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

Goodnight Moon.

peepo...always makes me sniffle, its the bombed blitz element and how important the little things are to the baby

the baby catalogue

The hungry caterpillar, The best ever!!
The Gruffalo
The elephant and the Bad Baby
Usborne stories about The Farm and Poppy and Sam
Cops and Robbers
Hairy McClary
Aagh spider
The Lighthousekeeper
The Jolly Postman

what i love about peepo, and each peach too, is that as a grown up the more you read them you more you get out of them. they're constructed like little novels with all sorts of layers.

Anything by Helen Cooper:

Pumpkin Soup
Pipkin of Pepper
Tatty Ratty
The Baby who wouldn't go to bed

Beautiful pictures and lovely stories.

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

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

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

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

keep thinking of more

Hippos go berserk
Barnyard dance

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

anything by anthony brown, shirley huges, allan ahlberg

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+)

Owl babies

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

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?

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

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

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

Also Charlie and Lola.

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