Hey Veeky Forums, I'm about to be an uncle! What are the best children's books to get for my upcoming nephew?

Hey Veeky Forums, I'm about to be an uncle! What are the best children's books to get for my upcoming nephew?

Infinite Jest

one of my very first memories is my mom reading and teaching me to read Bob Books.

Read to your niece/nephew. Make sure his/her parents do the same. It's such a busy time, and it's all too easy to let it slip by.

Anything by Dr. Seuss, but especially One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish and What Was I Scared Of?
Aesop's Fables
Where the Wild Things Are - Sendak
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel - Burton
The Monster at the End of This Book - Stone

Pic related, I also had a giant plush pig we called Julius.

Seconding Doctor Seuss and Where the Wild Things Are.
The Giving Tree
Madeline
Corduroy
Paddington
Peter Rabbit
Pippi Longstocking.
Go Dog, Go.
Amelia Bedelia
Meet the Robinsons

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, OP.

Also not something you want to give a newborn but I loved it as a kid.

top tier existentialist literature for children

Fuckin awesome idea for a Veeky Forums thread OP. Sincerely.

Harold and the Purple Crayon, a family favorite over here.

The old Testament. Scare that lil bitch str8

Hey Veeky Forums, I've been an uncle for 15 years now and I haven't talked to either of my nephews in at least 5 years. Books to make me a better uncle?

Teenagers are harder than babies. Do you have any idea what they're into?

120 days of sodom

A collection of fairytales, obviously.

I'm a huge fairytale enthusiast. I have one volume of Grimm's, one of Hans Christian Andersen, and one of "Beauty and the Beast and others". My favorite, though, is my paperback colelction of "Stories for Young People" by Oscar Wilde. He wrote some beautiful fairytale material. The Infanta makes me cry every time.

A good leatherbound collection of fairytales can last a child their entire life and become a treasured family keepsake.

when he’s ready to learn ab the birbs and the beezies

Ooh, ooh, me again.

You need to get the classic "Super little kids" books.

Pat the Bunny
Good Night Moon
Guess How Much I Love You
If you can find it, the complete stories of Winnie the Pooh.

By the way, if your nephew's parents have an iphone, the Winnie the Pooh collection comes standard in the iphone book reader. I found that out while poking around.

I still have my boardback copy of Guess How Much I Love You that my mom would read to me. Too bad I'll never speak to her again.

Now my partner reads it to me. Just to embarrass me.

Best way to make Veeky Forums teens is to start them with percy jackson. I know it's one of those series that gets thrown around here as a meme but those books are what got me interested in the greeks as a kid. If you can get them interested in mythology and all that shit they'll be patricians by the time their adults

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Judy looks so fucking smug about patting that bunny.

"Yeah bitch. I can pat the bunny. Can you pat the bunny? You cuck."

seconded, probably the most important books to me as a young child.

Dragons of Blueland trilogy - Ruth Stiles Gannett
Magic Tree House series - Mary Pope Osborne
Anything by Steven Kellogg, esp. "Island of the Skog"
"Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man" - Robert McClosky (anything he made, too)
"In a dark, dark room, and other scary stories" - Alvin Schwartz
"Rotten Island" - William Steig
"Harry and the Terrible Whatzit" - Dick Gackenbach
Deltora Quest series - Emily Rodda
A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket

And, of course, these bad bois right here

Winnie the Pooh