What is your favourite childrens story book?

[Tobily]

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

[Macca79]

My fav growing up was Mrs Babcarry Goes To Town.
DS loves his bath books at the moment, they taste great!

[Curly]

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

[AnyDream]

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

[Pandora]

Corduroy by Don Freeman

[suse]

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

[tiggerandpooh]

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

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.

[Melly01]

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.

[krysalyss]

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.