Do your toddlers also want to read the same books over and over again?

I had to read the magic porridge pot. Not only the one we had at home, but every version we found in the library too.

My almost 18 month old is obsessed with books so she will just continuously bring them to you to read throughout the day! She brings loads of different ones but there are certain key ones that she just wants over again and again. I can really see the impact it's having on her language though and she's picking up loads of words and some short phrases and sentences by hearing them again and again then repeating them herself so as much as I might find it boring sometimes, I'll happily keep reading them.

Glad to hear that OP. DD has moved onto something new this afternoon - she gets a book off the bookshelf, brings it to me to read, when we're done she gets down off my lap and takes it to DH to read (who's sat on the other end of the sofa), then back to me, then DH until we've both read it 3 times. Repeat with the next book 😫

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Ah yes. The Julia Donaldson's. We've had the Snail and the Whale and Stick Man phases. Had Monkey Puzzle for WEEKS (that one is shorter than some so a relief!), now we've been stuck on Zog and the Flying Doctors for maybe 2 months.

I can recite the whole of both Zog books, the Highway Rat, Snail and the Whale, Stick Man and Room on the Broom without looking. In fact, I'm compelled to every night as after we read a book I'm expected to whisper from memory one of the above whilst he falls asleep 😳.

Mine has not long turned 2 and has been obsessed with books since he could hold things 😅 On an average day we read 3 or 4 books at bedtime and probably another 3 or 4 throughout the day whenever he asks 🤷🏻‍♀️

He definitely goes through phases of having favourites. Stickman, Room on the Broom and The Smeds and the Smoos. Have been read at least once a day each without fail for over a year.

@kernowpicklepie 🤣🤣 I’ve hidden the donkey too 🙈 I can’t stand that one!

Of course.

Where’s Spot?

Who cares.

Mine definitely had favourites so I used to cycle books around quite a lot so they could have a good choice, and go to the library a lot.

I can recite both The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child from memory.

Yep a totally normal and annoying stage.
I got to the point where I had memorised all of julia donaldsons books, and I would recite them in full when the girls wouldn't settle on long car rides, like a personalised tired audiobook.

We switched to only getting books from the library after that or charity shops and donating them back when it got repetitive.

My DD is 3.5 and binge reads her library books, but has read the same 4/5 books for bedtime every single night for a year. And I don't mean one of the 4/5 books, I mean ALL 4/5 every night!

Not now Bernard. ❤️

Ahhh. I remember those, happy days. I like it when. Hungry caterpillar. The Mole that needed glasses. Again and again and again.

I still have flashbacks to the hungry hippos walking over the hill nearly 30 years later.

They all do this at the early language stages. Picture books are good at this age as the child can tell you the story whilst you pretend to be interested (and also good for vocab/language development compared to word books).

I am 56. My Dad can still recite the first couple of pages of a book he used to read to me at that age as he read it so many times.
He could probably do more of it but we dont let him get get going...

Yes

Room on the Broom
Cave Baby
You Choose

I have to start hiding them or I lose the will to live.

I can remember having my mum read ‘Carrie Hepple’s Garden’ to me night after night. I think it’s very usual.

At that age we did 4 books at bedtime, they each chose a book and I chose two others. It clearly paid off, they are both good readers.

Yeah.
Mine had a 'bill and Ben' phase, probably because it was the most exceptionally inane of her books, it irritated me even on first reading.

So, you choose one, DC chooses (same flipping one again), you choose one....

That's a 'granny's house' book for mine 😆😆

But in answer to your question, yes it's a thing. DD is 18m and we read have to read the same things over and over again. But she does sometimes 'read' to herself now which is very cute, especially when she then gets to a picture of an animal. 'Babble babble babble roar' or 'babble babble babble neigh' 😆😆

DD(now an adult) had me reading a particular Ladybird storybook every night for weeks when she was around 2yrs old.I could recite that book word for word off by heart and so could DD as she would always catch me out if I tried to skip a page or two.

Oh yes, I remember those days. “There was an old lady who swallowed a fly” was a particular favourite- so much so I knew it off by heart and would also have to recite it to them at bedtime along with singing “two little boys” (Rolf Harris 😬) and “you are my sunshine” several times!

Enjoy OP!

DD1 no. DD2 yes, she is particularly taken with a phonics very early reader which has to be the most boring book every published.

My 8 year old still asks to do this book