Hi Ladies,

I am wanting to update my 2 toddlers book collection & am just wondering what are some of the favourite books out there amongest your toddlers. I love reading to them and they are always wanting MORE book time so any suggestions would be great.

Thanks in advance

We love (but you may already have)

Hattie and the Fox
Where's the Green Sheep
The Hungry Caterpillar
Who Sank the Boat

Anything with a rhyme is much loved here!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Dear Zoo & Dear Santa
The Waterhole

They are the ones all 4 of my kids just read constantly & I've had to get more of over the years.

Poosum Magic
The Green Sheep
Shoes from Grandpa

Are all favourites around here.

Room on the Broom - Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
All of Graeme Base's books! I'm a huge fan!

Diary of a Wombat
Wombat Devine - I know it is Christmas but DD won't let it go

mmmm maybe we have a wombat problem

and the latest

The Gruffalo

almost anything Pamela Allen, Who sank the boat and Pear in the Pear Tree in particular.
Where is the Green Sheep, Gruffalo, and Peepo

My DS LOVES Stickybeak which was one of my favourites too when I was little.

There's a House Inside My Mummy is going down well right now.
Peepo
When No Ones Looking on the Farm
Tiger
Pete the Sheep
Diary of a Wombat - which I love too because its hilarious. As is Baby Wombats Week.
Where's the Green Sheep

DS has so many but these are his favourites of the moment. It will probably change by next week.

One of my favourites is Henry and Amy (Right-way-round and upside-down) by Stephen Michael King. Although in my current (hormonal) state, I get choked up reading it. It has a lovely storyline.

I absolouty love the Big Red Bath by Julia Jarman

Also good:

Rumble in the Jungle by Giles Andreae

other favourites have already been meantioned...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Where is the Green Sheep

Just taking a quick look at our bookcase our favorites would be

Roaring Rocket, Dazzling diggers, Terrific trains etc series
Olga the Brolga, Edward the Emu, Edwina the Emu etc
The Little Yellow Digger, The Little Yellow digger at the Zoo, The Little Yellow Digger goes to School.
That's not my.....train/fairy/truck/lion/tractor etc
Found you little Wombat, Sometimes I like to Curl up in a Ball,
The Gruffalo
We're all going on a bear hunt
Boo to a Goose
You Choose
Whose.... ears/feet/poo/tail etc
Olivia
Hairy Maclary etc
Commotion in the Ocean, Farmyard Hullaballoo, etc

And they never took off with any of my 3 (6, 4 and 1.5) but were favourites from when I was a kid were:
The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch
The Tiger that came to tea
Katie Morag and ...several in the series LOL!

Gosh we've got so many books. Both DD (3) and DS (8 mths) love books. Some of the favourites are:

Big Red Bath
Where is the green sheep?
Hooray for Fish
We're going on a bear hunt
Giraffe's can't dance

We go to the library each week and borrow a selection of books so they never get bored. This is also good for "fads" like Olivia or Charlie & Lola.

Oh yes definitely any Hairy Maclary books!

Spot, especially the Lift-the-flap Spot books that are quite often at the post office in the book packs. DD, who is 2.5yrs just dragged it out which reminded me.

The Green Sheep
Shoes from Grandpa
Time For Bed
Going On A Bear Hunt
Charlie & Lola
Josephine Loves To Dance (not sure if this is the title)

Where is the Green Sheep

We're all Going On a Bear Hunt

Rainbow Fish

these 3 are the top of the pick whihc my DS can recite on his own

My 3 year old likes shakespear

ooh great lists everyone - I need to get "We're all going on a bearhunt" one I bet ds would love that.
thanks for posting.

Oh and ours atm is anything Dr Seuss.

