RE: Can we start a favorite books thread?
0-12 Months:
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Eric Carle
Time for Bed by Mem Fox
I Love You as Much... by Laura Krauss Melmed
Lift-the-Flap Books by Karen Katz (especially Where Is Baby's Mommy?, Where Is Baby's Belly Button? and Toes, Ears and Nose)
DK Publishing Books (letters, numbers, colors, NFL series)
12 months - 2 years:
(Continued with 0-12 month books)
FP LP Lift-the-Flap Books (the farm was great)
Maisy books
Pop-ups like Snappy Little Farm
Dr. Seuss - Foot Book, Go Dogs Go, Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?
Sheep in a Shop and Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
Some magnet books (like Snappy Travel Book and Thomas magnet books)
2/2.5 - 3+ years:
Anything from the Curious George series
Anything from the Franklin series
Hermie & Friends series (by Max Lucado - Christian themed)
Great Buginnings (also by Max Lucado - concept books like counting and shapes)
Froggy series by Jonathan London
Hairy Maclary books by Lynley Dodd
"Rabbit books" as DS calls them by Alan Baker (his favorites are Brown Rabbit's Shape Book; Gray Rabbit's Odd One Out; and Little Rabbit's First Time Book)
Dora the Explorer books
Thomas books (he especially likes the Dr. Seuss ones, Go Train Go, Stop Train Stop and Crack in the Track (you can get them at TJ Maxx)
Little Miss Spider books by David Kirk
Books by Laura Numeroff (If You Give a Pig a Pancake, etc.)
Little Bear books
Trucks: Whizz! Zoom! Rumble! by Patricia Hubbell
Duck in a Truck (and to a lesser degree Fix It Duck) by Jez Alborough
My Little Red Toolbox by Stephen Johnson It's just as much as toy as it is a book, but it's very neat. You can take the tools out and use them in the book.
Mommy to Justin (13 years) & Ashlyn (8 years)