The Monster at the End of this book:another monster at the end of the book
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Elise Gravel’s books are awesome.
My nephews, when each was around 3-4, though *A Potato on a Bike* was the most hilarious thing to ever exist.
macjoven on
Chris Haughton’s books
John Klassen’s books
Mac Barnetts books
Mo Willems books.
Peter Brown’s books
Jane Yolens dinosaur books.
Illustrious_Dan4728 on
Toddler of what age? Are you talking about board books? Here is a hood mix of both board and paper books. Ones my kids have really liked even my childhood favorites (Munsch).
Dr Seues is always a classic choice and they have shortened board book versions.
Robert Munsch can never steer you wrong.
Grandmasaurus books are super cute and teach you dinosaurs that are not just t Rex.
Hair Love by Mathew A. Cherry is a great book about appreciating your hair types. There is even an animation of the story.
A little spot of feelings by Diane Alber
Where’s Bluey? A search and find book
Stink-o-saurus by Deano Yipadee
I spy collection for kids is a good one for ages 2-4
Mix It Up and Press Here by Herve Tullet
downpourbluey on
There’s a Monster at the End of This Book.
windrider445 on
Anything by Sandra Boynton.
The Little Blue Truck series is another favorite. As well as the “Bear Snores On” series.
The Llama Llama series has a few great simple toddler books, and of course the ones for older kids are great too. “Llama Llama, Red Pajama” is a classic.
The “Mini Myths” series is a fun one that does a play on classic mythology stories to tell great lessons for littles. (“Be Patient, Pandora”, “Play Nice, Hercules”).
And this might be a weird one, but my child’s favorite as a toddler was “Chu’s Day” by Neil Gaiman!
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The book with no pictures by bj novak.
Lol little kids love it
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But No Elephants is a banger. Plot synopsis:
There’s this granny who is lonely, and there’s an animal salesman who cannot get rid of his animals. So the animal salesman keeps showing up to Granny’s house, telling her she should buy a woodpecker, then a turtle, then a horse, et cetera. And every time, granny says “fine, I’ll buy this one, but NO ELEPHANTS!”
So anyway, eventually Granny has bought all of the animals EXCEPT for the elephant. So the animal salesman just leaves the elephant outside of her house and goes south. Then winter comes, and Granny still won’t let the elephant in.
Then the elephant cries, so eventually granny lets the elephant in. And he breaks through the floorboards and eats all their food!! Oh no!!
Everyone is mad at the elephant, but then the elephant stands up, and he WALKS THE ENTIRE HOUSE down to Florida. Then the book ends with Granny and all the animals sipping tequila sunrises on the beach.
This book ROCKS. It’s got animals, the moral is to be kind to all creatures (great and small), the art is so cute, and every kid loves grandmothers!! Definitely worth reading!
Any variation on the Tiddalik story. It’s an indigenous Australian “Dreamtime” story and has been adapted several times.
Tiddalik is a frog. A very large, very thirsty frog. He gets greedy, drinks **all** of the water in the world so that he basically sloshes around when he moves, and all of the other animals realise they might have a problem. If they want to get the water back, they’re going to have to make Tiddalik laugh…
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I have a 3 year old, and I’ll give my suggestion of books I don’t see in every single list. Collecting kids books is one of my hobbies and has been since before I had a kiddo.
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Gritty Kitty
Press here
Anything by Mo Willems
Where is the Green Sheep
Olivier Dunrea’s books
Sheep in a jeep
Chicka chicka boom boom
Peek a who
Goodnight moon
I like the Mr. Men and Little Miss books.
The Watermelon Seed
Brown Bear/Baby Bear/Polar Bear What do you See
A Color of His Own
Duck & Goose Find a Pumpkin (and all the series)
Anything Eric Carle
The Monster at the End of this book:another monster at the end of the book
Elise Gravel’s books are awesome.
My nephews, when each was around 3-4, though *A Potato on a Bike* was the most hilarious thing to ever exist.
Chris Haughton’s books
John Klassen’s books
Mac Barnetts books
Mo Willems books.
