Stories for babies

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My daughter is 14 months old and really likes stories. She is very bored with factual 'this is a dog' type books. The hard part is finding stories that are easy enough for her to understand. She likes Big Red Bath, The Elephant & the Bad Baby, Peepo, Each Peach Pear Plum and Meg & Mog books but I haven't found much else that is easy enough for her to cope with. Most stories seem to have too many words on a page. Any recommendations?

Thanks so much for all the great recommendations. I agree that I don't think it's vital that she understands absolutely everything as long as she's got some idea of the basic situation - eg she liked the Big Red Bath book as soon as she got the hang of the idea that it was children having a bath and prob still doesn't understand all of it. I've been reading to her since she was born so she likes the process and the cuddles even when she doesn't get the whole story.

I will be off to Amazon shortly to have a bit of a look at all of the recommendations. You've mentioned several things that she already loves (eg V Hungry Caterpillar and That's Not My...) so you must be on the right track!

Many many thanks, and will look forward to more suggestions.

Mine all started liking Shirley Hughes from about that age. She does simple poems about colours, weather etc and they loved studying the pictures. They were enjoying her stories pretty soon after 18 months(and so were we).

There's a series of these that are lovely for little babies - nice pics and simple rhyming text. Sorry, there's no pictures of them on the Amazon site, but the link is this

Oh yes, she loves Hairy MacLary and also the Very Busy Spider. Must look for My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes, that sounds great.