Repeated reading to kids (was:Censoring your kids' reading)

[psychic_serpent]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z" <lupinesque at y...> 
wrote:
My mother claims that when we were little, she hid "The Little 
Engine that Could" because she hated it so and we wanted her to read 
it to us over and over again.  Not exactly a candidate for the "most 
banned books" list, but it drove her nuts.

Me:

Oh, lord, you're making me remember when my son was about three and 
he asked us to read Dr. Seuss's "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb" 
repeatedly.  I mean that this kid could listen to this book read 
like twenty times in a row.  And it didn't exactly have the verve 
and humor of "Red Fish, Blue Fish," "Green Eggs and Ham" (my 
favorite rendition is by the Rev. Jesse Jackson on SNL <g>) and "The 
Cat in the Hat."  The only other book I think we read quite so many 
times was "Dr. Seuss's ABCs" which my husband really got into 
reading to the kids--he almost did it like a kind of rap, and had a 
little soft-shoe number that went with some bits....

--Barb, who's glad that the kids now repeatedly read things by JK 
Rowling, Roald Dahl, Eva Ibbotson, Jane Langton and Laura Ingalls 
Wilder