Recommend your favorite children's books

Nikjones08 · November 2012

I am finalizing Camille's nursery and noticed that I don't have any books for her yet! What's your favorite children's books? Any recommendations? I grew up on Dr. Seuss!

ilovezak · November 2012

My 2 year olds favorite book is hand hand fingers thumb which is a dr seuss type book that he has to have read to him at least once a day. A couple other good ones are Wherever you are my love will find you (super cute book) and how many kisses do you want tonight is a good one too.

Actually pretty much anything by Nancy Tillman, She writes very sweet books .

JenniatONU · November 2012

I adore Fancy Nancy and those books. Her books are about building vocabulary by using 'fancy' words. Love love love LOVE them.

I grew up on Little Critter (Mercer Mayer) and The Berenstein Bears. My favorite as a kid was The Berenstein Bears and the Spooky Old Tree. It's about three bears going through a spooky old tree, one carrying a rope, one a stick, and one a light. They end up going through some obstacles and using their items. "Do they DARE go up that spooky old stair? Yes they dare!" (And then they lose the rope, for example.) So then it says "One with a light, one with a stick and one with the shivers." My mom and I always then would shake our bodies and draw out the words as we read ' and one with the shiiiiIIiiiIIIivvvvVVVvvvEeeeEErs!"

I don't know why I loved that so much, but I did. So, my mom actually bought another copy of that book for my LO so I could pass it down. I'm SO EXCITED for when she's old enough to have her act it out with me.

*LrCg* · November 2012

We've always read daily/nightly to our kids from birth. When they started to move (@6 months old) it was harder to have them sit. At that time the ony books they really sat for was the "Pat the Bunny", "Pat the Cat" type books- they are very cute and interactive and they liked doing the activites in the book.

mlangs · November 2012

Oh my... I have an abundance of books... she already has her own shelf in the book case!

Half our books are French and half are English so that also doubles the amount...lol

The little Golden Books and Dr. Seuss are good. I also loved the Max books, Harry the Dirty Dog, Ferdinand, of course the Hungry Caterpillar. We recently received Chicka-Chika boom and several of the Skippyjon Jones books.

BrittanyDoesDerby · November 2012

Stellaluna by Jenell Cannon

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

The Lorax by Dr Seuss

The Very Hungry Caterpillar/ The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

The Skippyjon Jones books by Judy Shachner

These are a mix of my favorites and the books the kids at the preschool went crazy for when I taught there.

peacelove&mama · November 2012

Where the wild things are
Oh the places you'll go
Are you my mother?
The very hungry caterpillar
Green eggs and ham
Peter Rabbit
Chicka chicka boom boom
Guess how much I love you

StefandTodd · November 2012

My sons favorites include Goodnight Moon, Barnyard Dance (and I love many others by Sandra Boynton), Go Dogs Go, any and all of the That's not my ___ books (Usborne Touchy Feely books).

Ooh, for moms of boys, I love "I love you More"

And he loves Hungry Little Caterpillar b/c he likes to put his finger in the holes in the book.

Also loves the poke-a-dot books, and Ten Tiny Tadpoles.

Ooh, and these foam lift and look books that we got at Costco....he LOVES them too.

Rachl323 · November 2012

JenniatONU:
I adore Fancy Nancy and those books. Her books are about building vocabulary by using 'fancy' words. Love love love LOVE them.

I grew up on Little Critter (Mercer Mayer) and The Berenstein Bears. My favorite as a kid was The Berenstein Bears and the Spooky Old Tree. It's about three bears going through a spooky old tree, one carrying a rope, one a stick, and one a light. They end up going through some obstacles and using their items. "Do they DARE go up that spooky old stair? Yes they dare!" (And then they lose the rope, for example.) So then it says "One with a light, one with a stick and one with the shivers." My mom and I always then would shake our bodies and draw out the words as we read ' and one with the shiiiiIIiiiIIIivvvvVVVvvvEeeeEErs!"
I don't know why I loved that so much, but I did. So, my mom actually bought another copy of that book for my LO so I could pass it down. I'm SO EXCITED for when she's old enough to have her act it out with me.

