Can we do a kids book rec thread?

[zarapipe]

I thought it would be fun with the holidays coming up to do a book rec thread. Post what books your kids are loving right now and their ages.

DD- 5.5 yo. is loving Berenstain Bears that I had when I was a kid.

I'm looking for books for her to read. She gets some sent home from K every day but we would like some good early reader books for Christmas.

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DS is 4.5. He loves: Frog and Toad, Little Monster (vintage from when we were kids), Berenstein Bears, The Book With No Pictures, Little Critter
DD is 2. She loves everything. I grabbed her a Frozen book from the dollar store yesterday. Color books, rhyming books, pretty much every board book in creation is a win.

[abs]

DD 5: Fancy Nancy, Pinkalicious, Piggie and Elephant, The Princess in Black

[countthestars]

If you are okay with Disney and princesses, we have a cheap paperback called Polite As A Princess that DD is obsessed with. It's fairly short so not too annoying and DD's manners have improved since we started reading it "I said please. I'm polite like a princess."

For $4 or so, it's not a bad pick up.

We still love Mix It Up as well

[pizzapizza]

Our inlaws bought us the cutest book. It is called Find Momo and it is a photography book with a border collie that you have to locate in pictures taken across the country. My almost 2 year old loves it but I could see kids of all ages enjoying it. Looks like he has another book out that I will probably purchase at some point.

See examples.

[cincodemayo]

DS is 2 and loves the If you Give a Mouse a Cookie series. Right now If you Give a Pig a Pancake is his favorite.

[zarapipe]

pizzapizza she loves look and find books so I bet she would love that one- thanks!

[stephogirl]

Pete the Cat!!!!

Pete the Cat: I Love my White Shoes
Pete the Cat: My Four Groovy Buttons
Pete the Cat: Rockin in My School Shoes
Pete the Cat: Magic Sunglasses


We love Pete the Cat at our house. The above four are my favorites, though there are more. There are dozens of videos on youtube of people reading/performing the books, if you'd like a preview.

[numbers]

For the baby/toddler crowd- DD is 13 months and obsessed with First 100 Words and First 100 Animals.

[electricmayhem]

My kids are into Mo Willems right now: Knuffle Bunny and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus are two currently on repeat. I have some of his Elephant and Piggie series marked on Amazon for DS for Christmas.

They also like Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; Little Blue Truck; The Napping House; Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin!; the Llama Llama books. For Christmas: (some are out of print, but I LOVE the stories): Morris's Disappearing Bag, Socks for Supper, Charlie Brown Christmas.

[crazygame]

My daughter is a few days short of 5. She still loves the John Lithgow books. Lately her favorite books have been any books about animals, so we have been checking out national geographic books and things like that. She also enjoys Magic School Bus books. Ugh, they are so long.

My son is 22 months. He loves anything that can be deemed a "dump truck book." We are currently reading the two Little Blue Truck books he has on repeat. But he will read just about anything.

[anaps28]

numbers my almost 13 month old loves that book too! He LOVES the babies and kids in the book giggles every time he points to one


Where's Waldo is a big hit with my 4.5 yr old. He also loves the Golden Books. For awhile we were stuck in a super hero phase but now we are back to reading everything. My mom recently sent us Dragons love Tacos which is very cute.

[ny96]

J is 2 1/2 and really likes The Adventures of Beekle.

[badtzmaru22]

Nov 3, 2015 11:55:48 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

numbers, agreed on the first 100 words. We also have first 100 trucks and that has been a favourite.

Any of these Roger Priddy books are hits in our house. We have a colors one that is also well-loved. They are usually really cheap on Amazon.

[christy082]

My daughter is 8.5 months and loves Little Owl's Night.

[crazygame]

Nov 3, 2015 13:15:54 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

crazygame do you have a favorite Lithgow book?

My favorites are:

Marsupial Sue (it's a song) or Marsupial Sue and the Runaway Pancake (a play on the gingerbread man)

Mahalia Mouse Goes to College

Micawber

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The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home
Press Here
The Book with No Pictures
Beautiful Oops
Dragons Love Tacos
Iggy Peck Architect and Rosie Revere Engineer
If You Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Just Don't
Harold and the Purple Crayon

[kategm]

22 months. Room on the Broom is king in this house, but probably not what you wanted for a Christmas gift.

[felicity]

numbers DS just recently became obsessed with First 100 Words.

Equally popular right now are the the Going to Bed Book and Baby Touch and Feel Animals. 

ETA: he is 11 months.

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DS is almost 4.

All the "Zen" books by John J Muth. Zen Ties, Zen Shorts, Zen Socks, and Hi Koo. They're BEAUTIFUL watercolor illustrations of a zen panda and his friends.

All 3 "Little Blue Truck" books. The Christmas one with the twinkle lights is his fav right now.

Frog & Toad

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Oh, and the entire "Minerva Louise" series by Janet Morgan Stoeke. There's about a dozen of them. PERFECT for preschoolers. They're about a silly chicken who easily confuses things (thinks Santa is a "farmer in a red coat" for example). DS loooves yelling "NO, you silly chicken! That's Santa!" There's a book for most holidays (Christmas, Halloween, Easter) plus a truck one (@vicmo) and a school one. Among others.

