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.

I Love Guinea Pigs by Dick King Smith

I Need A New Bum

The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming

I remember a book I loved as a child (late 80s or early 90s it would have been) , a.picture book but I'm comic strip style. I think it was called So You Think You Want A Dog? Two children wanted a puppy, and one day a dog (dressed in a sort of Monks habit type thing (weird I know)And walking on its hind legs and drops a basket on the children's doorstep with a puppy in it.

the book basically is about how the children raise and train the puppy, and showed what owning a dog means. As a child who was obsessed with puppies I loved this book.

Does anyone else remember it ? I have a feeling my sister got it from The Puffin Post Book Club (any 80s/early 90s child remember that?)

All Judith Kerr and Shirley Hughes books

Burglar Bill and Cops and Robbers

And then less well known

Jane Ray books particularly The Dolls House Fairy

Helen Docherty books particularly The Snatcherbook

Animalia by Graham Base
The Great Green Mouse Disaster by Martin Waddell and Philippe Dupasquier

The Singing Mermaid by Julia Donaldson

As a young child I was intrigued by The Very Hungry Caterpillar. And I loved the Hairey McClairey books. Loved the wonderful doggies and their extravagant names!

Owl at home by Arnold Lobel

The Snail and the Whale is my favourite Julia Donaldson.

I remember The Tiger Who Came To Tea and wondering if it really were possible to drink all the water in the tap!

Steam train dream train.

Absolute lifesaver. It's long, dark pictures, lovely and rhyming, very calming, interesting but boring. My first didn't go to bed before 10pm (and then woke multiple times a night and started the day at 3 - fortunately we're now at 8pm-6am) for 2 years old until we started this long, rhythmic book that I would repeat over and over in whispers. He loved the pictures, and the story is enmeshed in my brain still 2.5 years on!

Night night construction site is also very good (same author) but paper pages so no good for little uns!

The monkey with a bright blue bottom- my two LOVED this, read it probably hundreds of times

PamelaPamelaRememberTheDays - That book description doesn't ring any bells for me. I hope somebody else recognises it though.

Thanks everybody.

The Ship's Cat by Richard Adams (yes, the Watership Down guy). Can't remember who did the wonderful pictures though.

@PamelaPamelaRememberTheDays Hell's teeth Pamela, your name takes me back!! Wayne Fontana?

Thanks, CelerEtAudax

Lauren Child "I Completely Know About Guinea Pigs" is also great. Any of the Charlie and Lola books are worth a read.

Yes! I'm actually only in my 40s but I'm a sucker for oldies music.

Oh, yeah, I love a bit of Charlie and Lola!

So many great suggestions on this thread. Thanks 😊

Some more that I don’t think have been mentioned yet:

Tom’s Tree - Gillian Shields
A New House for Mouse - Petr Horacek
The Tickle Tree and Dear Dinosaur - Chae Strathie
Just about anything by Emily Gravett but particularly Spells, Again, The Odd Egg, Meerkat Mail
Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen’s Shape trilogy
Moon Rabbit - Natalie Russell
Mouse Paint, Mouse Shapes and Mouse Count - Ellen Stoll Walsh
Don’t Worry Mouse - Claire Freedman
James Mayhew’s Katie series
Zzz A Book of Sleep, Brrr A Book of Winter and Hide and Seek - Il Sung Na
Have You Seen my Cat? - Eric Carle
Press Here and Mix It Up - Herve Tullet
Moonlight - Helen Griffith
Peely Wally and Time for Tea Polly Wally - Kali Stileman
Cave Baby, Monkey Puzzle, One Ted Fell Out of Bed and Night Monkey Day Monkey - Julia Donaldson
Smidge - Beth Shoshan
You Choose - Nick Sharrat and Pippa Goodhart
Oliver Jeffers’ Once There Was a Boy series
Once There Were Giants - Martin Waddell
Tap the Tree - Christy Matheson
Use Your Imagination, Open Very Carefully, What’s Next Door, The Last Book Before Bedtime, and The Rabbit, the Dark and the Biscuit Tin - Nicola O’Byrne
Dragon Post, Beast Feast and Nibbles the Book Monster - Emma Yarlett
Don’t Let the Pigeon series - Mo Willems

And I have to endorse PP’s suggestion of The Book with no Pictures!

Meet Wild Boars

Little Rabbit Foo Foo

There Are Cats In This Book

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

Beware of the Storybook Wolves

Dogger by Shirley Hughes. Best picture book ever IMO.

Has anyone mentioned the Book With No Pictures by BJ Novak yet? You can only read it to your kids once, but every time you have a new unsuspecting reader of it it becomes the kids’ favourite book again!

I am shocked that no-one has yet mentioned “Lottie Potter Wants an Otter”.

Thanks, everybody for taking the time to reply.

Thanks, burblish for typing out all those recommendations.

My kids would disagree about only reading it once, it’s frequently requested at bedtime even though they can pretty much recite it word for word.

The dogs bottom ball.