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My Favorite Book

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My Favorite Book (also known as HBO Family's Book Club) was an interstitial series that aired on HBO Family during commercial breaks. The series debuted on August 26, 2001 and aired a new episode every week until October 2002. The short that ran for two seasons, and divided for spanding 67 episodes. While it debuted the same day as the Jam block, it didn't always air specifically on the block and also aired during HBO Family's "family viewing" movie hour starting at 7pm. Reruns continued until January 2016.

The American Library Association was a major partner in the series.

Synopsis[]

Each episode of the series features young age children discussing and recapping a picture book. Overall, more than 750 children from more than 30 schools throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut were spoken with for the show.

Episodes - Season 1[]

  1. Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman (Random House), aired week of 8/27/01
  2. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archamboult and Bill Martin, Jr., illus. by Lois Ehlert (S&S), aired week of 9/3/01
  3. Eloise by Kay Thompson, illus. by Hilary Knight (S&S), aired week of 9/10/01
  4. Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola (S&S), aired week of 9/17/01
  5. Swimmy by Leo Lionni (Random House), aired week of 9/24/01
  6. The Way of the Willow Branch by Emery Bernhard, illustrated by Durga Bernhard (Harcourt), aired week of 10/1/01
  7. The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister (North-South), aired week of 10/8/01
  8. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett, illus. by Ron Barrett (S&S), aired week of 10/15/01
  9. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst, illus. by Ray Cruz (S&S), aired week of 10/22/01
  10. Abuela by Arthur Dorros, illus. by Elisa Kleven (Penguin Putnam), aired week of 10/29/01
  11. Dog Breath: The Horrible Trouble with Hally Tosis by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic), aired week of 11/5/01
  12. Frederick by Leo Lionni (Random House), aired week of 11/12/01
  13. Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse, illus. by Barbara Lavallee (Chronicle), aired week of 11/19/01
  14. No, David! by David Shannon (Scholastic/Blue Sky), aired week of 11/26/01
  15. Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox, illus. by Julie Vivas (Kane/Miller), aired week of 12/3/01
  16. Click, Clack Moo by Doreen Cronin, illus. by Betsy Lewin (S&S), aired week of 12/10/01
  17. The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy, illus. by Jean and Mou-sien Teng (Scholastic), aired week of 12/17/01
  18. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback (Penguin Putnam), aired week of 12/24/01
  19. Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff (HarperCollins), aired week of 12/31/01
  20. Yoko by Rosemary Wells (Hyperion), aired week of 1/7/02
  21. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Penguin Putnam), aired week of 1/14/02
  22. Stone Soup by Marcia Brown (S&S), aired week of 1/21/02
  23. Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock by Eric A. Kimmel, illus. by Janet Stevens (Holiday House), aired week of 1/28/02
  24. Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells (Penguin Putnam), aired week of 2/4/02
  25. Go, Dog, Go! by P.D. Eastman (Random House), aired week of 2/11/02
  26. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (S&S), aired week of 2/18/02
  27. The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, illus. by Michael Martchenko (Annick Press), aired week of 2/25/02
  28. A Fish Out of Water by Helen Palmer, illus. by P.D. Eastman (Random House), aired week of 3/4/02
  29. Three Cheers for Catherine the Great! by Cari Best, illustrated by Giselle Potter (DK Ink), aired week of 3/11/02
  30. Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats (Penguin Putnam), aired week of 3/18/02
  31. Kate and Mona in the Jungle by Amy Aitken (The Bradbury Press), aired week of 3/25/02
  32. A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon (Scholastic/Blue Sky), aired week of 4/1/02
  33. A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats (Penguin Putnam), aired week of 4/8/02
  34. The Dumb Bunnies by Sue Denim, illus. by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic/Blue Sky), aired week of 4/15/02
  35. The Feather-Bed Journey by Paula Kurzband Feder, illustrated by Stacey Schuett (Albert Whitman), aired week of 4/22/02
  36. Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley (Little, Brown), aired week of 4/29/02
  37. The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey (Orchard), aired week of 5/6/02
  38. Rolling Rose by James Stevenson (Greenwillow), aired week of 5/13/02
  39. Horace and Morris But Mostly Dolores by James Howe, illus. by Amy Walrod (Atheneum), aired week of 5/20/02
  40. Olivia by Ian Falconer (S&S/Schwartz), aired wee of 5/27/02
  41. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (Random House), aired week of 6/3/02
  42. Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel, illus. by Blair Lent (Henry Holt), aired week of 6/10/02
  43. Goldfish Hide-And-Seek by Satoshi Kitamura, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), aired week of 6/17/02
  44. Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh (Houghton Mifflin), aired week of 6/23/02
  45. My New Kitten by Joanna Cole, photographs by Margaret Miller (Morrow Junior Books), aired week of 6/30/02
  46. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton Mifflin), aired week of 7/15/02
  47. A Porcupine Named Fluffy by Helen Lester, illus. by Lynn Munsinger (Houghton Mifflin), aired week of 7/22/02
  48. The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone (Houghton Mifflin), aired week of 8/5/02
  49. Little Lumpty by Miko Imai (Candlewick Press), aired week of 8/12/02
  50. The House on East 88th Street by Bernard Waber (Houghton Mifflin), aired week of 8/19/02
  51. When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth by Jamie Lee Curtis, illus. by Laura Cornell (HarperCollins), aired week of 8/26/02
  52. Bert and Barney by Ned Delaney (Houghton Mifflin), aired week of 8/30/02 SEASON FINALE!!!!!!!

