Bedtime story recommendations for a nearly five-year-old who still likes pictures

[GibbyWB]

Please can I have new story recommendations for bedtime.

My son.

Soon to be 5
Loves everything and anything
Still likes a picture

Thank you

Anything by Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton or Julia Donaldson get my vote!

Little witch hazel is the most beautiful book. Loving reading it to my DC same age!

The Percy The Parkkeeper series by Nick Butterworth are lovely.

My kids (and I) loved Mike Inkpen books twenty years ago. You can find them secondhand on World of Books etc. Try Nothing, a lovely story about a lost soft toy with beutiful illustrations.

Peepo by the ahlbergs. The gruffalo and the gruffalo child. The mog books are lovely too

magic faraway tree, the velveteeen rabbit

These are two to three year old books. Peeponis for babies

There are so many gorgeous books suitable for 5 yr olds, I wouldn't recommend Enid Blyton or Roald Dahlfor that age group - and they are not picture books!
Anything by Julia Donald, especially 'Room on the Broom', anything by the Ahlbergs especially 'Burglar Bill', Judith Kerr's MOG books and The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
David McKee and Mick Inkpen are authors worth reading and of course Eric Carle's 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' are all suitable with beautully drawn illustrations.
The Meg and MOG books by Helen Nicholl and Jan Pienkowski, Hairy McClary from Donaldson's Dairy by Linley Dodd are written in rhyme which helps children to join in with the text and recognise words/spelling patterns.
Please don't hurry your child through the picture book stage, it is so important in the process of learning to read.

The Pip and Posy series are well illustrated. My boys now older still enjoy me reading them to them.

A personal favourite is elephants big blue blanket can be bought from the national deaf children’s society. A gorgeous visual book with text.

Julia donaldson
Judith Kerr - mog, tiger who came to tea, etc

Tim Bugbird’s fairy books (Annie the apple pie fairy is one title) bright colours, easy to read together books that usually have a little “lesson” in them too

eta - correct author’s name. Google gave me the wrong one

Picture books are exactly what he should be reading - please don’t feel like you need to justify him liking them.
Have you read all the aliens love underpants series?

A squash and a squeeze!

The Happy Families series by Allan Ahlberg are longer stories (also Burglar Bill as suggested above - brilliant book).
I used to love Brambly Hedge books - the illustrations are just glorious.
Richard Scarry is brilliant too especially What Do People Do All Day.
Shirley Hughes is another one with amazing illustrations. The Alfie books are lovely plus the book Dogger.

All the Mr Men books and Little Miss books. Pictures on every page, fun stories and words that a 5 year old will start to read for themselves. Mine used to chime in with ‘whoops Mr Clumsy’ every time I read it.

Dim Sum Palace X Fang
Little Witch Hazel
5 minute nature stories
You Choose
Poo in the Zoo

You choose was our go to book for nights and nights on end !!

Have you tried “The Girls” and “The Boys” and “the dress with pockets”. There are a whole range of books like that slightly older. We also loved the Ella Bella Ballerina books at that age but not sure if most boys like those.

Oh yes we had You Choose in Space which my daughter loved (and I secretly hated! 😂😬). Also can’t stand the Dr Seuss but she loved them

4/5 year olds are a perfect age for many picture books. Love the Julia Donaldson ones, they’re a pleasure to read out loud. You Choose has always been a favourite here too.

If you go to the library, let them choose a pile and they’ll find new favourites soon.

We also liked kids poems book - ‘Where the sidewalk ends’ was a favourite; full of funny poems which we read throughout primary school

And Dr Seuss was also very popular with my two.

What a sad attitude to have.

My DC were all huge readers when they were young and well ahead of their chronological age, but they all still enjoyed picture books until at least mid to late primary, alongside increasingly complex chapter books. Revisiting books is like visiting old friends, and they absolutely should never be banished for being "too young" for a child. My teenagers still have a few old favourites on their shelves

My favourite bedtime story was The tiger who came to tea. I also liked Mog the forgetful cat.

If you’re looking for a less classic and slightly older recommendation my 5YO loves all the graphic novels like Bunny vs Monkey, Dogman etc. and they’ve encouraged him to start reading on his own as well as being read them at bedtime.

There's No Such Thing As A Dragon

Beware of the Giant Killers

Look Inside books by Usbourne (various topics, lots of flaps! Non fiction)

Dr. Seuss. if you can stand to read them - my favourite are Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks, but DH hates them (tongue twisters and nonsense words are his nemesis).

Mr. Men / Little Miss (though they are a LOT more judgemental than I remember. My 5yo absolutely loves them though).

Anything and everything by Shinsuke Yoshitake - he is a Japanese illustrator/author and I adore his books, they do a brilliant job of capturing the kinds of things children think about while being deep and meaningful, and the pictures are fab. I love "I can Explain" but they are all great.

I don't usually like personalised things because I think they are naff, but the Wonderbly personalisable "Where's Wally" type books are really well done and IMO worth the price, you can find discount codes floating around before Christmas for sure.

Harry and the dinosaurs theres loads in the series.

Everyone loves picture books!