Question of the Day

[ayoub]

What was your favourite bedtime story?

Comments

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

The "hard working princess" sounds like an excellent tale!

[pixievixen.livejournal.com]

when i was very little i loved "corduroy" about the bear in the shop that wanted to be loved... my grandma read all the "little house" books with me, and my mom read all the "borrowers books" with me. we were big book people... and i read to anjolie everyday at least once usually closer to 5 haha.... it's so very important IMO.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is :)

The Borrowers was a great series :)

[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

I read to Bree all the time, too. I thought it would take a while for her to respond to it, but I have been reading to her since the day after she was born, and if I miss a day, she gets quite miffed with me. Her little eyes light up when I start reading, and she gives me a look like "_I_ know this one!" It is soooooo cute.

It really is a great experience to share that with them, isn't it?

[evergladesqueen.livejournal.com]

i dont recall ever having one read to me.
=0(

*hugs*

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:(

Did you read any yourself?

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

New Wave Hookers.

Kidding! It's The Princess Bride.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

Yeah, it's a great book :)

[warrior-olight.livejournal.com]

Any Dr. Suess story or The Berenstein Bears.
Once I started reading on my own anything would do.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Gotta love Dr Seuss!

[rowanchey.livejournal.com]

My mom had one that was personally for me: "Mommy always wanted a little princess, with golden hair, big blue eyes, and a tiny little ski-slope nose. Then one day, she got a little brother named Ty, and they played together, and loved each other and didn't fight-bite-scratch-pinch-or be mean. And the little princess grew up..."

I honestly can't believe I even remembered that. It's been close to 20 years since she said all that... Thanks for the great question!!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Awesome :)

Your mom's all sorts of cool :)

[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

My dad used to save up the blank scraps of greenbar paper that printed out at the beginning and end of the print jobs, then bring them home and write us little picture books out of them. The one I remember most is "Ben and the Big Blue Box", in which my brother climbs into a big blue box in my dad's workroom and gets lost in another dimension. We all thought it was a really cute story, and I don't think it worked as well as my dad had hoped as far as discouraging us from going messing about in his things. In actuality, I think _I_ was the one that invented the game of Treasure Hunting (what we called going "exploring" in the workroom), but my brother was the one unfortunate enough to accidentally break one of the panels of texturized plastic my dad was using to make stained-glass ornaments out of. [If anything, I think we dug all the harder, trying to find that magic box!!!!!]

[lilgeorgiawhore.livejournal.com]

I always, always loved fairy tales. That has continued even up through now, and is evident in the fact that I dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood for Halloween this year and Rapunzel last year (the Rapunzel costume was the best, though the 5ft wig a bit of a bitch to wear ;-))

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!
And the pictures are where?

[lilgeorgiawhore.livejournal.com]

Haha, sadly the only picture I have of me in my Rapunzel costume is in a frame at home. My Red Riding Hood pictures are posted in my LiveJournal photo album :-)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I'll go check 'em out :)

I forgot to mention.....

[warrior-olight.livejournal.com]

H.P. Lovecraft - that always sent me off to a freaky slumber.

Re: I forgot to mention.....

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

That is freaky!

[crescent-fresh.livejournal.com]

never had one.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

You were deprived!

[crescent-fresh.livejournal.com]

nah. i just read or whatever by myself. it was nicer that way. nobody bothering me. shit man, i was born a hermit.

[ex-nothingto835.livejournal.com]

has to be What Katy Did. the story of a girl with so many brothers and sisters fascinated me, as an only child. i still love it, and have been known to read it when i'm feeling blue.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

by Susan Coolidge? They have some stories by her for free download at Project Gutenberg, but I haven't gotten around to reading them yet.

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

The ones my dad made up off the top of his head about two cats named Jibbey and Sylvia. Jibbey was the inquisitive, funny one, Sylvia was older and wiser and usually had to get Jibbey out of trouble. The stories usually involved a cat's perspective of some human object or activity. Poor Dad didn't realize that I have an excellent memory for stories (I forget everything else, so he had no way of knowing) and so sometimes I would ask for "The one with the milk man" or something, and since they were just extemporized, he usually had no recollection of how "the one with the milk man" went or what it had been about.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should write them all out... :)

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

"Where The Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak...especially when my Dad read it to me. :)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Awww :)

I should look that up :)

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Stories about Roger Young, or The Battle of the Bulge, the Pelopolysian Wars, Petoyr the Great, Alexandros, Thermopylae, The sinking of the Bismark, things like that.

Seriously.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

That explains a lot...

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

What are you saying?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Me? Would I say anything?

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Don't play coy.
You are always saying something.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Well, it's true.

[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

Molly and the Giant

That probably explains quite a bit about my personality, too.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D