what are/ were your preschooler's favourite books?

[swottybetty]

dd's second b-day coming up.

going to hit ebay to get a bumper selection and need ideas.

The Hungry Caterpillar (I love it too)

My 2yo DD loves:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child
Monkey Puzzle
Peace at Last
We're Going on a Bear Hunt

I love storytime, she cuddles up on my lap and joins in with the story. I do find Bear Hunt a bit hard going sometimes though, and have to admit to buying the Gruffalo CDs as well so that I don't have to continually read them

Hope your DD has a lovely birthday

Maisy
Richard Scarry
Dr Miaow's big emergency
We are going on a bear hunt
Jo Lodge's books

anything by lynley Dodd

anything by julia donaldson

I will second:
Peace at Last
We're going on a bear hunt
The Gruffalo

And suggest:
The tiger who came to tea
Olly and Me stories/Alfie and Annie Rose stories (Shirley Hughes)

At that age DD and Ds loved any flap or repetitive books. "Where's Pooh", "Going on a Bear Hunt", "Teddy Hunt", DS loved anything with flaps and diggers or tractors. Another vote for Hungry Caterpillar and any Julia Donaldson
DD loved Angelina Ballerina at that age but I'm not sure she's still in fashion?

Also if your DD watches any telly they do love to see their fave characters in a different medium.

Bear Hunt definitely!

WE like Bob the Spaceman
and the 'Little Bear' sereis

Big Bad Wolf is Good

Stick Man

These are my dts (2.9) favourite books

Just links to ebay to show you the book and cover - you can shop around for best deals.

Hope your dd has a lovely birthday

Any Julia Donaldson
Mog the Forgetful Cat
The Tiger who came to Tea
Whatever Next

Also, Alfie books are fab (Shirley Hughes).

Hairy McClairy
Gruffalo
The Tiger who came to tea
Mr Men

Current favourites of 2.7 yo DS:

The Gruffalo
The Grufallos Child
Room on the Broom
The Tiger Who Came to Tea (I dont get why kids love this sooo much!)
The Hungry Caterpillar

We have just discovered Hairy McClairy - got the book out of the library!

Spot's First Christmas & Spot books
Nappy Duck & Potty Pig
We're going on a bear hunt
Thomas' Really Useful Word Book
THomas - Animals
Mucky Ducky

DD loved Bear Hunt so much we could recite it.

Also Guess how much I love you - we still say we love each other to the moon and back every evening.

She also liked Debbi Gliori - No Matter What was a good one.

And anything by Julia Donaldson.

NOt Now Bernard, of course

orange pear apple bear

notnowbernard we just discovered the book on our last trip to the library and DD is IN LOVE. She has to have it every storytime, I think we'll actually have to buy it! Your name makes me smile every time I come across it.

Her favourites about the 2 year old stage included:
Hairy Mclairy
Monkey and Me
Fidgety Fish
Owl Babies
Hello Beaky
Dear Zoo

NNB was dd1's fave book around the time I joined MN, hence the name

Great book

Each peach pear plum
Hairy Maclary
Gruffalo and the Gruffalo's child
Hug (still makes me cry and I can't recycle it)
Dear Zoo
Spot - any and all
Puff the magic dragon. I used to sing this to her to get her to sleep. We saw the book and she was overjoyed. It has a CD too
Too old for these now, but won't get rid of each peach.

DS is 2.3 and currently loves Each Peach Pear Plum.

He also really likes any lift the flap books like Spot or Dear Zoo.

Anything to do with Thomas the Tank Engine is always a big hit, as are all of the Julia Donaldson ones (but especially The Gruffalo and Charlie Cook's Favourite Book)

There's also a book called "My beak, your beak" that has been read before nap time every day for at least a year!

Kipper, Kipper and more Kipper. The little Kipper books are nice, and there's a great anthology of about five stories that keeps ours going for ours. We love Kipper!

Tiger Who Came To Tea
Hairy McClary
Thomas (Egmont Series)
Owl Babies
Guess how much I love you
Dig Dig Digging
The Gruffalo/Gruffalo's child
Hungry Caterpillar
We're going on a Bear Hunt
Aliens love Underpants