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Book recommendations for Toddler

Posted by: "TJC" theresacrowley@rocketmail.com   theresacrowley@rocketmail.com

Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:34 am (PDT)

We are starting our christmas shopping :-)
My daughter is very interested in books so i would love to hear what
everyone's favorite book was when your child was 12months-2T.

Thank you for all the great advices and input!

Theresa(charlotte 14months)

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Re: Book recommendations for Toddler

Posted by: "Sarah Dobsevage" sdobsevage@gmail.com   absrd7

Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:53 am (PDT)

My daughter likes/liked these books:

We're going on a bear hunt
Good Dog Carl
Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?
Richard Scarry's Word Book (forget the exact title)
Anything by Rosemary Wells
Anything by Eric Carle
Mr. Gumpy's Boat Ride (not the exact title, but an amazingly fun book!)
The Foot Book, by Dr. Seuss
Blueberries for Sal
The Giving Tree
Gossie the Gosling series
The Snowy Day
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Caps for Sale

Sarah (Meira, 2)
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Re: Book recommendations for Toddler

Posted by: "Amy Kraft" akraft@nyc.rr.com   akraft73

Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:01 am (PDT)

Here are some lists that I made of our favorites:

12 Favorite Board Books from The Baby Years http://mediamacaroni.com/?m=200806
Favorites from the First Year http://mediamacaroni.com/?p=3188
Terrific Twos: The Books http://mediamacaroni.com/?p=34

Amy (Olive and Ozzie's mom)

On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:34 AM, TJC wrote:

> We are starting our christmas shopping :-)
> My daughter is very interested in books so i would love to hear what everyone's favorite book was when your child was 12months-2T.
>
> Thank you for all the great advices and input!
>
> Theresa(charlotte 14months)
>
>

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Re: Book recommendations for Toddler

Posted by: "Tara Crean" tcrean@yahoo.com   tcrean

Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:43 am (PDT)

12 months +:
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Chugga Chugga Choo
Choo by Kevin Lewis
The Wheels on the Bus by Paul O. Zelinsky
Sandra
Boynton books (especially Snuggle Puppy, Opposites, Red Hat Green Hat, Barnyard
Dance, Moo Baa La La La)
Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
Bark,
George by Jules Feiffer
Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Monster at
the End of this Book
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen
Christelow
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Little Green by Keith
Baker
Time for Bed
Where's Spot?
How Do Dinosaurs
Say Goodnight by Jane Yolen
I Went Walking
Book!
by Kristine O'Connell George
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Trashy Town by
Andrea Zimmerman
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed by Margaret
Chodos-Irvine
Each Peach Pear Plum by Allan Ahlberg
My Many Colored Days
by Dr. Seuss
Three Little Bears by Byron Barton
More
More More Said the Baby by Vera William
My Life As a Chicken
Read Aloud
Rhymes for the Very Young
The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
Richard
Scarry's big book of Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
Airplane by Byron
Barton (and Train, Trucks - pretty much all the Barton vehicle books)

18
months +:
Zoo-ology by Joelle Jolivet
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack
Keats
Hush! A Thai Lullaby by Minfong Ho
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
by Mo Willems
There’s a Bird on Your Head (and other Elephant and Piggie) by
Mo Willems
Olivia by Ian Falconer
A Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na
Boo Hoo
Bird and Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice
Sendak
Finn Throws a Fit by David Elliot
Gossie (and others in the series)
by Olivier Dunrea
What a Busy Day by Gyo Fujikawa
Caps for Sale by Esphyr
Slobodkina
First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
We’re Going on a Bear
Hunt by Michael Rosen
Silly Sally by Audrey Wood
Jamberry by Bruce
Degen
No David! by David Shannon
Ain't Gonna Paint No More by Karen
Beaumont
Spot books by Eric Hill
Tony Mitton box set (Terrific Trains,
Dazzling Diggers, etc)
My Truck is Stuck by Jez Alborough
Go Dog Go by P.
D. Eastman
Put Me In the Zoo by Robert Lopshire
King Bidgood's in the
Bathtub
Little Bear series by Martin Waddell
Froggy series by Jonathan
London (haven't read them all, but Froggy Gets Dressed is hilarious)

2
years +
Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willems
Leonardo the Terrible Monster
by Mo Willems
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Make Way for
Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston
The
Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Aint Gonna Paint No More by Karen
Beaumont
Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Birds by Kevin
Henkes
My Garden by Kevin Henkes
A Good Day by Kevin Henkes
I Stink by
Kate McMullan
The Lion & The Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
I Will Not Ever
Eat a Tomato (and other Charlie & Lola) by Lauren Child
Listen, Listen by
Philis Gershator (illustrated by Alison Jay)
Dr. Seuss books
(younger ones good at this age: the Foot Book, Hop on Pop, Green Eggs and Ham,
etc)
Madlenka and Madlenka’s Dog by Peter Sis
Knick-Knack Paddywhack by
Paul O. Zelinsky
Olivia Saves the Circus (and others) by Ian
Falconer
Corduroy and A Pocket for Corduroy by Don Freeman
Giraffes Can’t
Dance by Giles Andrae
Dog and Bear by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
George and
Martha by James Marshall
A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker
I Took a Walk
by Henry Cole
Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
Pie in the Sky by Lois
Ehlert
The Line Up Book by Marisabina Russo
Guess How Much I Love
You
Little Pea
Alphabet Under Construction
ABC NYC
Chicka Chicka
Boom Boom
Bear books by Karma Wilson
Wild About Books by Judy Sierra
Pinkalicious
I Lost My Bear by Jules Feiffer
The Tale of
Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash
The Adventures of Isabel by Ogden
Nash
Cupcake Charise Mercile Harper
Spoon
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
"If You Give a Pig a Pancake" by Laura Numeroff (and
others in the series - If you Give a mouse a cupcake, give a moose a muffin,
etc)
The Quiet Book (and the Loud Book) by Deborah Underwood
A Sick Day
for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead
How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long