Favorite kids books for little ones?

[sonrisa]

I'm putting together an order for DD and presents for other kids. What are your faborite toddler, preschooler or kindergardener books?

[eb777888]

The Brown Bear Series was his favorite. He also liked Todd Parr books when he was little. ALso I Love You Through and Through (that was my favorite, lol).

Now he likes the Pinkalicious series, the No David series, Llama Llama Series, the Bernstein Bears, Splat the Cat. I also bought him Where The Sidewalk Ends and read him some of the poems. He loves them. He'll be five in a few weeks.

[BunnyMacDougal]

Cec is just discovering Llama Llama. They're not my favorite but she loves them.

The ones she really loves are:
Peter Rabbit (and all the rest)
Charlie and Lola series
Runaway Bunny
Maisy the Mouse series (which she's now using to sound out words)

And this one is still the favorite: The Sandwich Swap by Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan. It has been over a year that she has been asking for it often and calling it her favorite. My mom's gradeschool bff gave it to DD with an inscription (that we must always read too). I actually really like it for the content and think DD does in part also. Cute pictures, a tale of two school buddies, a food fight.....and the writing is cute.


ETA:  Berenstain Bears and Usborne series "That's Not My....(fill in the blank object)"  Also using that one for sounding out words.  Used it for a tactile board book when she was really little.  Also No David.

[wannabe]

The bean and I are reading Charlotte's Web right now and loving every moment.

[ElizabethBennet]

Her favorites right now are the pigeon books, she belly laughs when we read them.

She also likes the Knuffle Bunny series, Olivia, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, and Piggies by Audrey Wood (the art is this book is amazing).

[themysteriouswife]

David Shannon was one of DD's favorite authors.

[sugarbear]

We love Llama Llama, Goddnight Construction Site, and the "That's Not My..." Series.

[themysteriouswife]

Oct 16, 2013 22:12:01 GMT -5 wannabe said:

The bean and I are reading Charlotte's Web right now and loving every moment.

My child will not sit still for that one. I can't wait for her to read it.

[ElizabethBennet]

Oh, and Goodnight Gorilla was another favorite for a long time

[litebright]

Sandra Boynton. Her board books are hilarious and awesome. The Going to Bed Book and Hippos Go Berserk are two of my personal favorites, and the first time I read 15 Animals it made me LOL. My girls also love Blue Hat, Green Hat.

Ditto Brown Bear.

And pretty much anything by Julia Donaldson. The Gruffalo is awesome and it was made into an adorable, Oscar-nominated animated short film. The Gruffalo's Child is good, but not quite as good as the original. The Snail and The Whale is great, and right now my girls are loving Room on the Broom.


ETA: Oh, and for Harry Potter lovers, the Gruffalo animated movie is a hoot and full of familiar voices -- Helena Bonham Carter, John Hurt (Ollivander) and Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) as the Gruffalo. 

[angelaa73]

Oct 16, 2013 22:08:58 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

The Brown Bear Series was his favorite. He also liked Todd Parr books when he was little. ALso I Love You Through and Through (that was my favorite, lol).

Now he likes the Pinkalicious series, the No David series, Llama Llama Series, the Bernstein Bears, Splat the Cat. I also bought him Where The Sidewalk Ends and read him some of the poems. He loves them. He'll be five in a few weeks.

Does he live in my house!?!?

[snipsnsnails]

Current faves right now are:

Any and all Mo Willems' books forever and ever
Freight Train (no story, beautiful illustrations)
All Pete the Cat incarnations
Not a Box
Wacky Wednesday
The Lorax Pop-Up Edition

[eb777888]

Oct 16, 2013 22:20:31 GMT -5 angelaa73 said:

Oct 16, 2013 22:08:58 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

The Brown Bear Series was his favorite. He also liked Todd Parr books when he was little. ALso I Love You Through and Through (that was my favorite, lol).

Now he likes the Pinkalicious series, the No David series, Llama Llama Series, the Bernstein Bears, Splat the Cat. I also bought him Where The Sidewalk Ends and read him some of the poems. He loves them. He'll be five in a few weeks.

Does he live in my house!?!?

Haha! Sounds like your kids have good taste.

[underwaterrhymes]

I'm watching this thread. Every December, H and I want to give K a book a day for the 2 weeks leading up to Christmas.

I'm already tired of the books we have, so it will be fun to breathe life into his collection every year.

We like Peas on Earth right now, but the appeal for K is that it is easy to stuff in his mouth. So probably a little young for your daughter.

