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Daniel Tiger, sadly, has caused us a few issues, too…like introducing fear of the dark when that had not been an issue for us before. But the songs and parental responses on the show are super helpful! Basically, we watch PBS mostly, and an occasional movie. Yes my husband saw that episode with our 3yr old one day. He was very upset. Our boy definitely does Not need any encouragement in tantrums.

It is now banned from our house. Also banned is Cat in the Hat, pbs cartoon. It had an episode encouraging dancing with rattling snakes because they just want to find a friend. Whats wrong with snakes? Rattle Snakes are actually quite shy. I do apologize, but I cannot stand the bad rep snakes get. Are wonderful and fascinating in their own way. You have got to be joking. My kids 6,4,2,and 3 months that watch videos love Super Why. I tried a Magic Schoolbus one and while it was interesting it seemed really fast paced to me similar to that horrible yellow sponge show. Their favorites are Mighty Machines highly recommend checking it out, they are some awesome shows and really teach real life stuff — how a semi is built, how cars are recycled, snow plows, deep sea machines, etc.

I swear they really helped my kids learn their alphabet sounds with very little effort from me. They thought the show was a treat and it taught them too. Thank you for this list! We have found Netflix to be great for having lots of kid friendly documentaries. Around age 4, we moved our kids away from the animated shows and focused them on the documentaries. I am amazed at the facts my kids have now because of these type of shows. I love the list! Daniel Tiger is also an extention of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, which is also a great show!

That one is not allowed. For the same reasons as mentioned above. My kids also love the leapfrog series and mother goose club. Mother goose club is all nursery rhymes. We used signing DVDs for my second son when he was speech delayed.. The videos gave us a new way to communicate with him. All in all a great list! I use TV during the day for quiet time. I have 4 kids between 4. And you made my day when I saw babysigning time is available!! I look forward to browsing through the rest of your site and getting a little more inspiration!

Lisa wiggles and whimsy. Glad I could offer some inspiration. I often get stuck creating those images as well. Best of luck to you! He has a severe sensory disorder with an overlap of autism so noises from some shows will freak him out or have him giggling like crazy, sometimes both. He loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse because of the music and colors. Glad so many people are bigging up Octonauts!!! Makes us Brits very happy! Caillou for the same reason others have already mentioned — but Daniel Tiger was, shockingly, teaching my kid to be afraid, among other things.

She would watch an episode and take the exact opposite stance. For example, she loved thunderstorms — until watching the episode saying there was nothing to be afraid of. The one that was recently added that we love though is Puffin Rock — and Little Einsteins has been a biggie for us for awhile. Nobody talks about The Bubble Guppies! It is funny, instructive, imaginative and there is always a music part and my sos lovesssss that! My kids, ages 3 and 6 have learned a lot from watching these shows.

Both knew all their letters and their sounds by age 3. For older families I recommend episodes of Cosby Show, such a great family that emulates how do deal with everyday conflicts. Plus, the characters are cute to watch. For a cartoon show, I would also add Puffin Rock. I love that theme song! Sometimes you need a break from the cartoon shows and when that happens we turn to The Andy Griffith Show.

What a nice list for my kids at home. I love netflix , now I will introduce my children to it so they use it for their TV programmes. Thanks for making the list. Shoebox chromecast recently posted… Showbox to Chromecast — Chromecast Showbox.

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I agree with some of these. Looks like Signing Times is not offered on Netflix anymore. My daughter actually takes that class in our homeschool co-op and she loves the videos. Thanks for the list. Odd Squad is terrific entertainment, and it gives a painless introduction to math basics. My 5-year-old loves it. My son loves Rescue Bots. Its an awesome show. Hes been watching it for a year and hes about to turn 4. I have even found my 12 year old daughter glued to it too. It teaches about firemen, engineers, police men and different rescuers. It also teaches that even though technology is great and helpful, too much is a very bad thing and things go wrong.

This is the only show that my son will watch over and over again.

He has seen every episode 4 times. And it teaches team work. It has saved me on days when momma has a migraine and cannot get off the couch. He will sit and play with legos while watching Rescue Bots. Dont judge, migraines make me very sick and i cant move when i get them, so thats a tv day. My 6yr old son loves this show too…Im syked because its a Transformers reboot…Transformers was one of my favs as a kid. This revamp however teaches more life lessons than its predicessor. He also loves Paw Patrol. My almost 3 year old son loves oso.

