17 month old ready to move up a stage with her reading - what books?

[scottishmummyofone]

my dd is 17 months and has most of the reccommended books on here and seems ready to move up a stage, in that she is now bored of these books.

She currently has (and is bored of): all the 'that's not my...', wibbly pig books, maisy books, goodnight moon, peepo, hungry caterpillar, spot, ITNG books, baby einstein books.

I recently bought her 'the tiger who came to tea', the little princess series and 'the gruffalo' and she LOVES them.

So can anyone recommend similar books for her to read?

Thanks

I must admit I was suprised reading the thread title, I thought a 17month old was reading

feel a bit sorry for OP, she has just worded it a little different thats all, think most of us would have asked for any books that my DD could look at with me rather than reading...thats the bit which was funny!

Dont be too upset OP and I hope you find some fab books for you LO, try Book People or The Works xxx

Our local library is pretty badly stocked in the kids section so we used to go and sit in Borders and just read through their kids section...anything that really took DD's fancy after several visits, we would buy!

DD freaked the f-ing daylights out of us when she started picking words out of books at 16months old, by 18mths of age we were researching Hyperlexia and scaring ourselves some more. Now we just let her get on with it.

I think some people have been a bit mean to OP! It's not hard to see what she's getting at. There are lots of Julia Donaldson books which are great, equally the Axel Scheffler. "I like it when" by Mary Murphy is a lovely book, and Dear Zoo, also the Pumpkin Soup books. Walker Books in general are very good, I think.

DD adores Bear Snores On

here are some we like:

The Odd Egg - Emily Gravett
Orange Apple Pear Bear Emily Gravett
Hunwicks Egg - Mem Fox
Giraffes Can't Dance
Tanka Tanka Skunk
Shhh little mouse - pamela allen
where the wild things are

julia donaldson is just wonderful. and ds can recite dig dig digging by heart (though i am sick to death of it)

The title of the thread was sooo unfortunate,

The banana books have some good deals for babies

happy to come back to the thread and thanks for the nicer messages :D

think I might actually donate the books DD is no longer interested in to the library...not sure if they accept donations though! It's pretty poorly stocked although its good for rhymetimes and story telling.

no no no never get rid of books

what if you have another?

or friends with younger babies come round?

A lot depends on how you read them to her-you can get a lot of fun from old favourites. You can also get her to tell the story-do funny voices etc. If you pick up books together, in the library,you can soon see which ones are going to be worth taking home.

we wont be having any more children Mrs Badger. My friends are older than me, with older children. I do have a friend who is ttc though...

Oliver Jeffers books are completely lovely - the illustrations are amazing.

Original Charlie & Lola (not TV tie-ins as you'll get really bored of saying 'Lola says...' 'Lotta says...')

Alfie books may be a bit long.

Donaldson/Scheffler - esp Tiddler which I love far more than DD!

Can't stand Bear Hunt I'm afraid!

There was a kerfuffle recently when it was suggested that age recommendations be put on children's books - many children's authors objected, and rightly so, I think.

My advice would be to find stuff that you like and enjoy. DD is 2.8, and has had some of her books since she was tiny - things like the Ravenous Beast by Niamh Sharkey, etc - she gets different things out of them now than she did before, and when she can read she'll probably enjoy reading them for herself.

Others - love I Really Want to Eat A Child! Night Pirates, Emily Brown, Mog books, Oliver Jeffers and Mini Grey books, pretty much anything illustrated by Russell Ayto, and some Quentin Blake books.

I can't stand the Ahlbergs

do keep them scottishmummy, you can come back to them in a year or so and your dd will get something completely different. well not the where is my books - def rehome them.

but ds is 4 and still hasn't noticed that the peepo family is living in a rather different environment to us. he has worked out it is what the baby sees through the hole - there is lots to be found there.

habbibu what's not to like re ahlbergs? i cannot stand that michael rosen. emperor's new clothes there, all he does is retell old stuff and pretend he wrote it.

Our favourites (18mo):

Mog- Judith Kerr
Aaaarrgghh.....Spider!- Lydia Monks
Tails- Matthew Van Fleet
Aliens Love Underpants- Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
Dear Zoo- Rod Campbell
Mr Men

Only other book I would recommend that
I don't think I saw mentioned is Calm down Boris which my DS loves at the mo - same age as your DD. Agree with others that he has gone off some books only to come back to them months later and enjoy them again so I have kept them all. That said he also takes particular delight in pulling some of them to shreds which I am not that pleased with !!
Have you thought about swapping books with friends with similar age kids so you can get some variety if your library not so well stocked ?

Definitely don't give anything away just yet! My 3 yo DD really enjoys returning to certain books I think she's 'grown out' of - she loves being able to 'read' them to her little brother and gets great satisfaction from understanding everything in, say, the Hungry Caterpillar.

Dont give them away! Think of your grandchildren! My kids love reading the books I had as a child

In our library it is free to order books on a childrens ticket AND you can do it online. So I go browsing on amazon and then flip onto the library website to see if anyone in the county has it, they then ship it to us! Deffo worth checking out

Noooooooo! Don't give the books away. Your daughter will love 'reading' them to herself by reciting when she's a bit older and really reading them when she's older still. My DD is 2.9 and she loves leafing through her baby books and pretending to read them to her teddies etc. She recognises a few of the simpler words and can remember the rest and I imagine once she can actually read properly, it will be lovely for her to read familiar things to herself or to her toys or me. The other week she 'read' to my friend's baby. It was seriously cute.

And I passed on a couple of books to my daughter that I'd had as a kid and she absolutely adores them.

Ah Spider.... is fab, I agree.

Sorry for any repeats, but my two at that age also enjoyed:

Maisy
I love you, Blue Kangaroo
Hairy Maclary
Snappy Sounds
Room on a Broom
Wibbly Pig
My Cat Just Sleeps
Calm Down Boris
Dear Zoo
Where's Spot
Goodnight Moon

Find Ahlbergs a bit - dunno - sickly? twee? Just not to my taste at all, but I am very fussy (poor dd). hate hairy maclary too... and dear zoo (in fact anything by him). But there's so much stuff around now it's easy to find loads to suit all children and awkward parents!

Have you tried Baby Brains by Simon James
amazon

I can't stand charlie and lola! We have tried Maisy but DD doesn't seem too interested.

DH was saying this morning not to bother taking DD back to the library as there are so few good books there plus he says the books are dirty and torn (which is true).

my ds, almost 2, has loved this for the last few months.

the illustrations are beautiful, and words/rhymes are fun. and he likes naming animals and their characteristics.

he was bored of simplier books (i.e thats not my, wheres spot etc), but doesn't like really wacky/busy illustrations, so this is perfect.

hth

Sorry but there is something wrong with a library where they give "awards" to tiny toddlers for being more advanced than other tiny toddlers (or have I misunderstood this??). Never mind the fact that they don't seem to have any books.

I would find another library.