Fav picture story book!?....

[Beach Mama]

DH reads a story to Izzy every night after her bath and before bed. Its such a nice time for him to spend with her, and for her to hear his voice after not seeing him all day! I tend to buy one book pretty much every week for her - so she has some great ones! We love Hairy McLairy, Possum Magic, Not A Nibble, Going on a bear hunt, Kisses for Daddy, any Spot books and heaps of others!

I was recently checking out a list of 20 books all kids should have compiled by Mem Fox and DH and I were giggling about some of the books that he has read to her like Dr Dog (funny story!) and it got me thinking!!

What are you favorite picture story books? (You or your kids!!)

[Ambah]

Owl Babies - by Martin Waddell... its absolutely gorgeous!!!!!!!!! The first day I brought it home for Aidyn he made me read it over 10 times... and he has loved it ever since.

and

Guess how much I love you...

[Olive]

guess how much i love you
and
the very hungry caterpiller!!

[Phteven]

Yasin usually has a new one each week.
At the moment it's Olivia. He also loves Where the Wild Things Are, the Hairy McClary books, Maisy, Spot, Time for Bed, Where is the Green Sheep, Who Sank the Boat, the Mr McGee books, Ping, Hop on Pop, Let's Get a Pup, Queenie the Bantam.
he also loves the books with one word/picture to one page because he can 'read' them himself.

Imran love, love, loves Mr Brown Can Moo. He insists on having it read to him every night and that's enough. If I try to get down another book afterwards he cracks it rofl.

ETA - How could I forget the 'pillar book? lol.

[Yael]

We got Dovie for his birthday "Guess how much i love you" and "each peach pear plum"

Each Peach was my favourite from when i was little, so i just had too! Both of those authors have lots of other cute books also.

Another cute one is "peepo"

[Danni]

oh dach, we love "who sank the boat" here too!! I love pamela allen books and so does Mason. Im pretty sure its the different tone you have to use for each sentence iykwim?

[~Raven~]

Bunny Love by Anita Jerem was Masons absolute favourite! I had to hide it PMSL

[Schmickers]

Guess How Much I Love You is my current favourite. I know I like it more than Molly does...

"That's very good hopping. I wish I could hop like that."

[Phteven]

Danni, I think Pmaela allen is our favourite author in this house at the moment. yasin loves lots of her books, the Grandpa & thomas ones are special favourites too and also the mouse one.
Have you got clippity clop? I don't read it often because all the puffing and blowing leaves me exhausted lol.

[Danni]

hahahaahaha yes!! i love it though and Mason gets so excited with all my huffing and puffing lol1

[Lucy]

Go the Hungery Catarpillar!

Charlie (age 2) is a huge fan of other Eric Carle books.......The Very Quiet Cricket is one, along with Brown Bear, What do you see? (I can recite this one in my sleep. I have to read it to him at leat 4 times before bed each night!)

Olivia loves anything by Shirley Hughes, and so do I. Beautiful pictures. (My parents read then to me when I was little!) Lucy and Tom's Day is beautiful, as is all of the Nursery Collection (especially "Colours".) & The Tales of Annie Rose (but we change the names to The Tales Of Livvy Lou, lol!

[Beach Mama]

Oooh we love Guess How Much I love you - we have the baby calendar that I fill in each month and the height chart!!
Keep em coming - Im starting a list that I might post for our own BB Top XX story books!! It will also help me when Im shopping for more books!!

Forgot to add if anyones interested - the Huggies book club is great - 10% off for members (free to join) and free postage in Australia and they have great specials each week! Just google. Ive just added a heap to my wishlist!

[Danni]

everyone gotta head to the post office! they have heaps of book sets for $10 this week. 4 mem fox books, golden books etc. I got 4 board books, Learn Abc, Learn counting, Learn Shapes and Learn colours. They are so bright and Mason loves them!

[MantaRay]

Wow Danni, thanks for the tip.

We love many of the ones mentioned. I also love books illustrated by John Butler (he has written and illustrated some too). We have Wake up Sleepy Bears - it started as a borrowed library book but we had to buy it after Jack decided to give it to Tom to eat (and rip) ! Another one we borrowed a while back that Jack just loved was called Outside Bears (trying to remember who wrote it - Sally something I think?). Also for the younger child (ie Tom!) the touchy feely ones are a huge hit like the That's not my.... series.

[Ambah]

We have a couple of John Butler ones too... they are absolutely gorgeous!

Thanks for the tip Danni, will have to check it out tomorrow!

[cruemum]

Austy and I read "Little Bear" and "I love you Mummy" and Jensen's fave is "The wishing star"
Yet my husband reads Austy all the "Thomas the tank engine" books. I"m not allowed to just like he is not allowed to read "Little Bear", weird but hey thats kids.

[Pandora]

we have lots of favourites.
where the wild things are, owl babies, Animalia, the very hungry caterpillar, ping
mmm I can't remember and I'm not going into Milo's room to check, maybe in the morning I will do an update!

[Mum0809]

Second-hand stores are great for books. You can pick them up from 10cents a book, and some are like new.