I as well will watch it with him. If also add Bill Nye the science guy. I watched that myself in school growing up. They used to have one episode forever but now font even have the one. There are some gory bits that I look away from but it is a magical story and I am waiting on tenterhooks for the next season. Now many that on your favorites list are no longer on Netflix……. Seems they are slowly taking off the educational shows. Replacing with cartoon network style shows. Thank you for this! I understand that the show is just trying to show situations kids can relate to, but I disagree in the way the parents deal with his bad behavior.

At least when Daniel Tiger doesnt want to share or whatever the parents teach him the appropriate way to deal with his feelings. I think its good because all kids get jealous etc and this show teaches positive ways to deal with those feelings. Super why is the best show I have ever come across for small children. My youngest just turned two and knows all of his letters, some numbers and can randomly point out and read small words. I wish my three year old would watch the show. He complains about how boring it is and leaves the room. He also cannot read and knows only knows about half of his letters.

Dinosaur train and wild krats are also favorite that all my boys will watch 14, 6, 3 and 2. Yes, my 14 year old… No nothing is wrong with him. Boring subjects dinosaurs and animals. Nonetheless, the posts are very brief for newbies. May just you please prolong them a bit from subsequent time? Thank you for the post. Showbox App is furthermore developed a movies app to give the films, pictures of anime and the shows.

Showbox recently posted… Showbox Download 4. Get all latest updates of your favourite applications for your android smartphones. Hello, I love Netflix i use it a lot and the list is great, very informative, i myself am a mother and together watching these sites is amazing, thanks for sharing and keep up the great work. Best Regards mialane recently posted… Skins All Seasons. So many things to share. Thanks so much for writing this top 10 list and adding your own review in words. Helps us decide before we put on for kids. You validated my opinion about curious george and Calliou. I am always looking for stuff that teaches good values to my kids and myself especially in terms of good manners and imagination.

I never seen wildest animal adventures but will now check out based on your recommendation — good to write in detail about the humor. Nice blog, using this app you can download paid apps free. One of the popular app to download movies, videos free. Nice blog, thanks for commenting us on your blog. People love using iMessage messaging application. This is the first time I read this list of shows, at the first time itself I am much impressed such a quality post is published.

Thanks for this suggestion I would love to watch few with my kids.

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Well-researched, thought and inspiration provoking! Loaded with great info. Thank you for the perfection! What a great list! Thanks for sharing this list! But Wild Kratts is the thing I have to switch on and all together are sitting banned in front of the TV. And my two older boys 7 and 9 years old gained so many knowledge about wildlife through this. Just love this show. During career week in school, they even said that if they are grown up they want to work as a Wild Kratts Brother.

My four year old loves Bat Pat, a Netflix show about 3 school age children and their talking pet bat who live in a place called spooky hallow. It always brings a monster in at the beginning of of the show for example, a werewolf is in one but then they meet him, and find out his dad ist the big bag wolf and wants him to be a bad wolf too, he wants to make floral arrangements or something like that.

My son loooooves Word Party, super cute and teaches kids new words and uses songs to promote appropriate behavior. Thanks for this post! Provides some good food for thought when looking at new options for my 13 month old son. We try not to rely heavily on TV but this past week have all been off sick so relying on the Wiggles to keep bub occupied while we suffer LOL! One of his all time favourites is Robocar Poli. One of the most satisfying middle reader books ever written.

A brilliant combination of text and illustrations, Christ Riddell has introduced an energetic new heroine. Half the text of the story can be found in the detailed illustrations. The color palette of black, white, and one other color make the illustrations charming and easy to examine for the little tidbits Riddell hides in them. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters 1 1 1 2 2 6 — 53 points. The ending is moving. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan 2 3 4 4 5 8 8 — 43 points. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan 2 4 4 4 5 7 9 — 42 points.

The idea of having not only a tree house to hang out in, but one on a private island? Add in the mystery about who is hunting the family, and I was so hooked. Another mystery that has stuck with me through the years. Held up as an adult reader, too. Read this every Christmas. You can have your Polar Express. This book does that in spades. I read it every Christmas. I started that tradition back when I was in college.

I remember my 4th or 5th grade teacher reading it to us. They lied and stole and smoked cigars even the girls …. The Wall and the Wing Laura Ruby: Makes for a great read-aloud. Suspense, weirdness, and plenty of humor. I loved it, the girls loved it, we suggested it to an adult friend who reads a lot of kids and YA, she loved it. Love it for the first sentence. Love it just as much for the last. Nobody else writes like Rylant. Remains one of the funniest books I have ever read.

