Okay Mama's, tell me you and your kids FAVORITE books! And your not-so-favorites! - Page 2

[cbyrum]

A few favorites in our house have been:

If you give a mouse a cookie (and the others)

Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea

The Complete Hickory Dickory Dock

I Know a Rhino - one of my dd's favorite board books as a toddler

My Truck is Stuck

Brown Bear, Brown Bear

Dinosaur Roar

[Jenni1894]

I was just coming to add the if you give a mouse/pig a pancake/party.....books.

We have a couple and I love reading them too!  

[kathymuggle]

For babies I would get active-ish board books - lift the flap, with touchy-feely things, etc.

For picture books, big hits not mentionned above include:

David Shannons -No, David

Is Your Mama a Lhama?

Everyone Loves the Moon.

[katelove]

Anything by Mem Fox but especially Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes

Anything by Jackie French (Bruce Whattley usually illustrates the stories)  -Josephine Wants to Dance, Pete the Sheep, Baby Wombat's Diary/Week.

Anything by Betsy Snyder. I love her Haiku Baby and the touch/feel book. Both are a bit unusual.

J is also really enjoying the indestructables books at the moment. Especially Jungle Rumble and Wiggle! March! I don't love the illustrations but she thinks they're great. I like the New Orleans version of Hey Diddle Diddle but that one hasn't captured her attention as much as the other two.

We like the That's No My... books as well. We have That's Not My Plane and That's Not My Fairy but we both prefer Plane.

J also *loves* books where you can press the button to make a sound. We have all the What's That Sound? series. As well as a Touch Feel and Hear with an ocean theme (can't find that one online now). These ones are particularly good as you can change the battery. They also have factual info rather than a story.

[SweetSilver]

Where to start?  Here's a few for the youngest readers:

"More! More! More! Said the Baby" by Vera B. Williams (hilarious fun, right up until they hit 30 pounds!)

"Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?" by Dr. Seuss was the first favorite book of both our girls.

"I Am a Kitten" (out of print, I think)

"I Am a Bunny" by Ole Risom and Richard Scarry

"Rabbits and Raindrops" by Jim Arnosky

"Farmer Will" by Jane Cowen-Fletcher

"Come Along Daisy" by Jane Simmons

"Machines at Work" by Byron Barton

"Freight Train"

Songs made in books:  "Baby Beluga", "Five Little Ducks", "Over in the Meadow", "Little White Duck"

I am sure there are many more.  If I think of some really good ones that we loved, I'll post again.

[SweetSilver]

And one I never liked:  "Rainbow Fish".  

     I'm glad the Rainbow Fish shared his scales in the end, but the other fish who wouldn't be his friends because he wouldn't share them strike me as pretty selfish.  I mean, it's not like they asked to share his coral collection, or play with his sea horse, or ride his pet turtle!  They were asking him to give them a piece of his own body, one he was born with and didn't ask for.  They seemed to me as shallow as junior high girls spurning another simply because she was pretty.  Maybe I'm the only one who saw it this way...

[earthworm]

Some of our favorites have already been mentioned. Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers has always been a hit. They love spending lots of time looking at the details in some of the pictures. Everything we've read by Mo Willems is lovely. Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang. Frog and Toad books are so enjoyable, even for me. I wish I could go look at our bookshelf right now, but I'm not sure it's worth the possibility of waking up a kid, ha. Oh yeah, my oldest son LOVES In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak. I've read many negative reviews of it though. Harold and the Purple Crayon is requested frequently. We went a month or two only reading Charlie and Lola books at one point. I know I'm leaving so much out.
As for books we don't like, hmm... I cannot stand the Berenstain Bear books. No idea why; just some lingering feeling from my childhood. Bedtime for Frances was surprisingly horrible. Someone gave us Love You Forever when my oldest was in his ripping books apart stage and, honestly, I just let him go for it with that one, haha. Not a fan of Beatrix Potter either.