Raffle time: Children’s Books
Posted on February 10, 2010 under Moms' Advice, ParentingBeyond the classics (Goodnight Moon, Eloise, Dr. Seuss) and the best-sellers (Olivia, Curious George series, Sandra Boynton), what are some great children’s books you have discovered and love to read with your children?
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My favorite book to read with my son is “I Love you All the Time”.
My daughter LOVES LOVES LOVES If You Give A Pig a Party by Laura Numeroff and Subway by Anastasia Suen. I mean, she is OBSESSED.
We love the Llama Llama books. We also got a new book called “All the World” (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/All-the-World/Liz-Garton-Scanlon/e/9781416985808) which my 3 year old loves.
My 14 month old daughter LOVES the book, “Hug” by Jez Alborough. We cannot read it to her enough!
Lost & Found by Oliver Jeffers is fantastic!
Actually, any of the Oliver Jeffers books are just brilliant.
My 19th month old loves “Dear Zoo” (see amazon link below), and has for a while. The graphics are very simple, and the story teaches lots of descriptive words. The flaps are easy and exciting for little hands. And there is lots of room to add your own imagination to each page.
http://www.amazon.com/Dear-Zoo-Lift-Flap-Book/dp/141694737X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265833680&sr=1-3
My 18 month old son loves Curious George goes to the zoo!
One of my favorites as a child has also become my daughter’s most requested book: BIg Dog…Little Dog, a Bedtime Story by PD Eastman. It covers color, size and the concepts of up and down with an amusing story about Fred and Ted.
My son Jake loves the Clifford Big Red Dog books. The stories are simple and easy for him to follow. They have the same characters in each story so each book feels familiar to him. He also loves a book we got from the library called “You Can’t go to School Naked” by Dianne Billstrom. A must for any toddler who doesn’t like to get dressed!
My baby loves all the “How Dinosaurs…” collection from the Scholastic Store, specially “How do Dinosaurs say I love You”.
There are a few series we’ve discovered that our daughter loves. We have a dog so she identifies with the Biscuit series by Alyssa Satin Capucilli. We also love the “Goodnight World” books – and we get her one from wherever we travel (Florida, Cape Cod, etc) as a souvenir.
Goodnight moon, go dog go, the little people school bus, mouse paint
We love Tails!
My fave book as a kid was, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig. I saved a book from ending up in a landfill here in NYC, The Red Balloon by A. Lamorisse. and my 3 year old son enjoys. A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni.
Of course we are genuinely biased towards Peas and Bananas Outside with Lil Boo by Daddy Bookins. It is about him, and he knows it.
One of my son’s favorite book is “Foo, The Flying Frog of Washtub Pond” by Belle Yang. He sometimes randomly sucks in air like Foo does to puff himself up in the book. It is like an inside joke. He loves the Llama Llama books I see posted above as well.
For the younger set: Peek-a-who and Dear Zoo. For toddlers: Pigs Make Me Sneeze (same author as Don’t Let the Pidgon Drive the Bus) and Wocket in Pocket (Dr. Seuss). She cracks up every time. .
My kids ( 2.5 yrs and 6 months) love Yummy Yucky and I Like it When.
My 9 month old daughter loves Yum Yum Dim Sum by Amy Wilson Sanger and anything by Sandra Boynton.
My favorite growing up and now one of my daughters is “Blueberries for Sal”. Most recently though, I bought “Lyla the Lovesick Ladybug” and both her & I LOVE it!!
Dear Zoo and I am a Bunny– they never get old!
The Snowy Day, The Mitten…perfect for winter:)
We enjoy Ten Little Dinosaurs by Pattie Schnetzler. I read it to the tune of “there were 10 in the bed” but I add a “boom chicka boom chicka boom chicka boom” in between each verse…….it makes it lively & fun!
My son likes Is Your Mama a Llama?
Goodnight Gorilla
Hug
Funny Faces
My daughter flips through them over and over.
my 3.5 year old loves If You Give a Moose a Muffin and the rest of the gang
A favorite as a baby was “My Animals” by Xavier Deneux. It’s black and white with a hole on each page that peeks through to the next animal.
For toddlers who love repetitive text – Dear Zoo; Brown Bear Brown Bear; and Snail Where are You. Other great stories that my toddler loves: Otis; Knuffle Bunny; One Red Apple; What Makes a Rainbow; The Bear Snores On; and Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball. My 2 1/2 year old also loves singing now, so Puff the Magic Dragon which features the text of the song along with the CD is a favorite. He puts the CD into my laptop and sings along as he flips to the corresponding pages. He loves loves loves that book.
