Good bedtime books for 2.5 year old?

[LauraGas]

Can anyone recommend any good bedtime books for a (fairly bright) 2.5year old? He loves Peepo and Each Peach Pear Plum and also Mr Men (. Wondered if there was any collection of bedtime stories aimed at younger kids?

Grub --I think I meant

My ds got collection of little red train books for 2nd birthday and loved them. Knows them so well now he can practically recite the whole story!

No Matter What by Debi Gliori is also fantastic as a bedtime story.

Emily Brown and The Thing, and That Rabbit Belongs To Emily Brown, are great favourites here. Also the Oliver Jeffers books - How to Catch A Star etc. Goodnight Moon is great; so is Naughty Bus, Small, There's a Dragon on the Doorstep.

Mine loved Fidget & Quilly www.amazon.co.uk/Count-Down-Bedtime-Fidget-Quilly/dp/0340757639/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=12287 70925&sr=8-1, and I Don't Want to Go To Bed.www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Want-Go-Bed-Book/dp/1845064267/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228770969&sr=1- 1

peace at last-jill murphy
the wheres my teddy books by jez albourough

where is the cake is brilliant, no words in it, ds loved from same age. also peepo and mog, but a bit later to really enjoy. richard scarry is great at this age. oh and the baby catalogue, ahlbergs again.

Both DS and DD have loved the Blue Kangaroo books and anything else by Emma Chichester Clark ..

Thanks hester for revealing that there is another Emily Brown book: we love the rabbit one.

Oh and Teddy Robinson stories - Joan G Robinson - old fashioned but lovely, and enough pictures to start transition from picture books to story books...

oh what is it called?...oh oh...ill go and find it!

it is the ultimate send them off to sleep book...brilliant...even th eillustrations are soft and blurry and snoooze inducing.

and it is cute

two tics

soemone said helen cooper?

'the baby who would'nt go to bed'

aaaahhh...brings back very fond memories.

(actually i remember worrying that the book might make ds satrt saying he didnt want to go to bed,but he never did)

We LOVE the Tiger who came to Tea and dd is loving The Three Little Pigs and Cinderella at the moment.
Also Noddy books (were about £1 each in Asda and think we have a set of them now) - like the old ladybird books.
Talking of which, we have a couple of old Topsy and Tim books which are good too.

Also Ten in the Bed (can't remember author)
hth

DD (2.10) has just become addicted to the Percy Park Keeper books (One Snowy Night, After the Storm etc) Illustrations are nice, and a little drama in each book.
Of course, you can't beat EPPP!!!

Ds1's (2.7) current favourites are:

Goldilocks (Ladybird version)
Winnie the Witch (various)
Little Red Train (various) - pictures better than the words, imo (lots to see and discuss)
Gruffalo and Gruffalo's Child
Mog's Christmas
Harry & the Dinosaurs (various) - not a huge fan myself, but he is keen
Kipper's A to Z

DD is 20 months and has loved the Little Red Train book (we have a 4-in-1 compendium) for the last couple of months. Thank you to whoever it was who recommended them on a thread I started.

She's also very fond of 'Where are you, Blue Kangaroo?'

her other favourite at the moment is a book of nursery rhymes (Lavender's Blue - we have an old copy, but it's been republished).

and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish - it takes ages to read at bedtime, though...

DS2 has just turned three and loves any "alfie" books (Shirley Huges) - Alfie gets in first is his current favourite, Blue kangeroo - he has his hands over his eyes when Lily is about to do something naughty.

dd loves blue kangaroo books and also a book called the monkey with the bright blue bottom, somebody got this for her and i thought it was a bit rubbish but she loves it and laughs her head off every time we read it!

DD is 2.11 and loves Burglar Bill, as well as many of the other books on this thread (Room on the Broom being one of my own favourites!)

Having said that...every night without fail we have to have at least two Mr Men books groan

mr men books are awful, why are they so well known/liked?

I like a lot of these and enjoy reading them aloud - Julia Donaldson, Harry and the Dinosaurs books, Where the Wild Things Are, Mog books and others by Judith Kerr are all choices I'd echo. A completely different Mog series is the Meg and Mog books by Jan Pienkowski There's a book called the Library Lion (can't remember author) which we found in a bookshop a few months ago which is fun. Martin Waddell's Little Bear books, especially Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?

Didn't know there was more than one Blue Kangaroo book.

I hate the Mr Men books - any that get given to us are likely to be disappeared rather fast. Into a black hole somewhere.