Just wondering..do you buy the books to read or get them from the library? I have bought a few but can't afford new ones all the time so am thinking of heading to the library more but then if a book did become a fave it would have to go back

I love you forever. I love that book. It always made me cry. DD knows the main part my memory now. It's so cute

Mem fox 's books are great!!
My boys love Sleepy Bears and Time for bed

Other books that are read and read and read are:

Say Hello to the Animals by Ian Whybrow and Tim Warnes
Can you Cuddle Like a Koala by John Butler
Sometimes I like to curl up in a ball
The gruffalo
Going on bear hunt

All of Rod Cambell's books
All of the Hairy Maclary books

I really don't like Pamela Allen books though - Who sank the boat is good....But all the rest of her books don't make a lot of sense to me. We got a 4 pack book set from the post office of her books and I thought they were terrible

We get most of our books from the library, as DS (nearly 2.5) likes new ones, but two of the durable favourites are Uno's Garden (Graeme Base) and Charlie Cook's Favourite Book (Julia Donaldson & Alex Scheffler). DS has liked these for ages, and I can't see the attraction waning anytime soon (for him or me!) He's a bit over the Green Sheep. ATM he's also into Hairy Maclary and other Lynley Dodd books (like the Nickle Nackle Tree). Oh, and pretty much any large-format coffee table book with interesting photographs.

Nickle nackle tree
Hairy Mclary books
Hooray for fish
dear zoo
fox in socks
brown bear (eric carl)
the magic hat (a big fave)

Ds is a big reader, he loves these ones-

Wilfred Gordon MacDonald Partridge
Where the Wild Things Are
The Terrible Plop
Anything Spot (Lift the flap)
Hungry Caterpillar
Possum Magic
Wombat Diary/ Baby Wombat Diary
The Mole Who Knew it Was None of His Business
Urban Babies Wear Black
The Little Yellow Digger
Not a Stick/Not a Box

and anything with songs and rhymes.

Olivia

"Where going on a bear hunt", both my kids loved this story and when my son was 2 he would not sleep until I read it to him.
I can't part with the book now though LOL
sien

My two like different things. DD is captivated by words and rhyming, DS is more interested in the illustrations and will sit for ages flicking through books on his own.

Where is the green sheep?
My cat likes to hide in boxes
Hairy McLairy series
The Hungry Caterpillar
Dear Zoo
There's a Hippo on the roof eating cake/getting sunburnt etc
Hooray for Fish
Commotion in the Ocean
Drac and the Gremlin
The Family Book

We get about 8-10 books from the library each fortnight. It's the only way we keep up!! I tend to buy a book though if we borrow it and they love it.

DS loves books. He has heaps but the current favourites are:
- any in the night garden ones
- any of pocoyo
- elmo's puppies
- angel baby

When people buy, where do they usually get their books from? I'm wondering where to start buying some from (our library doesn't have much) that aren't going to cost the earth..

Oooh, that's a big favourite in this house too. I only heard about it from watching Friends when Joey read it as a monologue for Rachel's baby, and thought it was so sweet. Had no idea if it was a real book, but I googled the recurring passage and found it on Amazon! So sweet, although the mum is a bit of a stalker towards the end when she travels across town and lets herself into her grown son's house and bedroom in the middle of the night to watch him sleep I always say to DD, don't worry, mummy won't do that to you

Mem Fox is popular in our house.

Toffee in Trouble the twins like as some of the words are written in different writing and they like to say them.

Hippo's Can Swim, Big and Little, The Muddled Up Farm - came in a book pack from Target.

Guess How Much I Love You is also one they love hearing.

Am I the only person who hates Dr Seuss and has done since being a kid ?

We get some of our books from second hand bookstores, and the book packs from the post office and Target are good too.

DS loves books but one of his favourites are the Mr Men books. I have the boxed set and he wants it read to him all the time.

A lot of our favourites have already been mentioned here...

Hairy Maclary - heaps in the range, all fantastic
Bear hunt
THe Gruffalo (and the gruffalo's child)
Room on a broom
Pamela Allen - any by her
How to catch a star - gorgeous story!
Mem Fox - a bit hit and miss, but most are good
Where the wild things are
Bumbletum
Diary of a Wombat (and am currently waiting on Diary of a baby wombat - it looks gorgeous!)
Actually, I like most of Jackie French's books



I am big on buying books, we have a massive number of books including short stories which I have started reading to my 3yo at bed time.

