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Stories for babies

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halogen · 17/11/2007 20:41

My daughter is 14 months old and really likes stories. She is very bored with factual 'this is a dog' type books. The hard part is finding stories that are easy enough for her to understand. She likes Big Red Bath, The Elephant & the Bad Baby, Peepo, Each Peach Pear Plum and Meg & Mog books but I haven't found much else that is easy enough for her to cope with. Most stories seem to have too many words on a page. Any recommendations?

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Wallace · 17/11/2007 20:53

That is meant to say Dear Zoo

MegBusset · 17/11/2007 20:53

Was going to mention 'That's not my...' books.

Also I love 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea', my DS (9mo) gets impatient with it but might be OK for an older baby...

Wallace · 17/11/2007 20:53

Zoo is much-loved by my 15 month old. My dd wasn't much older when she lloved the cat in the hat books. Especially one fish two fish.

Notnowbernard - love that book from when I was young. Keep meaning to get it for my kids.

notnowbernard · 17/11/2007 20:48

Nursery rhyme books?

Short, good for encouraging communication, important that old songs get passed down through the generations, lovely singing together, usually have good illustrations, too.

DD2 is 15m and is just starting to 'sing' back certain rhymes (she obviously can't verbalise, but da-di-da's the tune back. It's so cute!)

fryalot · 17/11/2007 20:46

have you seen the "that's not my" series? they are fab