What are your favourite picture books?

[alittleteapot]

Classics and new. Here's mine for starters:

Rosie's Walk
Peepo
Each Peach Pear Plum
Bear Hunt
Harry the Dog books
ToucanToucan by David McKee

[vesela]

Current favourites:

Kipper (the first one). It's just right.

Where Are You, Blue Kangaroo? Good story and vibrant illustrations. DD (19 months) likes it so much she wouldn't even let me near it at first until she'd read it a couple of times herself.

Over in the Meadow, illustrated by Louise Voce. I think this is out of print. A lovely relaxing book, which has also got DD counting (it draws you in in a way that most counting books don't).

feelinglucky, you're not the only one to feel that way about the Hungry Caterpillar illustrations, although I'd never thought of masculine as the way to describe them. Interesting - I find them too free of emotion.

I find the Spot books a bit sterile, too.

Other ones that annoy me in various ways: the Mog books (DD loves them, but Mog and the Baby squicks me out, and there are various aspects of the others that I find irritating, although the mini-Mog books are great). A Squash and a Squeeze - bits don't work, plus it bugs the hell out of me that the larder doesn't fit with the rest of the pictures of the house!).

DD has loved most of her books, but has never taken to Peepo.

[flyingmum]

Walter the farting dog.

Bought by a naughty aunty - its a scream - although only really suitable for when children have learned the social niceties of language (ie, when not to come out with words . . .)

Also really funny when you have to write the title down in your year 1 child's reading diary

All the Mog books
Also a Piece of Cake and anything with the Large family.
There is also a series of books called 'going on a Picnic' Going Swimming etc with lovely illustrations and the Mum always looks knackered.

[LadyG]

You can still get it on iplayer

[alittleteapot]

Oh no Calfireworks i've only just read about the BBC4 doc. would've loved to have seen that.
Anyone see it?

[AbbaFan]

Also Charlie and Lola.

[Horton]

I Like It When is one of our favourites. The pictures are brilliant. Also How Kind by the same author.

[slayerette]

Dear Zoo and others by Rod Campbell. DS loved those when he was little.

[MaryAnnSingleton]

any Axel Scheffler illustrated book
Emma Chichester Clark books
The George and Lily books
Ant and Bee

[FeelingLucky]

Yes, anything by Shirley Hughes.
Alphabet Poem by Michael Rosen, Illustrations by Herve Tullet

Find the Hungry Caterpillar illustrations too masculine - does anyone else feel this way or is it just me?

[alittleteapot]

my dd's favourite at the moment is Mrs Goose's Baby by Charlotte Voake

[ohdearwhatamess]

Owl babies

[ermintrude13]

The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed by Helen Cooper.
Gorgeous pictures, with the kind of details the dc will notice more each time, and a natural bedtime read - by the end of it we were always both yawning and ready to sleep!
Also Maurice Sendak's
Where the Wild Things Are
In the Night Kitchen
and Arnold Lobel's
Tear-Water Tea (just line-drawings and better for 3+)

[SlartyBartFast]

anything by anthony brown, shirley huges, allan ahlberg

[compo]

Room on a broom
like the new Donaldson one - The Stick Man

[ohdearwhatamess]

keep thinking of more

Hippos go berserk
Barnyard dance

[ohdearwhatamess]

Each Peach Pear Plum
Hairy Maclary (all - less keen on Slinki Malinki though); Zachary Quack Minimonster by same author.
Kipper's A to Z
Goodnight Moon
Gruffalo and Gruffalo's Child (can take or leave the other ones though and get really irritated by Squash and a Squeeze!)
Dig, Dig, Digging
Tiger who came to tea

[AbbeyA]

The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch
All Ahlberg books
Mog books
All Helen Oxenbury illustrations
Old Bear Stories-Jane Hissey

[nickytwotimes]

Any Julia Donaldson ones, especially Tyranosaurus Drip and The Gruffallo
Lost and Found
The Way Back Home (both Oliver Jeffers)

[AbbaFan]

We went through a long period of 'aargh spider' - it's a lovely book.