I buy almost all of my books from Book Depository. Their prices are really cheap compared to buying here, and postage is free.

Where is the green sheep
Anything with colours, letters, numbers and/or shapes.
Spot

Some great suggestions here already, so I'll just add that my two really like the Charlie and Lola stories.




My boys were lucky. I'm an EC Teacher, so had a huge collection of books ready to go My Mum and Granny also saved our favourite books from when we were young so we have a lot of second hand books too.

My DD (and I!) love these ones..

Possum Magic
Edward the Emu
Edwina the Emu
Mr Archimede's Bath
books about Dorothy the Dinosaur
Hungry Catapiller
Giraffe's can't Dance (love this one!)
Green Sheep
We're going on a Bear Hunt
the Hairy MaClairy books

really, anything.. I love the ones that rhyme, and have a rhythm to them. They're fun to read.

Most have already been mentioned but the ones my DS always comes back to are:

The Grufflalo
Room on the broom
The Smartest Giant in Town
Brown Bear Brown Bear
All Dr Suess
Hairy MacLairy Series
Dont forget the bacon
Each peach pear plum
Who sank the boat
Widdle Waddle Giggle Gargle
Where is the green sheep

WHere do we get them all from?
3 children, 7 years of buying for birthdays, Christmas', pre-school and school scholastic catalogues. I don't actually think I've spent more than $15 on a book and that 2 coffee and banana bread around here

we also belong to the 3 libraries around us and find time to visit at least 1 weekly. when something becomes a keeper (especially for Mr 6) then we'll go and start to collect the set.

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Wow, so many responses & so many great ideas for new books, a huge thank you !!

I have also been buying my kids books from the book depository free postage & very cheap books.

Favourites in my household are: -

Greensheep
The tiger who came to tea
Dear Zoo
Goodnight me
& anything digger related!

Thanks again ladies

Shoes from Grandpa - Mem Fox.

We love these. I personally find much of Mem Fox and Pamela Allen boring.

Also Gruffalo
Tony Mitton books - Spooky Hour, Dinosaurumpus

Room on the broom
Amy and Louis (great if you have absent friends and family)
Maisy books
any lift the flap books.

My dad, my sister, my brother, my mum ect.
who's poo, who's feet ect. Jennifer rowe?

So many great suggestions - especially lots of ideas for digger books that the boys will love.

We love 'One ted fell out of bed' by Julia Donaldson - great rhymes, has some counting and the sweetest bed time story ever.


:-)

Redchick

DD is 4.5. Her fave books at the moment are the Mr Men books (or Little Miss). She also loves Charlie and Lola, Pamela Allen books, and Beatrix Potter.

http://www.juliadonaldson.co.uk/bigbooks.htm

We have The Monkey Puzzle and The Gruffalo. I would like to get the others.

DD loke s too many books to name here. At the moment we are reading the ones in the cat in the hat range written by P.D Eastman.
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=htt...ved=0CBYQ9QEwBA

Green Eggs and Ham
Cat in the Hat
Are you my mother?
Guess how much I love you
The Gruffalo
The Gruffalo's child
The entire Little Miss series.
Lettice the bunny books
Zigby the Zebra

She's got heaps more, gosh I can't remember any more, thats a bit sad

I've got a lot of Enid Blyton and Graeme Base for the next few years too.

DD & DS both love books in general, so any kids/toddler books work a treat, but their absolute favourite story books are the 'That's Not My....' board books I think we own about 18!! They both love them!

I also use the book depository for all my books. They usually come really quickly too.

A favourite 'digger' book (with lots of great language) in our house is 'roadworks'.

DS1's fav book when he was a toddler was The Rattletrap Car by Phyllis Root.

DS2 atm loves Dig Dig Digging by Margaret Mayo & Alex Ayliffe, and now also Choo Choo Clickety Clack by the same authors.

Spot with life the flaps is also another fav