHE liked and not what we would perhaps preferred to have read to us.
Her favorite book was and thus I could recite huge chunks of Shakespeare before I started school!

patrisha

[kevin63]

I gave this book to my Mother last year for Mother's Day when it first came out. She loved it and reminds me frequently of the contents.  Hope I posted this right.  I tried the link maker and didn't have an ASIN for it so I tried putting a copy of the cover on here.
 
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ISBN 0811860841
ISBN13 9780811860840

[Laurie]

This book is just one of many, but my mom LOVED Louis L'Amour. She had a bookshelf loaded with probably every book he's ever written.




On a side note - I personally loved the "Love You Forever" book. I bought that for my daughter when she was about 12 or 13 years old and was going through a rough time. She's 25 years old now and she still has it.

[Anju No. 469]

My mother is also gone, but she gave me the love of reading, along with her sister.  I don't recall my grandmother ever reading anything, but their father was a voracious reader back in the 30's and 40's.  I don't connect any one book with my mother, she loved the heavy tomes, i.e., Winston Churchill, Shakespeare, she would love the new Truman book.  She always made sure I had plenty to read, but our tastes were so very different.  He sister, my aunt, and I read a lot of the same things and her daughter, my cousin who has my "other" kindle, and I read the same genres.  I don't remember my mother ever reading to me though.  Mostly I remember my mother with books of dictionaries all around her while she worked the crossword puzzles, NYT in ink!

[dfwillia]

I have wonderful memories of my mother reading to me and my brother, but the one that stands out is her reading us the "Shirley Temple Storybook" published in 1958 (guess I am sorta giving away my age!). This is certainly out of print but DTB versions are available on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/SHIRLEY-TEMPLES-STORYBOOK-Shirley-Temple/dp/B000BB6KFW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241098435&sr=1-1  The link maker wouldn't find this so at least here is a URL. I give the credit to my dear mother for my love of reading...now on my K2.

[Susan in VA]

This is a tough one, as my mom and I spent lots of time reading together.  But one of my favorites is Judith Viorst's My Mama Says There Aren't Any Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Demons, Monsters, Fiends, Goblins, or Things.

I love how the recurring theme in the book is "Sometimes even Mamas make mistakes..."

LOL!  We just discovered that one a year or so ago, and now the recurring theme gets quoted at me, gleefully and with much giggling, at every opportunity.  I've learned not to make pronouncements like "it won't rain today" or "we won't get there in time with this traffic" because they just end up providing more opportunities.

Some of Viorst's grown-up books are pretty funny too.

[AnelaBelladonna]

My Mother wrote me a book.  She gave it to me just before she died.  I haven't been able to read it all the way through because it makes me cry. This is the same book but with a different cover.   The book asks questions and the Mother fills in the answers.  It is beautiful.

I am home from work today so I think I will give it another try.

[pawlaw aka MXCIX]

O.k. I'll try.  My adopted mom (really my grandma) didn't read...at all...but, my biological mom (who was 17 when I was born) reads all the time and loves books.  I didn't grow up with her, but my kids now know her as Nan.  She gave my son a book for his 5th birthday called "It's Hard to be Five: Learning How To Work My Control Panel".  LOVE that book and he got such a kick out of it.  Nan always gives us books that help us through things.  I wouldn't call them self-help books, because they are so much more clever than that.  Thanks NAN!

[bkworm8it]

My mother and I did not have the same taste in books when I was growing up. She would always get on me about what I was reading and ask how I could read the stuff I was reading. Ok I was reading Sci-fi/Fantasy and she was reading romance. Soo shouldn't it had been me asking 'how can you read that stuff?' LOL. 

So here is the first book mom and I shared and still talk about. We both read them when they first came out - they they are now very popular on KB now but it was the first book we shared and talked about. It was wonderful being able to discuss a book with mom!



Now we share and gossip about lots of books (still no sci-fi but not all romance either LOL). We've both read the Stephanie Plum series and call each other as soon as read something that we just have to talk about. Its really nice to finally share my joy of reading with my mother!

theresam

[Cowgirl]

I have read this one at least 100 times to my 2 year old granddaughter.  It's short and sweet and she memorized it and can read it back to me.  She gets so happy when Bobo finds his mommy.  

[Linda Cannon-Mott]

Great stories, keep em coming. I'm enjoying them. Best of luck to all of you! An Oberon of your choice, doesn't get much better. 

[Angela]

This was one of my favorite books as a young Mother.





My Mother and I would share Erma Bombeck books all the time, and we both thought they were "laugh out loud" funny.

Oh, I forgot all about Erma Bombeck!! She is one of my mom's favorites!! I think the first Erma Bombeck my mom lent me to read was The Grasss is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank. It was a green hardback book. I think she still has it! 

  Not available for Kindle.

Thanks for reminding me of Erma, Marie! Welcome to KindleBoards and congrats on your first post!

[Cindergayle]

I'll Love You Forever is a great choice. I see that many someone else also chose this book. It is especially meaningful to me. I have been through the role reversal that this book describes. I became the caretaker when my mother became ill. It is a wonderful little book with so much meaning.