What's you child's favourite book?

[Welshmum]

I thought it might be good to get an idea of just what books are out there and what age group they appeal to.
DD is 2 and a quarter and currently entranced by 'Whiff - the big, fat, smelly, beautiful baby'
She also loves her Kiwi counting book.

Dd is also 2y3m and adotres her books. Current favourites include
the Alfie and Annie Rose stories,
the Gruffalo,
Cat in the Hat,
Green Eggs and Ham,
The Tiger Who Came to Tea,
Cuddly Dudley,
Letterland book,
Little Miss stories
and
the traditinal fairy stories like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Billy Goats Gruff, etc. We have the Early reader versions of these from M&S which are ideal for this age group as bedtime stories.

My ds likes all of the Thomas the Tank Engine Stories, but the current favourite for both dd age 2 and ds age 4 is Dirty Bertie....probably because they both like picking their noses so much and thats what Bertie does.

When my dd was this age, she loved being read the Hairy Maclary books - she would be laughing out loud.

Ds is 12 months and loves the Leslie Patricelli books - 'Yummy Yucky' 'Big Little' and 'Quiet Loud' - great illustrations and very funny. Also loves the Poppy Cat series - good rhyming text and sparkly/fluffy/lift-the-flap illustrations.

DD is 3y 4m. She loves:
The Twits
The Magic Finger
George's Marvellous Medicine
Letterland Stories
The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark
Felicity Wishes (yuck!)
Horrid Henry stories

Shorter books she liokes are:
A piece of cake
Handa's Surprise
Charlie and Lola stories
Clarice Bean stories

The Kiss that Missed and Dirty Bertie

When ds2 was 3, the book that I knew off by heart was 'We're going on a Bear Hunt'

In fact he's nearly 8 and I can still recite it word for word!

when my kids were tiny they loved I Had Trouble In Getting To Solla Sollew, Green Eggs and Ham (in fact ALL the seuss books), Where the Wild Things Are, the Mr Men books, anything by John Burningham and the Alfie books.

DD had a particular obsession with the Ladybird version of The Wizard of Oz - I still shudder at the memory of ploughing through it night after night after night ... SO DULL!

My 3 year old DDs are obsessed with Room on the Broom, they know it off my heart. I think it's by the same author as the Gruffalo.

I recently bought:

Gruffalo, room on the broom and going on a bear hunt. My children are 6 and 4 and loved them.

Mine love the Gruffalo which is great to read at bedtime, in fact all of the books by the same author as they rhyme and the children can join in.

Others we have are The Smartest Giant in Town, Room on a Broom, A Squash and a Squeeze, Monkey Puzzle and The Snail and the Whale.

Whiff is a hit in our house, too, right now.
Slinky Malinki is probably the perenial fave, though.

DD is 3 and loves Zigby books, also Topsy and Tim and Cinderella. She was bought a book called You Choose which she reads every day.

oo and the Meg and Mog books

DOGGER! Over and over again.

Also The Elephant and the Bad Baby
Mog
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears (Ladybird book)

Dd is 2y6m

Oh I forgot about Going on a bear Hunt. DD loves this. She sings along with it and does all the actions - not ideal for bedtime wind down though. LOL!

Have you looked at the mumsnet lists? find the best

DD (2)at the moment adores
thomas the tank books
Slinky Malinki
Hairy Maclary
Any books with elephants in them

when she was younger
Peepo
Dear Zoo
Usborne 'farm' books (Woolly the Sheep, Curly the pig, Rusty the dog etc)

Dd, 21 months loves books, her favourites come and go in fads, current faves are:

The tiger who came to tea
Gruffalo
Little red riding hood
Goldilocks and the three bears
Pumpkin soup
I want my potty
Blue kangaroo

Favourites change all the time but dd (4) likes:
All the books by the Gruffalo people
Lots of Mick Inkpen inc Kipper, Penguin Small and Threadbear
Blue Kangaroo books
Pookie
Chimp and Zee
Lots of Dr Seuss
Frog in Love (which dh reads in a French accent)
Felicity Wishes (one of the fairies has the same name as her)
Claude and the Big Surprise (although she's jealous because Claude gets a baby sister and she's getting a smally old brother!).

7 year old dd:
The House at Pooh Corner
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Sleepover by Jacqueline Wilson

ds 3.5 & loves Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the builder books & the Mick Inkpen ones - Penguin Small, Kipper etc (which i like too). I (as chief bedtime story reader) always look at anything not too long - especially now when he notices I've missed words out !

my ds1 (4years) loves 'a dark dark tale' and 'cloudland' at the mo.

Whiff sounds good - who is the author please?

We (I!) love Slinky Malinky, Hairy McClary,
Room on the Broom, Little Princess, Jam Pandas and especially the Bartholomew the Bear books for the little ones.

Whiff is by Ian Whybrow and Russell Ayto.
We found it in Waterstones.
I have become very fond of it - and dd wants it several times a day.

Oh yes, great books here. We also love gruffalo and Room on Broom etc, alfie and annie rose, tiger who came to tea...
Other favourites have been one called Arthur's Tractor and a rhyming book called Pants which they knew off by heart!
DD (3) atm loves Hairy Mclairy (fascinated by dalmation doggies) last summer she was mad about who's afraid of the storybook wolves and one called Dig Dig Digging (bought for DS1 i suspect!); DS2 (15mo) likes My Presents by Dear Zoo author and a lovely touch and feel farm book from Usborne; DS1 (5) is now reading so we are back to Spot books and those 99p Usborne farm ones, but also he loves classic stories like 3 little pigs and red riding hood (the same wolf apparently