We've got a gazillion picture books and probably read between 2 and 10 a day. She can recite Hairy Mclary and a few others (and so can I... some, I'd be glad to never read again!). She loves lying with me at night and I make up a story and she just listens, but TBH, my imagination is a bit cr@p, especially when tired and I'm fast running out of material. Both her receptive and expressive language are fantastic, so I feel that she's ready for some of the suggested titles. It won't mean we'll reduce the picture books... though I may have to hide a couple for my own sanity!
Sorry, reading back, that sounds defensive. Just explaining my position.
Hehehehe, I suffer from imagination malfunction when tired too, but have found that DS loves loves loves to hear me tell stories of myself and my brothers when we were little (I embellish them a little to add to the story sometimes hahahahaha), I think he is fascinated with stories about me once being a kid!!
Ha we need to hide some too. CJ also loves made up stories but I followed in my Grandma's footsteps and just tell her stories about what have done today yesterday etc etc - means is easy for me as don't need too much imagination - tonight her requests were "The day we went to Collingwood Childrens farm" and "When we saw Justine Clark at the zoo" - and I have to tell her "the whole day mum" so right from when she wakes up. She now tells us stories back her favorite is "When I got fed up of peas"! We also have to retell said stories where she is big girl kookaburra, I am mummy kookaburra etc etc or she wants to hear it where we all have different names - it certainly keeps my brain moving!
Have you read the Madeline children's book series written by Ludwig Bemelmans - the pictures are great and I quite like the stories (they are a read in one sitting book though but to me were a welcome change from some of her other favorites). The Alfie series (Shirley Hughes) are another big favorite here - some are quite long others short but I quite like these.
CJ is the same we have a balance between Who Sank the Boat type books, which I know are great for her working towards learning to read, and then just stories she wants to listen to for fun.
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