
The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel
Eliyahu M. Goldratt , Dwight Jon Zimmerman , et al.
4.5 on Amazon
14 HN comments

The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Luke Daniels, et al.
4.3 on Amazon
14 HN comments

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
4.5 on Amazon
14 HN comments

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Hardcover Journal and Elder Wand Pen Set
Insight Editions
4.8 on Amazon
14 HN comments

The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
14 HN comments

The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
Kim Stanley Robinson, Jennifer Fitzgerald, et al.
4.3 on Amazon
13 HN comments

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
4.6 on Amazon
12 HN comments

Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson, William Dufris, et al.
4.4 on Amazon
12 HN comments

A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
4.4 on Amazon
12 HN comments

Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein, Christopher Hurt, et al.
4.4 on Amazon
11 HN comments

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
4.9 on Amazon
11 HN comments

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
11 HN comments

The Real Book: Sixth Edition
Hal Leonard Corporation
4.7 on Amazon
11 HN comments

Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mel Hudson, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
11 HN comments

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Derek Perkins, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
11 HN comments
NitiononMay 28, 2021
dvaunonMay 27, 2021
They're great books to make funny sounds with. They're also great for asking our kids questions about the stories.
afro88onMay 27, 2021
RIP Eric Carle
airstrikeonMay 27, 2021
anonuonMay 27, 2021
What strikes me about a lot of children's book is that they often talk about metamorphosis - which is a strange and beautiful concept. But we rarely encounter it in real life, other than figuratively.
senonMay 27, 2021
It the became a “thing” where it was the first book we got for every kid born in my extended family, and now that I have my own kids 40+ years later it was the first I got for them too. They both know it by rote, have the toys, had the bed sheets, everything. They’re now in the early years of school and still absolutely love the story and have the posters in their rooms despite them being “old” for it.
RIP Eric. You’ve left an amazing mark on the world.
strictneinonMay 27, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Snow-Eric-Carle/dp/0399235795/
It's a great Christmas/Winter book. Definitely get the bigger, hardcover version. The illustrations are great and at the end of the story your kid will get to push a button and make some peaceful musical notes play.
jgononMay 27, 2021
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY
I See a Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPpkaldk84Y
Papa, Please Get The Moon for Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqAw7UM6qo
The Very Quiet Cricket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqAw7UM6qo
The Mixed Up Chameleon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrmZeXf7ScU
"In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf..."
AgentlienonMay 28, 2021
Looking a bit I can't find any of his books in Swedish and neither he nor the caterpillar seem to have a Swedish wiki page.
rmkonApr 12, 2021
- The Runaway Bunny
- Harold and the Purple Crayon
- Grandfather Twilight (for slightly older children)
- Sandra Boynton books
- Max's Breakfast (and other books)
- I Read Signs (Tana Hoban; other books by her also quite good)
- Go! Go! Go! Stop! (Cherise Mericle Harper)
- Little Pea (Amy Krouse Rosenthal)
- Trucks, My Car (and other Byron Barton books)
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle; some other books by this author are also good)
- Roadwork (Sally Sutton; also in the same vein by the illustrator Brian Lovelock: Demolition, Flight of the Honey Bee, The Rain Train).
Many others come to mind, but these are well-loved.
type_enthusiastonMay 28, 2021
It's called "Pancakes, Pancakes!" In it, the protagonist wants to eat some pancakes – but he discovers that in order to do so, he needs to harvest and mill some wheat, milk a cow and churn some butter, and so forth.
I read this to my kids when they were little, and it struck me as actually a pretty good lesson about how much work goes on outside of our house, in order to make Saturday Pancakes possible. But it's not presented in a preachy way at all – more of an excited way, like "isn't it interesting how much background work goes into Saturday Pancakes?".
I credit that book with getting my kids interested in food/cooking and much more than that as well – the seed of thinking about what has to happen for an Amazon box to show up at your door with a particular gizmo.
So I'll pour out some pancake batter for Eric Carle on Saturday morning.