Season 2[]

  1. Fire on the Mountain by Jane Kurtz, illustrated by E.B. Lewis (Simon & Schuster), aired week of 9/7/02 for episode 53
  2. His Finest Hour by David Neuhaus (Viking), aired week of 9/11/02 for episode 54
  3. Jeanne-Marie at the Fair by Françoise (Charles Scribner's Sons), aired week of 9/16/02 for episode 55
  4. The Araboolies of Liberty Street by Sam Swope, illustrated by Barry Root (Crown), aired week of 9/19/02 for episode 56
  5. Bad Dog by Nina Laden (Walker & Company), aired week of 9/23/02 for episode 57
  6. Joe's Junk by Susan Russo (Henry Holt), aired week of 9/27/02 for episode 58
  7. Seven Little Monsters by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins), aired week of 9/30/02 for episode 59
  8. The American Wei by Marion Hess Pomeranc, illustrated by Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan (Albert Whitman), aired week of 10/4/02 for episode 60
  9. Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt (Harcourt), aired week of 10/7/02 for episode 61
  10. Why Heaven Is Far Away by Julius Lester, illustrated by Joe Cepeda (Scholastic), aired week of 10/12/02 for episode 62
  11. The monster at the end of this book by Jon Stone, illustrated by Mike Smollin (Golden Books). aired week of 10/16/02 for episode 63
  12. Another monster at the end of this book by Jon Stone, illustrated by Mike Smollin (Golden Books), aired week of 10/19/02 for episode 64
  13. Where Time Stands Still by Sally Foster (Dodd, Mead), aired week of 10/22/02 for episode 65
  14. Storm by W. Nikola-Lisa, illustrated by Michael Hays (Atheneum), aired week of 10/26/02 for episode 66
  15. Brave Irene by William Steig (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), aired week of 10/29/02 for episode 67 SERIES FINALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trivia[]

  • The series was taped by HSP Productions (which was owned by HBO), which taped each episode of the segment. Addie Dean (who was actually a part of the series) later uploaded most of the episodes on YouTube by 2 parts.
    • The same company even made a VHS tape for A Little Curious, though it was never made to the public.
  • The (now-defunct) HBO Family website renamed the segment HBO Family's Book Club. In fact, there's a link mentioning of it at the end of each episode of the series which was "hbofamily.com/bookclub". Entering it now will lead you to an dead link, possibly because of the website's rebrand in 2007, plus it's discontinuation in 2014.
    • This was in 2001, even though the HBO Family website didn't exist until 2002, the following year.
    • There were even a promo of this show aired on HBO Family's Jam block with the name.
  • This is one of the only interstitials so far that is confirmed that aired on HBO Family without their respective blocks. The others to be confirmed are Booth in the Back, The Way I See It, Frog Blues and HBO Family: 411.
  • Ironically enough, the segment had a episode where the children reviewed the book The Rainbow Fish, which the same channel (this segment aired on) aired a TV show of it.
  • Apparently, the show has originally lasted for a literal exact year.
  • Several of the books featured were previously adapted as part of HBO Storybook Musicals, or later adapted to television series (by other networks) or short films (usually adapted by Weston Woods).
    • Chicka Chicka Boom Boom was adapted by Weston Woods as a short film in 1999, two years prior from this series’ introduction.
    • Cloudy of a Chance of Meatballs was later adapted as an CGI animated movie in 2009, produced by Sony Pictures Animation, and a animated TV series in 2017, produced by DHX Media (now WildBrain), and Corus Entertainment.
    • Martha Speaks was later adapted as an animated series, produced by Studio B Productions, and aired on PBS Kids in 2008.
    • Olivia was later adapted as an animated series, produced by Brown Bag Studios (now owned by 9 Story Media Group), and Chorion, and aired on Nick Jr. in 2009.
    • Go, Dog, Go! was later adapted as a animated streaming series, produced by WildBrain, and released on Netflix in 2021.
    • Three Cheers for Catherine the Great! was adapted by Weston Woods as a short film in 2001, The cut out animation/flash animation was using created with Toon Boom Harmony, and animated by Nelvana Limited. This film had a nominee for 2002 Academy Awards. This film was narrated by the Mexican-American actress Diana Canova.
    • Green Eggs and Ham and Horton Hears a Who were later adapted as specials in the 70s. Later, the latter was adapted as a CGI-animated movie, produced by Blue Sky Studios, and released in 2008. The former was adapted as a animated streaming series, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, and released on Netflix in 2019.
    • The Dumb Bunnies was later adapted as an animated series, produced by Nelvana, and aired in 1999.
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