Best books for reception age child.

[flingingmelon]

We are drowning in toys here so I’ve decided to by a load of new books for Xmas instead of just plastic nonsense.

Can anyone recommend some great new book for us all to read together?

Ooh interested!

And yet no one else seems to be.

Julia Donaldson, the gruffalo, room on the broom, the smartest giant in town, cave baby?
Winnie the Pooh is always a favourite!

Will be following this with interest!

I've just bought Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls as a gift for a 4yo (she's a fabulously feisty thing and loves stories).

Have a look on the bookpeople website; there are loads of lovely collections. Some of our favourite collections are:

Happy Families stories by Alan Alhberg
Harry and the Dinosaurs books
Mog stories
Richard Scarry book collection

We also enjoy pretty much any of the Julia Donaldson stories. We've just started the Roald Dahl books and are enjoying a chapter or two a night. For reference DC are 6 and 4.

If you want non fiction books try the usborne look inside or Q and A flap books. Really interesting, with great pictures and fun flaps to open.

To read to them: Ronald Dahl, Milly Molly Mandy, My Naughty Little Sister, Tara Binns, Paddington

To read alongside them: Mog series, Winnie the Witch series, Jon Klassen Hat series, Mem Fox (Australian author)

Books they can read or just for you to read to them?

Don't kiss the frog

Forest forest – wordless book
The Snowman – Raymond Briggs
We’re going on a bear hunt – Michael Rosen
Nursery rhymes
Each peach, pear, plum – Ahlberg
Dr Seuss
Naughty bus
Room on the broom – Donaldson
I really want to eat a child
Billy’s bucket
Surprising sharks
3 little pigs
Train ride
Happy birthday Maisie
Mr Grumpy
The very hungry caterpillar
No baby
Handa’s surprise
So much
What the ladybird heard
Mr Men / Little Miss
Biscuit bear
Farmer duck / Pig in a pond
Hooray for fish
The large family
The Gruffalo
The Tiger who came to tea
Beatrix Potter books
Avocado baby
Leopard’s drum
I will not ever eat a tomato
Jolly Postman
House forn mouse
Dogger
Hairy MacClary
The gigantic turnip
The giving tree
Aaargh spider
The old woman and the red pumpkin

Ds has asked for the dinosaur who pooped set this year, he's reception age.
Also the Horrid Henry early chapter books are bridging the gap to longer books.
Anything by Julia Donaldson
And he loved the large family series by Jill Murphy.

If you want them to start getting into slightly longer books, the Claude books by Alex T Smith are good. They are slightly longer picture books, also the Squishy McFluff books by Pip Jones. Initial chapter books that mine have enjoyed are the Jill Tomlinson ones, The Faraway Tree, and Mr Gum as well as Roald Dahl of course.

Winnie the witch picture books
Moonins picture books
Mog books
Topsy and Tim books
How to hide a lion (and the sequel)
The colour thief
Pippi Longstocking
Jolly postman
Maurice Pledger's sounds of the wild books
Freddie and the fairy
Marcello mouse and the masked ball
Osborne beginners books
Tiny: the invisible world of microbes

We love the Large Family books...they are hilarious.
Hairy McClary
Some of the traditional fairy tales
The Lighthouse Keeper books
Charlie and Lola

Ooh there are some good ones here.

We have all the usual ones - hairy McClary, Julia Donaldson etc. There’s plenty more here for us to try.

Thanks all!

Oliver Jeffers books are lovely.. Lost and Found, Stuck, Up and Down, The Day the Crayons Quit.

The Book with no pictures

I just got the nicest book from Amazon - "The Araboolies of Liberty Street" by Sam Swope. Wonderful story, timely messaging and fun to read.