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

We re all going on a bear hunt .read over and over for my Son .(now aged 30!) when I was a Nursery School teacher, another little boy wanted to read it again and again too!

Most of the books above plus:

The Wild Washerwomen
Mr Archimedes' Bath
The Doorbell Rang
Mini Rabbit Not Lost
The Pencil
Alan's Big Scary Teeth
Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose
My Red Balloon
Possum Magic

Another vote for Which Bum’s Mum’s. And the same author/illustrator pairing – Does a Bear Poo in the Woods.

I used to take my kids to the library every few weeks and we chose about 8 books. If one was a big hit, I'd buy a cheap copy on world of books. So we got a collection of books like this.

You Choose was their favourite

@DistressedDamson aw, that's lovely!

Tell him the ladies of itching down are my main fashion inspiration in life :)

Each peach pear plum
The hungry caterpillar
Owl Babies 🩷

The little rabbit books.
Anything by Oliver Jeffers - how to catch a star etc
Mr Gumpy's motor car
Anything by Shirley Hughes
This is not my hat etc
The doll's house fairy (even for boys)
Abigail the giraffe, Sylvia the dragon
Tiddles and the mystery cat/the kitten
No matter what
The wonky donkey
All the mog books
The Percy books
Paper dolls

The ‘Old Bear’ series - Jane Hissey

Burglar Bill - Allan Ahlberg, in fact all the Ahlberg books!

Books featuring TV characters they knew - Rosie and Jim, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam…(was quite a while ago when mine were little!)

Happy Birthday Moon.

Nuddy Ned
The pirates next door
Elmer
4 year old ds loves the jolly postman
Cock a doodle poo
Duck in a truck

Teddy bears go shopping!
I can still say all the words now, after forty years!

Oh, and my favourites were the Babies First Bank Heist books! They are super funny

At those ages:

Richard Scarry books
Down in the Big Construction Site (age 2)

He quite liked Meg & Mog. Although we read all the Julia Donaldson, he tended to memorise them really, really quickly and then didn’t want to know.

My 2 year old currently loves:

• we're going on a bear hunt
• brown bear, brown bear
• poo in the zoo
• goodnight moon
• funnybones
• a random usborne book about castles and jousting that we have to read every word and open every flap (it's a fact book)

My 6 year old at that age loved:

• dinosaur roar, all of them, they're great!
• the dinosaur department store
• if I had a dinosaur
• astro girl

Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late by Mo Willems - Think I've got the surname right.

The Book With No Pictures (reader needs to be prepared to get really into it!)
The Large Family collection (which I continue to love from my childhood - it has a distinct 1980s parenting style!)
Beware of Boys
Roald Dahl books (currently The Twits features highly, but it used to be Fantastic Mr Fox)
Brambly Hedge books
Poo in the Zoo

@JumpstartMondays I love My Pet Star from the list, it was given out free at my local library and is such a sweet book. I think when my son asks what was the first book he loved I'd have to say that one, it's a keeper for sure.

Ahhh I've still got mine (on a high shelf so it doesn't get ripped!)

My 3yo loves asking me to read her "that red book....the biggest plaster in the box for Claire's knee book!' 😍

No Matter What by Deb Gliori and Each Peach Pear Plum.
I had to hide Each Peach sometimes because I couldn't stand another day of it 5,000 times.

Favourites in my house then were Julia Donaldson and the you choose range.

Mine are almost-4 and 15m. We love love love stories!

The preschooler loves:
'You're called What?' by Kes Gray (love the author)
'Oi, Frog!' and 'Oi, Platypus!' (also Kes Gray)
'No-Bot the Robot' by Sue Hendra
All the '...Love Underpants' collection and the '... in Underpants Save the World' (Dinosaur, Pirates Aliens etc) (Claire Freedman)'
The Albie books by Caryl Hart and Ed Eaves (e.g. How to Win a Monster Race)
'There's a Monster in your book' and 'There's an Alien in your book' (both Tom Fletcher)
'Send for a Superhero' (Michael Rosen)
'You Choose' Nick Sharratt
'My cat likes to hide in boxes'
The Large Family series e.g. 'Five Minutes Peace', 'A Piece of Cake'
The '10 Little....' series by Brownlow and Rickety

The toddler loves:
'Where's Mr Dog?' and 'Where's Mrs Tiger?' (that entire collection by Ingela Arrhenius)
'Yawn' and 'Shark in the Park' (Nick Sharratt)
Anything Eric Carle e.g. 'Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do you see'
Where's Bear? (Emily Gravett, in fact any of her books)
The babies and kitties book
Oh No George! By Chris Houghton
Whose Bottom?
Anything published by Nosy Crow e.g. the Peekaboo collection

My preschooler also loves 'reading' the toddler's favourite stories to them while the toddler loves choosing a story for me to read for preschooler...both will share a bedtime story together with me or dad (or both!), one picked by each of them 🥰

This is a fabulous website https://www.thereaderteacher.com/nursery

My 3 year old LOVES the runaway pea books! Thinks they're hilarious !

My 2 year old loves all the Julia Donaldson and the classics like Jack and the Beanstalk, having to read the Wonky Donkey books at night at the moment, although he says the Donkey has 2 eyes and isn't that smelly, lol.

PP have mentioned the giant jam sandwich which makes me very happy as I have known the man who wrote/illustrated it all my life and he is one of the loveliest humans I know 🥰(and it was a book I adored as a child and also my son now loves it. Another great one by John lord is ‘the runaway roller skate’).
thanks to pp for other book suggestions-we will be checking out some not previously known to us. 📖📕📗📘📙📚