I'd like the definitive list of books for my 2yo please!!!!!!

The Julia Donaldson/Axel Sheffler books.
Dig Dig Digging/Emergency/Choo Choo Clickety Clack all by Margaret Mayo(I have to read these endlessly to ds,in fact they could be my "specialist subject" on mastermind!!!)
Funnybones
Dogger and Alfie books (Shirley Hughes)
Hairy Maclary books (Lynley Dodds)
Most things by Eric Carle (Hungry Caterpillar/Busy Spider/Lonely Firefly)
Kipper books (Mick Inkpen)

If you have a DS who is like mine absolutely anything with cars,trucks,diggers,trains or planes will go down well.Think I will have a ceremonial book burning when he grows out of "Thomas the Tank Engine" !! HTH

pass the jam jim

Dear Zoo - Rod Campbell
Ten in the Bed - Penny Dale
Fix it Duck - Jez Alborough
Night night Cuddly Bear by Martin Waddell
Monkey Do by Allan Ahlberg
Lucy and Tom at the seaside by Shirley Hughes
At home with Tom and Pippo by Helen Oxenbury
Goodnight Moon (can't remember the author, but it's American)
My ds3 also likes Old Bear but the stories are longish for a 2yo. We like the video, very sweetly narrated by Anton Rodgers.
Corduroy by Dan Freeman

dd really like Hug by Jez someone or other, The large family books and Whatever Next by Jill Murphy. She also loves Not now Bernard.

Tony Ross I think it is does some good books too. Im coming to get you I think was one of his but they are for slightly older kids so something to grow into.

Would second Hairy McClary books by L. Dodd

Also, going on a bear hunt and the tiger who came for trea.

Love you Forever

Smartest Giant in Town,
Where the Wild things are
Wibbly Pig
Secret Seahorse (Barefoot Books)
In a Minute
Going on a Bear Hunt
Still likes Hungry Caterpillar!
Gruffalo
and a good one we got brought at the weekend which is nearer to 3 year old reading, but dd1 loves it (2.7) is
Monsters in my Mailbox by Ellen Jackson

Ds (2.6) is currently loving

Man on the Moon - Simon Bartram (spot the space aliens in each picture)
One Bear at Bedtime - Mick Inkpen
10 Little Rubber Ducks (with a duck squeaker at the end)
Dig Dig Digging (already had many a mention)
Cars Trucks and Things That Go - Richard Scarry
You Choose - Pippa Goodhart (fantastic for getting him talking, describing and making choices)

Mine is similar to Piffle... plus:

Humphrey's corner ones.
Little buuny bath/bedtime

We currently enjoy:

Mr Gumpy's Day Out (John Burningham)
Chimp and Zee (anholts)
One to Ten and Back Again (Sharratt/Heap)
Cowboy Baby (Sue Heap) ... as well as lots previously mentioned. I love Mr Gumpy, perfect mixture of story and simplicity with fascinating illustrations. DD also likes listening to rhymes which needn't be lavishly illustrated... a Mother Goose type collection and a children's poetry volume see a lot of daylight too.

Harry & his bucket full of dinosaurs - some of them are for younger ones ie. flaps & colours DS loves them ok, he is 3 1/2, but I'm sure they'd be great for young children too.

my dds current favourites:

Duck in truck etc (Alberough)
Comotion in th ocean, Rumble in the Jungle, Farmyard hullabaloo (short poems, fab, bright pics)(Andre)
Hairy McClary etc (Dodd)
One ted fell out of bed (donaldson)
Kids (absolute fave) (Arnholt)

Some Australian books we love, you could get them from amazon:

When Frank was Four, Clive eats Alligators, Magic Beach, The Journey home, or anything else be Alison Lester

The terrible underpants (Kaz Cooke)

Happy reading...books for this age are brilliant arn't they?

A second vote for Dig, dig, digging

My ds2, now nearly three still loves "The Smartest Giant in Town" Julia Donaldson and "The Magic Donkey Ride" Giles Andreae, which we started reading at about 2.5. Great when you need a break from lift the flap books.

Masie books (with flaps)
Noddy
I want a sister
Peter rabbit
oh and the Argos cataloge

current favourites for 2.2 yr old dd3

Toddler book of things to do (one of those Dorling Kindersley things with real photos of children doing things like playing or washing).

Wibbly pig books
I want my potty/dummy/dinner etc series
Anything with flaps.

Rob Campbell - Dear Zoo, Oh Dear, Buster's Busy Day

The Going to Bed Book.

K is for Kissing a Cool Kangeroo

I second richard scarry, thre are so many things to look at! (ds is 4 and still loves them). maisy is still dd (aged 2) favourite

Big Red Bath

Dig Dig Digging

Hairy Mcleary

BTW QPH, a great friend of mine wrote the ~BooHoo Baby....

Don't get too many Thomas books...I am contemplating getting rid of some already!

Ditto anything with a fire engine or diggers on the front!

DS loves Wibbly Pig, esp. "It's Bedtime.."

Richard Scarry?

Fix it Duck and all the other ones in the series, like Captain Duck etc

ds1 favs are gruffalo , monkey puzzle the smartest giant ect ect. i also got him some books design to teach him to read ( i know too early aged 1 !!!) but loves sam sheep can't sleep got it from little red house 7.99 for 5 or 6 books.. but he loves animals and there is a duck to find on every page. Allso really likes mr ben book? not my cup of tea though! hth

I like all the Doring Kingsley books - Firefighter for the day etc... Fabby flaps, great pictures.

Little red train books are great, again great pictures, good words and loads to look at and talk about.

Wibbly Pig books are good - do a search on amazon