Books for two year old boys

[harkharkhark]

I am sure there's lots of posts about this, but I can't find them...! Any recommendations? Thanks

[iseenodust]

Elmer the elephant - nice & colourful
Percy the parkeeper
Rod Campbell's

You need the children's books thread eg
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/childrens_books/1574832-Toddler-friendly-books-about-space

[mycatlikestwiglets]

DS is coming up to 2 and he loves the Gruffalo and Gruffalo's child, Pants, anything with lift up flaps, anything with lots of colourful animals in it. BIL recently bought him the Baby that Roared, which I can highly recommend. DS really enjoys roaring through it.

[yawningmonster]

Duck in a Truck is fantastic.
Also agree with Julia Donaldson recommendations though our favourites at this stage were
Sharing a Shell
Squash and a Squeeze
Chocolate Moose for Greedy Goose

[WitchesTit]

My 22mo loves
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
The Gruffalo
Dogger
The Baby's Catalogue
Mog books
Anything with animals in that he can name and we can talk about

He also loves the Argos catalogue and cookbooks!

[spaceangel1382]

My DD loves 'pants' and 'more pants' they would be great for a 2 year old boy too. They are rhyming books and a bit silly

[poppy283]

Petr Horacek books are rather popular here at the moment.

[lurcherlover]

DS is two and the books he asks for every night without fail are Meg and Mog, We're Going On A Bear Hunt, any Spot book and Peepo.

[Babybeargrylls]

Pirate Pete's Potty book when the time comes....

[PopMusicShoobyDoobyDoA]

Dear zoo
Each peach pear plum

Baby catalogue

[LapinDeBois]

Oh god yes, bloody Spot. Anything with vehicles in. DS2 is particularly keen on Monkey Puzzle at the mo. Oh, and poems - both of my boys have loved poem books at this age, and I think poetry is brilliant for their language development. We've got an old 'Golden Treasury' kids' poetry compendium with lots of pictures, that I used to read as a child, and they both love it.

[MrsCF]

Monstersaurs, is good, my son loves Brown Bear Brown Bear and because it is so simple he enjoys reading it to himself.
Any Julia Donaldson book goes down well, one of his favourites is Tiddler. He is also enjoying some DrSeuss books, Cat in the Hat, Mr Brown, Green Eggs and Ham.

[MerylStrop]

Where The Wild Things Are

[RubberNeckerNicker]

Mine especially loves any of the Maisy books
Meg & Mog
Mog (as in the forgetful cat)
Tiger who came to tea
Dear Zoo
Oh Dear
Room on the broom
Ten Seeds (Ruth Brown)

[oddslippers]

You choose, by pippa goodhart, loads and loads and loads to talk about to develop language, it's not a story really but has been much loved in our house for years.

[LapinDeBois]

YY to You Choose. Our copy is falling apart because the boys love it so much. And YY to Brown Bear Brown Bear, too.

[beela]

Usbourne first 1000 words has been a favourite here since DS (now 2.1) was given it for his first birthday, can see it continuing. It isn't a story, but provokes lots of conversation.

Also anything by Jez Alborough (of Duck in the Truck), and the Benedick Blathwayt (sp?) Little Red Engine and Dougal the Digger books.

[tigersmummy]

Hairy Mclary series are absolutely brilliant

[Kahu]

You Choose is wonderful at that age. My DS also loves Nick Sharatt's Shark In The Park.
Also Chocolate Mousse For Greedy Goose, Meg & Mog, Going On A Bear Hunt, Lucy Cousin's Hooray for Fish, A Train Goes Clickety Clack.
He is also getting quite into Topsy & Tim especially ones like going to the dentist or camping that he can relate to.

[rumbelina]

Mr Brown can moo
Meg and mog
A night in the zoo
Oh dear - rod Campbell
Pants

[OverlyWordyHurdyGurdy]

DS loves Goonight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

[Wallace]

Just 2 ds likes Cops and Robbers by Janet and Allan Alberg

[Liskey]

Who's in the loo - very appealing to a 2 year old's humour (or DH as well!)

[totallynaive]

Mine's only 21 months, but these are his absolute favourites:

Flashing fire engines, and any other books by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker
Little Rabbit Foo Foo
Penguin by Polly Dunbar
The Snail and the Whale
No More EE-Yore by Lydia Monks
One Ted Falls out of Bed
Richard Scarry's ABC (this book is really brilliant, and has great inbuilt longevity)

[DilysPrice]

All the stuff above and perhaps Peepo, but also the fantastic Naughty Bus.

[Smudge588]

My DS is 2.5. We love:
Little red train books
Bears in the night
Any Julia Donaldson ones
Usbourne diggers
One ted falls out of bed
No matter what

Mainly though he loves going to the library and choosing his own stories for the week. There are so many amazing kids stories.