Jenni, my brother and I used to request that book EVERY night! Our mom even got us the tape so we could listen to it when we wanted before we could read. The dare thing is something we still say to each other to this day, even though we are both in our 30s!

Besides the Berenstein Bears, I love the Skippyjon Jones series, and my favorite children's book of all time is The Velveteen Rabbit. I can't read it without crying!

kimski · November 2012

dear zoo

some of our daughter's faves are cheap target dollar board books-elmo, colors, numbers, animals, etc. great for the diaper bag cause they are small

LoveActually4 · November 2012

Goodnight Moon

Brown Bear, Brown Bear

Where's Spot

On the night you were born

Love you Forever

The Hungry Caterpillar

FirefightersBride · November 2012

Oh goodness my sons bookshelf was almost FULL as of a couple of months ago he LOVES to read. Some faves:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Splat the Cat series

SkippyJon Jones series

Any Dr. Seuss

Pirates don't Change Diapers

How I became a pirate

My pop pop is a pirate

The Polar Express

Dog's colorful day

lawjjg522 · November 2012

Good Night Moon!!

Dr. suess

Bearenstein Bears

Harold and the Purple Crayon

The Fish (by *** Bruna, but i think it's out of print )

NeverKnew · November 2012

Just because I had no idea before DS, here's a general guideline of what he liked (types) and when:

For infants (0-12 months-ish): Board books. Short & rhyme-y.

For toddlers (say, 1-2 years-ish): Still board books, but can get a little longer with some story-line to them. Peek-a-boo books are great too. Loves to hear the same ones - over and over and over.

For over 2: Starting to have the patience to sit still for an entire 40+ page Dr. Seuss book. (I'm not kidding, just look!) Still loves the board book favorites, but can also appreciate silly stories and characters. Likes to flip pages AND doesn't always tear or crinkle them when he does!

velazquezk1 · November 2012

Bearenstein Bears!

And Chica Chica Boom Boom!

Gah. I loved all of the Bearenstein Bears.

kclouwhoo · November 2012

Love you forever

If you give a mouse a cookie

Amelia bedelia

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

Anything by robert munsch

rmaxim · November 2012

With my son, early on, interactive books with touchable textures and interactive elements were his favorites. Also, books with good photos or illustrations of animals and everyday objects for learning words and things. Alphabet and counting books are always fun. Some specific picks:

Anything by Eric Carle - The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Grouchy Ladybug etc

First 100 Words, Roger Priddy, and other books in the series (first 100 animals, abc's, numbers, etc)

Tails, Heads and almost anything by Matthew Van Fleet

Dr Seuss books are always good, but might not be appreciated by little ones until they are a bit older, my 2yo is just now starting to really enjoy them.

ForeverEverAfter · November 2012

I have a stack I bought over the years; Dr Seuss treasury, Beatrix Potter treasury love Peter Rabbit!, some Shel Silverstein, Mickey Mouse and friends set and Curious George. I also plan to get Robert Munch and Berenstein Bears when he/she gets older.

Notwifezilla7 · November 2012

My favorite children's:

Mo Willems (Knuffle Bunny is a hit in our house!)

David Shannon

Lois Elhert

Sandra Boynton (Great board books for when they are little)

Some of my favorite kid's books:

A Bad Case of Stripes
No David!
Moira's Birthday
The MItten
Snowy Day

Here's a blog post I wrote about more

https://notwifezilla.blogspot.com/2012/04/hanging-in-kiddie-section.html

Mrs.Syntax · November 2012

There are a lot of good suggestions here! I just wanted to add that DD was really, really destructive with books until she was over a year. Definitely stock up on board books or even chewing-friendly plastic books or cloth books. I wanted her to be able to look at books in the car seat but couldn't stop her from chewing on them, obviously. Books with paper pages were only safe in her hands at some point after 15 months