What are your favorite books for kids? Either books you remember loving as a child, or books for kids you've since discovered.
I want to keep a wishlist and start collecting some good ones for our little home library. My son will be learning and speaking mostly Dutch outside our home, and my partner is not a native English speaker, so I'll be representing the English language. We've started reading him bedtime stories already, and I only have 2 books in English so far. Need more.
Some of my favorites as a kid: The Rough-Faced Girl Tikki Tikki Tembo Danny and the Dinosaur Little Critter
Ahhh!!! I love children's books! This is such a good thread idea! I babysat for a little guy who was Swedish/English bilingual. He was under 2 and would bring me the English books, not the Swedish ones!
Sandra Boynton (the going to bed book; moo, ba, la la la; but not the hippopotamus) Eric Carle (Brown bear, hungry caterpillar) Madeline Llama llama books The Runway Bunny The Real Mother Goose (just a collection of nursery rhymes--my dad read us a few each night and I memorized them and would repeat them when I was scared/needed to calm down) Leo the Late Bloomer Gregory the Terrible Eater Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day Scaredy Squirrel Charlie and Lola books The Paperbag Princess All of Jan Brett's fairytales Corduroy A Chair for my Mother Make Way for Ducklings Miss Rumphius
Love you for ever (Classic my mom read it to me and my siblings I felt it was only right to continue) Dr. Seuss anything Mother Goose Rhymes Fairy Tales The Very Hungry Catapiller Are you my mother
Both my kids are obsessed with "brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?" By Eric Carle. And they also love "chicka chicka boom boom" like a pp said. My kids really love the "little critter" books by Mercer Mayer too. I think all those are better as they get older though. As an infant mine liked touch and feel books, etc.
Baby #3 due February. Dx with Spina Bifida Myelo "good things are coming down the road, just don't stop walking"
Corduroy and Clifford the Big Red Dog were favorites of DH and myself that we look forward to sharing with our LO. Right now, she's really enjoying books with pictures of babies. I Love Colors and Babies and Doggies are her favorites.
Guess How Much I Love You, Rainbow Fish, Eloise series, and Amelia Badelia (when LO is older). I second Brown Bear and Hungry Hungry Caterpillar, she is loving these books right now.
Love you forever (I have the copy my mom got at her baby shower when she was pregnant with me) goodnight, I love you (our before bed book) the monster at the end of this book (Sesame Street book with Grover, my mom read it as a child, and read it to me and now I read it to my DD) and I second the anything by dr Seuss recommendation as well!
Little Blue Truck (both the original and the city) Pout Pout Fish Jesse Bear books (Better Not Get Wet Jesse Bear and What Will you Wear Jesse Bear) Go Dog Go One Fish Two Fish
our 2 year old loves the Fisher Price Little People flap books, too. They are awesome for car rides, restaurants, etc bc there are so many flaps to keep him busy!
I Kissed the Baby Hush Little Polar Bear Any touch and feel books, she loves them! The Napping House Click Clack Moo Cows That Type Brown Bear, Brown Bear and Hungry Caterpillar
Little critter books Llama Llama books My First songs Pout Pout Fish The Highlights magazines are awesome (the 0-2 magazine)! (We still have all of the ones DD (2.5) got and they hold up really well, great car reading material for her)
My little girl loves all of Caroline Jayne Church books. "How do I love you" is my favorite!They even had a "I'm a big sister" book for when she became a big sister. She also loved "I love you to the moon" not sure the author.
Re: Your favorite books for children
Most things by Dr. Seuss
We have some animal books that also make noise
Sandra Boynton (the going to bed book; moo, ba, la la la; but not the hippopotamus)
Eric Carle (Brown bear, hungry caterpillar)
Madeline
Llama llama books
The Runway Bunny
The Real Mother Goose (just a collection of nursery rhymes--my dad read us a few each night and I memorized them and would repeat them when I was scared/needed to calm down)
Leo the Late Bloomer
Gregory the Terrible Eater
Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
Scaredy Squirrel
Charlie and Lola books
The Paperbag Princess
All of Jan Brett's fairytales
Corduroy
A Chair for my Mother
Make Way for Ducklings
Miss Rumphius
Favorites at our house:
-Little Blue Truck books
-Bear on a Bike, Bear Takes a Trip, etc (there are several)
-Dr Seuss
-Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
As she got older, DD really liked the lift a flap and touch and feel books.
Dr. Seuss anything
Mother Goose Rhymes
Fairy Tales
The Very Hungry Catapiller
Are you my mother
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goodnight, I love you (our before bed book)
the monster at the end of this book (Sesame Street book with Grover, my mom read it as a child, and read it to me and now I read it to my DD)
and I second the anything by dr Seuss recommendation as well!
Little Blue Truck (both the original and the city)
Pout Pout Fish
Jesse Bear books (Better Not Get Wet Jesse Bear and What Will you Wear Jesse Bear)
Go Dog Go
One Fish Two Fish
our 2 year old loves the Fisher Price Little People flap books, too. They are awesome for car rides, restaurants, etc bc there are so many flaps to keep him busy!
Just bought a book for my kids called A Stormy Night. Very cute book.
I Love You Stinkyface
Giraffes Can't Dance
Llama Llama Books
Barnyard Dance
Where the wild things are
everyone poops
zoo poo
there was an old lady who swallowed a fly
Make a pregnancy ticker
Hush Little Polar Bear
Any touch and feel books, she loves them!
The Napping House
Click Clack Moo Cows That Type
Brown Bear, Brown Bear and Hungry Caterpillar
Llama Llama books
My First songs
Pout Pout Fish
The Highlights magazines are awesome (the 0-2 magazine)! (We still have all of the ones DD (2.5) got and they hold up really well, great car reading material for her)
Guess How Much I Love You
But Not the Hippopotamus
Galoshes
Just about any little golden book!
Nancy Tillman books
Goodnight Moon
Little Engine That Could
On the Night You Were Born
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
DS' favorites at 3.5 years old:
Little Blue Truck series
Dragons Love Tacos
Stellaluna
Where the Wild Things Are