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Recommendations for 3 year old girl

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Basecamp101 · 19/03/2018 19:43

My grand daughter is 3 next week and asked today for a story about a girl.

Looking through our massive collection of picture books we only have a few where an ordinary little girl is the main character....ie not a princess or fairy. We have a few with female animals but not many with girls.

So looking for suggestions - we have ordered some Katie Morag but despite spending ages searching we're not finding many. Most were of the 'worthy' variety advocating girls can be astronauts or can showing it does not matter what you look like etc nothing wrong with that but we also want more like gruffalo's child where the main character just happens to be a girl but a real girl.

What have your 3 year olds enjoyed?

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yawningyoni · 19/03/2018 20:32

Emily brown! She takes no prisoners! My favourite is "Emily brown and the thing"

Rumpledfaceskin · 19/03/2018 20:27

I was going to say Katie Morag. We’ve also got a Jill Murphy one called ‘on my way home’ where the main character is Claire which my 3yo dd enjoys. We’ve got hundreds of books and I’m actually struggling to think of any others!

ForgivenessIsDivine · 19/03/2018 20:22

That Rabbit belongs to Emily Brown was DD's favourite!

Have a look on here
www.amightygirl.com/books

PoohBearsHole · 19/03/2018 20:18

My naughty little sister (nostalgic)

jellyelly · 19/03/2018 20:17

Blue kangaroo by Emma Chichester/Clark - there are several of them!

WhereIsBlueRabbit · 19/03/2018 20:14

The Lucy and Tom books (Shirley Hughes).

isthistoonosy · 19/03/2018 20:13

Pippin long stocking is our 3 yr old girls favorite book character.

onemouseplace · 19/03/2018 20:04

How to Hide a Lion By Helen Stephens is nice.

Also, we like Julia Donaldson's The Magic Paintbrush - the main character in that is female.

Edie by Sophie Henn is also lovely.

ClarsachOnABike · 19/03/2018 20:04

A few I've enjoyed with my toddler daughter (we're also Katie Morag fans):
Zephyr takes flight by Steve Light
There's a tiger in the garden by Lizzy stewart
Handa's surprise and Handa's Hen by Eileen Browne
Beautiful bananas by Elizabeth Laird

I will watch with interest

halesie · 19/03/2018 19:57

Ooh also The Tiger Who Came to Tea, though of course it's pretty old fashioned when it comes to gender stereotypes...

halesie · 19/03/2018 19:56

Hi, it's surprisingly hard to find them, isn't it? Would suggest you take a look at Letterbox Library as they focus on inclusive books and hopefully will have lots for you to choose from - letterboxlibrary.com

We have a good girl superhero one bug I can't remember what it's called and I'm not home to check. Our other favourites with girls / women as main characters are Julia Donaldson - Room on the Broom and Zog (ok she's a princess but there's more to it than that Smile).

Enidblyton1 · 19/03/2018 19:50

Sally's Secret by Shirley Hughes is a lovely book - both my DDs enjoyed that when they were 3 (and still do now!)
Another good female character is Emily Brown by Cressida Cowell - 'That Rabbit belongs to Emily Brown'
The Katie books by James Mayhew are also excellent if you want to learn a little bit about art.

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