Monday, March 19, 2012
Booklist
Dear little soul
I thought it would be nice to put together a 'great kids' book list' for you. It'd be handy for anyone who might like to know which books we don't have yet (there are a lot)!
I hope that people will tell me what I've missed as this is all desk research!
Read a review
Ivy loves to give, Freya Blackwood
Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
Green Eggs and Ham, Dr Suess
Brown Bear, brown bear, what do you see? Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle
Press Here, Hervé Tullet
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Mo Willems
No David!, David Shannon
Possum Magic, Mem Fox
Strega Nona, Tomie dePaola
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin Jr et al
Goodnight Gorilla, Peggy Rathman
Not a Box, Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space, Dav Pilkey
The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson
Imagine, by Alison Lester
Read it myself
Where the Wild Things are, Maurice Sendak
Guess How Much I Love You, Sam Bratney
Animalia, Graeme BaseThe Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
The Story of Ferdinand, Munro Leaf
The Wind in the WIllows, Kenneth GrahameWinnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne (not the Disney illustrations)
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis CarrollCharlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
The Cat in the Hat, Dr Suess
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
Hans Christian Fairy Tales, H.C. Andersen
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
The Borrowers, Mary Norton
Miffy, Dick Bruna
Got them
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Matilda, Roald Dahl
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Railway Children, E. Nesbit
Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Looking forward to lots of reading with you, my love.
Your Soul Mama
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Now you know I can't resist commenting about books! Love your list. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is excellent!! Aniek loved it and learnt a lot of colours and animals from it. I need to get you to add Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox if you haven't already got it. Beautiful book. Also Count My Kisses, Little One. The author's name escapes me and I'm typing and feeding Elliot so can't look right now!
ReplyDeleteWhat we also love for babies are touch and feel board books, and for even littler ones, cloth books that they can play with and chew :) Lamaze does some great cloth books that have different textures and things you can pull out and lift up etc.
Aniek is really into Grug by Tony Prior. She's loved Grug for a good year now and we almost have all of them. Now that her attention span is longer we can read some longer stories too. She just got Wombat Stew by Marcia Vaughan & Pamela Lofts and today we read it four times!
Oh Jane there are so many good books out there and reading to your little soul will bring you loads of joy. Now Aniek reads to Elliot and I'm so amazed at their interaction. She loves being the big sister and he is all smiles with eyes lit up when she reads to him.
Ok, apart from this turning into a 'how brilliant are my kids' essay, I need to put my little lad on my shoulder now to no doubt spew all over me.
Excuse typos and non sensical rambling!
xx
OOoh, goodie, love to get tips on more books! I loved Grug too, and I love anything by Mem Fox. I think Count My Kisses, Little One is by Ruthie May and Tamsin Ainslie. I just looked at the illustrations and quite like them. Thanks L!
ReplyDeleteI think the touch and feel board books are mostly going to be Dutch - I can't buy them online (because I can't ... touch and feel them). I was thinking of making a cloth book; let's see how much time I end up having in a few months! Haha.
Lots of love to you all. By the way, my sister Melanie had her fourth baby - Lily Anna Tyers was born on Monday! I simply can't wait till we meet our baby!!!!
Thanks for the tips, Mel. I knew you'd have a few good 'uns up your sleeve. Jim and the Beanstalk sounds good. Have you read "I want my hat back"? I read it in Dutch in the local bookshop and laughed out loud all the way through. Gonna ask for board books and cloth books from friends ... I might even try to make one!
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