Picture Books

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DS is coming up for 10 months and has started to pay attention to stories when we read them together. Can anyone recommend some simple picture books? I have where the wild things are and guess how much I love you, but I don't know about anything that's come out since the 90s!

AIBU to ask for your recommendations?

A couple of the ‘that’s not my...’ books?
Some lift flap books, we have a where’s spot one which is popular still.

The very hungry Caterpillar
Monkey Puzzle
The Gruffalo
Hairy Mclarey books

Thank you! I'd forgotten about the very hungry caterpillar. Oo and Sam's Sandwich, I remember that being a particular favourite.

Julia Donaldson books.

I would hit the library. Ours has big boxes of toddler books and it was easy to find out what style DD liked. (And DH and I also liked to read to her).

Dear Zoo is a good one.

I found an oldie Goldie, I vaugly remember from childhood, hairy mclairy from donoldsons dairy in a charity shop my 14 month old loves. Also agree, that's not my... And she loves the free one we got from the library (bookstart charity) when we requested her birth 'all about me'

The tiger who came to tea, Giraffes can't dance, That's not my [whatever] and other touch books.

All hairy mcclarey books are great. Ten little dinosaurs. Aliens love underpants. Any good rhyming books will do you for a few years. The first while it’s all about the pictures but as they start to like the story they can understand it more.

The elephant and the bad baby. You can’t fit an elephant on the bus. The cat and the mouse and the runaway train.

The Baby's Catalogue is good for looking at the pictures and talking about them.

Fox's socks & the other acorn wood ones by Julia Donaldson. Spot the dog. Kipper. Allan Ahlberg e.g. each peach pear plum & peepo. Jill Murphy eg peace at last

Look on book people you get very good value sets.

Favourites here are:

Zoom zoom zoom*
Dear Zoo
Rabbit’s nap and lots of other Julia donaldson - snail and the whale, the gruffalo, the gruffalo’s Child, cave baby, the paper dolls*
Car, car, truck, jeep* (DS is obsessed with this one - we were given it at Bookstart in the Park a few months back).
Go, go, pirate boat*
That’s not my bunny
The very hungry caterpillar
We’re going on a bear hunt
Peepo

*these are all books you sing and are probably his favourites. Car, Car, Truck, Jeep has replaced Baa Baa Black Sheep as his lullaby.

I would hit the local charity shops and library...huge variety for nothing or almost nothing.

Book people is good place to buy for children.

My DD loves these books when younger.

www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?productId=612223

go to the library

they have tons and tons of them, they're all free, and if any are a huge hit then you can go and buy them.

Forgot to say there is a good book finder here too:
www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/bookfinder/bookfinder-results/#!?cat=2541&sortOption=Relevance&pageNo=1&pageSize=12

Each Peach Pear Plum.
Mr Men books (especially Mr Mischief!)