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.

Thank you

Micky and the night kitchen. Maurice Sendak.
Elephant and the bad baby.
Bye Bye baby.
Cops and Robbers.

Mr Big
Wishmoley and the Little Piece of Sky
Herb the Vegetarian Dragon

I could go on, I used to love reading to my two when they were little 🥲

each peach pear plum, loved it for as long as I can remember books

The Tiger Who Came To Tea
All the Mog stories
Oh No George
Owl Babies
Winnie the Witch picture books
You and Me Little Bear (my 8 year old dug that out from somewhere and made me read it the other day)

And, we still have from my childhood, Use Your Head Dear by Aliki Brandenberg.

I like things from my childhood. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
Shirley Hughes - Alfie and Annie rose.

I also like Gerda muller. Beautiful illustrations

So so many but my absolute favourite is Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis and illustrated by Gwen Millward.
It is honestly the loveliest book with stunning illustrations- everyone should read it.

Anything by Anthony Browne, especially Gorilla and Voices in the Park. I defy you to not have a tear in your eye when you see the picture of the chimpanzee in his cage.

Anything by:-
Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Julia Donalson and Axel Scheffler
Eric Carle

Joelle Jolivet - Zoology - a beautiful and captivating picture book

A flower fairy alphabet by Cicely Mary Barker

The Brambly Hedge collection

The mice next door Anthony Knowles

My mum by Anthony Browne

Goodnight Moon
It's over 75 years old!

Owl Babies
The way back home
Peep
Brown bear brown bear what do you see. I don't find it particularly exciting to read in itself but my kids did and they LOVED the pictures. So, that was lovely for me, too.

Hairy Maclary!

The Frog series by Max Velthuijs 10 Books Collection Set

Frogs scary night is out favourite.

Jesse bear, what will you wear?

Really appreciate this everyone. Thank you.

Don’t Put Your Finger in the Jelly Nelly by Nick Sharratt.

Has Jamilla’s Dress been mentioned?

Would love to buy the original illustrations from that book.

The Maggie B
another vote for Goodnight Moon
The Baby who wouldn’t Go to Bed
The Blessing Seed

Some special ones I've collected digging around on the internet:

-The Araboolies of Liberty Street by Sam Swope

-Harold Snipperpot's Best Disaster Ever by Beatrice Alemagna

-Nian The Chinese New Year Dragon by Virginia Loh-Hagan

-Mars Needs Mom's by Berkeley Breathed

-The Eleventh Hour by Jacques Goldstyn

-Edward Fudwupper Fibbed Big by Berkeley Breathed

-Andrew Henry's Meadow by Doris Burn

-President Taft is Stuck in the Tub by Chris Van Dusen

-Queen of the Falls by Chris Van Allsburg

-Cops and Robbers by Allan Ahlberg

I'm a children's book nut, I could go on all day 

Thank you

Animalia by Graeme Base.

It's an alliterative alphabet book e.g. Lazy lions lounging in the library.

The pictures are amazingly detailed and everything on the page begins with the relevant letter

The Button And The Bean by Julian Hilton.
Actually all of his children's books are wonderful.

Lots of those, but also random
charity shop finds that we’re brilliant:

• Duck in a Truck
• Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type

Brenda is a Sheep