PW: Toddler Books

[MissMusic]

Lillian is over books.  OVER IT.  She used to love her books but now she's not interested, and I think its because we mainly have non-story books out.  She was all about the story books for a while and now its blah.  I cant find what interests her.

Anyone have a good book rec?  I'll put them on her bday list.

We have Pete the Cat, Cows Can't Fly, Daniel Tiger, Corduroy, etc etc. 


FYI, if you haven't read "Best Baby Ever", its more for adults than kids.  Bawled my eyes out.

[snickers4everyone]

Emmy likes any and all lift the flap story books. She has a pop up night before Christmas one that she adores. Any of the old Berenstein Bears, like The Honey Hunt (her go to bedtime story).

[justbeth]

Emma is loving the Llama Llama books, the 'a-licious' books (pinkalicious, purplelicious, etc.) and the Bernstein Bears.

[origamimommy]

Tyler loves llama llama books (the real ones, not the board books). His favorites are the bully goat and misses mama. We don't read misses mama too much because Tyler gets really upset and keeps asking where his mommy is and why he's so sad.

He also really likes the "How does a dinosaur..." Series. We have a cookies one and an emotions one.

And then random ones: Clifford, pirate books, zoo books, books with buttons, and goodnight construction books.

[britbratjf]

Another Lama Lama fan. Dagny also loves a lot of the old Golden Books (like from the 60s)... Little Mommy, Pokey Little Puppy, the Kitten who Thought he was a mouse. She loves the Little Critter books and Bearenstein Bears. Disney Princess books but I know you don't like Disney - what about more traditional fairy tale books? Oh and she's really big on Dr Seuss books.

[lainikins]

Emmett loves Curious George books. Some of the older ones are a bit um interesting for lack of better words. (Monkey-nappings and going to jail). The newer ones are good though. He also loves Chika Chika Boom Boom and How to Train a Train. When we read to him we mix longer books with shorter board books and it helps keep his attention for the longer books. He used to hate having books read to him, but gradually increasing his endurance for books and mixing board books with longer books really helped us. We have worked up to him reading five books a night with us. Two are longer and three are normally shorter. He would want more books if we let him, but we have to limit it somewhere. This kid is all of a sudden crazy for books.

[Riverdong11]

Some favorites are Lyle the Crocodile, Curious George, Llama Llama books, Skippy John Jones books and the Berenstain Bears books. He also has Mater's Tall Tales which he's obsessed with. He loves Lightning McQueen and Mater (even though he doesn't love the Cars movie).

[trixi282]

In think we are the only ones around here who don't own a Llama Llama book.....

That said,as of 2 weeks ago J has been much more into her "finding" books. We have one 2nd hand that's a big book of finding the items by Little Einstein that she loves! Its a scene at a farm for example, and you have to fins the pink bird, the blue bird, the mouse, etc. She also likes the few flip books we have (one is a Halloween book, "where's baby's pumpkin?" but she's obsessed). She also likes Clifford, Brown Bear, and The Very Hungry Catapillar"

Basically she likes the books with a small story line, but with things she can participate in and point out. When reading Brown bear for example I'll read the part on the page "...what do you see..." and flip to the next and say what is that? So she can say "a green frog!" Or whatever and then I continue...

[tribute17]

trixi282, we don't have a llama llama book either. I may have to try it out.

P is very into interactive books too. He likes the duck and goose books because he can "read" them. I also found this new book called Magic Opposites that is really good. There is a transparency in the middle and if you flip to one side the man is running down the stairs and flip it to the other side he is running up the stairs. Each page has a set of opposites. There is only one word per page so I think it is helping him recognize sight words.

If Joey likes interactive, you might try Press Here and Mix it Up by Herve Tullet. They are very clever and he LOVES them. I really like them too.

[jennmm]

DD loves the Llama, llama books, Berenstein Bears, and Dinosaur Train books because she loves dinosaurs and trains. She's also a Dr. Suess fan.

[huskiefanuw]

Kinsley loves all the books by the person who writes "Duck for President" we have 4. They all take place at a farm with the animals doing wacky things.

[xanthepants]

We do a lot of the step into reading series books, and unfortunately a ton of princess or character books. There are a couple 5 minute bedtime story books out there too.

[mightythorgi]

We have a set of Eric Carle books on shapes, numbers and colors that S really likes. I just picked up Dinosaur Vs. Mommy by Bob Shea--we have the vs. Potty, vs. Bedtime and vs. Santa books already.

Rhymocerous by Janik Coat is new and one word a page but it has some different textures throughout.

Maybe a beginning reader series that has more of a story like Frog and Toad or humor like Elephant and Piggie?

When I was working and doing collection development I really liked the Ladybug Girl picture books and some of the Fancy Nancy books.

Steve Jenkins does cool illustrations of animals in a lot of children's nonfiction if that might be of interest (Actual Size; What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?--for example). For animal books with photography check out Nic Bishop, he has a bunch.

[bantyrooster]

Gage has a lot of random books he likes now. "Josh and the woo woo." Both little blue truck books still. Flap books that answer a question. He has lots of mater books. He still reads "baby" books to Ellison.

[britbratjf]

Oh Dagny also loves Mustache Baby - its such a funny book. And theres a sequel now where the mustache baby has a new friend with a beard. Very cute.

[vtkatydid12]

Apr 24, 2015 14:27:06 GMT -5 mightythorgi said:

When I was working and doing collection development I really liked the Ladybug Girl picture books and some of the Fancy Nancy books.

I was also going to suggest the Ladybug Girl series.  We've read a couple of them so far and M really enjoys them.  They are on the longer side, but they encourage imagination and adventure/exploration and have a good message.  I'm a fan.

Other current favorites that I haven't seen mentioned are the Maisy books by Lucy Cousins (Maisy Goes to the Library, etc), Mouse was Mad by Linda Urban, the My First Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and the Pigeon books by Mo Willems (The Pigeon Finds a Hotdog, etc).

Good luck!  I hope you find some she likes!!

[vanessalc]

Cooper liked how to train your train. We like Curious George, and the Pookie books, goodnight goodnight construction site, Power Down Little Robot (some of the words get dumbed down for him) we got Dragons Love Tacos last week from the library and it is pretty funny. Cooper also likes the Tractor Mac series.

[vanessalc]

But if it were up to Cooper, it would be nothing but truck/construction books

[starfishy]

T is all over the place with books. He loves both GN, GN construction site and Steam Train, Dream Train, the pookie books, and even some really old favorites. He still loves flap books, anything that's a song, or anything that rhymes. He tells me he reads the Llama, Llama books at school and that he likes them but we don't have any at home. Guess I should get on that!
He also loves Pout, pout fish. We read that one a lot.

[aimeefarrahfowler]

A loves the pioneer woman's Charlie the Ranch Dog books. There are bigger-format story books, and smaller "I can read" books. He likes them all!