Best books for 3 year olds?

[daisymommy]

I'm going to cross-post this in the Toddler forums, but this place get's more traffic :)
I'm looking to move on from the simple board books Joshua has, it seems he's getting bored with them. So, what books is your 3 year old DC into these days?

[hjdong]

DS's absolute favorite is Chicka chicka Boom boom. I'm so sick of it. I hate it. Would you like a copy?

He likes books by David Shannon (both the No David series and the Duck series). What mom can't do and What Dad Can't do. Never, Ever, Shout in a Zoo. The Curious George Series. The Bug Safari. The LIttle Critter Series. The very humgry caterpillar.

We've also reading short chapter books. He's just gotten to the point of sitting long enough for a chapter and being able to imagine what's going on (if it's simple enough). Right now we're reading Stuart Little, which was going pretty well until Margalo flew the coop; she was his favorite. It takes us a really long time. I read a chapter or part of a chapter a day; I only go as long as he seems interested.

HTH,

[kalebsmama]

Some of Kaleb's favorite books are,
Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom! and Chicka Chicka 1-2-3!
Dinosaurumpus
Curious George series
Thomas books
Five little monkey series. Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, Wash the Car, and others - I think we have 5.
The History of the Ford Model T! Ok, most kids probably wouldn't get into that one but DS loves it! We have a Model T so that explains his interest I think! It's a 500+ page book and he and DH look at all the pictures and talk about the engine and how it works. It must be a guy-thing!!

I just started going to the library and checking out a bunch of books to see what he liked.

I have a list from our bookstore of the best books for that age range. You could check a bookstore or your library to see if they have one, or I'd be happy to send you my list if you're interested.

[August Mom]

DS likes:

Anything from the Curious George series

Anything from the Franklin series

Hermie & Friends series (by Max Lucado - Christian themed)

"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

We go to the library each week and DS picks whatever he wants to read, but we are heavily concentrated in Franklin and Curious George. :)

ETA: DS just received My Little Red Toolbox by Stephen Johnson as a gift and loves it. 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. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...X&kids=y&itm=2

ETA: I can't believe I forgot the Hairy Maclary series by Lynley Dodd. We like Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack the best.

[raynjen]

A ton!
Madeline
Chicka Chicka (both)
A Chair for My Mother
Blueberries for Sal
One Morning in Maine
Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man
Me and - Series (Me and My Senses, Me on the Map, Me and My Place in Space, etc)
The 20th Centruy Children's Poetry Treasury
A Boy, A Dog, and a Frog (no words)
Guess How Much I Love You
No Jumping On the Bed
That's Good, That's Bad
Unfortunately
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Curious George
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
The Story of Babar
Berenstain Bears (any)
Stellaluna
Amelia Bedelia
The Story of Little Babaji
The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book
The Poky Little Puppy
The Animals of Farmer Jones
Tootle
The New House in the Forest
The Taxi That Hurried
Scuffy the Tugboat
The New Baby
Little Peewee
Busy Timmy
The Marvelous Merry-Go-Round
Guess Who Lives Here
The Seven Sneezes
The Color Kittens
The Little Fat Policeman
Brave Cowboy Bill
Pets for Peter
Seven Little Postmen
The Sailor Dog
The Train to Timbuctoo
The Merry Shipwreck
The Twins
Usborne Books Farmyard Tales (with CD, very helpful when you've read it for the 18th time!)
Usborne Books Bible (with CD)
Usborne Books Beginning Science (about 16 different ones on everything from spiders to ballet, horses, to astronauts)
The Runaway Pumpkin
Dr. Suess's ABC's
Every other Dr. Suess book
Go, Dog, Go
Are You My Mother
Where The Wild Things Are
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (and all Numeroff books)
Olivia books
Clifford books
Love You Forever
Philadelphia Chickens
Mama, Do You Love Me?
Little Miss Spider
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?
The Napping House


and more recently:
The Magic Treehouse (any that she can find)
Little House in the Big Woods
Little Lord Fauntelroy

WHEW!

Jen in Okinawa
Mom to my beautiful daughter,
who is now 3 1/2, Noelle!

[MelissaTC]

Here are a few Matthew seems to love that I didn't see in the pps...

Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni

The Land of Many Colors by Rita Pocock and Klamath County YMCA Preschool

Where's The Poop? by Julie Markes

[SnuggleBuggles]

My library has lists of the best books by age. You might go see if you can track one down.

Here's a list from the Library Association:
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardssc...entnotable.htm

My ds loves the Cordoury books right now.

Beth

[smkinc]

Melissa,

Where did you find the Land of Many colors book? I checked on Amazon and it looks like a great book for kids. I grew up in Klamath County (OR)--I assume there isn't another one in the US--and had no idea the Y pre-school produced such a literary work!


TIA,
Mary
Mom to Jeremiah

[jbrandy]

We also love many of the ones posted here but we just got a new one that is a great hit. It is actually a book that's been around a while. My son loves Thomas and trains so if your child does they might like:
The Caboose that Got Loose by Bill Peet.

The illustrations are fantastic and it is written so that it rhymes. DS loves it!

Beth B
DS 4-4-03