No, but I wish I had, Gail. The poodle/goose sounds hilarious!

Both of those are much fun, with puns and really silly characters.

Has anyone besides myself ever heard of a book called "Sarah's Granny and the Groodle"? It would have been published late 60's, early 70's. A most fantastic (in the best sense) story about a girl, her grandma, a magic carriage and a poodle/goose cross. Weird but great drawings.

I have not, but they do look extremely silly!

Nothing like silly in a funny picture book! Have you seen Dav Pilkey's books Kat Kong and Dogzilla?
Extremely silly!

Oh yeah. Silly John.

Oops! John's tactic backfired, didn't it?

Hee hee.

I'm very cross!
His mother said
Take off your skates and go to bed!

His mother's mouth
was open wide
He threw a zigger bean inside.

His mother started ziggering
I'm Ziggering! she cried.

She ziggered up,
She ziggered down,
His mother ziggered off to town.

She's ziggering
to town, John said
It's suppertime, and I'm not fed!

Makes you wonder what exactly is IN those zigger beans... :D

John the mouse
was feeling mean
until he ate a zigger bean.

It made him sing
a zigger tune,
a ziggering beneath the moon.

A zigger, zigger, ziggering
beneath the golden moon.

John the mouse
put on his skates
and rolled across the dinner plates

His mother said
Good Heavens, John
Whatever are you rolling on?

I'm zigger zigger ziggering!
I'm ziggering, said John.

Zigger Beans. Hmm there's no cover image. I own it. I should try to put up a cover image. Sheesh, now I have to figure out how.

Zigger Beans???

Oh wait, is Zigger Beans on the list?

Umm... can't find it!

Jackie, It's been languishing on my to-read shelf. I should get to it because it looks great.

Here's a couple of images from the book:





I also love Marc Simont's version of Many Moons, better than the Caldecott winner.

Oh, I don't know that one.

You bet!

Another one I love, that didn't show up on the list is:



I really love the illustrations by Marc Simont.

Yay! I hope you like it, but I want to hear either way okay?

I just put it on hold, Bun. :D

Oh you must read Anatole!! Its lovely.

I think of The Red Balloon as a film more than I do as a book. And, yeah, depressing. :(

I think I need to read Anatole. A mouse who gets a job as a cheese-taster in France? Hee!

Jackie, Harry the Dirty Dog (and Roses for Harry) were among my favorite books when I was small.

The Red Balloon is so depressing, I think. That may have something to do with the fact that when I was in elementary school every time it rained, instead of having a recess outside after lunch, they brought us into the auditorium and showed us this film. I saw it a lot. It made me sad a lot. The ending didn't help much. For me.

That's IT Debbie! Hairy Maclary's Bone. Which of course is why Harry the Dirty Dog made me think of it. Thanks, that was bugging me.

....or this one?


And what about The Red Balloon? Didn't see it on the list?

Bun....is it Hairy MaClary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd??

Yay, another reason for you to come visit me next month!

Hmm, don't know that one Jammies.

I don't know, Bun, but one of the first books I ever read was Little Popcorn, and even if it's not award-winning, I will love it forever because it was my first exposure to happy tears.

Hello Harry!!

What's the one about the dog with the bone and all the other dogs chase him but some are too tall to follow him when he scoots under and some are too short to follow him when he jumps over, and eventually he sheds all his friends and has his bone?

I love this one:

I love this very much too.

Psst, I do, but I don't mind if you don't.
I don't much love The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
I do love Bread and Jam for Frances.


I like wisply line drawing illustrations with lots of shadow and crosshatching.

Exactly, Jammies! Lists are nothing BUT subjective.

Psst, want to know a secret? I don't love Where the Wild Things Are.

Where is Piggie Pie!?

It's wonderful how subjective "Top 100" lists are, and what a great place to start discussions they are.

I love that the first 3 on the list are some of my favs. Although, Harold & the Purple Crayon should be higher up, IMHO, like #2.

I'm glad If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is on there, but I thought If You Give a Moose a Muffin was hilarious. And the drawings for Moosetache are wonderful! Hmmm... I may have a theme going here with my preoccupation for mooses. :)

Snort. That's what makes picture books so great...you never know what you (or the kids) might see. Some great discussions came out of "The Napping House" and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs", just because of differing interpretations of the pictures.

Well of course we are not insisting on verisimilitude, that would be absurd. It just suddenly struck me. I mean kittens and bunnies hmmm bit of a worry but really I'm actually a bit more confused about why the kittens are in a really big bowl in the middle of the room. Its very free association.

I know, I know, its supposed to be a rug.

Are we insisting on verisimilitude in picture books? I think that might knock a whole bunch of things off this list :)

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!! Oh, dear, you're right, Bun. Good thing we don't follow the story quite that far.

I do like Good Night Moon, but I have to say, keeping a big bowl of kittens in a bunny's bedroom seems kind of an odd choice.

Koeeoaddi wrote: "So, where's Good Dog, Carl?"

In the same place as Owl Babies and Hooway for Wodney Wat, Ko. Bumped by books WE don't like as much.

Books for Everyone is very good. I do love it.

I remember the funny little woman.

There are a lot of classics on there. Everything I thought of I eventually found on there, except for
Need A House? Call Ms. Mouse, which is about a mouse Frank Lloyd Wright who builds perfect homes for the other animals, and Trouble For Trumpets.

I'm particularly happy to see Shaun Tan's The Arrival on there, since it's probably one of the best books I've ever 'read', despite (and because of) the lack of words.

As a former teacher of the young (and an extremely childish---wait,no, I meant *childlike*---adult), I very much enjoyed this run through some of my most favorite titles. "Skippy Jon Jones" was a delight to read aloud to the kids as it was something new and fresh and lent itself to some marvelous dramatics. (What, you all didn't realize that teachers are either frustrated actors or generals, or both?) And "Lily's Purple Plastic Purse" was a superb choice for first graders, helping them to realize that they're not alone in all their feelings, and it's okay to have those feelings. You know the author's doing it right when they say, "Oh, read that one again!" But I miss the title "The Funny Little Woman" about a lady in Japan with a magic rice cooker who gets trapped by the Wicked Oni. Another delight. And there were so many more.

At the last school where I worked, the librarian ( a title she preferred to the more official "Media Specialist") kept the picture books shelved together under the large title: BOOKS FOR EVERYONE. Gotta love that.

What about classics like "The Lion in the Meadow" by Margaret Mahy? And "The Cheese Trap" by Joy Cowley? Are NZ authors not allowed?
I love Hooway for Wodney Wat.....what number was it....I couldn't see it?
A lot of my childhood favourites are there....my mum obviously had excellent taste in childrens books!

Yeah Jackie, where the hell is Owl Babies?!

Do you know Sweet Dream Pie? That book is wild.

Eloise is there. Whew.

I like Tacky the Penguin, too and Hooway for Wodney Wat also by Lester.

But, WHERE'S OWL BABIES?????

Ah...thanks...I'd assumed photographs. I've always thought of goodnight moon as having cartoons and not pictures.

SkippyJon Jones is on there, at least, and that's 2003. That book rocks.

Tacky the Penguin isn't. But I like that one, too.

Oh look at that, Goodnight Gorilla is pretty high up, Jake adored that book, especially the page that's completely black except for the white gorilla toothy smile.

RA - they just don't make em like they used to?

Maybe the newer books haven't been around long enough to accumulate high numbers.