What book did your toddler children love you reading to them?

Owl Babies
The Hungry Capterpillar
Any Mog or Kipper Books

Velveteen Rabbit
The Amelia Jane collection
The Magic Faraway Tree

I loved Enid Blyton as a child and kept all my books, my children loved them just as much as I did.

Fairly sure all of our fiction books have been mentioned, but all of mine also really liked books about animal life cycles. So baby to adult snake, rabbit, otter, deer whatever!

Mog
The tiger who came to tea
Dogger
The Large Family
Harry's first days at school
Brambly Hedge
Lucy and Tom's day

The Elephant and The Bad Baby (my DCs still chant "rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta all down the road" at each other 😂 )

Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus (and all the others in this series)

Where The Wild Things Are

Mog

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

Check out the Pig the Pug series by Aaron Blaby.

Australian author and the books are so funny with quite a sweet message too - my girls are the same age as your DC and they absolutely love them.

Julia Donaldson books, especially Stick man and Snail and the Whale.

Dinosaurs love Underpants etc

Elmer

Harry and the Dinosaurs

This is always a big hit (" but that's an elephant!!!")

Bonus: has a gazillion little extra details for the adults included.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/769932.My_Cat_The_Silliest_Cat_in_the_World

Fix It Duck - Jez Alborough
Eric and the Red Planet
The Crunching Munching Caterpillar

Percy the Park Keeper. I could tell you One Snowy Night off the top of my head

I have a 2.5 year old.
Current favourites include lots that have been mentioned: Mog, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Spot the Dog books, Ten Minutes to Bed (Little Unicorn, Monster, etc.), Oi Frog series, Poppy and Sam (Apple Tree Farm). Sadly she currently has no interest in Each Peach Pear Plum (my childhood favourite).

Ones I don't think have been mentioned:

• Pop-Up Peekaboo books
• One Banana, Two Bananas
• But Not the Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton
• Dalmatian in a Digger by Rebecca Elliott
• A Recipe for Bedtime
• Supertato by Sue Hendra
• Hiccups by Holly Sterling
• Corduroy by Dawn Freeman

Oh and The Large Family collection!! I used to read them to my little sister who is now in her 30s and love sharing them with my children now! A couple of them are the exact same books I read to her, slight worse for wear but still plenty of life left in them!

(I’ll stop now 🙈)

Every child should have Haunted House by Jan Pienkowski - author of Meg & Mog; find Mog on each page, pop up book with lift the flaps, make the crocodile snap, find the skeleton, etc. I had it as a kid & both my DC have had it & bought it for lots of friends DC as they've got older.

ooh also,
Pigs might fly Jonathan Emmett, my daughter loves this one!

The very hungry caterpillar - Eric Carle
The Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson
Captain Yellowbelly, the tale of the terrible pirate - Preston Rutt
Captain Flynn and the pirate dinosaurs series - Giles Andreae
The tiger who came to tea - Judith Kerr
Dogs don’t do ballet - Anna Kemp
Worst in show - William Bee & Kate Hindley
The book with no pictures - BJ Novak
Wide awake Jake - Rachel Elliot
Grandad - Rachel Elliot (I love this book)
The monkey with a bright blue bottom - Steve Smallman
Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell - Paul Linnet and Sue Hendra
Jack and the flum flum tree - Julia Donaldson (kids belly laugh at certain bits of this and the voices we’ve made up for it)

I foster and one of my joys is sharing books with the children who stay with us. What is so fascinating is that they all take to a different couple of books as their all time favourites and it's often impossible to guess what it is about a certain book that's grabbed then. so I'm seconding the recommendation of a pp. a library visit where they can just grab anything they fancy and you get to try them all out before buying.

My older kids love the Mo Willems pigeon series, starting with ‘Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus!’ Very funny to read

Current favourite with my toddler is ‘Cake’ by Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet (of Supertato fame, which we also love).

We also have some ladybird classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes. These have really survived the test of time. I've had to read the three little pigs the last three nights.

Not sure if anyone's mentioned Anthony Brown. His illustrations are a joy.

My boys are grown men now, but reading through this thread reminds of so many old friends that we all loved.

Our top picture books included:
Owl Babies
Ten in the Bed (the Penny Dale version)
Rosie's Walk
Hairy Maclary
Whatever Next
Farmer Duck
All the Mr Mens
anything by Richard Scarry
all the Alfie and Annie Rose stories by Shirley Hughes
Each Peach pear Plum
We're going on a Bear Hunt
(and for a slightly older child) The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson

Slinky Malinky
Farmer Duck
The Runaway Train
Dr Seuss
Room on the Broom
Monkey Puzzle
The Gruffalo

Charlie and Lola (original not tv based
Anything by Gill Murphy
Winnie the witch
Mr Men (I don't like a lot of them them but some of my children loved them)
Oliver Jeffers books
There's a hippopotamus on my roof eating cake (the updated version where the dad doesn't smack)

Giraffes can't dance
Brown bear, Brown bear what do you see

Goodnight Moon, where we used to hunt out the little mouse on each page.
They LOVED Where is the Green Sheep?