Peter Brown’s books
Jane Yolens dinosaur books.
Toddler of what age? Are you talking about board books? Here is a hood mix of both board and paper books. Ones my kids have really liked even my childhood favorites (Munsch).
Dr Seues is always a classic choice and they have shortened board book versions.
Robert Munsch can never steer you wrong.
Grandmasaurus books are super cute and teach you dinosaurs that are not just t Rex.
Hair Love by Mathew A. Cherry is a great book about appreciating your hair types. There is even an animation of the story.
A little spot of feelings by Diane Alber
Where’s Bluey? A search and find book
Stink-o-saurus by Deano Yipadee
I spy collection for kids is a good one for ages 2-4
Mix It Up and Press Here by Herve Tullet
There’s a Monster at the End of This Book.
Anything by Sandra Boynton.
The Little Blue Truck series is another favorite. As well as the “Bear Snores On” series.
The Llama Llama series has a few great simple toddler books, and of course the ones for older kids are great too. “Llama Llama, Red Pajama” is a classic.
The “Mini Myths” series is a fun one that does a play on classic mythology stories to tell great lessons for littles. (“Be Patient, Pandora”, “Play Nice, Hercules”).
And this might be a weird one, but my child’s favorite as a toddler was “Chu’s Day” by Neil Gaiman!
The book with no pictures by bj novak.
Lol little kids love it
But No Elephants is a banger. Plot synopsis:
There’s this granny who is lonely, and there’s an animal salesman who cannot get rid of his animals. So the animal salesman keeps showing up to Granny’s house, telling her she should buy a woodpecker, then a turtle, then a horse, et cetera. And every time, granny says “fine, I’ll buy this one, but NO ELEPHANTS!”
So anyway, eventually Granny has bought all of the animals EXCEPT for the elephant. So the animal salesman just leaves the elephant outside of her house and goes south. Then winter comes, and Granny still won’t let the elephant in.
Then the elephant cries, so eventually granny lets the elephant in. And he breaks through the floorboards and eats all their food!! Oh no!!
Everyone is mad at the elephant, but then the elephant stands up, and he WALKS THE ENTIRE HOUSE down to Florida. Then the book ends with Granny and all the animals sipping tequila sunrises on the beach.
This book ROCKS. It’s got animals, the moral is to be kind to all creatures (great and small), the art is so cute, and every kid loves grandmothers!! Definitely worth reading!
This is probably a bit on the old side for what you want, but see my [Readers 1: Here are the resources and threads I have about books for children who want to start reading)](https://www.reddit.com/r/booklists/comments/12hcgam/readers_1_here_are_the_threads_i_have_about_books/) list (one post).
I like myself by Karen Beaumont
Dinosnores by Sandra bounton
Ellephants Cannot Dance by Mo Willems
The Leaf Thief
Don’t Touch That Flower
Red and Lulu
A Parliament of Owls
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (whole series)
I Will Love You Til The Cows Come Home – sing it!
Little Blue Truck series
Rude Cakes
Any variation on the Tiddalik story. It’s an indigenous Australian “Dreamtime” story and has been adapted several times.
Tiddalik is a frog. A very large, very thirsty frog. He gets greedy, drinks **all** of the water in the world so that he basically sloshes around when he moves, and all of the other animals realise they might have a problem. If they want to get the water back, they’re going to have to make Tiddalik laugh…
I have a 3 year old, and I’ll give my suggestion of books I don’t see in every single list. Collecting kids books is one of my hobbies and has been since before I had a kiddo.
The Monstore
The Scarecrow
All aboard the Moonlight Train
Not yet a Yeti
The Snowy Nap
The ABC s of inclusion
Snoozefest
My butt is so noisy (anything from the series)
The Koala who could
Tap the magic tree
Ghosts in the house!
[No Matter What](https://www.target.com/p/no-matter-what-by-debi-gliori-board-book/-/A-12419924) was always my favorite book as a child
My kids love all of the hairy Maclary books, the spot books (about spot the dog, anything by Julia Donaldson, anything by Sandra Boynton
Go away big green monster!