(Children’s Literature if you want to be fancy)
A few weeks ago we posted our podcast about our favorite kid’s books. I wanted to share them on the blog today! I figured if you heard about any books you wanted to check out for your own family during the podcast it would be annoying to stop and jot it down. So if you listened to that episode and can’t remember due to mom brain what that one book was here they are!
- Baby books
- Love me some Sandra Boynton: But Not the Hippopotamus, Doggies, The Going to Bed Book, O My, O My, O Dinosaurs
- Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh (Mouse Count also good)
- Eric Carle (The very hungry caterpillar, the grouchy ladybug, the very quiet cricket, Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see
- My kids always preferred Brown Bear to Caterpillar, which is so funny to me
- Alphabet Peas
- Basically any ABC book Dr. Seuss, Sandra Boynton, we literally have 7 different ABC board books
- Little kid books
- Little Blue Truck
- Harold & the Purple Crayon
- Beatrix Potter
- Frog and Toad Arnold Lobel
- Pete the Cat Series
- Laura Numeroff :If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter series
- Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
- Transitioning to chapter books
- Jack & Annie (The Magic Treehouse)
- The Faraway Tree series Enid Blyton
- The Littles by John Peterson (Similar to the Borrowers, but at a great level for 4 and 5 year olds)
- Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren
- Mrs Piggle-Wiggle by Betty McDonald
- Mr Popper’s Penguins by Florence and Richard Atwater
- My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
- AND MY FAVORITE HOW COULD I FORGET ROALD DAHL
- Favorite authors
- Sandra Boynton
- Dr. Suess
- David Shannon (David series: No, David, David Goes to School, etc , A Bad Case of the Stripes, Too Many Toys)
- Julia Donaldson: The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom!!!
- Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild things are, Little Bear, Chicken Soup with Rice
- Tomie DePaola: Strega Nona, Bill and Pete, Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs, The Night of Las Posadas
- Our “unfavorites” and why
- Goodnight Moon – I just find the imagery creepy and the words make no sense. Why would anyone say goodnight to a bowl full of mush?
- Books that are based on tv shows or movies and are just plain poorly written
- Funny voices? A do or a don’t
- Just discovered this Monster Book with Sesame Street characters and Ian loves the silly voices I do.
- Um I have PERFECTED my Percy James and Gordon from Thomas and Friends. Also different voices for the crayons in The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
- Educational books (Non-fiction)
- Love national geographic little kids magazine
- National Geographic books Animals and dinosaurs they love any of it
- Aliki: Digging up Dinosaurs,Fossils tell of long ago, Im Growing, Mummies made in egypt, feelings,
- We read Highlights as kids, the reading/educational magazine.
- Books can be life savers when it comes to trying to teach your kids values
- Helen Lester: Tacky the Penguin series, Manners series: Me First, Listen Buddy, The Wizard, the Fairy, and the Magic Chicken, Hooway for Wodney Wat
- Audrey Penn: The Kissing Hand, Chester Raccoon and the Acorn Full of Memories
- The Berenstain Bears series by Stan and Jan Berenstain
- Helen has a book called Ballet Day and it’s just a simply book about inclusion.
- Little Golden Books – The Saggy Baggy Elephant, The Tawny Scrawny Lion
Full disclosure this is copied and pasted from our show notes from the episode so that’s why this list is organized a bit wonky!
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