Plus it is a great story, and, hey, international. Dolphin Song by Lauren St. John 8 — 3 points. This was my favorite book as a kid. I must have read it a hundred times. It has a great plot, delicious flawed characters, plus a spunky heroine and one of the best first lines ever!

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I believe I learned about this book from your blog, Betsy. I now adore it, and recommend it whenever possible. At the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, eleven-year-old Maud is adopted by three spinster sisters moonlighting as mediums who take her home and reveal to her the role she will play in their seances. To think that there is an actual historical basis for this title is…well, shameful. White spluttering in the dust. Knopf Books for Young Readers. New York, stands-the-test-of time, magic happens, great illustrations! Please let this make the top ! This book needs a renaissance!

The most charming book about a bug ever. This is a book, but it is already my favorite for the year. Is this the first ever fat camp book? Kudos to Kimmel Smith for tackling childhood obesity before it became the latest movie-of-the week topic. Elephant Run by Roland Smith 3 — 8 points. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket 2 5 5 — 21 points. The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket 6 6 7 — 14 points. The moment when the Baudelaires discover where the secret passage leads is one of those major Twilight Zone moments where the world turns upside down and all the blood rushes to your head in terrifying clarity — kind of like the freeze frame at the end of the Thriller video where MJ flashes his crazy monster eyes!

No one I know has ever heard of it. Rocked my ten-year-old world. I loved many of her books as a kid, but this one is less dark and more joyful than most, and my kids love it, too. My husband remembered it from his childhood, and our first copy in the house since read to shreds was purchased as a surprise for him, after he reminisced about a terrific book about a kid with wings. The best part about this book, and all the others in the series, is that I never remembered the solutions to the mysteries, so I could re-read them over and over.

This is something I still enjoy about mysteries! Best book in the world for reluctant readers. Like our lovely poll-taker, this is my favorite series out there right now. But how to pick the best one? I had to go back to my notes from library school, in which I wrote, "Springer just keeps getting better, and this entry is possibly the best of the series so far: Kennedy Library , Vallejo , CA. Another family I could have moved in with. This was my go-to book when I was sick.

Comfort food for the imagination. The most memorable reading experience of my childhood was listening to my father read and reread Dominic to me and my brother once or twice a year for a couple of years. The novel is truly more than the sum of its perfect parts. The language, the adventure and humor all work for me.

As elements and motifs from his other works appear in the story, my students race to make astute connections which leave me awestruck. In my mind a perfect chapter book is one which grows richer with each additional reading. Dominic exemplifies this more than any other piece of literature I have ever encountered. My favorite adventure book as a boy which I re-read each year for many years — David Ziegler.

Stormchaser by Paul Stewart 2 9 — 11 points.

For getting reluctant kids to keep reading. I loved this book when I was a kid because it was such a terrific reworking of The Secret Garden. I used to want to be "discovered" as the next, next Mary Lennox. Timothy of the Cay by Theodore Taylor 5 — 6 points. The Giant Horse of Oz. Reilly and Lee, Back off, Princess Bride. Basil in Mexico by Eve Titus 7 — 4 points. As delightful as the Julie Andrews movie adaptation is, there are four Mary Poppins novels that just scream to be read!

One of the original "everyday magic" sort of books. When I first read this one, I was reading it aloud to my sons. My older son had suggested us reading The Thief, so when the sequel came out, we wanted to read it aloud together. I confess that I was not able to stand it — after my boys went to bed, I sat there and finished the book! And that happened more than once! A book worth reading over and over again to see how all the plot threads intertwine. What makes a hero, or a leader? What does love really mean, and loyalty?

All this and an adventure, too! As for the characters, they are rounded and real, with Gen leading the pack as a marvelously sly, cantankerous, vain, yet ultimately kind Trickster King, a new hero for a new millenium. Kate Coombs at Book Aunt http: Although the Eugenides series is my current obsessive series, the one I fear I may die before I get to the end, I realize that it is much too subtle and complex for the average middle-grade reader.

I really think those you with ARCs of 4 are just plain cruel to flaunt your riches on Goodreads in front of us peasants Outside of Grandma Dowdel there is no other character I love more than Eugenides. I actually believe they would be very good friends. Can you imagine the high jinks the two of them could pull off? Mischievous teenagers and conniving attendants should be put on notice at once.

Because for the first time, I remember reading about a part of Japanese American history, in a novel for children. I also hope to get more multicultural books on this best list! This book provides a delightful look at dealing with the disappointments that we all face in life and making the best of our circumstances. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne 2 — 9 points. I read this book in fifth grade. This was my first realization that there was a difference between the series novels I raced through and quality writing that made me feel something after I was done reading.

