your favourite toddler books

[chicca]

DS is coming up for 3 and my Mum has said she will get him some books for his birthday. I will order them from Amazon as we live in Spain.
What book have you most enjoyed and would suggest I put on his wish list?

[Anna8888]

Babar series
Olivia series
Beatrix Potter
Lauren Child (just loved her version of The Princess and the Pea)

[SomethingIncrediblyWitty]

*The Gruffalo
Monkey Puzzle
*Room on the Broom (although this is quite long)
Dear Zoo
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
*The Snail and the Whale
*The Smartest Giant in Town
*The Very Small
Mog the Forgetful Cat
*Mr Men/ Little Miss books

My 9 year olds were still asking for the ones with asterisks up until a couple of years ago so they are really good value if you can keep 'em in good condition!

[LunarSea]

ds1's favourite at this age was Duck in The Truck by Jez Albrough, and all the other duck books are good too.
Others we particularly liked:
Into the Castle by June Crebbin (but it seems to be out of print now)
George and the Dragon by Christopher Wormell
The Little Red Train books by Benedict Blathwayt

[themaskedposter]

Big Red Bath

Hairy Mclary (all of them - incl: slinky malinky)

Dear Zoo

Falling for Rapunzel (for me anyway!)

Hupple tic Hoo

lots more - cant think

[BandofMuggles]

Charlie and Lola books are great

The Gruffalo is fabulous

Meg and Mog

God she has so many..............

[cheechymunchy]

Yeha I know, I just couldn't quite remember if I was correct with the digger one, so moved on to later pages!
What a busy day now it's time for resting...tell me about it.

[Toothyboy]

No, "out fall the rocks" is the dumper truck!

[Toothyboy]

• see, chicca, every little boy should have Dig, Dig Digging!!

[chicca]

Oh you are all wonderful!
We've already got Dear Zoo and a few Mogs (and quite a few more besides) but with no bookshop to browse in it's difficult to know what you are missing - now I know!
After 3 children my sister-in-law has a massive collection of books which I don't think she is keen to part with. What do you do with your old books?

[cheechymunchy]

Now beginning to doubt my previous post.

Do recall "out fall the rocks...CRASH! Rumbling and tumbling. Superb book. DS adored that from a very young age. reminds me, I might dig that one out for old time's sake!

[cheechymunchy]

Ploughing up the earth with their tip tip tipping,

[Toothyboy]

Dig, Dig, Digging.

All together now .."Diggers are good at dig, dig, digging"

[JeremyVile]

The 'Thats not my.....' series are fab.
We've got
digger
puppy
dinosaur
dragon
train.
Theres loads more.
Very colourful and touchy-feely.

And agree with Dear Zoo, probably ds' favourite currently.

[JoanCrawford]

Winnie the Witch is good, a firm favourite here.

Another vote for, The Gruffalo.

Kipper's still 'got it' too

[bodiddly]

Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs .. and all the other books in the series are a huge hit with my 2.4 year old at the moment! He loves all the Hairy Maclary books and anything by the Gruffalo author!

[Sazisi]

I should add 'Where The Wild Things Are', by Maurice Sendak, brilliant book; fun to read and kids adore it

I meant cute and popular

[ktmoomoo]

tweenie books as really colourful

[Crocky]

One ted falls out of bed.

[PinkTulips]

the bold boy

tiger who came to tea

mog books

charlie and lola books

[MarshaBrady]

Just peeked in ds' bedroom and have to add
The Very Hungry Catepillar
Miffy
Mr Men books

[PinkChick]

i personally love the tiger that came to tea

[Sazisi]

Hairy Maclary, the Very Hungry Caterpillar, the Miffy books, and Maisy books. We just got one called 'I'm a Happy Hugglewug' which is cite and popullar with DD2
DD2 loves the Mr Men books but I hate reading them!

[ktmoomoo]

thats it dear zoo love that book thankyou crocky

[Crocky]

Think ktmoomoo's is Dear Zoo.
We also love Eddie's teddy.

[heifer]

The Very Hungry Caterpiller - Eric Carle
Ten Tiny Tadpoles - Debbie Tarbett
Toes are to Tickle - Shen Roddie, Kady MacDoinald Denton
Guess how much I love you - Sam McBratney

My DD 3.5 loves all the above - has had them quite a while so they may be for younger children, but she still loves them...

Will write some more when I look at the books upstairs (DH reads to her in bed and I have to admit I have no idea what books are up there, as we have been given loads from friends and family)...