Favorite Books for LO!

cjbwifey2010 · October 2015

Happy Friday!

Don't know if this is a thread already or not (i'm sure someone will say something if it is LOL).

What are some of your favorite books you've read with your LOs, or what you loved as a kid and want to get to incorporate in your library?

BrittnyS10 · October 2015

I loved the velveteen rabbit! I actually still have this book that my great grandma gave me when i turned 3! I definately will be reading it to my LO

mrstrax · October 2015

Anything by Sandra Boynton! Love her board books. Also anything with texture is fun for the first year as they get to "participate" before they understand the stories, especially the "That's not my —" ones.

cjbwifey2010 · October 2015

DS absolutely LOVES Corduroy. We read it almost every night. I also love "I'll love you Forever", and the "Story of Ferdinand"

NachosAndPeaches · October 2015

On the night you were born is our bedtime story.

Also good night moon.

Anything Sandra boynton or those small board books (his favorites are red hat green hat, piggy paints, and barnyard dance).
Lift the flap books are great.
Very hungry caterpillar
Go dog go
Chicka chicka boom boom

cjbwifey2010 · October 2015

Love Sandra Boynton!

NachosAndPeaches · October 2015

Oh and "brown bear Brian bear what do you see?"! I knew I was forgetting an important piece of the line up.

eastdurian · October 2015

DD is a little older now so I'm having a harder time remembering anything she "reacted to as a LO" we mostly just read books, didn't really matter what they were. The only ones I really remember her specifically liking were:

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

The Belly Button

Now that she's older she just loves books, my favorite to read her is Rosie Revere Engineer. We get a lot from the library and go through 3-10 books a day.

golfrgal · October 2015

My boy loves The Little Engine That Could, Goodnight Dumptruck and Green Eggs and Ham. We read Goodnight Moon every night until about 1 year old.

kimey1 · October 2015

These are not in chronological order per age group but these are def. my favorites;

Anything Dr.Seuss
Anything Shel Silverstein, esp. The Giving Three
Peter Rabbit
Five Little Monkies
Bernstein Bears

cmjenkies · October 2015

My absolute favorites from my childhood are Slinky Malinki & Slinky Malinki Open the Door by Lynley Dodd. DS loves them too and can practically read them to me himself now.

We've also loved over the years..
The Giving Tree
I'll Love You Forever
Little Blue Truck
Wacky Wednesday (and many other Seuss-esque books for that matter!)
Put Me In The Zoo (another childhood fave of mine)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Goodnight Moon (and Goodnight Goon for Halloween!)

Nowadays we're also loving Pete the Cat books.

Get them started early and instill a love of reading in your babies and you'll never regret it! DS is ahead for reading right now and I think a lot of it has to do with early and often exposure to books. His mom's a bit of a bookworm.

gingercatNJ · October 2015

Dr seuss, especially Fox in Socks! I thought it was so hysterical to watch adults try to read it out loud!

Also, I bought my baby his first book the other day..."Goodnight, Darth Vader"

brie_and_almonds · October 2015

DD loves to read. The one she has really enjoyed that PP haven't mentioned is Dear Zoo. We would practice animal sounds with it.

She also has really liked some Dr. Seuss books, specifically Hop on Pop, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut, and There's a Wocket in My Pocket.

littleredx2 · October 2015

My boys and I love "I'll love you forever" and "On the night you were born". I also love Happy Birthday by Dr. Seuss, it's fun to read on their birthdays :-)

My guys are big fans of any Llama Llama book, If I built a car, the velveteen rabbit, and Ferdinand.

If your area offers Dolly's Parton's imagination library, I would definitely size the baby up for it. Free books delivered monthly until they turn 5. Some of our favorite books came this way and we had never heard of them before they arrived.

sprocketsngadgets · October 2015

littleredx2 said:
My boys and I love "I'll love you forever" and "On the night you were born". I also love Happy Birthday by Dr. Seuss, it's fun to read on their birthdays :-)

My guys are big fans of any Llama Llama book, If I built a car, the velveteen rabbit, and Ferdinand.

If your area offers Dolly's Parton's imagination library, I would definitely size the baby up for it. Free books delivered monthly until they turn 5. Some of our favorite books came this way and we had never heard of them before they arrived.

