What's Your Favourite Picture Book?

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I like Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson and The Tiger that Came to Tea by Judith Kerr.

What is your favourite. I'm also looking for some slightly quirky ones or less well known ones.

Not Now Bernard
This Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown
Tatty Ratty
Traction Man is Here

Little Beauty by Anthony Browne
Big red bath
The dinosaur that pooped a planet
10 little pirates

Albert Le Blanc by Nick Butterworth is great. You can have fun spotting all the children's characters.

For a charming, heartwarming story and beautiful illustrations you can't beat The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield.

It was a dark and stormy night by the Ahlbergs.
I picked it up the other day at work and couldn’t put it down.

Peace at last - a classic

Aw, I’m feeling quite nostalgic reading all these suggestions, I loved reading picture books to my little monsters when they were small :)

Piranhas don’t eat bananas
The disgusting sandwich
I can only draw worms

The Little Mole Who Knew it Was None of His Business

The Large Family books
Whatever Next!/One of those Days/Peace at Last
Funnybones
What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday

Princess Smarty Pants, Where the Wild Things Are, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, The Velveteen Rabbit, W'er'e Going on a Bear Hunt, Mr Magnolia,

Do NOT turn the page pllleeeeaaasseeeeee

All the Shirley Hughes
All the Sandra Boyntons

and Cowboy Baby

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The Storm Whale and his other books. Korky Paul picture books are good, Winnie the Witch, etc they have different authors but same illustrator and once you have a few you’ll start spotting characters from other stories hiding in background! It he day Louis got eaten and Manfred the Baddie are good. You may have to buy second hand.

'Can't you sleep, Little Bear?' by Jackie Morris. I could live in this book, I sometimes imagine a massive fantasy epic novel set in this world. I wish I could write it but I sadly I lack the necessary talent.

'I took the Moon for a walk' by Alison Jay. 'Where the Wild things are'
'The Toymaker' Martin Waddel

Bear Snores On is my absolute favourite

Dogger by Shirley Hughes
Richard Scarry books e.g . What do People do all day?

I also love these books!

also...
Alfie and Annie Rose (basically anything by Shirley Hughes!)
Hairy McClairy
Meg and Mog
Mog the cat
Handa's suprise

The Minpins by Roald Dahl

Any Mog the cat stories!

Sorry of course it should be 'Can You See a Little Bear?' Always known as night night bears in our house so I got confused

Alan’s big scary teeth
the squirrels who squabbled
Oi dog series

The Oi Frog books
Goldilocks & The Three Dinosaurs
Ada Twist Scientist etc
Rosie's Farm (just for sheer 70s vibes)
Any Mog book
Haunted House Pop Up book
The Dot
You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus

Sea Story by Jill Barklem.

Some very good mentions already. I would add the Claude books to the list - very funny

Peepo
Zog
Mog the Forgetful Cat
Goodnight, Goodnight by Eve Rice. This is a fairly obscure from my childhood (80s), I read my copy to my DC now. The illustrations are beautiful and it's a wonderful cosy, calm bedtime story.

Haunted house by Jan Pienkowski. The pop-up version.