Can anyone recommend good books for 18-24 months?

[wolfear]

My son loves looking through books and repeating the words. We go through about 20 a day and I'm so over the ones he currently has. Can anyone recommend some good ones for his age? I'm sure there's some popular ones I've missed.

Brown Bear brown bear what do you see?

Who's got my big toe? (very weird!)

Hairy Maclary's Bone

Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Tiger Who came to tea (we dont' usually get through all of this one though)

Nursery rhyme book

One ted falls out of bed

We're going on a bear hunt

Have you got all of those?

Have you got a local library? DD (21 months) has her own library card and can have upto 8 books at a time. She loves choosing them herself.

Although I do then have to read each new book 5 times the first night...

At this age, DS1 started to be able to sit and listen to surprisingly long stories - not sure how much he took in, but still... So we started to read Alfie and Annie Rose stories, Little Red Train and that sort of thing - possibly nearer 2 than 18 months, though.

Also liked Owl Babies, Goodnight Moon, Dear Zoo, Very Hungry Caterpillar, Meg and Mog, Mog The Forgetful Cat (obviously...), Tiger Who Came to Tea, Pass the Jam Jim, Our House, Peepo and anything by Catherine and Laurence Anholt (especially Here Come The Babies). Oh, and anything featuring blardy Postman Pat or Bob the Builder - but I would avoid, unless you want to go mad, they contain about a nanosecond's thought as to how to make them even vaguely interesting or credible.

Oh Peepo I love that book

Ooh, yes - library v good. Espcially because we often get out something that I think he'll like and he doesn't - and I would have wasted money buying it otherwise. Also have come across lots of great stuff that haven't seen in shops.

Just remembered another fave - there's a series by Sarah Gardner (I think) called things like Doing the Washing, Doing the Garden - he LOVED those, v simple and really nice illustrations with lots of things to talk about.

All the Hairy Maclary books. What shall we do with the Boo Hoo Baby? Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

I'm trying to remember more but DS is singing tunelessly directly in my right ear and it's a little distracting...

The tate bookshop has a hard card version of the very hungry caterpillar. I've never seen it anywhere else but it was a firm favourite for us.

The 'that's not my...' series is brill too, though pricey but waterstones often have them on 3 for 2.

The book people often have really good offers, I got DD a charlie and lola collection for christmas and she loves them.

Charity shops can be great for childrens books too, they don' put them out if they are dogeared and they can be as little as 50p

Another vote for "That's not my..." series.

DS loves We're Going on a Bear Hunt, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, he's got loads of Chad Valley books which have noisy buttons but not sure where you'd get them now Woolies is gone.

He also loves an illustrated abridged version of Peter Pan which was mine as a little girl.

He also has some In The Night Garden and Thomas The Tank Engine books which he loves.

One of his absolute favourites is called You and Me, Rain or Shine which I got from the book club at work.

As well as lots of these, my DS loves maisie books - very simple words. And Spot stories. I think I've inherited these so they're not very current but are definitely the sort of thing you'd find in charity shops.

I ordered a hard copy of hungry caterpillar from amazon, plus a lot of baby touch and feel books which are quite good, the rhyme one was one of dd2's favourites but she's so obsessed with the brown bear that we haven't read it for ages.

Got a noisy transport book from oxfam for 50p, along with various others.

Come Play Mr Croc - (pop up & zillions of flaps book!)

'My first words - let's get talking' - (lots of pictures or every day items they love naming).

'No Matter What' - (a story about mummy fox loving baby fox no matter what with lots of recognisable items + images of happy/sad/sleeping/cuddle etc that they recognise)

'Room on the Broom'

I bought a brilliant one for a friends DS for christmas, it has a little wind up fire engine and tracks inside the book.

www.amazon.co.uk/Noisy-Wind-up-Fire-Engine-Taplin/dp/0746091125/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=12319 45528&sr=8-1

All the books by the Gruffallo people. DS2 (just 2) loves the Monkey Puzzle one. Also loves Thomas - but I don't.

Try Mini IQ for books by age range which will really engage him and help him to understand how much fun they are.

Oh I hate Thomas but my DS used to love it! The dvd made my teeth itch I hated it, it's so angry somehow.

definitely Peepo. best one ever.

also Dear Zoo. Goodnight Moon. Monkey Puzzle.

My DS2 also loves the Maisie books, they are very simple but bright and colourful and rather sweet.

My ds is 20 months and loves:

Hairy Maclary series

Very Hungry Caterpillar

Gruffalo

The Snail and the Whale (by Axel Schleffler & Julia Robertson as well)

The Elephant and the Bad Baby (Raymond Briggs)

Tiger who came to tea

In the night garden (though I hate them!)

Any picture/counting/colour books with lots of pictures on each page to point out - My World board books are good

Peepo/Each Peach Pear Plum

Got given a Thomas book for Christmas which he loves but it's far too long and wordy for a proper story for his age.

Thanks everyone.

My ds(24m) loves books too; Here are some current faves:

You Choose - Nick Sharratt (absolutly fab - loads of things to look at and tslk about))

Fix-it-Duck - Jez Alborough

Room on the Broom - Julis Donladson

Spot stories

Goodnight Gorilla

Another good one is Some Dogs Do by Jex Alborough.
Fattipuffs my DS (also 20 months) also loves the Night Garden books (though I too am not a fan)...

DD 22 months current favourites are:

Fidgety Fish
Monkey & Me
Hello Beaky
We're going on a bear hunt
Any Hairy Mclairy
The snowman (raymond briggs one)
I'm Sorry
Monkey puzzle
Gruffalo's child
Russell the sheep
Very hungry catepillar
Baby's catalogue/Peepo

yip snap yap (lots of dog noises to copy)

• absolutely brilliant

everyone hide from wibbly pig (lift the flap)

The Baby Catalogue, Peepo and Each Peach Pear Plum are dd's favourites.

She also loves Jasper's Beanstalk, Bear Hunt, The Elephant and the Bad Baby, Mr Gumpy's Outing and anything else by John Burningham, Maisy books, Harry the dog books, Paddington.

'Peace at last' by jill murphy. Love it !