I have so many favourites as I read them all the time with the children at school but I am just wondering if you or your child have a favourite on your bookshelf that gets read over and over again?
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I have so many favourites as I read them all the time with the children at school but I am just wondering if you or your child have a favourite on your bookshelf that gets read over and over again?
When We Were Very Young - AA Milne poems
The Tiger Who Came To Tea - Judith Kerr
Anything by Eric Carle (Hugry Caterpillar, Mixed-up Chameleon, Busy Spider...)
Those are joint favourites. DS's favourites are anything with trains or cars in - Thomas, Roary and Bob the Builder especially. *Sigh.*
We do like all books and have loads of them, but other than the ones mentioned above, they go through phases of being read and being on the shelf.
Earlier:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
Where is the Green Sheep? - Mem Fox
Time for Bed - Mem Fox
Picture Dictionary :rolleyes:
If You're Happy and You Know It
Nursery Rhymes
That's Not My Dolly/Monster/Pony etc...
Currently:
Green Eggs & Ham - Dr Suess
The Cat in the Hat
The Diggingest Dog
Hello Baby
All Afloat on Noah's Boat
My sons favourite books are the Spot books. He loves dogs and loves books that he can lift the flaps on.. so the majority of his books are all flaps books.
At the moment DD's fave's are....
"Does a cow say boo?"
"The big hungry bear" and
"Each Peach Pear Plum"
At the moment (but next week might be differant lol)
The Little Red Caboose
The Gruffalo's Child
Anything Thomas The Tank Engine
Baby and Toddler's Big Book of Everything.
Oh and i forgot "Mutt Dog!"
Where the Wild Things Are
Where's the Green Sheep
Baby and Toddler's Big Book of Everything
Multiple Cars books, multiple Thomas books
'When I'm feeling' series
Top Gear Magazine, Street Machine :redface:
I love Time for Bed by Mem Fox.
Oh yeah "Each Peach Pear Plum" is great too!
SOme great books girls!
Nai- I also have Where is the green sheep. Such a nice book.
Kel- good thinking on the lift the flap books. I suppose the more interactive the better! I used to love Spot as well.
Falguni- I think I know the Each Peach Pear Plum story of by heart! :ROFL: A great book that I must get for our little girl.
Snowy- :ROFL: at the Top Gear magazine! That would so be my DP or anything about cricket! I had a little boy in my kindy class 2 years ago who used to love the street directory! He was so bright and he knew every single suburb and what suburbs they were next to! He bought it in for show and tell one day when the topic was "Your favourite book"!
Dach- I bought the Little Red Caboose! Gorgeous story.
Thanks for all your suggestions :)
DD and I really love "Annie's Chair" by Deborah Niland. Her copy is pretty dogeared, and very well read! The little girl reminds me alot of my fiesty DD :lol:
My fav growing up was Mrs Babcarry Goes To Town.
DS loves his bath books at the moment, they taste great!
DS has heaps of books and goes through phases where we read the same ones over and over and then he will suddenly request a book we haven't read in months.
Current faves:
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
Goodnight Moon
There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
The Tawny Scrawny Lion
Scuffy the Tugboat
Where is the Green Sheep
Too hard question! Seriously it's like asking which of my children is my favorite!
They are ALL my favorites, that why both DD's have a bookshelf groaning in their bedrooms! LOL
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Euan's still at the stage of trying to eat books and tear them to small pieces, so the 'touchy-feely' books are his favourites.
My favourite kids books are: Where the Wild Things Are; and 'The Lost Thing' by Shaun Tan
ohhhh too many to choose... but hang on this is about aston so I would have to say at the moment HIS favourite books are Alison Lester's Magic Beach, and Imagine. Magic Beach is one that I read to his big sister and brother too, so its lovely to read it again to him. Imagine he got for his birthday, and that is a fave at the moment. Those are the bedtime stories. Other books for any time of the day... Hungry caterpillar (the HUGE version that comes with a hungry caterpillar to put through the holes) He has a set of books that are D&K Touchables, that have pieces that come out and you can play with them. There are so many books in this house its hard to say now... lol Because I work for a company that sells kids books, there are always new books coming into the house. He calls them "mummy's books" but really they are the kids, I just have to collect them all from the various rooms when I go and do a party :lol:
Good thread though. will be keeping an eye out to see what everyone else is reading. I really recommend Alison Lester, and Graham Base. Beautiful illustrations.
When DS was younger, from about 1yrs to 18months it was "Pigs Don't Fly" by Jackie French, and he loved other books like Gossie and Friends: A First Flap Book by Houghton Mifflin and any Spot book he could find. He also liked Hat Off, Baby! by Jan Ormerod.. But he still loves it when we read Hat off Baby together, especially before bath time.
At the moment we read books like How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? by Jane Yolen, which was actually a Christmas present from his preschool. He loves it. Especially laughing at all the "naughty dinosaurs". Also reading some classic fairy tales, as well as Green Eggs & Ham, The Sleep Book, Horton Hatches The Egg, Oh the Places You'll Go! by Dr Suess, and Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman. Those are his favourites at the moment, which also are books I grew up reading, and some of them are even books that I actually used to own, the ones that haven't completely fallen apart yet. But I don't think he understands the concept of me being a child, so he always laughs when I say I used to read some of those books when I was his age.
My favourite is Jessicas Box which is so well written and brings a tear to my eye everytime I read it. We got it as a present and it was actually written and illustrated by an old school friend of my DH.
I have to agree with "how does a dinosaur say goodnight?"
It has never gone out of favour here with DS -others come and go, but this is read at least once a day.
We've got lots of favourites too! One of the best tips I've been given is to make sure your child's books are at an accessible height to him/ her, so we have the book box on the floor, and DD (18 months) chooses whatever she would like to read at the time.
Some favourites are:
Get Busy This Summer (lots to point at and name in the illustrations)
Cows in the Kitchen (this one we borrowed from the library and she loved so much we had to buy it)
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (she can repeat most of the words from the first bit)
Puppy Love (she is in love with dogs at the moment and this one has touchy feely fur etc)
Dorothy's Day (Dorothy from the Wiggles, not one of my favourites, though!)
Time For Bed (gorgeous pictures and she can name the animals)
Oh and a funny thing - I have a book I bring to church with us for her to read called Little One God Loves You. DH's family isn't religious, but the other day DD told MIL "God Loves You"!!! Made me feel like I'm a religious nutter that gets my child to repeat these phrases to convert people!! Very funny girl.