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can we have a list of classic/ best/ favourite/highly recommended childrens books please...

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AstroPup · 23/11/2008 22:18

My family was never bookie so, although I have enjoyed reading and discovering books since I was 12 or so, I feel I have missed out on the whole childrens literature thing, and I love how people reminisce and seem to really have taken their childhood favourites to heart.
I really want this for my DC but dont know where to start.
What do you recommend? What did you love?
(start from as young as you like, I have an almost 3yo)

TIA

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Takver · 24/11/2008 17:16

For a 2-3 yr old, Billy's Beetle, the Blue Balloon and lots of others by Mick Inkpen (Kipper is his best known character, but I think less funny than his other books).

In a bit, Milly Molly Mandy, dated but perfect to read to a little girl maybe a bit older than your DD (say 4.5 plus).

EachPeachPearMum · 23/11/2008 23:58

Moomins
Pippi Longstocking
Peter Pan
EachPeachPearPlum, Peepo
Gruffalo, Gruffalo's child
Paddington
Mary Poppins
Percy the ParkKeeper

chipmonkey · 23/11/2008 23:51

If you have boys, Big Brother Little Brother by Penny Dale.
The Alfie and Annie Rose series by Shirley Hughes who also illustrated the My Naughty Little Sister books
Anything by Dr Seuss but particularly The Cat in the Hat.
I Want My Potty by Tony Ross, the illustrations are hilarious.
Come On Daisy by Joan Simmons.

differentID · 23/11/2008 23:34

Charles Perrault fairy tales are great if a bit gruesome
Jean de Brunhoff (Babar)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

roisin · 23/11/2008 23:11

this is a good start

beanieb · 23/11/2008 23:07

"weslandia"

Servalan · 23/11/2008 23:06

We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury is fab too. DD (aged 2.4) loves it at the moment. We were on a country walk a couple of weeks ago and she started spontaneously chanting some of it - "swishy swashying" through the grass and "squelch, squerching" through the mud

Shitemum · 23/11/2008 22:35

In no particular order, tho some will be too 'old' for your DC yet...

Everything by Shirley Hughes
Gruffalo and others by same authors
anything by Quentin Blake
anything by Janet and Allen Ahlberg
ditto Helen Oxenbury
ditto Judith Kerr
ditto Dorothy Edwards (Naughty little sister books)
ditto Roald Dahl
ditto Joan Aitken
Katie Morag stories
Pippi longstocking
Charlottes web
The Borrowers
Mrs Pepperpot stories
Lion the witch and the wardrobe...

BoysAreLikeDogs · 23/11/2008 22:33

Peepo by Janet and Allan Ahlberg is lovely, with the most adorable baby you ever saw

barbarianoftheuniverse · 23/11/2008 22:32

Where the Wild Things Are
-Maurice Sendak

givethedogabone · 23/11/2008 22:31

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fishie · 23/11/2008 22:31

i have a 3.6 so will give his greatest:
mog books - judith kerr
gruffalo / room on the broom / stick man (but no others) - donaldson and axel someone
richard scarry anything

have you got a good library?

Portofino · 23/11/2008 22:30

Second My Naughty Little Sister

anything by Enid Blyton - sod the PC police.

boogeek · 23/11/2008 22:29

The Gruffalo is the modern classic IMO.

givethedogabone · 23/11/2008 22:28

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uberalice · 23/11/2008 22:26

Roald Dahl,
Wind in the Willows (for older kids),
Beatrix Potter

uberalice · 23/11/2008 22:24

Winnie the Pooh