Our Current Favorite Toddler Books
These are our current favorite books (and thus are highly recommended for people with kids in this 18-month age range):
What are yours? Because, you know, I have a book problem in that I love them and buy them and have them everywhere and am always looking for more. Bookshelves are in perpetual short supply in any house in which I live. I am passing this problem on. When F has trouble falling asleep I can give her a board book to look through and she “reads” until she falls asleep.
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January 24th, 2008 13:36
Let’s see.
Moo Baa La La La
Good Night Moon
There’s a Wocket in my Pocket
One Fish Two Fish
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Those are her favorites. My favorites are the Baby be of Use series:
Baby Fix Me a Drink
Baby Do My Banking
Baby Fix my Car
Baby Make Me Breakfast.
January 24th, 2008 14:16
Ooo, we have none of yours, will have to get them, as J still loves Freight Train which you recommended.
Current faves at our house at 16 1/2 months:
ABC of Canada
Barnyard Dance!
Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book
More Fun with Maisy!: A Lift-the-Flap
Tails
Wibbly Pig is Happy
Everywhere Babies
I Love You Through And Through
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
January 24th, 2008 14:28
My older son is almost 3 now, but at the time he loved:
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Knuffle Bunny (still a favorite)
More, More, More Said the Baby
Dim Sum for Everyone
So Much (can’t remember the author, but if you’re interested I can look it up. I think there are more than one books by this title)
A Fly Went By
Goodnight Gorilla
Dinosaur Roar
January 24th, 2008 15:52
Our current favorites:
Anything by Claire Beaton–How Loud is a Lion, How Big Is a Pig, for example.
Caroline Mockford’s Cleo books.
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by Kevin Lewis and Daniel Kirk
I Know a Rhino by Charles Fuge
Little Green by Keith Baker
Whoever You Are and Time For Bed by Mem Fox
Moo Moo Brown Cow by Jakki Wood
Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming
I Went Walking by Sue Williams and Julie Vivas
Grow Up and Peek A Who by Nina Laden
Cows In the Kitchen by June Crebbin and Katharine McEwen
Cowboy Bunnies (my favorite) by Christine Loomis and Ora Eitan
January 24th, 2008 17:12
Right now D has a few favorites:
The Giving Tree
The True STory of the Three Little Pigs
Wolves
The Stinky Cheese Man
Where the Wild Things Are
I need some more books.
January 24th, 2008 17:59
Once Upon a Potty
Doggies
Peek a Boo Kisses
Little Quack
Fingers Thumb
Thanks for the suggestion.
January 24th, 2008 19:23
My daughter is almost 3 (in March!) and loves all the Sandra Boynton books (Pajama Time, Barnyard Dance, etc.) She also loves Hug, Put Me in the Zoo, and Are You My Mommy? (the last two are favorites from my childhood.)
Two books that both girls have loved and have awesome illustrations are Wheels on the Bus and Knick Knack Paddywhack by Paul O’Zelinsky.
January 24th, 2008 21:28
I am also a bibliophile, which is why I sell children’s books for Barefoot Books. You should definitely check out their site: www.barefootbooks.com. The books are phenomenal; beautifully illustrated and multicultural. The one that hooked me was “Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon,” but they also carry all the Clare Beaton books that Alice mentioned. Our “Whole World” book and CD was just in Oprah’s magazine and listed as one of her favorite things (it’s not religious…it’s environmental…).
I really hope you don’t mind the plug…I just really love the books!
January 24th, 2008 23:15
Current favs are one called Nursery Songs that has a section on Old MacDonald and I have to let them sing the EIEIO part, oh, six thousand times a day. Nursery rhymes and Dr. Seuss seem to always be hits as well as Goodnight Baby (I think because it’s all baby pictures).
January 26th, 2008 11:13
My daughter’s (age 2) current two favorite books are Baby Cakes by Karma Wilson and Who’s Hiding? by Satoru Onishi. We have read them every. single. night. since she got them for Christmas.
January 27th, 2008 12:56
We love Goodnight Moon. Every night. Five times a night. Since birth. At two and a half, I’d like a change. But it’s ok. Just routine.
My brother just introduced us to the Goodnight Our World series. So far we just have Good Night New York and Good Night America (http://www.amazon.com/Good-Night-York-City-World/dp/0977797937/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201452441&sr=8-1), they are really cute, but the writing is not great, but it’s neat to see points we are familiar with in a book, and I figure it can help him get more familiar with a place we are about to visit.
Spot books are a hit too, we love “action” books. Anything with flaps, we guess what could be under the flaps.
Dr. Suess and Margeret Wise Brown and Sandra Boynton are all hits. As are anything with trucks or animals in it.
This book has really helped language develop. http://www.amazon.com/Bright-Baby-First-100-Words/dp/B000F7BPCU/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201452841&sr=8-2 No story plot or anything fancy, just 100 pictures of (common) household objects with the word printed underneath. We would point to something and try to name the object.
Oh, and sometimes when I need to study we read my psychology textbooks together. Fun!
February 1st, 2008 19:55
I’ll second Amy–I’ve really liked all of the Barefoot Books.