Children's Favourites?

[Dorisdaisy]

We have a huge collection of books and visit the library weekly, but dd 5 has no favourite. She likes 'Pants' and went through a stage of wanting Little Red Riding Hood each night for a month.
What's your child's favourite book?

Where the Wild Things Are and Slinky Malinki

Thanks Paula and Cali have been and ordered from library!

My DD (4.5) loves Winnie the Witch, Charlie and Lola, and anything by Helen Cooper, Quentin Blake, Allen Ahlberg. She also loves being read longer stories like Naughty Little Sister and Milly Molly Mandy.

DS absolutely loves slinky malinky!

Mine like

Captain Flynn and the Pirate Dinosaurs
Camille and the Sunflowers
Pinocchio
Chamelion's Crazy Colours
Ds keeps getting The Little Match Girl from school library
Aesop's Fables

Where's my Teddy - Jez Alborough. Theres a series of 3. They are in poem form and plenty of scope for silly voices! My dd absolute favs are Katie Morag - Mairi Hedderwick. Big collection beautifully illustrated and also has activity books based on the books.

My dd 5.5 has informed me her absolute favourites are pop up books. Felicity Wishes (Emma Thomson) are often pop ups but you need to check as I bought a really small disappointing one that wasn't. 'Mix ups and Mishaps' or similar is a good one.

She has also just got into Rainbow Fairies and Tiara Club princess books in a big way. Library has vast stocks of both. Even my 3 year old ds listens to the Rainbow Fairies ones and asks for them on the basis that they feature goblins.

Also just got into Famous Five which I thought might be too old for her but she loves them. I'd say 5.5 is about as early as I'd want to start these though. Faraway Tree (also Enid Blyton) was a favourite from 5 yrs old though. If she likes this one there are two further episodes.

Since starting on Fairies, Princesses and Enid Blyton I'm reading constantly and she sometimes chooses it in preference to the TV!

Good luck

resurrecting thsi thread as i want to get booskfor dd2s birthdya (she will be 3)

ones with a fair amount of text would be ideal

what do your 3 yr olds like?
thanks

is she too young for winnie the witch?

My nearly 3yr old loves:
hairy mclary books
elephant and the bad baby
the tiger who came to tea

ummm

will come back when i have thought of some more!

Have you seen the 'redone' version of Pippi Longstocking? The illustrations have been done by the Charlie & Lola person. I used to love the Pippi stories when I was little, and the new version of the book looks fab. Its hardback, and has gorgeous illustrations, I may just buy it for myself!

great!
will go and have a look at Pippi

flipflop - all these books look perfect for dd2, sthanks

Anything by Julia Donaldson my dd got loads of her books last year and still loves them every night! She is 3 nearly four.

Room on The Broom
The Gruffalo
The Gruffalos Child
The smartest giant in town
Sharing a shell
A squash and a squeeze

we have the gruffalo - it is great ill agree, i had to get dds one each!

My DDs are 5 and 3 and love Charlie and Lola - and anything by Lauren Child - Pesky Rat is a real favourite, and her new version of Pippi Longstocking. Also all the Hairy Mcclary /Slinky Malinki books by Lynley Dodd - great rhymes, and Julia Donaldson - both Gruffalo books, Room on the broom, and DD2's absolute favourite at the moment, Tiddler - she has to have it every night. They also love the Mog books - although I can't face the one where Mog {whisper} dies. I'm just going to pretend it doesn't happen...

I just wondered why this is under Adult Fiction....