Best books to get nearly 3 year old DS

[minnie465]

Any suggestions?
His favourites at the minute are a squash and a squeeze, the tiger who came to tea and the gruffalo. Haven't got any other Julia Donaldson ones
Thanks

My children loved Stick Man, Zog and Tje Highway Rat. I loved Monkey Puzzle.

We have all the Julia Donaldson set!! loved by both children and passed down. Morris the mankiest Monster was a Favourite too!

'Guess how much I love you'

Each Peach Pear Plum
Any Dr Seuss books
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Giant Jam Sandwich
The Jolly Postman

You Choose
Meg and Mog
Postman Bear
Owl Babies
Dear Zoo
ALiens Love Underpants
Oi Frog
Guess How Much I Love You
Peace At Last
Giraffes Can’t Dance
Farmer Duck
Rosie’s Walk
Whatever Next
Five Minuets Peace

There is a book with lots of pictures with labels.... haha terribe description, I'll find it on amazon in a second, but it really is a must have.

Good picture books:
Shark in the Dark
Barry the Fish With Fingers
Beegu
Class Two at the Zoo

Any of the you choose series.

Or shark in the dark/shark in the park

The Runaway Train by Benedict Blathwayt. Fondest memories of reading this with DS when he was little.

Snail and the Whale
Zog
Oi Frog
Oi Dog

Any Ahlberg books.
Shirley Hughes- Alfie books, Dogger
The supertato books
Nick Sharrat
The mog books by Judith Kerr
Meg and mog
Pip and posy

You Choose has been very well loved in our house. DD also likes Julia Donaldson - Cave Baby is her current favourite. I’ve bought the Jolly Christmas Postman this year.

First Thousand Words. Every kid needs this:

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My DD same age loves Zog, Highway Rat, the jolly postman - can’t go wrong with Julia Donaldson, Jill Murphy or Judith Kerr, all classics. She is also obsessed with a newer one called Mabel and the Mountain by Kim Hillyard, it’s very cute.

There’s a few You Chooses now, the original, a space one, and a new fairytales one! They’re all ace.

We also like:

• Mr Magnolia
• Peck Peck Peck
• Mr. Big
• Happy Families books
• That Pesky Rat
• Ellie’s Magic Wellies
• I’m The Best
• Duck in the Truck

Hairy Maclary From Donaldson’s Dairy

Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back were favourites and I can still recite them some twenty five years later.

The gruffalos child

I was going to say Hairy Maclarey too
No matter what by Debbi gliori (I think)

We’re all going on a bear hunt, and look for Michael Rosen reading it on YouTube. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyI6ykDwds

Hairy McLary series by Lynley Dodd.
Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs series.
Percy the Park Keeper series.

The Usborne Look Inside books are lovely. They have lots of things to spot and talk about. They do loads of different ones. At that age my little boy like the Building Site one.

I like the "this is not my...."

My list is long sorry, but I just want to counter the Julia Donaldson fan club that these threads always turn into. Don't get me wrong, we own a lot of the JD ones but everyone already knows about them. Here's some that my kids really love and importantly are really fun to read.

Mopoke, Philip Bunting
All Shirley Hughes
The High Street, Alice Melvin
The Cozy Book, Mary Ann Hoberman (out of print but easy to get second hand and truly amazing)
Countablock (also Cityblock, Alphablock etc)
Any Richard Scarry
The Seven Silly Eaters, Mary Ann Hoberman
ALL the Lynley Dodd collection
Old Bear/Jane Hissey
Usborne Look Inside/Peep inside
Peck Peck Peck, Lucy Cousins
Lots by the Ahlbergs, Each Peach Pear Plum, Funnybones, Bye Bye Baby, Burglar Bill etc
Love You Forever, Robert Munsch
100 Dogs and 100 Cats
Mog the Cat treasury
Anything by Katherina Manolessou, beautiful illustrations
Anything illustrated by Marla Frazee
Please, Baby, Please, Spike Lee
10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle or any others than just the Hungry Caterpillar
Sam Usher seasons books
The Storm Whale and others by Benji Davies
Chu's day at the beach, Neil Gaiman
The Secret of Black Rock
Lights on Cotton Rock

Thanks for that huge list User6...

I've just placed a few reservations at the library for the ones we've not read yet.

Oi frog
What the ladybird heard
Stickman
100 cats or 100 dogs