Over The Hill
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Kipper is great.
Best of all are the Old Bear books - illustrations are magic.
Best of all are the Old Bear books - illustrations are magic.
Bed time books for a three year old.
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Hugo15
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My daughter and I like the following books
Kipper books
Mog books
The tiger who came to tea
Aliens love underpants
Room on a broom
Kipper books
Mog books
The tiger who came to tea
Aliens love underpants
Room on a broom
Tetedelacourse
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Our 3 year old loves anything Disney sadly. You can get books of the films - of course you can, it's Disney!
Another Gruffalo (and Gruffalo's child) fan here too and another one by same author is Charlie Cook's Favourite Book.
She also likes Beatrix Potter too, but there are some quite non-PC elements to those books nowadays!
But, we get sick of reading the same ones over and over that we use the local library a fair bit. If you get the little one a card, you can get 10 out at a time and there's no fee for late return, and they have a huge choice. I guess that's how libraries work really! Totally free service, and a free trip out too. But probably not a great Christmas present right enough...
Another Gruffalo (and Gruffalo's child) fan here too and another one by same author is Charlie Cook's Favourite Book.
She also likes Beatrix Potter too, but there are some quite non-PC elements to those books nowadays!
But, we get sick of reading the same ones over and over that we use the local library a fair bit. If you get the little one a card, you can get 10 out at a time and there's no fee for late return, and they have a huge choice. I guess that's how libraries work really! Totally free service, and a free trip out too. But probably not a great Christmas present right enough...
BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
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Wind in the willows
Hungry caterpiller
Spot the dog
Jim Knopf
Urmel auf dem Ice
Hungry caterpiller
Spot the dog
Jim Knopf
Urmel auf dem Ice
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
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- Leith, Edinburgh
Anything by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler:
Gruffalo
Room On The Broom
A Squash And A Squeeze (a particular favourite of my daughter when she was 3)
The Smartest Giant In Town
Anything by Dr Seuss
Mick Inkpen books:
Kipper
Bear
and don't forget the old classic fairytales which always go down well with little kids:
The Three Billygoats Gruff
The Three Little Pigs
The Gingerbread Man
etc etc
Gruffalo
Room On The Broom
A Squash And A Squeeze (a particular favourite of my daughter when she was 3)
The Smartest Giant In Town
Anything by Dr Seuss
Mick Inkpen books:
Kipper
Bear
and don't forget the old classic fairytales which always go down well with little kids:
The Three Billygoats Gruff
The Three Little Pigs
The Gingerbread Man
etc etc
Tetedelacourse
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Oh yeah classic fairy tales too. Trouble with those though is that depending on what book you have and from which era, there's a whole range of different endings, which confuses them, understandably! I mean, having been refused entry to the 3 little pigs house, did the wolf:
a) get a burnt bottom
take off like a rocket never to be seen again
c) die in the flames
d) befriend the little pigs and play badminton with them?
Option D there doesn't apply to any of our versions of the 3 little pigs but I kid you not, it's one of the endings we have for Goldilocks and the 3 bears!!!!!!
a) get a burnt bottom
take off like a rocket never to be seen againc) die in the flames
d) befriend the little pigs and play badminton with them?
Option D there doesn't apply to any of our versions of the 3 little pigs but I kid you not, it's one of the endings we have for Goldilocks and the 3 bears!!!!!!
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Three's kind of hard to remember, but The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a must.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
All crackers...but perhaps a bit old for 3? I'm afraid I really can't remember what works when. But if Kipper works for yours, the Percy the park keeper books are all great.Hugo15 said:
summerdays
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Hugo15 said:
Great books - they loved Daddy's beer being drunk!
swee said:
Arch
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- Salford, UK
Tetedelacourse said:
Eh? In what way? Ok, they have an old fashioned charm, and there are elements of realism, like Peter's father being put in a pie, but 'un-PC'?, I really can't think how you think that. Even the Two Bad Mice are redeemed in the end. And I don't know the story of Pigling Bland as well as the others. but I don't think the black Berkshire turns out to be a drug dealer or anything.
The 3 year old daughter of a friend of mine likes the Hairy Maclary books - I read several to her last week and quite enjoyed them myself. They have just the right level of stretching in the vocab, and a nice rhythm and rhyme to them...
http://www.mallinsonrendel.co.nz/hairybooks.asp
Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
[quote name='swee'pea99']All crackers...but perhaps a bit old for 3? [/QUOTE]
I don't think so. Any book with pictures being read to a child is good. My nephew is 16 months, and although he has a shorter attention span than an older child, he'll listen to a few pages of the Gruffalo etc, look at the pictures, point out things he recognises (the moon being one of them), then choose another book to be looked at. Whether they actually follow the story, doesn't matter.
He also has "The Elephant and the Bad Baby" - lots of repetition, and he can join in when his dad does the action of the elephant stretching out his trunk to pick things up. Although, with less flexibility in his arms, Oliver's action looks a bit more like a nazi salute....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elephant-Baby-Puffin-Picture-Books/dp/0140500480
I don't think so. Any book with pictures being read to a child is good. My nephew is 16 months, and although he has a shorter attention span than an older child, he'll listen to a few pages of the Gruffalo etc, look at the pictures, point out things he recognises (the moon being one of them), then choose another book to be looked at. Whether they actually follow the story, doesn't matter.
He also has "The Elephant and the Bad Baby" - lots of repetition, and he can join in when his dad does the action of the elephant stretching out his trunk to pick things up. Although, with less flexibility in his arms, Oliver's action looks a bit more like a nazi salute....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elephant-Baby-Puffin-Picture-Books/dp/0140500480
What everyone else said. Charlie and Lola books are good as well. Very strong female lead. Mog and Thomas the Tank mini books were very popular in our house. Until someone was sick all over them. 
We revert to festive ones about this time of year. Mog and the Xmas Tree (even tho' they're 5 & 8) and a cartoony one with a grumpy Father Christmas in it:-
"A Happy Bloomin' Xmas to you as well".
The stories they love most though are the ones you tell them about when you were a boy. The never get tired of those.
We revert to festive ones about this time of year. Mog and the Xmas Tree (even tho' they're 5 & 8) and a cartoony one with a grumpy Father Christmas in it:-
"A Happy Bloomin' Xmas to you as well".
The stories they love most though are the ones you tell them about when you were a boy. The never get tired of those.
