What are you toddler's favourite bedtime stories?

[CravingSunshine]

I'd love to expand our collections. Here are our faves:
Peace at Last (Jill Murphy) www.amazon.co.uk/Peace-At-Last-Jill-Murphy/dp/0230015484/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340627834&sr=1-1
Say Goodnight to the Sleepy Animals (Ian Whybrow and Ed Eaves) www.amazon.co.uk/Say-Goodnight-Sleepy-Animals-Whybrow/dp/0230756077/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340627945&sr=1-1
Sleepy Me (Cee Biscoe and Marni McGee) www.amazon.co.uk/Sleepy-Me-Marni-McGee/dp/1848951507

but that's only 3 books to rotate! DS loves any books with bears and owls.

My two loved a book called Daniels train when they were younger. It is about a boy who loses his teddy on a train and takes a magical journey on a steam train to find him.

So pleased you have started this thread! I am planning a trip to waterstones for a nice afternoon looking at books and walking away with a few new ones. My DS loves his books at bedtime. A current favourite is Bear Snores On which is a lovely rhyming story and about a bear so should suit your DS too, craving.

He is also very into Dr Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham but doesn't seem to care about The Cat in the Hat.... Probably because Green Eggs and Ham is more simple for a toddler-only uses 50 words in the whole story.

Other current winners,
a squash and a squeeze
Peace at Last (as mentioned by craving)
Where the Wild Things Are

Pirates Next Door is our current favourite.

Also love all Emily Brown books. Especially the Elephant Emergency.

DS (2.10) loves All the World and Dogger plus other Shirley Hughes' Alfie books. He also likes books where he can see his family situation reflected e.g. the 3 bears (we're a 3 member family) or Big Bear Little Bear - DH is a part time SAHD so they spend lots of father and Son time together. DS likes looking at the pictures in the Bear books to pick out him and his dad.

The Alfie books by Shirley hughes
The Blue Kangaroo books by Emma Chichester Clark
Any Maisy/Kipper/Percy the Park Keeper books

I also meant to mention Shirley Hughes' 'Noisy' which is brilliantly illustrated and I think they can really relate to it + you can invent your own story around the pictures. My DS is only 20 months and just getting into the whole story thing. We've moved on from 'That's Not My...' thank god
By the way pleasefiveminutes, a tecchy question, how do you hyperlink where you insert just the name? I was trying to do that.

Owl babies!

Wow! How CUTE is Owl Babies,surrounded?!

I am even happier this thread was started-I have Owl Babies on the shelf but have never read it! No idea where it came from, i may have got it in a bundle from an NCT sale.

craving, to hyperlink you put the before the web address, then the name you want to show, then close

Forgot to mention We're Going on a Bear Hunt. DS adores it. And at the end the bear lumbers off back down the beach back to his cave.

My Girls like "Guess how much I love you" and "Scaredy squirrel". Neither help them sleep when Daddy read them x

Ooh, lots. Current favourites are:
Again! (It's about a small dragon having a bedtime story read to him)
Wolf won't Bite! (Slight reversion of The Three Little Pigs)
(Both of the above are by Emily Gravett)
Owl Babies
In the Night Kitchen & Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
Winston was Worried (Pamela Duncan-Edwards)
The Artist who Painted a Blue Horse (Eric Carle)
Slinky Malinki & Catflaps (Lynley Dodd)
The Great Sheep Shenanigans
The Sleep Book (way beyond small child, but think the pictures hold interest while the words wash over...)

There was also a similar thread (think it was something like 'Top Ten Books'?) going in the Children's Books topic a couple of months or so ago that might be worth a search for.

Should have said... There are actions for We're going on a Bear Hunt- see Michael Rosen doing them . He's the author and the guy they always get onto BBC breakfast whenever they want to talk about kids literacy. I only discovered the actions when reading it to DS and he was doing them - I realised he must have learnt them at nursery!

The Elephant and the Bad Baby. Which is a shame as it's so bloody repetitive that I struggle to stay awake and DS3 wants it again again again.

My DS loves 'Tiddler' and 'What the ladybird heard' by Julia Donaldson. He also likes 'Where's my teddy?' by Jez Alborough.

Oh and 'monkey and me' by Emily Gravett.

Oh and he loves Nick Sharratts take on classic fairy stories... Goldilocks, Cinderella etc..

Anything by Julia Donaldson, mainly Tiddler and What the Ladybird heard
Mog
Meg and Mog
The Tiger who came to tea
Charlie and Lola
Nursery rhymes
Kipper
I've also got a whole collection of Little Tiger Press books that come out occasionally.

Anything by Julia Donaldson - Tabby McTat is current favourite
Any Alfie stories
Tiger who came to tea
Mog
The shark in the Dark
www.amazon.co.uk/The-Shark-Dark-Peter-Bently/dp/0230015980
This is the bear
www.amazon.co.uk/This-Bear-Classic-Collection-%C2%A319-99/dp/1406332313/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340655064&sr=1-1

DD has loads of favourites too.

Owl Babies
Peepo
Go tell it to the toucan
I'm not cute
Poppy Cat's happy day
Little Miss Bossy (quite apt for her )
Finding Nemo
A colours book
A couple of Peppa Pig stories
Oh Dear
Spot at the farm
Be Gentle

We have to make her choose just three, but she always manages to stretch it out to five, on a rolling repertoire of the above, plus whatever she can sneak up from the living room

Tabby McTat here as well as any Julia Donaldson really
Wobble Bear
The Little Engine That Could

DS is 23mo and loves The Chick and the Duckling, anything Julia Donaldson (stick man currently #1), the very busy spider by eric carle, funnybones or each peach pear plum by the ahlbergs and has to have at least one "meganmog" every night.

The Tickle Book is a firm favorite in our house.

Great suggestions here!

No more kissing by emma Chichester Clarke Night monkey Day Monkey Aaah spider can't remember authors but dd2 age 2.8 loves them

Anything by Lydia Monks

What a list! Now, would anyone like to buy me an Amazon voucher so's I can get shopping?