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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
beautiflaw
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Recommend Your Books!
beautiflaw
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DD is getting sick of her current bedtime books. We try to read books with a sleep or bedtime or naptime theme before bedtime and naps to get her in the mood to sleep, but the ones she has now we've read a million times and she has started telling me "Not dis one" when I pick up her old faves! Sad!
She is 19 months old.
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Re: Recommend Your Books!
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons (I love this one!)
Pinkalicious books (though she's a bit dramatic)
Anything Dr. Suess-y that you don't already have
K is for Kissing a Cool Kangaroo
The Dot (or anything by Peter H. Reynolds--love him)
These have all gone through phases of being the favorite in our house
I WISH LO would get tired of the same books and pick a different one! I bought a new one last night in hopes he'll latch onto something different...but not looking forward to it potentially wearing out it's welcome: Big Blue Truck Leads the Way...or someting like that. We'll see.
Here's what we're reading multiple times each day: Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Gorilla (and I think this one is lame!), three different Thomas books (He's obsessed with Thomas), also this book about Johnny Appleseed (I have no idea why, it was one of DH's from when he learned about him in the 1st grade)...other frequent requests include any book with peekaboo flaps/mirrors, monkeys, or tactile parts.
We have Brown Bear Brown Bear, and many Sandra Boynton books as well. We have others too, but I think they're too long for his attention span right now.
Curl up in a Ball
The Bear Snores On
Good Night Construction Site
The only real bedtime book we have is Goodnight Moon. Which I hate and think is the stupidest book in the world. But DH loves it and he does story time each night, so they usually read 1-2 other books and then end with that.
The other books in the bedtime rotation are:
Caps for Sale
The Little Engine That Could
When I Was Born
Our night time books are:
Goodnight Train
Llama Llama Nighty Night
Good night, I love you
My daddy loves me
My mommy loves me
Haiku Baby
Clifford's Easter Surprise
House / Baby blog
DD1 loves books. These are her favorites:
I Love You Stinky Face
No Matter What
A Cuddle For Little Duck
Goodnight Moon
Little Blue Truck
Little Blue Truck Leads The Way
Pajama Time
The Going To Bed Book
Guess How Much I Love You
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
my read shelf:
We used to read Goodnight Moon and Goodnight Gorilla every night but now I let LO pick whatever book he wants. We read frequently
The belly button book, The Going to Bed Book, Perfect Piggies, Hippos go berserk(all Sandra Boynton)
Goodnight,Goodnight construction site
Mr. Pusskins
The Cat in the Hat
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
My Big Book of Counting
This Tree 1,2,3
There are others he sometimes chooses but these are the most frequent now.
Good Night Curious George
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Sandra Boyton's "Going to Bed Book" or "Barnyard Dance"
And a book counting puppies.
My mother actually found a 12-pack of bedtime stories at Costco that he really likes. But I don't see them on Amazon.
We read a lot of the same ones already listed here. Also:
The Night Night Book (Marianne Richmond)
Sleep Like a Tiger (Mary Logue)
Good Night Little Bunny (Jane Yolen)
Sleep Baby Sleep (Maryann Cusimano Love)
You Are My I Love You (Maryann Cusimano Love)
Just Go to Bed (Little Critter)
One Bear at Bedtime (Mick Inkpen)
Good Night Little Bear (Richard Scarry)
We 'audition' a lot of his bedtime stories via the public library. And remember interlibrary loan. If they don't have some of these at your branch, they can special order them for you from another, even out of town.
Also, for the Good Night, Good Night, Construction Site families, that writer/artist team has just released a new one called Steam Train, Dream Train. With circus animals.
We've ordered it but it hasn't arrived yet.
Screen time be damned, our whole family loves the Nighty Night ap on our iPads. It's a little story about the whole town going to sleep, except the animals at the farm house. Then you tap on the windows with the lights on and it goes into the animals' rooms where you have to shut off the lights so they can go to sleep. We got it when it was the free featured ap of the week a month or two ago, but it's worth the $3 or whatever it costs, if you have an iPad.
DD also currently loves The Cat Who Walked Across France, which we have out from the library right now. It's something different than the usual suggestions, anyway.
The Shape of My Heart
So cute!