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Please recommend your favourite toddler's books

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Feierabend · 06/10/2009 13:40

I want to buy DD1 some new books for Christmas and her 3rd birthday. Please can you recommend your favourite classics - books that you think every toddler should own, and that you never get tired of reading to them? I am thinking along the lines of Rosie's Walk, Each Peach Pear Plum, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Tiger Who Came To Tea. I also love Monkey Puzzle. Thanks!

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Feierabend · 06/10/2009 14:08

Aaargh, I don't know, I was in Waterstones earlier and looked through all the shelves but most of the titles mentioned here weren't there? I'll have to buy them off Amazon will I?

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Bicnod · 06/10/2009 14:03

I know... it was the first thing I bought for DS when I was pregnant. I stood in the kids department at Waterstones reading it to DH and we both blubbed (tragic really)... I could put it down to the hormones, not sure what his excuse was

leolantern · 06/10/2009 14:03

room on the broom
gruffalo
snail and a whale
the very lazy ladybird
Quiet!

notyummy · 06/10/2009 14:01

Dogger......the moment when he gets that little toy back. DD was sooo thrilled - I nearly blubbed..

Guimauve · 06/10/2009 14:01

Peepo!

NuttyTaff · 06/10/2009 13:59

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Bicnod · 06/10/2009 13:58

...and no, Nutty, not that kind of dogger

jelliebelly · 06/10/2009 13:57

we're Going on a Bear Hunt

Room on the Broom

The Night Pirates

Russell the Sheep

Bicnod · 06/10/2009 13:57

Dogger by Shirley Hughes

notyummy · 06/10/2009 13:55

boycotted....

NuttyTaff · 06/10/2009 13:54

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MarthaFarquhar · 06/10/2009 13:53

here and here - two Mick Inkpen books

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notyummy · 06/10/2009 13:51

Depends how far ahead you are planning i.e there are some books that are more an investment for years to come, and some that she will enjoy straight away.

Personally, anything by Shirley Hughes. We got 'My Naughty Little Sister - A Treasury Collection', which is illustrated by Shirley Hughes for DD 3rd birthday and she LOVES it. It is fairly taxing for that age, and because it is such a beautiful book, we have to be around when she is handling it.

www.amazon.co.uk/My-Naughty-Little-Sister-Collection/dp/1405242280/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
The slightly younger Shirley Hughes books about Alfie and Annie Rose are GORGEOUS as well, and DD loves them.

Any Julia Donaldson ones (Gruffalo/Snail and the Whale etc)

Jez Alborough - Some Dogs Do and lots more

My dd also likes the Beatrix Potter books, which I like - but my DH hatres them and has almost boycooted them!

babyOcho · 06/10/2009 13:46

The Animal Fair by ANTHONY BROWNE

I got this for 10p from a jumble sale and it was in perfect condition. DD LOVES it. It's a really lovely book.

notnowbernard · 06/10/2009 13:45

Not Now Bernard !

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