Mo Willems has such a great dry wit throughout the books like Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and others in the PIgeon series and kids relate to the attitudes and simplicity of the story. I just discovered the Piggie and Elephant ones that are by the same author such as I am invited to a Party, I will Surprise my Friend and Elephants Cannot Dance. My daughter loves to read them with us and certain words will prompt her to recite the story.
The classic, Goodnight Moon is a favorite. We also love the Sandra Brown books. Any books that have interactive capabilities (flip ups, pop ups, touch and feel).
The Monster at the End of This Book, The Belly Button Book, Urban Babies Wear Black, Goodnight Gorilla, Yummy Yucky, Mouse Mess
We like the Good Night (name a city) books. We have Good Night New York, Good Night New Jersey, and Good Night San Francisco.
My 13-month-old son LOVES “On the Night You Were Born” by Nancy Tillman. It’s my favorite and my husband’s, too! It’s such a great story. “You are the one and only ever you.”
The Velveteen Rabbit/How Toys Become Real, Guess How Much I Love You, Goodnight Masks, Shel Silverstein Poems, The Big Red Barn
Busytown. and of course the “How Do Dinosaurs”… series.
Yummy Yucky, Good Night Zoo, and Big Red Barn
Let’s Nosh by Amy Wilson-we all love it-my daughter, myself and my husband!
My 22 month old son love all of the Lois Lenski books starring Cowboy Small. – “The Little Fire Engine”, “Cowboy Small”, “The Little Train” are some of his favorites.
My 14-month old loves the Usborne Touchy Feely books…”That’s Not My Puppy” and “That’s Not My Snowman” are his favorites.
Goodnight Moon & Clifford’s Bedtime are our fave bedtime stories. We also love Caps for Sale.
My sons love the books ’snowmen at night’, ‘Time for Bed’, Mr. Brown can moo (dr. seuss), and baby beluga (we sing it).
We love llama llama misses mama and chica chica boom boom.
my daughter loves the book animal colors a rainbow of color from animals around the world by beth feilding. its a fun educational book. Each page has a different group of animals of a specific color. My daughter learns about colors and all these interesting animals that you wouldn’t see in most books for toddlers. You also learn interesting facts about each animal. The pictures of the animals are real pictures not drawings so my daughter gets to see what these animals really look like. I have to admit that I have learned a lot about animals as well from this book. Like did you know that a seahorse changes colors like chameleons, sims with its head, and males give birth to babies. why can’t we be seahorses!!
I have 18 mo old twins – we love to read ‘Twin to Twin’ and ‘Good Night Gorilla’. My favorite is ‘I love you so’
My 18 month old daughter loves the Todd Parr books – The Mommy Book, The Daddy Book, The Grandma Book, The Grandpa Book, The Family Book, The I Love You Book – they’re all great.
Our four month old daughter is mesmerized by Urban Babies Wear Black. Funny Faces, Global Babies and all of the touchy-feely Usborne books- That’s not my Santa/Dog/Train and they come in French too!
My son (1 year) loves the book I LOVE YOU ALL THE TIME. He grabs it off the shelf and he seems to want to hear it every night. I think it’s the rhythm of the words and the colorful pictures. He also loves Night Night Little Pookie and all the other Sandra Boynton books.
http://www.amazon.com/I-Love-You-All-Time/dp/0970115504
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Night-Little-Pookie-Books/dp/0375854096/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265929753&sr=1-1
We LOVE the Mem Fox books, especially Koala Lou. Love them.
Make Way For Ducklings. Having grown up in Boston it was a classic. It’s great to see the bronze statues in the Commons too!
My 14 month old daughter loves the book Mommy Calls Me Monkey Pants and any book that has Elmo in it, especially Elmo Loves You.
I love reading The Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson with my 14 month old daughter. We also love Mommy Calls Me Monkeypants, Hand, Hand, Fingers Thumb, Time for bed, Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See, Hickory Dickory Dock and Jamberry
“Teddy Bear’s Picnic”…incredible illustrations…tender story. Our 1 year wants to read it every day…and so do we!
My sons love the Daddy’s Heroes books; http://www.daddysheroes.com/
Well, besides ALL the Sandra Boynton books, which I LOVE to read to my 20 month old, we also like the “Big Picture Books” on Counting, Alphabet, Animals, etc. These big books are great for teaching since they’re so big and colorful. “Baby Animals” are also his favorite since he loves babies of all sorts. I also like the ‘Play and Sound’ and touch and feel books. Fun sounds and nice for little fingers to explore.