Recommendations for 3 year old girl

[Basecamp101]

My grand daughter is 3 next week and asked today for a story about a girl.

Looking through our massive collection of picture books we only have a few where an ordinary little girl is the main character....ie not a princess or fairy. We have a few with female animals but not many with girls.

So looking for suggestions - we have ordered some Katie Morag but despite spending ages searching we're not finding many. Most were of the 'worthy' variety advocating girls can be astronauts or can showing it does not matter what you look like etc nothing wrong with that but we also want more like gruffalo's child where the main character just happens to be a girl but a real girl.

What have your 3 year olds enjoyed?

Alice in wonderland?

The worst witch
Pippy Longstock
Red rockets and rainbow jelly (it has Nick and Sue but still good)

Thought i would mention as I know people are following - the book that started the conversation .

Maisie Middleton

I still have the copy that her mum had loved as a toddler and she adored it. It was reading this that made her ask for more stories about a girl ...a real girl...like me.

Funnily I'm not short of ideas for when she is older ..... it was picture books specifically. But loads of great ideas here. I had never heard of Emily Brown or the blue kangaroo ones so it's been a great help.

Thank you.

You could also try Emily Gravett’s ‘Monkey and Me’, Mercer Mayer’s ‘What Do You Do With A Kangaroo’, or Maurice Sendak’s ‘Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Present’.

‘Sam, Bangs and Moonshine’ is a lovely book, but a tiny bit old just yet.

"You choose" then your DGD can be the most important character in the book. It is a truly unusual and rather brilliant book.

Ten Little Superheroes
Oi Dog
Mog books
The Best Jumper
Trixie The Witches CAt
Barry the Fish with Fingers
Hairy Maclary books.

I don’t know how I forgot about Bob Graham’s books! ‘A Bus Called Heaven’ and ‘Let’s Get A Pup!’ are both good examples of children’s books with believable female protagonists.

My boy liked ‘Rhinos Don’t Eat Pancakes’ by Anna Kemp a lot at that age, too.

My first thought was the Emily Brown series. What an icon.

Lucy and Tom books (Shirley Hughes)
I'd add 'Dogs don't do Ballet' to the Anna Kemp suggestion above
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans)
Eloise (Kay Thompson)
The Alan Ahlberg Happy Families series have lots of female protagonists

Handa's surprise

PP mentioned Lucy's Star - I think it's Laura's Star

Ok so they're not strictly human but I have to recommend the Maisie books by Aileen Paterson. First one in the series is Maisie comes to Morningside. All the characters are cats but they are basically human - wear clothes, have jobs, go to school etc. Maisie's dad is an explorer so she gets sent off to Scotland to live with her gran and has lots of adventures. There's one where she makes friends with a postcat and slides around the sorting office in a box. One where she goes in search of the loch ness monster. They're gentle funny katie-morag ish stories. She always has an adventure and never needs rescued by anyone!

@basecamp101 try Rosie's Hat by Julia Donaldson.

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner. Beautiful book about seasons and nature told through a garden. The grandmother features heavily too

My Big Shouting Day and its sequel My Busy Being Bella Day, both by Rebecca Patterson. they are hilarious and great fun to read out loud.