Favorite Children's Books

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What are your favorite children’s books? My son [name]Teddy[/name] absolutely loves to read (I think it’s a family trait) and I always like to give books as presents instead of yet another toy, but I feel like we keep reading and I keep giving the same books over and over again. As much as I love my son and love the fact that he loves to read, I think I’ll scream if I have to read Commotion in the [name]Ocean[/name] again. So please share and help me expand our horizons - what are your favorite children’s books? What are you children’s favorite books?

Thanks!

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[name]How[/name] old is your son?

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He’s 2 (28 months to be exact).

Also, I think I should clarify. He has at least 100 books. He just gravitates to the same few again and again. I’m just wondering what your favorite books are in hope of finding a few new ones he’ll love.

Thanks!

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I still have a huge collection from when I was a child, but here is a list of the more memorable ones:

[name]Minnie[/name] the Witch by [name]Korky[/name] [name]Paul[/name] and [name]Valerie[/name] [name]Thomas[/name]
[name]Hector[/name] An Old [name]Bear[/name] by [name]Dorothy[/name] [name]Butler[/name]
[name]Rose[/name] meets Mr Wintergarten by [name]Bob[/name] [name]Graham[/name]
There’s an alligator under my bed by [name]Mercer[/name] [name]Mayer[/name]*
The Rainbabies by [name]Laura[/name] Krauss Melmed
Uncle [name]Mick[/name]‘s [name]Magic[/name] Trick by [name]Stephen[/name] Scheding*
Wicked [name]Rose[/name] by [name]Sally[/name] [name]Farrell[/name] & [name]Jan[/name] D’[name]Silva[/name]

And of course Marvellous Mr [name]Mcgee[/name] by [name]Pamela[/name] [name]Allen[/name] which was my all time favourite. Anything by [name]Pamela[/name] [name]Allen[/name] is great though.

There is also [name]Enid[/name] Blyton which I adored, though they are quite long but you can always try it out.

The ones I marked with a * are ones I think your son may really enjoy, I know my younger brother loved them.

Also I’m not sure if they are in print anymore as they were published late 80s to early 90s, but you can always try online stores like amazon or book depositry.

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The Velveteen Rabbit
The [name]Princess[/name] and the Pea
[name]Amelia[/name] [name]Bedelia[/name]
Corduroy
The [name]Rainbow[/name] [name]Fish[/name]
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
[name]Madeline[/name]
Anything [name]Doctor[/name] Seuss

My fiance’s nieces and nephew love the Skippyjon [name]Jones[/name] books

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Stellaluna by [name]Janell[/name] [name]Cannon[/name]
Owl Babies by [name]Martin[/name] Waddell
Guess [name]How[/name] Much I [name]Love[/name] You by [name]Sam[/name] McBratney

[name]Kevin[/name] Henkes is a really great children’s author as well. All his books are cute for little kids.

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[name]Love[/name] You [name]Forever[/name] - [name]Robert[/name] Munsch, I think it’s an absolutel staple every child’s library should have!

The Balloon Tree - I can’t recall the author atm

[name]Winnie[/name] The Pooh books

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[name]Sergio[/name] Makes a Splash
Froggy books by [name]Jonathan[/name] [name]London[/name]
Yucka Drucka Droni (this one is lots of fun!)
[name]Don[/name]'t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, and other Pigeon books by [name]Mo[/name] Willems
No [name]David[/name]! and [name]David[/name] gets in Trouble by [name]David[/name] [name]Shannon[/name]

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My nephews and nieces love the dr Seuss books and The [name]Eric[/name] [name]Carle[/name] books. My oldest brother reads goodnight moon to his kids every night.

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Anything [name]Doctor[/name] Seuss. [name]Elijah[/name] loves it when people read to him, I think we have almost all of the [name]Doctor[/name] Seuss books! :slight_smile:

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[name]Stephanie[/name] [name]Elle[/name] <3

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I only know a few childrens books. I love Dr. Seuss, I read and reread all of those many times when I was a child! I still love those books now. I love The Very Hungry Caterpillar. My friends child got this book “[name]Press[/name] Here” by [name]Herve[/name] Tullet that I thought was very cute. It had shapes and colors that the book would tell you to press as you read it. Her son found it to be very fun. At the bookstore I passed by books about Pigeons that were very silly, like Pigeons Have Feelings Too or something. I got a good laugh from it.

