What are your “must have” children’s books?

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DS1 is 10 weeks old and very alert and already LOVES a bedtime story 😊 hoping to build him a lovely collection of books! He has quite a few already but looking for recommendations of “must have” children’s books that your little ones loved?

The Gruffalo is a firm favourite with DS already. Also enjoyed The Snail and The Whale 😊

Following this with interest.

Love all the Julia Reynolds books. Zog and room on the broom are great.

Peter rabbit collection. We're going on a bear hunt, hungry caterpillar, the classics.

May have to start reading ds roald dahl and David walliams soon as I want to read them myself 🤣

Alan Ahlberg classics:

Peepo
Each peach pear plum
Jolly postman and jolly Christmas postman

Five minutes peace (can't remember author!) featuring the Large elephant family

Julia Donaldson
Peter rabbit collection
Thomas the tank engine series - biased as my DS is obsessed.
Spot the dog.

When a bit older - things like Enid Blyton's far away tree collection and similar.

Oh yes definitely Each Peach Pear Plum too.

Owl babies!

Very hungry caterpillar

yes the large family books- Jill Murphy.

Tiger who came to tea

I want my hat back.

I love children’s books

The Mog books and the Shirley Hughes books.

Anything by Oliver jeffers

The Mr Men & Little Miss

Oh and Hairy McClary from Donaldsons Dairy

Dr Seuss! Get the whacking great box of them.

Ahlberg

That’s not my... is good for under 1s

Julia Donaldson books
Gerald the giraffe

Each peach pear plum
Dear zoo
Stick man

Peace At Last, Peepo, Goodnight Moon.

All the Giles Andreae books
Farmyard hullabaloo- the lion who wanted to love.
Loved the rhyme and rhythm

The Paper Dolls
Monkey Puzzle
Tiger who came to tea
Hairy McClary
The Girls
A piece of cake

Anything by Shirley Hughes for the artwork alone, but I always get a bit choked up at the end of Dogger. Very sweet.

These are some of the books that we will never ever get rid of even though my children are all a bit too old for them now:

Judith Kerr: Mog, The Tiger Who Came to Tea and others.

The Elephant and The Bad Baby "Rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta all down the road"

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

Where The Wild Things Are

How to Catch a Star

Julia Donaldson (Smartest Giant and Sharing a Shell were the most read in our house but I know The Gruffalo is most children's favourite)

Most of above plus

Calm Down Boris
Car car truck jeep

The Bob Graham Books - eg Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten.

I have a 2 year old who seems to hate all the classics 🙈

However he loves the book series by Tom Fletcher. There's a dragon in your book is a favourite, and The dinosaur that pooped the bed is another.

At least he likes reading, that's what I try to tell myself 🤣

Hairy McClary from Donaldson’s Dairy and The Tiger Who Came To Tea.

All the Julia Donaldson books - the ‘favourite’ rotates every few weeks
That’s not my...
Flap books - dear zoo, foxes socks etc
The mr men collection (that and little miss books on offer in Aldi at the mo £20)
Gerald the giraffe
Elephant me
My big shouty day
One snowy night
Plus big books of nursery rhymes / stories
Tiger that came for tea
Mog the forgetful cat
Also books by Todd carr for explaining different family types, adoption, diversity etc - brightly coloured and lots of pictures - DS loves these

Oh and for when he's older, a poetry and colouring in book that's by an indy author, Colour and Rhyme. www.amazon.co.uk/Colour-Rhyme-Poetry-Design-Yourself/dp/B08Q71CY6F/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=colour+and+rhyme&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1610400545&sr=8-2

Say goodnight to the Sleepy Animals (there were a few other similar ones. All were really calming)

Puff the Magic Dragon

Julia Donaldson... Our favourites were Paper Dolls, Stickman, Squash and a Squeeze, Gruffalo/Gruffalo Child, and the What the Ladybeard Heard series.

Each Peach Pear Plum
Peepo