Favorite books right now (2-3 yrs old)?

[aliceinwonderland]

I realise our collection has got a bit stale. My son was a late "reader" (LOL, I mean, only in the last 6 months or so will he happily sit on our lap while we read)--so I guess that caught me by surprise and now I realise what we have he's probably outgrown...And reading yet another chapter of Railroad Rhyme gives me suicidal thoughts ;)

What are your kids reading?

[Raidra]

Colwyn's favorite books right now are Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends, Jane Kurtz's Rain Romp, and Peter Harris' Night Pirates.

We get a lot of books from the library.. I usually just let Colwyn pick out what looks good to him, and then I'll grab a few that I've heard good things about. We try out a lot of books that I wouldn't ordinarily have picked up, since it doesn't cost us any money. :)

[SnuggleBuggles]

I only have titles off the top of my head:

These are our favorites and the ones I will happily read :)
How do Dinosaurs say Goodnight
Bear Wants More
Bear Snores On
If you Give a Pig a Party (or any of that series- they are very silly!)
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Goodnight, Gorilla
Don't let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (or any of this series)
Knuffle Bunny
Little Quack
I'm Mighty!
I Stink!

He also really, really liked the Little People lift the flap books that you can buy at Target.

Beth

[jse107]

I agree with the "How Do Dinosaurs..." series!

We also are starting to enjoy Richard Scarry books. Other favs of Owen's:
Knuffle Bunny
I Went Walking
Goodnight Moon (still)
Big Red Barn
Peter Rabbit
I Love You Stinky Face
Hop on Pop
Green Eggs and Ham
Are You My Mother?

[rlu]

Not at home, so trying to remember titles

You Can Name 100 Trucks
Mickey Mouse's picnic (old golden book from my childhood)
Hippos Go Berserk
Little Quack
The Thomas 2006 catalog (I kid you not)
A Train for Tommy
There's No Such Thing as a Dragon

Baby Minnie's Busy Day
Simba and Nala book of opposites (not sure what called)
(we got these two free as part of the disney book collection come-on)

Donald Duck's sailboat (old golden book)
the Donald Duck train one (old golden book)

Lassie and Her Day in the Sun

Curious George and the bunny

These are the ones that jump to mind.

[crl]

DS is over three. He really likes the Franklin series and Curious Georges. He also, amazingly, LOVES his "poem book" which is The Seasons in the Poetry for Young People series, edited by John N. Serio (includes poems by Emily Dickinson, etc.)

At a slightly younger age, he really liked The Big Red Barn, Go Dog Go, and Jump Into January (available from www.barefootbooks.com)

Have fun reading!

ETA: Want to add Fall is Here. Seasonally appropriate and a counting book. Here's a link to it on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Here-Counting-1-10/dp/0689874707/sr=8-2/qid=11601

[KrisM]

We have lots of train books. Favorites are:

I love Trains
Circus Train
Maisy's Train
A variety of Thomas books
The Thomas 2006 catalog (I see we're not alone here)
A Thomas coloring book (248 pages - ugh!)

Other books that pop up from time to time:
Goodnight moon
Goodnight Gorilla
Pat the Bunny
ABC book (Dr. Seuss)
a pirate Disney book (can't remember the name)

[supercalifragilous]

We just went to storytime at the library and they featured these books that I thought were awesome for boys:

http://www.amazon.com/Ugly-Truckling-David-Gordon/dp/006054600X/sr=8-1/qid=1160184615/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3978079-9888941?ie=UTF8&s=books

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http://www.amazon.com/I-Stink-Kate-McMullan/dp/0060298480/sr=1-1/qid=1160185212/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3978079-9888941?ie=UTF8&s=books

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http://www.amazon.com/Three-Little-Rigs-David-Gordon/dp/0060581182/sr=8-2/qid=1160184615/ref=sr_1_2/102-3978079-9888941?ie=UTF8&s=books


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http://www.amazon.com/Hush-Little-Digger-Ellen-Olson-Brown/dp/1582461600/sr=8-1/qid=1160184516/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3978079-9888941?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/1582461600.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[punkrockmama]

Everybody Poops (seriously, it's hysterical)

Books by Mercer Mayer but not Little Critter. Titles we have include There Are Monsters Everywhere, There's An Aligator Under My Bed, and There's Something In My Attic.

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie and the others as mentioned by a pp

Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery, Is There Realy A Human Race, and Tell Me Again About The Night I Was Born all by Jamie Lee Curtis. The last one is a book about adoption, and while Peyton is my bio child I bought the book because it was such a sweet story, I think it's totally beautiful. And you know, I think it's good that he knows mama's have their babies in all sorts of ways. :)

Where The Wild Things Are

We have tons, but these are the ones he asks for the most. Besides his Thomas stories, which kinda make me want to hurl as I have read them one million times by now.

[Door]

In addition to some of the favorites mentioned here, my 3 years old son also loves any book that has to do with fire truck. We must have at least 10 different books on fire stuffs and I have to read at least 3 every night.....(How do you ladies do the "rolling eye" thing?):) Anyway, another is the TONKA series of Working Hard with the (Fire Truck, Rescue Helicopter, Dump Truck etc.....) You name the machinery, he loves it. :) Here's an example of one:

http://www.amazon.com/Working-Rescue-Helicopter-Truck-Storybooks/dp/0590134493/sr=1-35/qid=1160193863/ref=sr_1_35/102-4518876-6473700?ie=UTF8&s=books

The other favorites, NOT Machine-Related, are the Alphabet Adventure and Alphabet Mystery by Audrey and Bruce Wood. I love these as the artwork is beautiful and they help to teach him the alphabet.

http://www.amazon.com/Alphabet-Mystery-Audrey-Wood/dp/0439443377/sr=8-1/qid=1160195143/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-4518876-6473700?ie=UTF8&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/Alphabet-Adventure-Audrey-Wood/dp/043908069X/sr=8-2/qid=1160195143/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-4518876-6473700?ie=UTF8&s=books

Lily

Mom to Tyler (July 23rd, 2003)

[LittlePrince_Mom]

Everybody poops
Are you my mother
Where the wild things are
Curious George series
Clifford books
Anything by Eric Carle (my son's favorite is actually a less known one called "the tiny seed")
Peter and the Wolf
Guess how much I love you
and many many more.........


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[TracyBee]

I just gave my daughter a book called Tails and she LOVES it!

Some other favorites of ours:

The little engine that could (we read this EVERY night)
Giraffes can't dance
How I became a pirate
The racecar alphabet (by brian floca - EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT BOOK)
The Olivia Series
Kitten's First Full Moon
Anythng by Richard Scarry

[blueeyedb]

>I just gave my daughter a book called Tails and she LOVES it!
>
Tails is DS's absolute FAVORITE book! He "reads" it so much I'm going to have to get him another copy for christmas (seriously, it has a large pink stain of unknown origin on one of the pages and the boar no longer has a tail). Good to know that older kiddos are liking it as well.

[aliceinwonderland]

We went to the bookstore today and picked up quite a few :) Thanks so much for the suggestions.

[sdjeppa]

Besides all the great books already mentioned, I wanted to add the I Spy books - my son LOVES them - when we go to the bookstore, he heads right for them, and we go thru all of them...he even likes the ones that are a little bit harder (early reader series.)