what kind of books does your reception age DD like?

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DD1's 4th birthday is in a couple of months and I was hoping my mum would get her some new books, but I dont know what to suggest! She is starting school in September, a very young one, and I eel she needs to move on from the books she has had for ages(miffy, peppa pig, gruffalo etc) . Recently, she has got into charlie and lola, princess poppy, angelina ballerina and felicity wishes. can anyone suggest anything i could have a look at please?

dd in reception young one. Likes Fireman Sam and Thomas the tank engine and any pop-up books with lots of pictures. The ones with the duck hidden on every page goes down well as well (sorry can't remember the name). The absolute best book ever was free in the Bookstart box from the government called You Choose? You can buy it too. It has lasted years as the children make up a new story every time they read it and it has lots of pictures. eg. the first page they choose where I would like to live? the double page is full of ideas castles, cities, beaches, deserts, space etc. She loves it and best of all she can "read" it herself.

No DD here but DS, young for year and just finishing reception soon started on Roald Dahl (The Twits) and Enid Blyton (Magic Faraway tree) this year- I think from about Christmas. Mr Men and Little Miss books were also popular. I know that some of the girls in his year have been reading Milly Molly Mandy which takes me back, but does remind me of what I loved!
Do you go to the library? I've found in the last year he's much more interested in different stories rather than the same thing over and over again, so the library has been really useful - before he used to be distraught at having to take things back!

thanks roses ,thet sounds good, will look it up. Its the usborne one with the duck - DD has the fairytales one and a book of farm stories; we often have those at bedtime.

dd is still a bit scared of the library (bless!) I loved milly molly mandy and the faraway tree; i have some early enid blytons that i bought a couple of years ago.
they have a library at nursery but she always brings back books we already have

DS also loves Roald Dahl. Fantastic Mr Fox in particular

Dr Seuss is always a winner even with the odd American rhyme. I loved one fish two fish, but the girls loved green eggs and ham. Have you tried Mog (a cat) books. My daughter also loved the Echo and I dont want to go to bed.

thanks, will be looking out for the roald dahl sets at the bookclub at my work.

oh yes, we have the first (?) mog book, just called mog, i think! dr seuss, i'd forgotten about those. just as well i have an amazon voucher to spend as well!

The duck is in some Usborne Books. You need to look for the ones illustrated by Stephen Cartwright. Farmyard Tales would be good, they have a thing where each page has an easy bit and a hard bit, so when she is bigger she could read the easy bit and you do the hard bit. If you can find an Usborne Rep (I'm one, but I'm not going to advertise here as I feel it would be frowned upon, lol) they have an offer on atm to get 5 of the farmyard tales flip books (just come out this month, 2 stories in each one) for £11.99, which is pretty good.

Another idea (again from Usborne-sorry, I have been selling them all day!) would be the very first reading series. These start off with the adult reading most of it and the child just reading a bit (eg "tap tap tap" after a bit about someone knocking on the door) and as the series goes on, the child reads more and more, until they are ready for a "proper" reading scheme. They are on offer with reps too.

If reading is a bit in the future, maybe a phonics story, where you read it, but she can hear the word sounds and so will start naturally making connections, could be the answer. (lol, again, Usborne do them, but I saw some in elc as well!) My 3.5yo loves her phonics stories and listens to the cd that came with them all the time.

that's the one we have, butterpie - i wondered why it repeated itself! i recognised stephen cartwright as i think it was him that did the first 1000 words in french that i had as a child! i still use it in class with some of my SN children.
thanks, i'll take a look at those you mention.

have you tried the book people website? do loads of great classic books very cheaply.
we liked anything by Julia Donaldson, Roald Dahl and Lauren Child

My DD like Blue Kangaroo by Emma Chichester Clark, Katie Morag books (on offer with the Book People) Mog books by Judith Kerr

Tonight she really enjoyed Hansel & Gretal saying she wants it tomorrow night too.

Also enjoys the Little Miss books, Barbie (although I find them a bit hard work) & the farm books from Usborne, where you find the duck.

Oh, just remembered Paddington & a pink book about a little ballerina

DD's go to the library once a week & love choosing their books for storytime !

If you are after buying Usborne, it is well worth at least dropping an email to a rep as they can do some deals that the main website doesn't have.

Another thought- how about a nice children's atlas or encyclopedia? Something that she will keep using for years?