(Non Julia Donaldson) book recommendations for 3YO

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We LOVE Julia Donaldson and have quite a collection of her books now. Can anyone recommend anything else that is as engaging for my 3YO?

Love this thread.

Dear Zoo
Each Peach Pear Plum
The Button Book (SO much fun)

The Great Dog Bottom Swap

My youngest is 19 and I still have this book. It is wonderful!

Princess Smartypants

This is brilliant, thank you so much everyone!

Judith Kerr's Mog books
They All Saw a Cat
A House is a House for Me
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Meg and Mog as above, real winner at that age
Sandra Boynton's books are fun
Yes to Peepo, also Bye Bye Baby and The Baby's Catalogue
Dr Seuss - Green Eggs and Ham, The Car in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish

Loads of good suggestions!
I'd add The Littlest Yak by Lu Fraser
Also, DD loves the books by Marc Barnett and Jon Klassen (circle, square, triangle, extra yarn)
Ooh, and The Cave by Rob Hodgson

Mo Willems pigeon books and knuffle bunny series

We love The Storm Whale too.

Charlie and Lola ad infinitum over here at the moment. They are great, tbf.

The books by Oliver Jeffers are wonderful.

Sue hendra
Oliver Jeffers
Jez alborough
Elmer books

The Book with No Pictures

My 3 year old loves books, including :

Chris Haughton (maybe is a big favourite of his)
Jon klassen (he likes the rock from the sky a lot)
Oliver Jeffers (I love the great paper caper)

He’s also currently obsessed with supertato.

Has anyone said Supertato yet? They're our favourites

Mine love the "there's a monster in my book" books by Tom Fletcher- really engaging and lots of giggles.

The Dinosaur who Pooped series is great as the prose bounces along and is fun / easy to read out loud.

I agree with Supertato too. The kids loved those!

I just did. 😁 My 3 year old loves supertato. I think we have all the books. This week he’s finding eviltato hilarious.

The problem with the dinosaur who pooped books is that they are quite revolting really. My 3 year old thinks they’re great obviously. But I grimace at the poo. 🫣

Aliens love underpants and the rest of the series were a big hit here.

Rosemary Wells' -
Max & Ruby books
Stanley & Rhoda

I see Meg and MOG mentioned a few times. My daughter loved those books. She also loved Pamela Allen books such as The Potato People and Who Sank the Boat. She loved (and still does) Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French.

Chris Haughton and Tom Fletcher are very popular here with both 5 and 3 year old DDs.

Big smash hits recently from the library for us:

There's a Shark in the Park!
I Spy Island (same writer/illustrator as Supertato)
Dogs Don't Do Ballet
There's a Bear on my Chair

My personal favourites (timeless classics!):
Each Peach Pear Plum
Peepo!
The Alfie stories by Shirley Hughes

I think they're hilarious! 🙈🤣

There’s a Monster in My Book by Tom Fletcher
Oi Dog/FrogCat series