Children's Books

victoria+james · January 2015

I grew up in a children's book store and I actually prefer kids books to anything written for adults... so I want to know your favorite titles! What are you reading to your littles?

victoria+james · January 2015

Some of my favorites:

The Hairy Maclary and Slinky Malinky books
Paper Bag Princess
The Gruffalo
Guess How Much I Love You
Little Owls Night (for bedtime)

Mason's current favorite is My Heart Is Like A Zoo. The pictures are simple and bright so he loves to stare at it!

Emerald27 · January 2015

Sandra Boynton is my favorite! Her illustrations are bright and fun and the little stories are hilarious. "Are you a cow?" was DS1's favorite, and when he was about 18mo old, he would "read" it aloud to himself.

I also love Sheep in a Jeep, The Napping House, Go Dog Go, and all Little Critters and Berenstein Bears books.

Emerald27 · January 2015

We also just got a book for DS1 that is full of bright colors and patterns, and DS2 loves it too. It's called "Hooray for Fish!"

andrieya · January 2015

No Fighting, no biting
Corduroy
Little Bear
Crictor the Boa Constrictor

2goingon3 · January 2015

Give me all the Dr Suess!!! I also love the velveteen rabbit. I second the little golden books. Now that DD and DS1 are getting older, I'm looking forward to reading them chapters from Harry Potter, the boxcar children, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys....it'll be so fun to reread these with them!!

Mewwwwws · January 2015

I love the classics like pet the bunny and Goodnight moon. Also like the "little miss..." and "little mr..." series.

MrsSarahRenee · January 2015

I am loving Bear Snores On, baby Penguins Everywhere and Over in the Forest.
Also love Dr. Seuss!!!

mlhw NH · January 2015

We're loving:
Goodnight Moon
Brown Bear, Brown Bear - Eric Carle
Hungry Little Catapillar -Eric Carle
Lama Lama series

AppleGrapeMSTK · January 2015

Harold and the Purple Crayon

DS1 likes Dr. Seuss, but really, he likes to read anything. He once tried to read DH the carpet cleaner manual before bed, lol.

MrsSarahRenee · January 2015

AppleGrapeMSTK said:
Harold and the Purple Crayon
DS1 likes Dr. Seuss, but really, he likes to read anything. He once tried to read DH the carpet cleaner manual before bed, lol.

Awww the carpet cleaned manual is adorable!

Raesofsunshine1 · January 2015

DD1 loves books and has SO many. She loves any books with animals in it and if a sing was made into a book she likes those too, like 5 Little Ducks. She has a Minnie Mouse search and find book she loves. She also had a paper back Bible New Testament story book she looked at so often that she was literally destroying it. We bought her the whole Bible story book in the hardback version for Christmas and read it at bedtime.

Im going to start looking for the American girl books that I grew up on to start reading them to her in a couple years. Also the Little House books and Charlottes web. Im so excited that she seems to love books as much as I did.

RockyNFrankie · January 2015

For classics we love
Chicka chicka no boom
Brown bear brown bear
Good night moon
'Twas the night before Christmas

We also love
Snowmen at night
Good night good night construction site
Little blue truck books
Only one you

There are too many to list.
Are there any books that you can't stand? I absolutely cannot stand I love you forever. Give me the creeps! Someone bought it for DS and I seriously want to throw it out I don't even want to look at it.

MrMrsandBaby · January 2015

I love reading say thing with a rhythm to Allison. Miss Spiders Tea Party is a favorite. Any Dr. Seuss is good too. I love any book that makes her smile and she engages with.

I sadly haven't started reading to Brooke yet.

meggiev123 · January 2015

We're not really reading to DS yet unless he's listening when we read to DD (who's almost 2). We tend to lean toward the old school choices. She loves Beatrix Potter books, particularly Squirrel Nutkin and Mrs Tiggy Winkle (but oddly not Jemima Puddleduck which I think is the best of the lot

). Other favorites include The Story of Ferdinand, Corduroy, Caps for Sale, and The Snowy Day

Klavanga74 · January 2015

I can't remember all the titles from when my older two were little bit here are a few:

Any Sandra Boynton
Richard Scarry books
Tell me what we did today
The mitten
Painting a rainbow
If you give a mouse a cookie and others in that series
Duck for President
Go Dog Go
There's a series with a Siamese cat that wants to be a chihuahua...can't remember name
Snowmen at Night

persephonerose · January 2015

DS1's favorite right now is Hand Hand Finger Thumb. He can recite almost the whole book from memory now.

