What books do we love to read to under 5s

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Peepo

The little red train books

The Jez Albrough bear books

Where the Wild Things are

No roses for Harry

The Gruffalo

Quacky Quack Quack

The cat in the hat

Dr Seuss especially now as I'm teetotal

Cops and Robbers
Big Bear and Little Bear
Smartest Giant in Town

Room on th ebroom
Peepo
hungry caterpillar

opsy and tim

poppy cat

ooh yes, Green Eggs and Ham

Mog the Forgetful Cat

any of the Rod Campbell books

The Smartest Giant In Town
The rascally cake
The giant jam sandwich
Wheres my teddy
Bread and Jam for Frances
Pumpkin Soup
Meg books
The Tiger who came to tea
Mog books
The elephant and the bad baby

Pass the jam jim

Can't you sleep little bear?

jez alborough's where's my teddy and the sequel which I cant't remember the name.

both great stories that rhyme beautifully and ds loves

Oh yes, definitely elephant and bad baby and tiger who came to tea!

My naughty little sister
Fairy stories
The Pear in the pear tree
Mr Gumpys Outing
Mr Gumpys Car
The Jolly postman
winnie the witch
charlie and lola books

dd1 loves all the mog books
all the angelina ballerina books
lots of the old fairytales
has anyone read The King of Capri by Jenette Winterson? I cannot recommend it highly enough,, it is wonderful!

what is the book where some kids get some form of cute thing that goes to school with one of them. In the end there is a pop out finger and you get to say if the thing stays with the family. (I know I sound deranged typing this)

For the life of me I can't remember what the thing was, or the name of the book.

ds vomited all over it, but both kids loved it

DD (nearly 4) enjoys The Gruffalo and all the stories by same author, Topsy and Tim, Very Lazy Ladybird, Harry and the Dinosaurs, Disney Princess books, Little Miss, Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, more traditional fairy tales, and loads others. DD has literally hundreds of books - she loves them!

At bedtime we also read things like My Naughty Little Sister, Naughty Amelia Jane, Milly Molly Mandy, Horrid Henry and then stories from books with various longer stories in.

Thinking she might be old enough to start some longer books with chapters now - Magic faraway tree, etc.

Enid Blyton
I love you Blue Kangaroo
Naughty Little Sister
Gruffalo
Duck in a Truck
Fidgety Fish
Baa Moo...What will we do?

in no particular order

Tiger who came to tea - Judith Kerr
Patrick - Quentin Blake
all the Charlie and Lola books - Lauren Child
Knock Knock - Sally Grindley Anthony Brown
Husherbye - John Burningham
Avocado Baby - John Burningham
all the Blue Kangaroo books - Emma Chichester Clark
Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson & Axel Schaffer
Snail and the Whale - ditto
Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

have no idea what you are talking about mb but it sounds brilliant

my fave book for babies and in fact the first story book that I read to the both the dds when they were tiny is

Goodnight Moon

cant wait to read it to new little one

Oooh yes Donnie I love the King of Capri too, Ds not fussed tbh, but I love it!

and the elephant and the bad baby too

oh and Peepo too, lovely for little ones

ooh little rabbit lost is good too

The Tiger Who Came to Tea is top, as are all the Mog books.
Alfie or Dogger or anything at all by St. Shirley Hughes.
Naughty Little Sister books
A A Milne poems
Where the Wild Things Are
Ketchup on Your Cornflakes
So Much and Full of Love by Trish Cooke
Big Mama Makes the World
John Burningham - Mr Gumpy, Oi Get Off Our Train

The Rascally Cake
Hairy Maclairy from Donaldson's Dairy
Monkey See, Monkey Do

HATE
Charlie & Lola (very annoying concepts IMHO)

Oops pressed post before I had finished
Penny Dale - Rosie's Babies, Ten in the Bed
Anything by Helen Oxenbury, esp those little book with titles like "The Check Up", "The Drive", which manage to be bloody hilarious and near epic in 6 pages
Handa's Surprise
God I love children's books