What's your favorite kids book?

What are your favorite books for this age group? I want to get the girls some more books because they are constantly looking at the ones we have.

 

Eric Carle.....all of them!!!!

My personal favorite childrens book is I'll love you forever.... that book makes me cry!!!!

 

QUOTE(three_precious_girls @ May 18 2007, 08:11 PM) [snapback]260978[/snapback]
My personal favorite childrens book is I'll love you forever.... that book makes me cry!!!!


I can't handle that one. The girls have it but I've only read it to them once b/c I couldn't make it through it!

My favorite book that they have is "My Sister and I". They got it from a friend for their first birthday. It is SO sweet and perfect for twin sisters! DH's favorite is "The Runaway Bunny."

 

Mouse Paint (Ellen Stoll Walsh)
Goodnight Gorilla (Peggy Rathmann)
Old Hat New Hat (Berenstain Bears)
Go Dog Go! (PD Eastman)
Daddy Book (Todd Parr)

I too, love the book I'll Love You Forever. Read it with a box of tissues!!

 

Good Night Moon
Curious George board books
Baby Einstein Windows to Color
Baby Einstein Baby Noah World Animals

 

Goodnight Gorilla
I Am a Bunny
Hand Hand Fingers Thumb
Hop on Pop
The Wheels on the Bus (companion book to the Raffi CD, though we only have the book)
Pat the Bunny

And a couple of the ABC books with photographs of things that start with different letters. Amy is waaaay into this right now because she is learning the words for all those things.

And anything with bunnies in it. They are not into listening to the words right now, they just want to point at the pictures.

 

At that age I was totally into the books with movable pieces. Favorites:

The Wheels on the Bus, by Paul O. Zelinsky
Knick Knack Paddywhck, by Paul O. Zelinsky
Tails, by Matthew Van Fleet
If You're Happy and You Know It, by David Carter
Glitter Critters, by David Carter

(but I didn't let them play with any of them alone!!!)

 

QUOTE(three_precious_girls @ May 18 2007, 06:11 PM) [snapback]260978[/snapback]
My personal favorite childrens book is I'll love you forever.... that book makes me cry!!!!


Me too! My grandma bought this for me when my boys were born, 5 years later I still get teary eyed ecery time I read it to them!

 

My girls loved the "Lulu" books at that age - "Hello Lulu", "Lulu's Holiday", "Lulu's Busy Day" and "Happy Birthday Lulu". Also, "We're going on a bear hunt" by Michael Rosen - that was Alice's favourite from 16 months, for about three months. And Olivia - any of the Olivia books. But we didn't buy a real lot for them until they turned two, because everything was likely to go in their mouths if they were tired or bored. The local library was brilliant for board books - we would take a huge shopping bag and load it up every visit! Good luck! It's so much fun shopping for books.

Tania

 

My girls LOVE the books by Sandra Boynton!!! She's awesome IMO! Their faves are The Belly Button Book and Barnyard Dance. I want to get them more too. They will pick these two books out of every book that we have every single time. They are just really cute books and not too long that they lose their attention. However, they have chewed through the binding on them and completely destroyed them, so someday I'm going to buy them new so they have to give to their kids someday.

 

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My girls LOVE the books by Sandra Boynton!!! She's awesome IMO! Their faves are The Belly Button Book and Barnyard Dance. I want to get them more too. They will pick these two books out of every book that we have every single time. They are just really cute books and not too long that they lose their attention. However, they have chewed through the binding on them and completely destroyed them, so someday I'm going to buy them new so they have to give to their kids someday.


I forgot to mention those! My girls love Pajama Time and Barnyard Dance.

 

I too cant get through "I'll love you forever" I cry and then hold my girls and then cry again. When I am reading it they look up at me and wait for me to cry, even they know its going to happen. They also love every princess or mickey mouse books. We have read almost all of them at least 100 times its time for us to get some new ones again.

 

my kids are younger than yours but I personally love the Belly Button Book - that tiny little hippo dragging the duck and saying bee bo is the cutest thing!

 

One of our favorites is Knuffle Bunny. We also like Don't let the pigeon drive the bus. They are written by the same author and they are really great books.

 

My gosh there are just so many but here are some of my favorites:

All books by Eric Carle
All books by David Shannon (especially the No, David! ones)
Don't let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Coco Can't Wait
Olivia books
All books by Leo Lionni
The Rainbow Fish
The Ms. Spider books (the most colorful and beautiful pictures I have EVER seen)

Those are just a few. I need to go through my library and if anything else comes to mind, I'll share.

 

Eric Carle's book...they are great!

Doreen Cronin's Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type & Giggle, Giggle Quack. My twins have loved these since 8 months!

 

Morris the rain bears magic boots. I love it more than the girls i think.

 

Oh, I thought of something else. ABC books. There are sooooooo many of them on you can find them on just about any topic. So if there is something your kids are into right now (cats, dogs, bugs, sesame street, etc..) you can most likely find one on it. Of course, counting books are great also and Just like ABC books, there is a plethera of them.

Another author that I thought about that I really like is Ezra Jack Keats. He has a lot of great books and a lot of repeat characters in them.

 

for whatever reason my son loves the apple wolf story and santa mouse, and the night before christmas..

great thread idea.

 

My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
Elmer
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
Green Eggs and Ham
Snuggle Puppy

 

Mouse Mess by Linnea Riley

The Laura Numeroff books are great too. If you give.... a mouse a cookie, a pig a pancake, a moose a muffin, etc.

 

For the 1-3 year range, some of our favorites were;

Kitten Red Yellow Blue
I Love You the Purplest
Guess How Much I love You
Dig, Dig, Digging
Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type
Giggle, Giggle Quack
Little Racoon's Big Question
I Took the Moon for a Walk
How I Became a Pirate
Where The Wild Things Are
King Bidgoods in the Bathtub
I Stink
Winnie the Pooh books
CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM
Curious George
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?
Polar Express

~Eric Carle
Busy Spider
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Mister Seahorse

~Dr. Suess
Green Eggs and Ham
The Foot Book
Happy Birthday to You
The Cat in the Hat
Horton Hears a Who!

 

Most of the ones mentioned here so far are on my boy's bookshelf and are great!

One thing I would add is that for inquisitive children, it probably doesn't matter who the book's authors are as long as they recognize objects in it. So our soon-to-be 20-month-old already has some favorites because there are balls, cars or dogs in it, and he loves to point them out to us and "read" the book to us. Luckily, he has two older brothers who were avid readers too and we won't be in a shortage for books anytime soon.

I do think the Sandra Boynton books did a great job in teaching Brady and Colby how to read (obviously we're a little bit away from that with Holden).

And I guess one other thing I would add is I personally like the hard books at this age as it's too easy for the little ones to rip and destroy the paperback or flimsy books and I want him to learn early to take care of his books.