The lazy ladybug, Any dr seuss, Richard Scary, A few sesame street themed books we found at the dollar tree, any of the baby touch and feel books, and we are starting on Gail Gibbons books next.

AdelaG10 · January 2015

Pete the Cat
The Giving Tree, when I first read this to DD I cried after reading it
Dr Seuss
Rainbow fish
The Gruffalo and yes the netflix movies are awesome!
Many more that you guys have mentioned and some I will look into, thanks for the ideas.

Virginialeigh · January 2015

I LOVE reading, and I really want DS to love it too, so for his first Christmas all we asked for were diapers and books. We have been reading M is for Monkey, Dr. Seuss ABCs, There's a monster at the end of this book, Chicken Butt, Robots Robots Everywhere, and Goodnight Gorilla.

KelliRR · January 2015

DS waivers between being into books and being indifferent, but MY favorites that we read him are:
Giraffes Can't Dance
Pat the Bunny (a favorite of mine from childhood)
All the Families
I Love My Family (bilingual-love it!)
We also asked for lots of books for Christmas just to diversify. We got tired of the same 6 (short and uninspired) stories. To mix it up I still read whatever I'm reading aloud: recipes, baby guide books, etc.

jbuck909 · January 2015

POUT POUT FISH!!!!!!!!!!

Just wanted to throw that out there. Looove him.

savicke2009 · January 2015

My NO day is a favorite around here.. does anyone do dolly partons imagination library? Is that just a local thing (google says no)? You sign your kid up and they get a book a month until they turn five.. most of them are weird as hell, but there have been some really good ones too..

Pete the cat is popular around here lately, dr. Seuss, mooses loose tooth.. so many more

victoria+james · January 2015

jbuck909 said:
POUT POUT FISH!!!!!!!!!!

Just wanted to throw that out there. Looove him.

I LOVE POUT POUT FISH!

jmw222 · January 2015

@TicketTuesday‌ they have a new book called Mix it Up, just like Press Here. DD loves Press here and I saw the new book right around Christmas time.

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JessAnnJ · January 2015

We mostly read to DD1 right now but her favorites in the first two years are:

Shorter Earlier Books

Peeka Who
Look Look
Look Animals
Peekaboo Forest
Pat the Bunny

Longer Books

Green Eggs and Ham
Are You My Mother (this is probably the long lasting favorite)
Harry the Dirty Dog
The Pokey Little Puppy
The Cat In The Hat

New Books She Got for Christmas that she really likes so far

Don't Let the Piegon Drive the Bus (this one is fun to read)
Where the Wild Things Are
Ferdinand the Bull
Llama Llama Red Pajama (another that is fun for me to read)

SecretHoodie · January 2015

We just got I See Kitty! I read it to DS twice yesterday. It is adorable and it is by the author of one of my favorite webcomics!

Saragoeswest · January 2015

Trigger warning // loss mentioned

@RockyNFrankie‌ I am creeped out by Love You Forever, too. It's so weird and my MIL has given us several copies over the years since apparently it was my H's favorite when he was little. The mom creeping into the house is so blehhh. But I started to cut the book some slack when I learned that the author wrote it after his first two babies were stillborn. So so so sad. It made more sense to me after that.

Saragoeswest · January 2015

I have a lot of favorites since I love to read and childrens lit was the emphasis of my M. Ed. I'm excited to find new favorites with A and to see what type of stories she is drawn to.

I noticed several PPs are looking forward to revisiting their old favorites with their kids. I am, too. The other night we were reading "Oh the thinks you can think" and I came across a line that made me remember reading that book to my little sister and I got choked up. That was neat. On the other hand, a lot of the books we grew up with rely on a lot of gender stereotypes and rarely show kids who defy them. I want to be watchful of that kind of thing when reading to my daughter.

RockyNFrankie · January 2015

Saragoeswest said:

Trigger warning // loss mentioned @RockyNFrankie‌ I am creeped out by Love You Forever, too. It's so weird and my MIL has given us several copies over the years since apparently it was my H's favorite when he was little. The mom creeping into the house is so blehhh. But I started to cut the book some slack when I learned that the author wrote it after his first two babies were stillborn. So so so sad. It made more sense to me after that.

Yea I tried to be ok with it when I heard that too but it literally makes my skin crawl!

sabby2 · January 2015

DD got a Pride and Prejudice counting primer for Christmas. We've read it twice. She likes the pictures. She also got Goodnight Moon, Chicka Chicka boom boom, guess how much I love you, goodnight Mr. Darcy, and several others. I love reading and hope that dd will love it too.

I loved Jan Brett books and golden books and dr. Seuss as a little kid.

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