how did I forget Hairy Maclairy. glad someone else remembered!
You Choose and Just Imagine are absolute favourites in our house. They also love any of those finding books like Can you See Sassoon by Sam Usher, the usborne look and find books etc.
Might be worth looking at some non fiction Usborne books too. They do a Beginners range which are actually for Book Band 8/9 readers (about 6-7 year olds I think) which could then multitask a bit especially if your daughter starts reading well. They do everything from under the sea, your body, why do we eat, weather, planet earth, the solar system, night animals etc. beautiful pictures, great for kids to look at, easy for you to read to them and them to learn from but then good when they start reading. There is also a set I have just bought from the Book People which is called The Nature Year - 12 books, one per month about wildlife round the world. Split into the different continents. Illustrations rather than photos but a nice little set, small books and might be interesting given you are living somewhere different.
oh and Giraffes can't dance is another good book.
I dread to think how many books we have, it is quite scary and now my 5 year old is on early readers and simple chapter books we are adding to the collection too.
Planning for the future will your daughter go to an International school and therefore be learning in English? (not sure if you are Korean speakers) Just thinking that whilst lots of people don't like them, a couple of the early Peter and Jane books might be useful as well once she starts learning to read. My kids loved them. you would only need a couple to introduce basic words, 1a and 1b use the same words but in a different story - 16 words I think in total, 1c is writing based so would ignore that. 2a and 2b introduce some more words again same words but 2 stories. Or some of the basic phonics books as you won't be able to get those out there. Perhaps the Julia Donaldson songbirds phonics as they are quite fun reading but lots of people like Read Write Inc ones (my eldest hated them, didn't like the pictures or stories). My 5 year old learned to read with a combination of songbirds phonics, Peter and Jane and then the Read at home Biff chip and kipper ones, my just turned 4 year old is doing the same. If you are out there 3 years and you obviously love books then worth thinking about them.
others I have just thought of
Owl Babies
the Owl who was afraid of the dark
Julia Donaldson has done a poetry book too, saw it on our shelf yesterday - wriggle and roar I think it is called.
The Cat in the Hat knows a lot about that. - Safari So Good, all about african wildlife, Ice is Nice all about the North and south poles and Why oh Why are Deserts Dry all about Deserts. fun way to learn about things but also fun to read to children.
Lots of kids love Charlie and Lola books (drove us mad, we hated reading them), my girls like Princess Poppy (Daddy has gone on strike with those though and I doubt they would really appeal to your son although he is still very young so he might quite like them, they are harmless)
Don't forget if you celebrate Christmas to look for some Christmassy books too as you won't be able to get them so want to put some on your list or get before hand so you can read them in the lead up to Christmas. Happy Christmas Blue Kangaroo or might be Merry Christmas, can't remember, but that is lovely. Can't think of others at the moment as we have put them all away but The Snowman obviously.