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What books do we love to read to under 5s

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Blandmum · 15/02/2006 18:03

Peepo

The little red train books

The Jez Albrough bear books

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MrsSpoon · 15/02/2006 21:39

Oh and we like Hairy McLary and Slinki Malinki.

MrsSpoon · 15/02/2006 21:38

Pooh is that you Bertie? - DS2 is loving this!
The Gruffalo
The Snail and the Whale
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Dr Seuss, particularly The Cat in the Hat and One Fish, Two Fish
The Hungry Caterpillar (although sadly he doesn't ask for this one anymore)

Mercy · 15/02/2006 21:38

No! I hate Hairy Mclairy.

Mercy · 15/02/2006 21:37

at Twiglett not liking Charlie and Lola.

My ds is still at the 'What's that?'stage ...mind numbingly boring. And Thomas the bleeding Tank Engine ad nauseum (one particular page only) and Spot (even worse)

colditz · 15/02/2006 21:32

Ds is nearly 3, and loves-

The Three Little Pigs (ladybird)
Hairy McClary from Donaldson's dairy
the Very Hungry Caterpiller
The Thomas the Tank Engine books.
I Want A Friend (Little Princess)
Yuk! (about a little pig who won't eat his dinner)
Postman Pat's busy Day.

Marina · 15/02/2006 21:27

Peepo, Each Peach Pear Plum, diabolical Pink Ballerina story from Ladybird, Pointyhatted Princesses by Nick Sharratt.
And whatever ds is trying to read quietly and unmolested of course

saffy202 · 15/02/2006 21:25

DS2 loves
Wobble Bear
Squidge
Fraser the Eraser ( had that from the library a trillion times - well it feels like it)

Angeliz · 15/02/2006 20:40

O.K haven't read thread but my dd1 is 4 and so far has loved.

My naughty little sister. (all books)
Milly Molly Mandy.
Naughty Amelia Jane.
Angelina Ballerina Diaries is current favourite though.

ixel · 15/02/2006 20:39

Peepo
Icky Sticky Frog

Dh reads ds all his new post from the works union... says its the only time he has to look at it...

crazydazy · 15/02/2006 20:37

DS loves "where's wally" books at the moment. They are a bit old for him but loves them, I myself hate them so DP gets the job of looking at them with him.

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Blandmum · 15/02/2006 20:35

Thankyou thank you....I was beging to think I was having an LSD flashback or summat!

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littlerach · 15/02/2006 20:33

MB, thta book is Mick Inkpen, Bear.
They find a bear has fallen out of the sky and it gets up to all sorts, then the Inspector comes and that's whose finger it is.

Good ook.

FrannyandZooey · 15/02/2006 18:31

Yes Thomas vile and tedious. They used to bore me to tears even as a child. Noddy as well.

brimfull · 15/02/2006 18:27

I just have to add that i think the Thomas tank engine books are crap crap crap.

don't flow nicely,hate them with a passion.And I bloody bought a whole set of 30 of them.Had to hide them to save my sanity in the end

FrannyandZooey · 15/02/2006 18:24

Oops pressed post before I had finished
Penny Dale - Rosie's Babies, Ten in the Bed
Anything by Helen Oxenbury, esp those little book with titles like "The Check Up", "The Drive", which manage to be bloody hilarious and near epic in 6 pages
Handa's Surprise
God I love children's books

Twiglett · 15/02/2006 18:21

The Rascally Cake
Hairy Maclairy from Donaldson's Dairy
Monkey See, Monkey Do

HATE
Charlie & Lola (very annoying concepts IMHO)

FrannyandZooey · 15/02/2006 18:20

The Tiger Who Came to Tea is top, as are all the Mog books.
Alfie or Dogger or anything at all by St. Shirley Hughes.
Naughty Little Sister books
A A Milne poems
Where the Wild Things Are
Ketchup on Your Cornflakes
So Much and Full of Love by Trish Cooke
Big Mama Makes the World
John Burningham - Mr Gumpy, Oi Get Off Our Train

Enid · 15/02/2006 18:20

ooh little rabbit lost is good too

treacletart · 15/02/2006 18:19

oh and Peepo too, lovely for little ones

treacletart · 15/02/2006 18:18

Oooh yes Donnie I love the King of Capri too, Ds not fussed tbh, but I love it!

and the elephant and the bad baby too

Enid · 15/02/2006 18:18

my fave book for babies and in fact the first story book that I read to the both the dds when they were tiny is

Goodnight Moon

cant wait to read it to new little one

Enid · 15/02/2006 18:17

have no idea what you are talking about mb but it sounds brilliant

treacletart · 15/02/2006 18:16

in no particular order

Tiger who came to tea - Judith Kerr
Patrick - Quentin Blake
all the Charlie and Lola books - Lauren Child
Knock Knock - Sally Grindley Anthony Brown
Husherbye - John Burningham
Avocado Baby - John Burningham
all the Blue Kangaroo books - Emma Chichester Clark
Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson & Axel Schaffer
Snail and the Whale - ditto
Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

collision · 15/02/2006 18:16

Enid Blyton
I love you Blue Kangaroo
Naughty Little Sister
Gruffalo
Duck in a Truck
Fidgety Fish
Baa Moo...What will we do?

Hulababy · 15/02/2006 18:13

DD (nearly 4) enjoys The Gruffalo and all the stories by same author, Topsy and Tim, Very Lazy Ladybird, Harry and the Dinosaurs, Disney Princess books, Little Miss, Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, more traditional fairy tales, and loads others. DD has literally hundreds of books - she loves them!

At bedtime we also read things like My Naughty Little Sister, Naughty Amelia Jane, Milly Molly Mandy, Horrid Henry and then stories from books with various longer stories in.

Thinking she might be old enough to start some longer books with chapters now - Magic faraway tree, etc.