Which picture books would you put in the loft for your grandchildren?

[rustybear]

Californiafrau's thread on Goodnight Owl reminded me it was in the box of picture books I put away for any future grandchildren. I also have:
Rosie the Hen
The Elephant and the Bad Baby
The Tiger who came to Tea
Mog the Forgetful Cat
Teddy bear books (Teddy Bear Farmer, Teddy Bear Coalman etc)
Old Bear & Jolly Tall
Alfie's Feet & Alfie Gets in First
Mrs Pig's Bulk Buy & Garth Pig & the Icecream lady
Bathwater's Hot & Two Shoes new Shoes
5 minutes Peace
The Hungry Caterpillar
Peepo & Each Peach Pear Plum
Winnie the Witch
and
(my absolute favourite)
Dogger
You can probably tell from these just how old my DD & DS are - so what should I add from the new generations?

enid blyton the magic faraway tree..... i loved it, and i have just bought it for my ds..xx

i am an embroiderer so love any books using embroidered pictures as illustratioins. have all the books by an embroidery designer called belinda downes, she's illustrated things like snow white, a book of nursery rhymes, every little angels handbook etc (really sweet and girly books). one of the books is signed by her and i also have one of her original embroideries framed which dh bought for me as a christmas present. they will all be put away and passed on.

My seven month old DS loves Hairy MacLary from Donaldson's Dairy a book about dogs going on an adventure who are scared by Scarface Tom the toughest cat in town!

Original Topsy and Tim books
Eat your dinner
on your potty etc series by virginia somebody....
Any Shirley Hughes...
Going on a bear hunt.

Complete Hairy Maclary
Gruffalo and Gruffalo's child
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Big book of original Thomas the Tank Engine
Alice in Wonderland
Charlie and the Chocolate factory (not really a picture book, but essential grandparent reading a bedtime story material)
Winnie the Witch (especially Winnie's computer so that grandchildren can laugh at winnie for having a PC)

I think picture books are fab and not just for little kids. I want to show some picture books again to my own kids when they're teenagers, never mind my grandchildren.

Like Something Else (can't remember author) and Anthony Browne books like Voices in the Park.

Guess how much I love You. (Big nutbrown hare and little nut brown hair) I love it.

Helen Oxenbury baby books
Gruffalo et al
Hungary Caterpillar
Dear Zoo et al
Little Red Train
Each Peach Pear Plum
Nut Brown Hare
Anything Thomas
Ladybird classics

All the Julia Donaldson Books - Gruffalo et al
Dinosaur Roar
10 Hungry Dinosaurs
Beatrix Potter's my mother bought them for her grandsons
Guess How much I love you
Eric Carle books including The Grumpy Ladybug
Pengiun Post - Debi Gliori
Cuddly Dudley can't remember the author
Mog and the VEE EEH TEE
Benedict Blathwayt's - Little Red Train series fabulous
Dick Bruna - Miffy/Nijnte books
There are way to many that I love so guessing would need a seagoing chest for all the ones I'd love to protect for posterity

Ooh yes, we had The Elephant and the Bad Baby when I was little, I really think it taught me to say please actually. It's a really good lesson about imposing on other people - I never wanted to be the bad baby!

I had a really interesting Berenstain Bears nature book and DD got one of theirs for younger children from the library and is loving it too.

The Richard Scarry books which my 3 year olds have loved since they were about 18 months.

Cars, Trucks and Things that go
Funniest Story book ever
What do people do all day?

Fabulous

Usborne Farmyard Tales
Usborne Having a Baby - love cat looking up dogs nose and cat being powdered. Also mummy breastfeeds!
Winnie the Witch
Kipper
Pumpkin Soup & Pipkin of Pepper
Lullabyhullaballoo & Bear by Mick Inkpen
The Little Red Train by the welsh chap - the detail is amazing.

i've got gc's didn't put anything away for them. to be fair they have a library of their own!

althought I did buy Teddy Robinson for dgs1

all my Dr. Suess books, Madeleine, my thomas the tank engine and winnie the pooh books, anythinghard cover like a book of fairy tales and the big blue book of fairies, peter pan, and the great illustrated classics for kids.

Joolstoo - where did you get Teddy Robinson? I used to love him when I was little and always wanted a proper jointed teddy. Didn't get one til I was about 32 - deprived childhood etc etc....

Books we are keeping include Peepo and EPPP as already mentioned. We also love Slow Loris (DD cracks up at the bit where it takes him an hour to scratch his bottom)and Goodnight Lulu, all the hairy Mclairy and Slinky Malinki books, and anything with Orlando the marmalade cat. Also anything with Charlie and Lola in.

I think there are some amazing picture books around and its quite sad that dd is now moving on to longer books, although now I can introduce her to the ones I loved, like the Narnia books and Paddington (proper ones, not tv tie-ins).

Agree with those of you who have mentioned Little Red Train. Also like Blue Kangaroo books by Emma Chichester Clarke.

Oh, Teddy Bear Coalman - haven't seen that for 35 years. We used to snigger appallingly over the picture where a brusque stout overalled woman asks him for 2 bags, using the (ever so innocently-drawn) gesture which you can imagine ...

fubsy here

Joolstoo - Thankyou! I didn't know this was still in print - and i've found the Starlight Barking and Carbonel too - I'm so excited!!!

Gruffalo for sure...did anybody see the stage show? it was a lovely show which my dc's loved (and we adults were a bit taken with it too). WE can't walk through a wood without mentioning the gruffalo