That's amazing but not available in my area. Womp womp

DD loves a lot of the books people have already mentioned, but I'll add
Click clack moo, the complete Beatrix potter, and the gingerbread man goes to school

Ellenlbishop · October 2015

I am also obsessed with building my DDs library. Some of her favorites are Brown Brown Bear, Madeline, Going on A Bear Hunt, Lift the flap books., Pat the Bunny, the Bunny Rabbit Show (Boyton), Monster at the end of this Book. We have loads more that others have mentioned but it's hard for her sit through the longer books.

RoseShadow873 · October 2015

At first I'm going to read them classics like War and Peace. When they actually learn English I'll read them Dr Seuss or something.

pinottoparenthood · October 2015

My son is obsessed with the Llama Llama books and the Pigeon books.

Llama Llama makes board books for babies/younger toddlers, and then there are longer books for when they get older. They're the best ever. Like go ahead and order the board book set from Amazon right now :-D

RoseShadow873 · October 2015

pinottoparenthood said:

My son is obsessed with the Llama Llama books and the Pigeon books.

Llama Llama makes board books for babies/younger toddlers, and then there are longer books for when they get older. They're the best ever. Like go ahead and order the board book set from Amazon right now :-D

I'm intrigued by these pigeon books. Do they portray pigeons in a negative way though?

DougalMcG · October 2015

We're going on a bear hunt, The Gruffalo, llama llama books and Peter Rabbit

K&Elizabeth · October 2015

My daughter's favorites have been:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
All of the Llama Llama books
Mo Wilems various pigeon books
The Day the Crayons Quit
And the big time fave is Dragons Love Tacos

cmjenkies · October 2015

@kyleec89 The Day the Crayons Quit is awesome! They have a new one out too that DS wants to get.

mrstrax · October 2015

brenlo42 said:
DD loves to read. The one she has really enjoyed that PP haven't mentioned is Dear Zoo. We would practice animal sounds with it.

She also has really liked some Dr. Seuss books, specifically Hop on Pop, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut, and There's a Wocket in My Pocket.

Oh DD LOVES Dear Zoo!

mrstrax · October 2015

RoseShadow873 said:
At first I'm going to read them classics like War and Peace. When they actually learn English I'll read them Dr Seuss or something.

DD's first book was the Hobbit because that's what I was reading. She's also now heard HP 4-7 and the Magician's Nephew (Narnia #1) on audiobook in the car.

amaniupendo · October 2015

Off the top of my head, Sandra boynton And knuffle bunny. Texture books great for little ones.

pinottoparenthood · October 2015

RoseShadow873 said:

pinottoparenthood said:

My son is obsessed with the Llama Llama books and the Pigeon books.

Llama Llama makes board books for babies/younger toddlers, and then there are longer books for when they get older. They're the best ever. Like go ahead and order the board book set from Amazon right now :-D

I'm intrigued by these pigeon books. Do they portray pigeons in a negative way though?

@roseshadow873 haha it's just about one pigeon who wants what he can't have. Like he wants to drive the bus, he wants to stay up late, etc. And he begs to be allowed to do whatever it is, and my son gets really into it "NO PIGEON! NO!" It's cute.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=mo+willems+pigeon

Poppy16 · October 2015

First off, I highly recommend The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. It's really great and has a lot of good ideas for building literacy in babies and children and getting them interested in books. Honestly, I think it's right up there with "Happiest Baby.."

For board books we love:

Everything by Sandra Boynton

Goodnight Moon

Peek-a-Who?

Everything by Eric Carle

Everything by Leslie Patricelli

Everything by Dr. Seuss

All the board books by the DK company are great. They have touch-and-feel animal books, trucks, colors, numbers, etc.

Picture books:

Knuffle Bunny (plus anything else by Mo Willems)

Anything by Rosemary Wells

Anything by Byron Barton (esp. if you have a boy!)

swrastogi · October 2015

Stellaluna, any Dr. Seuss and I'll Love You Forever. The Paperbag Princess is one my husband grew up on.

jasmineahenderson · October 2015

Besides what has already been mentioned my son likes Time for Bed and The Very Busy Spider.

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