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?

I have a 2.5 year old.
Current favourites include lots that have been mentioned: Mog, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Spot the Dog books, Ten Minutes to Bed (Little Unicorn, Monster, etc.), Oi Frog series, Poppy and Sam (Apple Tree Farm). Sadly she currently has no interest in Each Peach Pear Plum (my childhood favourite).

Ones I don't think have been mentioned:

• Pop-Up Peekaboo books
• One Banana, Two Bananas
• But Not the Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton
• Dalmatian in a Digger by Rebecca Elliott
• A Recipe for Bedtime
• Supertato by Sue Hendra
• Hiccups by Holly Sterling
• Corduroy by Dawn Freeman

Percy the Park Keeper. I could tell you One Snowy Night off the top of my head

Fix It Duck - Jez Alborough
Eric and the Red Planet
The Crunching Munching Caterpillar

This is always a big hit (" but that's an elephant!!!")

Bonus: has a gazillion little extra details for the adults included.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/769932.My_Cat_The_Silliest_Cat_in_the_World

Julia Donaldson books, especially Stick man and Snail and the Whale.

Dinosaurs love Underpants etc

Elmer

Harry and the Dinosaurs

Check out the Pig the Pug series by Aaron Blaby.

Australian author and the books are so funny with quite a sweet message too - my girls are the same age as your DC and they absolutely love them.

The Elephant and The Bad Baby (my DCs still chant "rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta all down the road" at each other 😂 )

Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus (and all the others in this series)

Where The Wild Things Are

Mog

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

Mog
The tiger who came to tea
Dogger
The Large Family
Harry's first days at school
Brambly Hedge
Lucy and Tom's day

Fairly sure all of our fiction books have been mentioned, but all of mine also really liked books about animal life cycles. So baby to adult snake, rabbit, otter, deer whatever!

Velveteen Rabbit
The Amelia Jane collection
The Magic Faraway Tree

I loved Enid Blyton as a child and kept all my books, my children loved them just as much as I did.

Owl Babies
The Hungry Capterpillar
Any Mog or Kipper Books

Room on the Broom
Baddies
Smedds and Smooth
Gruffalo
Bear Hunt
Burglar Bill
Jack and the Bean Stalk
Tiger Who Came to Tea
Where the Wild Things Are
A Squash and a Squeeze
Oi Frog
Each Peach Pear Plum
Ten Minutes to Bed Little Dinosaur

Faster faster little red train.
Going on a bear hunt.
Do you dare?
Room on the Broom

Wow Said the Owl -Tim Hopgood
The Very Busy Spider - Eric Carle
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see - Eric Carle
How to Catch a Star - Oliver Jeffers
Lost and Found - Oliver Jeffers (this is also a great film!)
The Way Back Home - Oliver Jeffers
Up and Down - Oliver Jeffers

(my eldest is 17, youngest 13 and they have kept all these!)

The Dancing Tiger by Malachy Doyle. Such a gorgeous book, I always got a catch in my throat at the end.

Any by the Ahlbergs: The Jolly Postman with the little letters inside
Kipper- The Blue Balloon /Mick Inkpen
Jane Hissey Bear books- I’ll always remember Henry Isiah
Farmer Duck (poor guy)
Mr Magnolia- DD used to shout ‘Boot!’
Owl Babies
Plop- the owl who was afraid of the Dark
ah memories

The Lion Who Wanted to Love
Dinosaurs Galore!
The Dog Who Could Dig

Hippos go Berserk

Rainbow Rob
Hippos Go Beserk
all the Topsy and Tim books

I know it isn't Christmas but one of my DS most favourite stories is Jesus' Christmas Party by Nicholas Allen. Worth getting !

Tyrannosaurus Drip

I forgot:

• Peck Peck Peck by Lucy Cousins
• The "I Thought I Saw a..." books. There's Panda, Dinosaur, Crocodile... Not sure what else.
• Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

100% I like those ones as much as the kids (maybe even slightly more)

We recently discovered The Baby Beast by Chris Judge in the library and I love it. DD enjoys it too 😁

All the Pip and Posy books, from about 2-4. Then good for learning to read. They're a bit funny, very gentle.