bedtime stories with good prose?

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DS is 2y 9mo and a bit of an oddball in having very advanced language and understanding of language (and terrible social skills so yes probably has ASD).

By accident I recently discovered he loves bedtime stories with nice prose and few pictures - so the first was the Castle of Yew, we are now into Green Knowe. He seems to like the language and grasp most of the plot. I guess Wind in the Willows, and Winnie the Pooh could work - but what else? I had thought we were still firmly in picture book (Alfie, Lucy & Tom) territory for a while yet... so am slightly out of my depth...

(btw tried Just William and Milly Molly Mandy - didn't work. So I think it is more about the language than the plot. He used to love listening to me read Robert Macfarlane when he was a baby, though I think he would struggle to follow it well now)

Alice in Wonderland, The Phantom Tollbooth, The 13 Clocks?
I used to LOVE the Castle of Yew and Greenknowe so applaud his taste (i was at least 7). I’ll have a think if i can come up with any more.

Well, I don't know the books you mention but if it's language he likes he might really enjoy Dr.Seuss.

The Moomin books by Tove Jansson

The 'Mrs Pepperpot' books by Alf Prøysen.

'Mr Popper's Penguins' by Richard and Florence Atwater.

The Little House on the Prairie series.

Hans Christian Andersen stories (check first for content that is emotionally unsuitable).

'Where the Sidewalk Ends' poems and drawings by Shel Silverstein, also 'The Giving Tree'.

The 'Jenny' books by Esther Averill.

'Flora and Ulysses' by Kate di Camillo.

'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton.

Beatrix Potter stories.

The 'Nicholas' series by Goscinny and Sempre.

'The Turf Cutter's Donkey' and 'The Turf Cutter's Donkey Goes Visiting' by Patricia Lynch.
Also, 'The Grey Goose of Kilnevin' by the same author.
Set in Ireland of yore. Delightful stories.

Oohh! Didn't know there was an English version of Petit Nicolas! Awesome!

Thanks for many good suggestions :-)

Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm brothers anthologies of fairytales. There are lots of different editions.

We started reading the Roald Dahl books to DD just after her 3rd birthday. I'm not sure that she really 'got' them in full initially, but she loves them and we're on our third or fourth round of her favourites now, a year on (Matilda, The Twits, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the BFG, and Danby the Champion of the World).

Awesome suggestions.

He is now loving Finn Family Moomintroll - and saw a hippo on David Attenborough and said "it's Moomintroll!". Just hoping he doesn't notice that there's a kid at kindy who is identical to Little My...