Because this tough, gorgeous story about a 13 year-old girl who goes to incredible lengths to keep her family together when her mother abandons them in a parking lot is one of the finest pieces of writing about family ever. The first book was the best because the kids had the most independence and ingenuity. The drivel currently being pushed out as the continuing series makes me nauseous. Worldwide conspiracies, humor, edge-of-your-seat suspense, brain teasers, and some actual character growth.

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Judy and her friends stay up late in the dorms debating over whether or not it would be possible to swim through a pool filled with lemon-flavored Jell-O. Add pizza and a Che Guevara poster to that scene, and you see what I mean. I feel like a lot of my choices were heavily weighted by nostalgia. Were they really that good, or is the glow I feel from re-reading them so often as a child influencing my selection today?

With great illustrations, to boot! Wilce 9 — 2 points. A steampunk world without rigid gender roles but with magick. The best of the series: I am still uplifted by the heroism of the Ingalls family as they struggle through months of cold and darkness. Though they suffer great privation, they hold on tight to hope, civility, and integrity. I loved all the Little House books as a child, but this one! I loved it when Laura showed up Nellie on the buggy ride with Almanzo! My favorite Little House book. Laura and Almanzo were the first couple I ever "shipped".

I lovedlovedloved this book. Deborah Wiles has such talent. When I read this, I was in Snapfinger, Mississippi. I was terrified on the rock with Comfort and Dismay. I was so proud to make it through the collar-on-the-gravestone scene without crying, and then Wiles snuck up on the other side and got me with—of all things—a funeral for a dog. Scooter by Vera B. Williams 7 — 4 points. I always thougth this was about a street gang until I read it. Adam could be any kid in Middle School today trying to do it all. A feminist fairy tale with a very smart young princess and an unusual dragon.

The first in Patricia C. The heroine is not only a kick-ass adventurer, she has a biting wit to boot. Scared the crap out of me, and began my love of books that scare the crap out of me. I loved this book growing up, can remember rereading it multiple times on my own — Sarah Schreffler. The voice of Millicent Min is so strong, Yee had me convinced she exists somewhere for real. She has served on Newbery, written for Horn Book, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person.

Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on Twitter: The rest of the list is over here! Does everyone else realise this? I only just flipped back to read old comments! Of all the Lemony Snicket books to get votes, no one picked Penultimate Peril?! Okay, I guess all I have left to do is go respond to the entire top on my own blog now… Thank you for the great trip! And three someones at that. It warms my heart just to think about it. This has all just been such a great experience. Throughout the entire countdown I have at times been giddy, confused, excited, and inspired.

Six of my choices made the top , but for three of my other choices I was the only vote! I have enough reading to keep me busy for ages! While difficult experiences they are ever so rewarding. I am simply flabbergasted. So much fun to read this! So many favorites here. I love it with a deep and abiding love. I started out with a list of about 50 books, and the only one not anywhere on these lists is The Birchbark House.

This is so sad. Erdrich is a fabulous writer, and this book is just about perfect! I adored that book. About half of my books hit the Top Hundred. But 9 out of 10 authors were there.

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Oh, someone else voted for Journey to Topaz! I hope you have a nice vacation planned now. Obviously there are more demographic differences than I would have thought. They got to swim with dolphins after all. But those split votes are such a shame! Yes, Dawn Treaders Represent! Reading it for the first time was one of the best literary experiences of my life. I have you to thank for that, Betsy. I learned about it from you. Hmm—do I see a pattern? Maybe I have a thing for third books.

The World of Pooh confounds me a tad. Is it a compilation of Pooh stories? Your vote was counted. And the sequel is so, so good too. The best discovery for me in this poll was the Thief, followed by the other Attolia books — such gems! Thanks everyone for your input and helpful comments! It also has color illustrations added by E. Shepard — originally the other Pooh books were only in black and white.

Both my boys first imaginary character was Piglet. When my second son was 3 years old at Christmas, we addressed the presents in our family to Pooh him , Piglet lucky me , Tigger Dad , and Christopher Robin big brother. I was the one who nominated Time at the Top.

Liked them so much that I went on to read several other books in the series, too. Just search for her name on the page. Clementine was mentioned as a 21st Century Ramona the […]. Lewis 5 5 5 6 7 9 10 10 — 31 points This was always my favorite of the Narnian Chronicles. Lewis 1 2 5 5 6 9 10 — 38 points My all-time favorite Chapter One.