I tend to like the childrens books that are beautifully illustrated. Maybe you can bring your son to the bookstore and ask him to pick out a book? Its hard to tell if he’ll love the book as much as his other books but you never know. :slight_smile:

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I have worked in children’s books for a number of years. You should try some classics: [name]Mike[/name] [name]Mulligan[/name] and His Steam Shovel, [name]Ferdinand[/name], Caps for Sale, Pickles the [name]Fire[/name] [name]Cat[/name], [name]Katy[/name] No Pockets, Curious [name]George[/name], Blueberries for [name]Sal[/name], Make [name]Way[/name] for Ducklings, etc. There’s [name]Nancy[/name] Tafuri’s Where is my Duckling, the [name]Eric[/name] [name]Carle[/name] books, the [name]Eric[/name] [name]Hill[/name] Spot books, [name]Rosemary[/name] [name]Wells[/name]'s [name]Max[/name] books, [name]Byron[/name] [name]Barton[/name]'s books (they are all planes, trains, boats, etc), [name]Donald[/name] Crews’s books (again, lots of trains), [name]Nancy[/name] [name]Shaw[/name]'s Sheep In a Jeep books, and a dozen versions of the monkeys jumping on the bed, [name]Jan[/name] [name]Brett[/name]'s books…My very favourite book: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, which is a zany alphabet book that children adore, and anything by [name]Bill[/name] [name]Martin[/name] and [name]John[/name] Archambault. [name]Michael[/name] [name]Rosen[/name]'s books. [name]Kevin[/name] Henkes’s books. [name]Arnold[/name] Lobel’s books. The [name]Little[/name] [name]Bear[/name] books. [name]Frances[/name] the Badger books. Anything by [name]Maurice[/name] Sendak but especially the Nutshell Library which children love. Then to read up, there’s Miss Rumphius by [name]Barbara[/name] Cooney and [name]Wilfred[/name] [name]Gordon[/name] [name]MacDonald[/name] Partridge by Mem [name]Fox[/name]. There’s 17 Kings and 42 Elephants by [name]Margaret[/name] Mahy. Not the Pooh stories but definitely the Pooh poetry books, When I was very [name]Young[/name] and Now I am Six. (My children can still recite the poetry and they are in their 20’s.) Go to your local library or bookstore and look at the Caldecott books. Ask a librarian for more. Oh – A Porcupine Named Fluffy, good book.

If your son wants to read the same books over and over again, it’s perfectly natural and normal. It’s part of the reading process; he’s learning to pre read. You just have to pick up the calibre of book so that you don’t get bored (lol). Personally, Dr Seuss is a little too old for a 2 yr old, except for Mulberry [name]Street[/name]; those are I Can [name]Read[/name] books and you want to hit them at three or so when actual pre reading starts.

I could go on and on so contact me again if you want more. This is my business and I enjoy it! (He’s a little young for my book.)

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My daughter is two and a half, and here are a few she loves that we don’t get tired of reading again and again:

Any of the [name]Frances[/name] books, by [name]Russell[/name] Hoban (Bread and [name]Jam[/name] for [name]Frances[/name], A Birthday for [name]Frances[/name], Bedtime for [name]Frances[/name], A Bargain for [name]Frances[/name])

The Knuffle [name]Bunny[/name] books, by [name]Mo[/name] Willems (Knuffle [name]Bunny[/name], Knuffle [name]Bunny[/name] Too–there is a third one but it’s too sad for me!)

The [name]Lyle[/name] the Crocodile books, by [name]Bernard[/name] Waber (Loveable [name]Lyle[/name] and The House on [name]East[/name] 88th [name]Street[/name] are my daughter’s two favorites. She also loves [name]Ira[/name] Sleeps Over by this author)

The Gruffalo, by [name]Julia[/name] Donaldson (a great one if you do “voices” while you read)

[name]Bear[/name] Snores On, by [name]Karma[/name] [name]Wilson[/name]

365 Penguins, by [name]Jean[/name]-[name]Luc[/name] Fromental

We also love Pooh books, by A.A. Milne–instead of reading the originals, though, we read the Disney ones that are abridged and illustrated. (Some of the newer ones are completely rewritten and much of the charming language is taken out–we prefer to read the ones that are the original text, just shortened.) I don’t know if these are still in print–they are leftover from my childhood, and are [name]Golden[/name] Books. [name]Winnie[/name]-the-Pooh and the [name]Honey[/name] Tree, [name]Winnie[/name]-the-Pooh Meets Gopher, and [name]Winnie[/name]-the-Pooh and [name]Tigger[/name] are the ones we have.

[name]Hope[/name] this helps! I know that it can get so tiresome to read the same book over and over, but they love it so much, right? Last year we were on a long car trip and my daughter started to get bored and cranky. We were almost there and didn’t want to stop, and were lamenting that we’d packed the books in the trunk, unreachable without stopping. Then we realized that all three of us had every book we’d packed memorized anyway!