To ask your/your children's favourite books?

[Sleepbabysh]

I'm a teacher and looking for some ideas for books to use with the children I work with that I may not have come across before or may have forgotten about. What are your/your children's favourite story books (particularly picture books suitable for children up to about 7 years old)?

Mr Majeika series! Worst witch series. Winnie the witch picture books. The Great Pet Sale is a really good book, interactive and helps with maths (adding to £1) too. Also - I have six children (30 down to 5) and they’ve all loved the complete Flower Fairies book of poems and pictures at that age, both sexes. Absolutely gorgeous illustrations. There is a picture book I can remember loving for a long time as a child called The Butterfly Ball…the illustrations are incredible. Finally - the original Brothers Grimm…but maybe not in modern classrooms? Shame though.

Oh, just asked a couple of the teens and they say Mrs Pepperpot and two picture books, called Prowlpuss and Tim Mouse Goes Down The Stream.

YANBU 🤣

Thank you so much as, other than The Worst Witch and Brothers Grimm, I haven't heard of any of these so I'm off to check them out now!

For the younger end of that range (4-5), I like Rachel Bright books (including The Lion Inside). We’ve also just discovered Rainbow Fish and Barbara Throws a Wobbler. These are all very popular with 4-5 year olds, in my experience.

I’d also look at The Faraway Tree - we have some of the older A4-ish size hardbacks with wonderful illustrations that were popular with DC1 around 6-7. DC1 also liked The Twits at that age.

Edited to apologise for replying to a zombie thread!