What is your toddler's favourite bedtime story?

[Pointlessfan]

DD is almost 2. She has just started to enjoy a bedtime story. Just looking for recommendations!

[BondJayneBond]

Books DS2 (2.2 yrs) likes a lot at the minute include

Janet and Allan Ahlberg - The Baby's Catalogue, Each Peach Pear Plum, Peepo
Julia Donaldson - A Squash and a Squeeze
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Goodnight Tractor

He also likes books featuring favourite TV characters like Thomas the Tank Engine and In The Night Garden books, and lift the flap books, although he's not very gentle with the flaps yet.

[Pointlessfan]

Thank you. DD isn't very gentle with flaps either, most have been sellotaped back into the books!

[HoggleHoggle]

Mog
Tiger who came to tea
Whatever next
Peace at last
Funnybones
Elmer

He also loves twas the night before Christmas at the moment!

[ProbablyMe]

He's a huge 18 year old now but DS1 loved Dear Zoo. I can still repeat all of it now! Also the Bartholemew Bear books.

[CheeseEMouse]

A bit lost, by Chris Haughton. My favourite modern book. Plus the rest of his are worth a look.

Bear hunt and Each Peach are popular. I like the Gruffalo. The toddler likes Topsy and Tim but they are deathly boring.

[FattySantaRobin]

DS1 was obsessed with the gruffalo. We had to have it every night from the age of 18 months to 4 years. I can still recite it now.
DD will be 2 in a few days. She loves the smartest giant in town. She's not as obsessive over it as DS1 was over the gruffalo
DS2 is 18 weeks and just loves hearing me talk and he tries to grab the its not my books when I'm reading with his sister and hes meant to be feeding.

[MammaLex]

Hairy Mclary from Donaldsons dairy

[Pointlessfan]

Thanks, she likes the Bear Hunt, Dear Zoo and the new Mog book. Will look out for some of the others.

[WanderingTrolley1]

Peace at last
Dear Santa (dug out recently)

[mrsmortis]

Owl Babies
Aliens Love Underpants
Hairy Mclary
Where's my darling daughter
Giraffes can't Dance (we're big Strictly fans in my house)

[RatOnnaStick]

Anything Thomas related usually

This week though we have Dear Santa, which is a take on Dear Zoo. Other perennials are

Wow Said The Owl
Hugless Douglas
Shark in the Park
How to Grow a Dinosaur
Harry and his fucking Bucket full of Dinosaurs
Any of the Apple Tree Farm series
Stick Man
The Bad Tempered Ladybird
What the Ladybird Heard
Paddington
Anything non-fiction related to cars, racing, trains etc.
Daddy's Autosport
etc etc etc...

[schmalex]

My DSs are having a digger/truck phase so it's all
Dig Dig Digging
Pirates Don't Drive Diggers
Goodnight Digger
Digger & Skip
You get the picture...!

[Pointlessfan]

She actually loves diggers/lorries/buses and animals so I think a lot of these would go down well. I've got The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark for Xmas, I can't wait to read it, it was a childhood favourite for me!
Thanks for all the suggestions.

[Leviticus]

Dig dig digging is a huge favourite, it has a nice rhythm to it and ends with them all going to sleep.

[mrsmugoo]

We're going on a fucking Bearhunt

[MaximoosesMum]

One ted falls out of bed.

[PuppyMouse]

We recently had a friend recommend Please Mr Panda. It's very weird but if you have a quirky sense of humor it's fab and DD loves it...

Barry the Fish with Fingers is also a firm favourite...

[HoggleHoggle]

I also like Please Mr Panda. Definitely weird, but funny.

[middlings]

Sue Hendra books - No-Bot, Barry The Fish with Fingers etc.

Huge hits.

Also, an older one, Tikki-Tikki Tembo - they love the rhythm of it and are hugely amused that I can rattle off the whole name without looking at the book - it's woven into normal conversation quite regularly

[Pointlessfan]

Thanks for all the recommendations. Got 10 Julia Donaldson books for £10 today - really looking forward to reading them to DD.

[coops5033]

Another good thought for toddler bedtime stories are good quality personalised books. A friend recommended a website amazingpages.co.uk which do really nice books that you can personalise with a photo and make the story all about them. DD really loves hers and asks for it all the time! Also, you can't go wrong with Julia Donaldson. Paper Dolls is a beautiful book!

[CEOD]

Toddlers favourites:
The Gruffalo
Dig Dig Digging (and Emergency by same author)
Owl Babies
WeÄre going on a Bear Hunt
Peepo
Each Peach Pear Plum
Sally's Secret (Shirley Hughes - younger toddlers will love her Katie and Olly series)
Dogger! (also Shirley Hughes)

[NeedsAMousekatool]

DD loves Hide and Seek Pig and Postman Bear, both are nice lift the flap books and not too long.