Singing my ABCs…

I want to say big thank you to Debbie at Two Minutes of Grace, for sharing the ABC award with me. The time it has taken me to respond is no indication of how much I appreciate being thought of by Debbie.

The ABC instructions are:

Add the logo to your site.
Pass the ABC award on to other bloggers.
Use the alphabet to make a list of words describing you so readers will learn more about you.

I am pleased to pass the ABC award along to these wonderful bloggers:

bethechangenyc

The Reinvented Lass

Carol Wiebe Wonders Out Loud

Slowmoto.Me

grandfathersky

for the love of Nike

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally, and often far more, worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” ~ C.S. Lewis 

Debbie, I borrowed your C.S. Lewis quote to introduce my ABC list, not of words, but of children’s books I love.  Some are from my own childhood, some from my daughters, and some I have enjoyed reading to my grandchildren.  I have used many of them in my therapy practice with people of all ages.

An Alphabet of Children’s Books

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst
Angelina Ballerina – Katharine Holabird
Are You My Mother? – Phillip D. Eastman

Best Friends for Frances – Russell Hoban

Corduroy – Don Freeman, Calamity – Camilla Ashworth

Dinosaur’s Divorce – Marc Brown

Ella the Elegant Elephant – Carmela & Steven D’Amico

Franklin in the Dark – Paulette Bourgeois

Giving Tree, The – Shel Silverstein
Guess How Much I Love You – Sam McBratney

Horatio’s Bed – Camilla Ashforth

I Promise I’ll Find You – Heather Patricia Ward
I Was So Mad – Mercer Mayer

Just Like You – Jean Fearnley
Just Go to Bed – Mercer Mayer

Kissing Hand, The – Aubrey Penn

Llama, llama, Red Pajama – Anna Dewdney

Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo 
Midnight Farm, The – Reeve Lindbergh

Not A Box – Laura Vacaro Seeger

Oh The Places You’ll Go – Dr. Seuss
On The Night You Were Born – Nancy Tillan

Polar Express, The – Chris Van Allsburg

Quiet Book, The – Deborah Underwood

Ride a Purple Pelican  – Jack Prelutsky

Stellaluna – Janell Cannon
Snowy Day, The – Ezra Jack Keats

Talking Like the Rain – X.J. & Dorothy M. Kennedy

Up and Down – Oliver Jeffers

Velveteen Rabbit, The – Margery Williams

Whale’s Song, The – Dyan Sheldon

Pooh’s Xylophone Book,  closest I could come to get an “X”. 

You and Me, Little Bear – Martin Waddell 

Zoo for Mr. Muster, A – Arnold Lobel

How many of you have found yourselves singing the ABC song in your head, maybe even under your breath, when trying to put something in alphabetical order?  Please tell me I’m not the only one.