[bullsgirl]

DD is 16 months and loves the Karen Katz lift the flap books. We read "Baby Loves Fall" every night. "Where is Baby's Valetine" and "Go go Baby" (I think that's the name) are also very popular.

[zarapipe]

Nov 3, 2015 13:11:07 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

DS1 is 5.5 and is mostly into chapter books. He's read a bunch of Magic Treehouse and just started the A to Z mystery series. He is also into the Who Would Win books (which give you info on two different animals to asses "who would win") and anything nonfiction about space, dinosaurs, or animals. And Seuss. He also likes The Incredibly Book Eating Boy and The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore.

DS2 is 2.5 and will read pretty much everything but is currently obsessed with Thomas' Christmas Delivery. He still likes Goodnight Gorilla and Little Blue Truck a lot. Pete the Cat and those If You Give a... books (which I hate, lol). Hop on Pop, Harry the Dirty Dog.

Both kids love The Book with No Pictures, the Mo Willems Pigeon books (and Goldilocks and the 3 Dinosaurs), and Mary Ann Hoberman books (All Kinds of Families, One of Each. DS1 has always loved Seven Silly Eaters but it's still a little long for DS2). ETA: They also both like Dragons Love Tacos and Those Darn Squirrels.

What kind of chapter books is your DS reading? DD is in K and is advanced in reading but I have no idea where to start as the books we have are mainly us reading to her except for her bob books. Her teacher sends home books each night for her to read but they are easy and short. They must have a different scale on them because she gets 1 level B a night and 1 level C a night. She knows tons of sight words. All of the different levels I see online has me confused.

[abs]

I cannot get behind the Book With No Pictures love. DD got it for Christmas last year and I immediately "lost" it. I do not like gibberish, lol.

Iggy Peck Architet, Rosie Revere Engineer, and Dragons Love Tacos are all great. The Hug Machine, Beeckle, and Rude Cakes are recent books we all like.

[monsterz]

Jr is 7 we have been reading:
Calvin & Hobbes
Peanuts
Captain Underpants
Junie B Jones
Shel Silverstein

He is starting to do more reading on his own as well. He reads at a C level:
BOB Books
Pete The Cat
Elephant & Piggy
The Dr Seuss Beginner books (The Ear Book, Hop on Pop, etc)

[monsterz]

Nov 3, 2015 14:06:06 GMT -5 zarapipe said:

Nov 3, 2015 13:11:07 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

DS1 is 5.5 and is mostly into chapter books. He's read a bunch of Magic Treehouse and just started the A to Z mystery series. He is also into the Who Would Win books (which give you info on two different animals to asses "who would win") and anything nonfiction about space, dinosaurs, or animals. And Seuss. He also likes The Incredibly Book Eating Boy and The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore.

DS2 is 2.5 and will read pretty much everything but is currently obsessed with Thomas' Christmas Delivery. He still likes Goodnight Gorilla and Little Blue Truck a lot. Pete the Cat and those If You Give a... books (which I hate, lol). Hop on Pop, Harry the Dirty Dog.

Both kids love The Book with No Pictures, the Mo Willems Pigeon books (and Goldilocks and the 3 Dinosaurs), and Mary Ann Hoberman books (All Kinds of Families, One of Each. DS1 has always loved Seven Silly Eaters but it's still a little long for DS2). ETA: They also both like Dragons Love Tacos and Those Darn Squirrels.

What kind of chapter books is your DS reading? DD is in K and is advanced in reading but I have no idea where to start as the books we have are mainly us reading to her except for her bob books. Her teacher sends home books each night for her to read but they are easy and short. They must have a different scale on them because she gets 1 level B a night and 1 level C a night. She knows tons of sight words. All of the different levels I see online has me confused.

Junior is the same reading range as your DD.   I just went to the library and got a ton of different books with different levels to see which ones work best for him as they do all have different levels.  His teacher classified him as a C.   I took out a Pete The Cat which was level K and the two of us read it together.  He read one page and I read one page.  For longer books that seems to work well for him.

 For chapter books we read to him he enjoys the Junie B Jones books.   

[zarapipe]

@monterz that is a good idea to take turns reading a page. That would make the chapter books much less daunting

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DS1 (age 9) likes Geronimo Stilton and The Diary of a Wimpy Kid. He is also starting the "Who Was..." series. This series seems pretty cool. It is by different authors but they are all historical biographies for kids. The titles include Who was Amelia Earhart?, Who was Abraham Lincoln, Who was Babe Ruth, and so on, and so on. There are dozens of them.

DD1 (age 6) has been reading some of the Biscuit the dog books and just started Flat Stanley and National Geographic Kids books.

[ladygrey]

DD has really gotten into the My First Little House series, which is an adaptation of the LHOTP books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Each picture book is based on a story from the series, like Sugar Snow, Dance at Grandpa's, Going West, County Fair, etc. and has snippets of the original text with gorgeous illustrations.

ETA: she is almost 2 1/2

[Alyssa]

My daughter is 6 and loves horses and unicorns right now.  She really likes this one...