Toddlers & preschoolers: favorite books?

[slug*bug]

We're on the hunt for some new books to add to our favorites: what are your toddlers and pre-schoolers loving?

Our current favorites:

Going to the Firehouse by Mercer Mayer
I Like Bugs by Margaret Wise Brown
Llama Llama Wakey Wake and Llama Llama Nighty Night (both board books) by Anna Dewdney
Olivia, Olivia Saves the Circus and well, really, anything involving Olivia! All by Ian Falconer.

[madringal]

The whole Llama Llama collection (Red Pajama, Mad at Mama, Holiday Drama, Home with Mama)

Pinkalicious (and Purplicios, Silverlicious, Goldilicious)

[beaver12]

My DD is almost 3 and loves the Little Critter and Berenstien Bear books. We also like Wemberly Worried, the Little People flap books, anything by Dr. Seuss or Cat in the Hat branded books.

[beaver12]

We also like Sandra Boynton's books.

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The Pout Pout Fish
Z is for Moose
Diary of a Wombat
Bear Snores On
One (by Kathryn Otoshi)
It's a Book
Chick 'n Pug
Don't Let Pigeon Drive the Bus

All of these are a hit in 3+ story time.

[pierogigirl]

All of the How Do Dinosaurs books (Say Goodnight, Eat Their Food, Play With Friends, etc)

Kevin Henkes books, especially Owen

A House For Hermit Crab and other Eric Carle books

[Jem]

Jul 30, 2012 17:20:48 GMT -5 @libgrl said:

The Pout Pout Fish

Don't Let Pigeon Drive the Bus

All of these are a hit in 3+ story time.

DS LOVES all the Pigeon books.

He's also big on Kevin Lewis books right now - specifically Chugga Chugga Choo Choo and My Truck is Stuck.

[nannersp]

Yup, all the Pigeon Books. And the series w/ The Little Pea, The Little Hoot, and The Little Oink, I think. There's also "Stuck" and "Not A Stick."

[geneg]

Big Rabbit's Bad Mood! It's awesome!

[liveintheville]

Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Williams (same author as the Pigeon series).
Curious George books
The Gruffalo
Dr. Seuss
That's not my...
Click Clack Moo (and the others in the series)
Olivia
Sandra Boynton

Recently we've been reading chapters of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

[h]

Dr. Meow's Big Emergency
Chief Rhino to the Rescue
Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Caps for Sale
Wild About Books
Dr. DeSoto
Soloman and the Rusty Nail
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Richard Scarry books
Berenstain Bears books
Arthur books

[definitelyO]

Little Critters
Curious George
Clifford the big red dog
Berenstein Bears
any and all Dr. Suess
If you give a mouse a muffin and the other books in that series
around age 4 we started reading Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little and he loves those!

[blue1980]

Anything by Dr. Suess
The Giving Tree
Fancy Nancy
Tallulah's Tutu
Cinderella
Where the Wild Things Are
Any of the Olivia books
All time favorite = The Big Red Barn

[darnkatz]

A Drop of Blood - Paul Showers
The Lorax - Dr. Suess
I'm the Scariest Thing in the Castle - Kevin Sherry
But Not the Hippopotamus - Sandra Boynton
Bernard's Nap - Joan Goodman
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories - Dr. Suess
The Biggest Cookie in the World - Linda Hayward
If You Give a Moose a Muffin - Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Very Quiet Cricket - Eric Carle
Bear Snores On - Karma Wilson
Stellaluna - Janell Cannon
I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed! - Lauren Child
Rah, rah, radishes! A vegetable chant - April Pulley Sayre
Knuffle Bunny series - Mo Willems

[drloretta]

Anything by Sandra Boynton, in particular Pajama Time
We put together a baby book on shutterfly to read to her
The That's Not My... series by Usborne Books
The Sleepy Way Home
Potty
Knuffle Bunny (Mo Willems rocks) and that whole series (I think there are 3)

[slug*bug]

Jul 30, 2012 19:49:22 GMT -5 liveintheville said:

Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Williams (same author as the Pigeon series).

I just saw these last night for the first time: they look fantastic!

And Hens, I'm glad someone else is still liking Cloudy w/a Chance of Meatballs: I gave it to one of my nephews as a gift before our kids were born and got a :-| which made me sad. It was one of my favorites as a kid and from age 2-2 1/2ish, it was consistently the book DS would choose first: I think he really got into the illustrations. It's packed up right now for our move...I can't wait to get it back out.

[perhapsprincess]

One of my son's favorites at that age was "The Biggest THing in the Ocean"

[dr.girlfriend]

DS loves this book we got on the Borders clearance rack: Detective Dinosaur. They are nice short stories too!

Mine is hardcover, but the paperback is only $3!

www.amazon.com/Detective-Dinosaur-Can-Read-Book/dp/0064442357/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343836527&sr=8-1&keywords=detective+dinosaur

We also have the blue and red Curious George anthologies that he loves.

[thatgirl2478]

Pretty much all of them - but here are the one's we have to read ALL THE TIME:

What Makes a Rainbow?
That's not my Kitten!
The Napping House
Mother Goose Rhymes
Hand Hand Finger Thumb

ANY touchy feely book

She has an alphabet book that shows pictures of items that begin with that letter and then shows the name of the item - she LOVES it.

[definitelyO]

Aug 1, 2012 10:56:08 GMT -5 dr.girlfriend said:

DS loves this book we got on the Borders clearance rack: Detective Dinosaur. They are nice short stories too!

Mine is hardcover, but the paperback is only $3!

www.amazon.com/Detective-Dinosaur-Can-Read-Book/dp/0064442357/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343836527&sr=8-1&keywords=detective+dinosaur

We also have the blue and red Curious George anthologies that he loves.

DS loved Detective Dinosuar and thought they were so funny!

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A little off topic but...I was ordering books for my library's holiday collection today and there are some great series that are putting out Christmas books this year...

The Christmas Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood
Christmas Wombat by Jackie French (I LOVE Diary of a Wombat)
Dinosaur vs. Santa by Bob Shea
How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas by Jane Yolen
Pete the Cat Saves Christmas by Eric Litwin
Scaredy Squirrel Prepares for Christmas by Melanie Watt

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Our almost 4 yo is really into the Richard Scarry books lately.

Our 2 yo loves the Eric Carle books.