What book did your toddler children love you reading to them?

[JimandPam]

My two boys are at the age where they are absolutely loving story time before bed. They are 2 and 4 so a great age to enjoy a good story

We have really exhausted our book collection and I wondered what story you cherished reading your children at this age/they cherished you reading to them?

We have all the classics but I've been surprised when gifted books I would never have bought myself as they gone down so well

I know it is cheeky using AIBU but I wanted to put an order in World of Books tomorrow for the weekend!

So what were your much loved books?

Nuddy Ned
The pirates next door
Elmer
4 year old ds loves the jolly postman
Cock a doodle poo
Duck in a truck

Happy Birthday Moon.

The ‘Old Bear’ series - Jane Hissey

Burglar Bill - Allan Ahlberg, in fact all the Ahlberg books!

Books featuring TV characters they knew - Rosie and Jim, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam…(was quite a while ago when mine were little!)

The little rabbit books.
Anything by Oliver Jeffers - how to catch a star etc
Mr Gumpy's motor car
Anything by Shirley Hughes
This is not my hat etc
The doll's house fairy (even for boys)
Abigail the giraffe, Sylvia the dragon
Tiddles and the mystery cat/the kitten
No matter what
The wonky donkey
All the mog books
The Percy books
Paper dolls

Each peach pear plum
The hungry caterpillar
Owl Babies 🩷

@DistressedDamson aw, that's lovely!

Tell him the ladies of itching down are my main fashion inspiration in life :)

You Choose was their favourite

I used to take my kids to the library every few weeks and we chose about 8 books. If one was a big hit, I'd buy a cheap copy on world of books. So we got a collection of books like this.

Another vote for Which Bum’s Mum’s. And the same author/illustrator pairing – Does a Bear Poo in the Woods.

Most of the books above plus:

The Wild Washerwomen
Mr Archimedes' Bath
The Doorbell Rang
Mini Rabbit Not Lost
The Pencil
Alan's Big Scary Teeth
Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose
My Red Balloon
Possum Magic

We re all going on a bear hunt .read over and over for my Son .(now aged 30!) when I was a Nursery School teacher, another little boy wanted to read it again and again too!

Rudie Nudie by Emma Quay

Where Is the Green Sheep?
by Mem Fox

The Potato People
by Pamela Allen

The wide-mouthed frog
by Keith Faulkner

Meg and Mog books

And many more that I can’t think of right now.

My 2 year old absolutely loves “We’re going on a bear hunt” he knows it off by heart!

Lots of those mentioned by PPs plus:

ALL the Topsy & Tims!
Six Dinner Sid
Not Now Bernard
Mole's Bedtime Story
Sophie in the Saddle and other Sophie stories

The Grunt and the Grouch

Dogs don't do ballet

Both are great for silly voices, accents and spotting things in the brilliant illustrations.

Hippos go Berserk was an absolute favourite here.

The Night Pirates was always a solid choice too.

At 2, Monkey and Me - Emily Gravett

14 years later I'm stil word perfect.

4ish - A Hole in the Road - Jakki Wood

And Julia Donaldson, Nick Sherratt

Anything and everything by Oliver Jeffers.

Oh No George is my son and my nephew's absolute favourite. All of the Chris Houghton ones are great.

The If I Had A... books are also well-loved, particularly If I Had an Octopus.

My son also frequently requests Owl Babies, which I also don't get - as you say, the art is lovely but the story is thin (and Bill annoys me greatly).

2 firm favourites with all my children:
Hairy Mclairy
Little Stinker

Toddle Waddle
The Giant Jam Sandwich
The Tale of Mr Tod (and god help you if you dare to skip a page)
Fidgety Fish
Beans on Toast by Paul Dowling
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
The Gruffalo
The Rabbits Wedding by Garth Williams
The Lamb who Came for Dinner
Where the Wild Things Are
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Meg and Mog has been a favourite with both of mine.

I loved 'You're called what?' until DS went to school and they used it as an example of bullying/making fun of peoples names and how that can make you feel 😟 It's a banned book here now as once you see it like that it's quite mean.

The dinky donkey!

Off the top of my head, my son loved all of Simon Bartram's books (The Man on the Moon especially) and all of Anthony Browne's.

Daughter particularly liked the Usborne Apple Tree Farm stories and Little Rabbit Foo Foo. 😀

this is a great thread!!

Wolves will not be wolves
Oi Frog/Oi Dog/Oi Puppies/oi duck billed platypus
That's not my hat...and everything by this author in that series
Anything by Oliver Jeffers
Giraffes Can't Dance
Goldilocks and the 3 crocodiles
The 'ravis roar' series
My pet star
Julian is a Mermaid