Any books that DD will love as much as DEAR ZOO?

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She's a book-lover generally but nothing beats Dear Zoo. Nearly 1 yr old.

Mine is 14m old and the same author has done one called "dear me", same format, he loves it almost as much
Now we have to read both of them 10 times a day

the bloke who did dear zoo...rod campbell i think

has a coupld of other lift the flap books about numbers and abc which my ds loves ( he is 15mths) also likes a lot of the usborne lift the flap books

Mick Inkpen does lots of flap books I remember. Lovely illustrations.

rod campbell did one called my presents which is similar..not quite as good
the other one my baby loves is peekaboo by jean ormerod. he giggles and giggles!

Ds also loves the hungry caterpillar and there was an old woman who swallowed a fly

My Presents by the same author.

Also the Wibbley Pig ones are great (sorry, can't remember the author)

Am looking at it now. Buster goes to the farm to stay with his grandma and she sends him out to find eggs for breakfast

... "so he went to the barn and asked the....(lift flap...its a cow...mooooo) No eggs here! Oh dear.
So he went to the sty and asked the ...(lift flap...its a pig...oink) no eggs here! Oh dear
So he went to the field and asked the...(lift flap, its a sheep....baaa) No eggs here! Oh dear"

And so on - won't tell you the ending, don't want to spoil it!

Wibbly Pig is Mick Inkpen I think

Wibbley pig is by Mick Inkpen

did mick inkpen do wibbly pig?

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Brown Bear

Kipper series

And dd got a wonderful open-the-flap book for xmas called The Bedtime Bear, with very imaginative flaps and bits to pull out of the picture iykwim.

Nursery rhyme books were also dd's favourite about that age, she'd study the pics as i sang, to the point she'd know the order of songs off by heart, and would let me know about it if i attempted to miss one out! Although there was one song she would never let me sing (have no idea why, can't be my singing voice! can it?) Now we can play on the big bass drum - i think i used to get too carried away for her liking lol

Just out of interest, have you got the new pop up Dear Zoo? We haven't, we only have the original lift-the-flap version - I bet the pop up is fantastic though.

And you probably have it already but "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle - it's an oldie, I know, but it's a damn near perfect toddler book and both mine have adored it.

Ooh, thanks everyone - DD's birthday is coming up so I'll add all of these to her wishlist

marthamoo - I didn't even know there was a pop-up Dear Zoo - that might be too much excitement to handle!

DS2 loved Dear Zoo, also loved the "That's not my.." books e.g That's not my train...

Ds loves (but they aren't easy to find) a set of books called 'This little...' (doggy/lamb/fishy/can't remember the last one) they are small square hard books with loads of flaps, sliders etc...cost £1.99 published by Treehouse....

Oh yes Hausfrau - the Baby Friends series - we are currently doing Busy Babies go swimming every morning!

Baby friends series? That sounds good, can someone give me some details please?

TK they are produced by practical parenting. Whole series of them...

TK - can get a set from thebookpeople for £2.99...www.thebookpeople.co.uk/frameset.asp

DS2, 14 months, loves "Baby, boo!" and "Peekaboo" - they are very similar, flaps and a mirror at the end. He also likes "Bear and Kite" and Bear and Ball" by Cliff Wright. His big brother loved "Peepo" as well as "The Hungry Caterpillar". We've just got a couple of new ones for Christmas/Kings "Brown Bear" and "The Amazing Adventures of Curious George" - off the Amazon favourite lists - and I am waiting to see if he pulls these off the shelf, too! Happy reading .