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What books for 2 year olds can you read over and over again without losing the will to live?

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stubbornstains · 07/10/2011 12:34

...because The Little Princess is about to meet a sticky end in our house, I fear...

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two4one · 05/11/2011 21:08

Ooh this is great for inspiration! Can I add All Afloat on Noah's Boat by Tony Mitton? Fab illustrations and great rhythm.

nerfmum · 28/10/2011 22:42

Pumpkin Soup! read this so much to DS1 that when I forgot to take the book away I knew it off by heart! (oh we did skip the 'scary' page with wolves and witches! lol a tad over protective for first born [hblush])

Off2CtheWorld · 28/10/2011 20:23

We're reading Me and You by Janet Holmes and Judith Rossell this week :)

sosickofthesoundofscreaming · 28/10/2011 16:23

arggh. *Ravenous, obviously

sosickofthesoundofscreaming · 28/10/2011 16:23

the Reavenous Beast? Gorgeous pictures, and a suitably grisly but amusing end Grin

(Bear Hunt also makes me want to poke my eyes out, as an earlier poster mentioned)

ghoulionine · 28/10/2011 16:21

My Dcs all loved this one. The youngest is now 5 and still enjoy it being read to her even though it is now totally falling appart.

Itsjustafleshwound · 28/10/2011 16:16

Was also going to suggest 'Rumble in the Jungle' and 'Commotion in the Ocean'

Also, 'Where's my Teddy' - Jez Alborough

AVoidkaTheKillerZombies · 28/10/2011 16:13

We also like Night Monkey, Day Monkey.

And Norman the slug with the funny shell.

AVoidkaTheKillerZombies · 28/10/2011 16:12

DD loves -
Dinosaur Roar
Giraffes cant dance
Rumble in the Jungle
Dinosaur Galore

We 'misplaced' Brown Bear, Brown Bear because I cant bloody stand to read it any more.

Wooooooooooooooppity · 28/10/2011 12:52

Kiss Goodnight Sam

LovingKent · 28/10/2011 12:29

Glad I found this thread - also trying to find some more books to read.

DS (at 22 months) likes (and I haven't yet lost the will to live reading them!)

This is The Bear by Sarah Hayes
Eric Carle Draw Me A Star
Eric Carle The Very Busy Spider
Ladybird version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett
Snuggle in the Snow by Ana Martin Larranaga
Jasper's Beanstalk by Mick Inkpen

Bubbaluv · 28/10/2011 06:00

Oh and A Visitor for Bear.

Bubbaluv · 28/10/2011 05:59

The Lamb that Came to Dinner
Snail and a Whale
Tiger Who Came to Tea
Tabby McTat

ragged · 28/10/2011 05:43

Oh gawd, I loathe the Gruffalo, loathed it the moment I read it. Give me the eyeball pins now.
I'll say
Slinki Malinki (Lynley Dodd in general)
Babette Cole anything
Most anything by Rod Campbell
Traction Man
Big nursery rhyme books (can just pick and choose parts)
Anything with good rhymes, really, so I can vary the expression.

There's a book out of the library we got that is gorgeous, wish I could remember the name (something like Big Love?). It's a toddler boy & his mama & slowly the extended family filter in (grannies, cousins, aunties, etc.) scene by scene, waiting waiting, until there's a surprise party at the end for the dad come home from work.

TheWoodiesinHongKong · 28/10/2011 05:28

Agree with all these books! Special favourites for us have been The Gruffalo since aged 2, One Mole digging a hole, Monkey Puzzle and Hairy Maclary.

littlepinkpear · 09/10/2011 21:16

Little Owl Lost is going down a storm in our house at the moment and I love the pictures.

aStabbingStrangleways · 08/10/2011 09:28

miaow said the cow

monkey puzzle

the great dog bottom swap

the snail and the whale

AnyoneButLulu · 08/10/2011 08:54

Most of the big classics mentioned above are OK. Very Hungry Caterpillar was fine until I noticed that he'd drawn the sodding butterfly upside down, after which it started to annoy me. Agree that the Little Red Train pictures will keep me happy for hours.

At a slightly older age DS started to demand The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig [sic] every night for weeks on end, and I still laughed at the bit where the rhinoceros gives them the plexiglass and reinforced steel chains because he's so kindhearted cracked me up every time.

CornishMade · 08/10/2011 08:46

My ds (2) and I really love Chicky Chicky Chook Chook by Cathy Maclennan, then her second, Monkey Monkey Monkey.

They have wonderful rhythm and particularly lovely and unique illustrations I find. DS surprised me by memorising some of the lines at quite a young age so he obviously loves and absorbs it. She has done a third which we haven't got hold of yet but I will do. She should be more known!

MrsKitty · 08/10/2011 08:42

*read 'it', not 'nit', obviously!

MrsKitty · 08/10/2011 08:41

Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose by Julia Donaldson is fun (and short!) we read nit so much that DS eventually decided he could 'read' it himself, which was a bonus!

RustyBear · 08/10/2011 08:38

I never got tired of the Elephant and the Bad baby, despite reading it at story time at the library for years and then to my two.
I still have a box of books in the loft for me to read to potential grandchildren - including Peepo, The Tiger That Came To Tea, Old Bear, Dogger and several other Shirley Hughes ones - my two particularly loved the rhyming ones like Two Shoes, New Shoes and Bathwater's Hot.

I don't know if they're still available but we had a series of books about a teddy bear in different jobs - Teddy Bear Farmer, Teddy Bear Coalman etc which were good because when DS got temporarily obsessed with the character there were several to choose from, so it didn't get too boring for me.

Quenelle · 08/10/2011 08:29

Supermaket Zoo has been tolerable over and over again for a few months.

NOT Walking Through the Jungle though. It makes my brains pour out of my ears.

Quenelle · 08/10/2011 08:29

Supermaket Zoo has been tolerable over and over again for a few months.

NOT Walking Through the Jungle though. It makes my brains pour out of my ears.

josephinebonaparte · 08/10/2011 08:22

Peepo
The tiger that came to tea
Hairy maclary