Your favourite books for 2-3 yo

[Maalia]

What did you and your DCs love at that age? My DS loves colourful books with a good rythm. TIA!

Brown Bear, Brown Bear (Ill by Eric Carle) - has just the right amount of words on each page, with enough of a child friendly cliff hanger at each page turn to keep their interest. Perfect for this age group.

Charlie and Lola books v popular with my dd (2.4). And they are interesting visually, so not too boring for the adult reader, too.

Barry the Fish with Fingers. He LOOOOOOOVES it!

The Tiger Who Came To Tea is very popular here at the m

All Afloat on Noah's Boat
Giraffes Can't Dance
Peace at Last
Whatever Next
Dogger

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Was also going to add that DS enjoys Bear Snores On and The Cat In The Hat.

The Giant Jam Sandwich was loved by both of us. It is written in rhyme.

We got Splat the Cat today from a charity shop, and dd absolutely loves it (not least, I think, because she is obsessed with going to school, and the book is all about this process).
Am always slightly taken aback by everyone's apparent love of "The Tiger who came to Tea". I do understand, from further research, that the whole thing is a political metaphor. But, taken at face value, as it would be by most toddlers, does it not seem a bit sexist?

I agree that The Tiger Who Came To Tea is a bit dated, but why not poke a bit of fun at that? When the tiger drinks all of daddy's beer we always joke, "thank goodness he didn't drink all of mummy's!" And there's isn't a boy from the grocer shop but there can be a delivery person from the supermarket. I'm not sure why you think it's sexist necessarily, some mums stay at home by choice, not because of societal pressure, and some dads go out to work. A neighbouring family I know had mum go to work and dad stayed at home and they discussed the differences between their family and the one in the book with their toddlers. For my ds though, he just finds the idea of a tiger in your house, eating all your food funny, and the drawings are lovely. I think the book has a lot of value as a tool for beginning to talk about dynamics in your own family once the child is old enough, and goodness knows what other things Sophie's daddy does at weekends? He might do a pile of housework!

Now, if you want to see people truly disgruntled over the message a book gives, look at the negative reviews of Click Clack Moo on amazon.com (not co.uk) - makes my sides ache with laughter.

The Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business is DS1's firm favourite. It's a pop up book about a mole who pokes his head from underground and gets pooed on! He spends the whole book investigating all the other animals poo to work out who did it

Barry the Fish With Fingers
Dinosaurs Love Underpants
And Pirates Love Underpants are also favourites

We're loving 'Dogger' and 'Don't want to Go' by Shirley Hughes. Also 'Ginger finds a home' etc., 'Gracie the Lighthouse Cat'. 'Abigail' about a giraffe and 'Sylvia' by the same author, about a dragon.

Just saw this thread again and have come back on to say that, much to my chagrin, dd now loves The Tiger who came to Tea! But I do think it's sexist, not because the man works and the woman doesn't, but because he appears to make the financial decisions (re going out to dinner) and because the beer is exclusively his!
She also loves Funnybones at the moment, which I find strange and a bit boring!

Yuck Said The Yak

Anything by Nick Sharratt www.nicksharratt.com/books/nicks_books.html

This one www.amazon.co.uk/Press-Here-Herve-Tullet/dp/0811879542

We also like
Dig Dig Digging
Yuck said the Yak
Dragon Stew

DS is almost 3 years old and his current favourites are

Meg & Mog books
Mr Men books
Pip and Posy The Big Balloon by Axel Schaffer
One Ted Falls Out Of Bed by Julia Donaldson
Freddie and The Fairy by Julia Donaldson
The Tiger That Came to Tea

Kipper
Spot the Dog (loved lifting up the flaps!)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
In the Night Garden story books

Some great suggestions here, updating my Christmas list now, thanks.

Hairy MacClary from Donaldson's Dairy, the other Lindsey Dodd books are good but that's the absolute best, great rhythm and rhyme.

Also, One Fish Two Fish, by Dr Seuss. It's his best IMO, and simple enough for that age group (but also enjoyed by this 39 year old).

Humphrey's Corner books by Sally Hunter
Once There Were Giants by Martin Waddell
Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae
Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson
I Wish I Could. . . . Dance by Tiziana Bendall-Brunello
Pig in Love by Vivian French
Whose Nose And Toes?, Who Says Woof?, and Can You Cuddle Like a Koala? by John Butler
Ants in Your Pants by Julia Jarman

If you want something Christmassy Tosca's Christmas by Matthew Sturgis is lovely.

We have Floss every single night. The only way we can get out of it is if he's been messing around a lot & we warn him we're 'running out of time' to read it. Usually he stops messing around at that point but sometimes we get lucky & can avoid it! It's been at least a month, if not 2, of having it every night & I'm sick of it! I've tried introducing other books but he'll still beg for Floss afterwards!

Tiger who came to tea
Meg and mot collection
Gruffaloe and Gruffaloes Child
Kipper stories.
Any lift the flap books
Cock a Moo Moo
Tale of Peter rabbit

The Acorn Wood series
Duck in a Truck
Duck's Key, Where Can it Be?

We love:

All Julia Donaldson
All Oliver Jeffers
The Tony Mitten and Guy Parker Rees books
The Giles Andrea and Guy Parker Rees books
Supermarket Zoo and How to Grow a dinosaur
Harry and the dinosaurs by Ian Whybrow
Anything written and illustrated by Quentin Blake
Alfie gets in first by shirley Hughs