[angelaa73]

Also, don't laugh but you gotta check out jamie lee Curtis as childrens book writer. She is fucking
BOSS

[Deleted]

Mo Willems and David Shannon books are all big favorites here. Esp. Edwina the Dinosaur (and you clearly share our love of Knuffle Bunny)!
Sandra Boynton books are so great for young toddlers, too.
Dr. Seuss and Are You My Mother are much loved

[fivechickens]

Oct 16, 2013 22:20:29 GMT -5 litebright said:

Sandra Boynton. Her board books are hilarious and awesome. The Going to Bed Book and Hippos Go Berserk are two of my personal favorites, and the first time I read 15 Animals it made me LOL. My girls also love Blue Hat, Green

We love them her books too. Happy Hippo Angry Duck and Barnyard Dance are my current favorites.

[cbwm1]

Skippyjon Jones
If You Give A (Mouse A Cookie, Pig a Pancake, Moose A Muffin, etc)

Sandra Boynton books

[pixelpassion]

-Corduroy
-Eloise
-The Giving Tree
-Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, A Light in the Attic

As you can see, I'm a huge Shel Silverstein fan.

[daisyheadmaizie]

Oct 16, 2013 22:22:50 GMT -5 farmvillelover said:

noah is only 21 months but he currently loves

- don't let the pigeon drive the bus
- yum yum dim sum --- wannabe
- my first book of sushi
- little blue truck
- corduroy

There is a sequel to little blue truck, he visits the city. It is cute, not as good as the first one, but still a hit in our house.

Other favorites: 
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Jamberry
Going on a Bear Hunt
Giraffes Can't Dance and pretty much any book by Giles Andreae 
Moo, Baa, La, La, La
Snuggle Puppy
Clifford series
Arthur series
Firebears the Rescue Team  
Big Words for Little People is checked out every time we find it at the library
Llama Llama series
Amelia Bedelia

[joenali]

Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems

[purplelemon]

Gruffalo, Llama llama and Pete the Cat are favorites right now.

[janiejones]

Are you ordering online, or like through scholastic?

[Dumbledork]

Amy Krouse Rosenthal - 'Chopsticks', 'Spoon' is good too but we loved Chopsticks, 'Plant a Kiss',
Andrea Beaty - 'Iggy Peck, Architect' and 'Rosie Revere, Engineer'
Patrick McDonnell - 'Hug Time', 'Art', 'Me...Jane', 'South'
Weird Al Yankovich - 'When I Grow Up' (I know, it's Weird Al, but this stupid book made me cry it was sweet. He has a new one, 'My New Teacher and Me' but we haven't read it yet.)
Isaac Millman- Moses series. We really like "Moses Goes to a Concert"

ETA: DD is 4. These are the books she's repeatedly checked out from the library.

ETA2: Jessica Meserve - 'Bedtime Without Arthur'
Robin Pulver - 'Saturday is Dadurday'

[litebright]

Oct 16, 2013 23:15:52 GMT -5 FormerlyRR said:

::sobs::
Nobody has said Dr Seuss? Maurice Sendak? Harold and the Purple Crayon? Blueberries for Sal?
I'm old. Damnitalltohell.

If it makes you feel better, we have Seuss, Sendak (Wild Things) and Harold in our book collection. They just aren't favorites.

I loved Seuss as a kid, but many of his books annoy me as an adult. I still think The Cat in the Hat is genius, and there are other good ones like The Sneetches, but in some of the books it seems like he's just sticking Y's and Z's on words in order to make them "silly", and it just goes on and on and on. Fox in Socks and Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are drive me crazy for that reason, and as much as I like some parts of One Fish Two Fish, it's so random-yet-repetitive that it gets tedious.

Seuss's best books are the ones with a plot, IMO.

However, some of the classics that I do love to read to my kids and that they like are:
Put Me in the Zoo
Are You My Mother
The Diggingest Dog
Frog & Toad

[sonrisa]

Thanks!

We love many of the books listed and there are a ton of great new suggestions.

[sonrisa]

Oct 16, 2013 22:22:03 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

I'm watching this thread. Every December, H and I want to give K a book a day for the 2 weeks leading up to Christmas.

I love this idea! 

I'll have to add some more of our favorites to suggest to you :-)

[sonrisa]

Oct 16, 2013 23:47:36 GMT -5 farmvillelover said:

sonrisa is your dd in preschool? you may want to ask if her daycare/prek participates in scholastic reading club. really great age appropriate books for fantastic prices.

Great idea

[ElizabethBennet]

Oct 16, 2013 23:15:52 GMT -5 FormerlyRR said:

::sobs::
Nobody has said Dr Seuss? Maurice Sendak? Harold and the Purple Crayon? Blueberries for Sal?
I'm old. Damnitalltohell.

My kid will not sit still for Dr.Seuss and it breaks my heart because I love them. I'm hoping that one day she'll realize what she's missing out on.

[bugandbibs]

In addition to others already posted, everything Karen Katz, Amelia Bedelia, and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.