Recommendations for 2-3 year old

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2 year old DS, really into his books. Loves The Tiger Came to Tea, The Gruffalo, William & The Night Train...recommendations of similar titles? Amazon seems lift the flap & potty training focussed. I have to read them over & over again quite often 3 times in one sitting so a nice story rather than just illustrations please for my sanity! Thanks

Percy The Park Keeper series by Nick Butterworth
Alfie series by Shirley Hughes
Mog the cat series by
Peter Rabbit
Can't You Sleep Little Bear - Martin Waddell & Barbara Firth
Whatever Next! By Gill Murphy
The Large Family series by Gill Murphy
Elmer the Elephant series
Old Bear series by Jane Hissy
Aliens Love Underpants

The hairy mclairy series
Anything by Julia Donaldson ( we particularly like Charlie Cooks favourite book)
The Lion inside
The Koala that could
Oi Frog series

Everything that krispie and frog said, plus:
Bear Hug
Otto the Book Bear
Red Ted
The Little House
Ox Cart Man
Stanley’s Stick
The Midnight Farm (out of print, but try Abe Books, because it’s just brilliant)
Anything by Bob Graham
Anything by Oliver Jeffers

I'm getting onto this for my little bookworm, I need ideas for Xmas!

The Shirley Hughes books, ‘Lucy and Tom’, ‘Alfie’ and ‘Dogger’.
How to Hide a Lion.
Hairy McClairy.
Mog books.

Favourites here:
Zog
The runaway tractor (and other usborne books about apple tree farm)
Spot - yes it is lift the flap but she loves the independence of it
Hairy maclairy
Squash and a squeeze
The day the crayons quit (more for 3 than 2 as it's longer!)

I find anything with a rhyme generally much easier to read multiple times. I love Hairy Mclairy for this reason. And the Slinky Malinki spin-off might actually be my all time favourite.

Any TV tie-ins go straight to the back of the wardrobe, because they are such hard work. You might assume that writing books for three year olds would be easy, but a quick read of a Paw Patrol book will set you straight.

Current favourite of both DC in our house is You Choose. Not a story book, but a lovely conversation starter.

So agree about the paw patrol books just awful bilge.I am slowly removing them one at a time for my own sanity.

Agree hairy mclary series brilliant. And percy the park keeper series as others have said.

Jez alborough books esp ' duck in a truck' and 'some dogs do' are wonderful.

Loads of julia donaldson ones but a squash and a squeeze and charlie cooks favourite books are real favourites here.

Ds's favourite books are currently 'meet the parents' by peter bently and 'the tree elves picnic' by alice jane roberts. Both of which are wonderful.

Aliens Love Underpants
Peace at Last
Elmer books

DD recently got given a book by Jarvis about Alan the alligator. It's brilliant but I can't remember the exact title.

Don’t forget about poems, both rhyming and non-rhyming - good rhythm and metre are as fun to read and support language development just as well as rhyme.

‘When We Were Very Young’, ‘Stars In Jars’, ‘I Am A Poetato’ and ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ (the version with the Axel Scheffler illustrations) have all gone down well in our house.

Julia Donaldson - as mentioned by everyone else (have read them so often that ds now 'reads' them to himself)

The little princess books

Moo cow kung fu cow, elephant weliphant, octopus soctopus

Oh yes, forgot
Elmer books
Each peach pear plum and peepo
Hungry caterpiller

Also consider joining your local library, means you can try some new stuff and if they don't like something, it's free so it doesn't matter!

Wow- loads of ideas! Thanks everyone

Others listed above plus Cave Baby (Julia Donaldson) and Farmer Duck (Martin Waddell) and Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.

Would definitely recommend:
The Emperor's New Clothes (Susanna Davidson)
Emily Brown and the Thing (Cressida Cowell)
The Firebird (Mairi Mackinnon)

My daughter couldn't put them down! Would never have thought of them, but discovered them through a company called Bookabees, which sends unique books right to our door

Once there were giants Martin Waddell - the most lovely book

I've just discovered the Book Trust have a book finder website. It's brilliant. You can search by age and theme and it appears to be updated with new books.

Avoid 'you choose like the plague!! Have read it nightly for the last year dd loves it so much

Thanks again everyone, I now have a plethora of literary possibilities (and a full basket on Amazon)!

We are currently into

Bumblebear
Not now Bernard
Gruffalo
There’s a bear on my chair
You can’t fit an elephant on the bus

Look up Helen Docherty and Rachel Bright. Nice books with good rhyme, a story and a message.

My DD likes:

Who’s Hiding
Press Here
Don’t put your finger in the jelly, nelly
The Fox in the Dark
Dogs don’t do ballet
Who’s in the loo
Are the dinosaurs dead, Dad?
Tuck me in!
Any Wibbly Pig book
Giraffes can’t dance
Supermarket Zoopermarket
Little rabbit foo foo

Bear in the cave, by Michael rosen is very popular with mine. Also bear hunt of course

The Book People have a set of 10 Julia Donaldson books in a nice little bag for about a tenner (they are much more limited in choice but much cheaper than amazon). We love The Snail and The Whale.

Other books that my little one lives include “I love you Stinky Face” and “Oi Frog!”. Not sure of the authors on either but pretty sure we got both from Amazon so should be easy to find.