What are your favorite baby/toddler books?

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Avatar Image   Started by lisatate lisatate has 1,036 Grupie Points 2 years ago         Comments 3 Comments

A list of those books actually worth buying and reading over and over and over and over . . .

Tags: babies, books, kids, parenting


 
       
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Where The Sidewalk Ends

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Shel Silverstein is amazing.

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Goodnight Moon

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One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

They loved anything Dr Zuess, but this was their favorite

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Green Eggs & Ham

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Where the Wild Things Are

The night Max wore his wolf suit.... Thank you Maurice!

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

(by Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle) Both of my kids have loved this book.

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The Polar Express

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

(by Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault) This is another favorite. It's full of rhyming & alliteration, which makes it fun for yo... [show more]

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Go, Dog. Go!

Cars, dogs and oh what a party in the end!

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Stone Soup

I loved this book.

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If You Give a Moose a Muffin

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Love You Forever

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Everybody Poops

Unless your Catholic this is the book!

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Chrysanthemum

Oh Kevin Henkes, how do you know the inner workings of childhood so well?

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Are You My Mommy?

My husband's favorite book as a kid

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Paperbag Princess

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Richard Scarey

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Barnyard Dance

It will take over your life.

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Don't Let The Pigeon Drive the Bus

Run, don't walk, to get this and the follow ups, "Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late" and "Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog"

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I love you so much

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Otto has a Birthday Party

Complete with a cootie bug cake- makes my 2 year old laugh to no end.

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Usborne Books

great educational books, we have many of these. http://www.usborne.com/... [show more]

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The Giving Tree

This one still makes me cry a little.

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JaChelli 2 years ago

The best are the ones my kids asked for again and again. I listed several of their favorites above.

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Aoterra 2 years ago

Anything by Dr Seuss goes down a storm. But there's heaps of more modern stories too. Try Harry and the Dinosaurs (series by Ian Whybrow and Andy Reynolds), or the Amazing Machines series (including Dazzling Diggers and Tremendous Tractors) by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker.

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Aoterra 2 years ago

Oh, and "Duck in the Truck" by Jez Alborough

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This topic was started by lisatate lisatate has 1,036 Grupie Points on May 20th, 2006. 80 grupies have voted on one or more of the 37 answers.

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