RWM Staff Favorites

[Lois]

Here are some of our favorites. Please share some of yours:

A Mother For Choco
Keiko Kaszo
A little bird needs a mommy & finds she doesn't have to look the same as he does

Alice's Blue Cloth
Deborah Van der Beek
Alice finds a blue cloth in a kitchen drawer and makes believe wonderful things with it.

All the "Little Critter" books
Cute pictures and stories, both of my kids have liked them

Good Night Gorilla
Peggy Rathman
Mostly great pictures- a gorilla steals the keys from the zoo keeper and lets all the animals out of the cages - they go to the zoo keepers house to sleep

Home Run
About Babe Ruth/ for "ball" fans/ simple words but has baseball facts for later as they grow

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Numeroff
A little mouse that's always wanting more!

Inside Outside Upside Down
Classic, Berenstain Bears, simple words

My First Kitten and My First Puppy Touch and Feel Books
Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Books on textures

Ten Minutes Til Bedtime
Peggy Rathman
Also, lots of great picture - the dad calls out the number of minutes til bedtime and a bunch of little animals come and get in the bath and eat snacks with the boy until bedtime

Tumble Bumble
Felicia Bond
Cute rhymes with animals

[aydee]

Any Sandra Boynton Book! It's hard to pick favorites--maybe "The Belly Button Book" and "Snuggle Puppy." We also have her book/cd of songs and it's awesome!

AD

[Lois]

DS loves all the Clifford books and is into Maisy now too.

[kat]

Both of my kids loved Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr., The Very Hungry Caterpilla by Eric Carle

As my ds started getting older we loved to read ANY Junie B. Jones books by Barbara Park together. I can't wait to start reading them with my daughter when she gets a little older

Kat

[haleynathansmom]

My DD who is 5.5 loves Junie B Jones! And the Narnia boks! We read Shiloh recently and loved that too.

My DS (almost 3) is into "Going on a Bear Hunt" right now! We read it almost every night!

RM

[sandra]

My son, who is almost 3, loves to read anything with Curious George now.

[caligirl34]

My son who is almost 3 also loves Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. He also loves Quick as a Cricket and Dinosaur Stomp, and The Little Mouse Big Hungry Bear and the Red Ripe Strawberry.

He also likes the Spot books (Spot goes to the Circus).

Amy

[sb]

My son LOVES "Where the Wild things Are" and my husband loves to read that one to him.

Unfortunately, my son also loves any Dora books - ugh, I am so sick of Dora!! :-)

SB

[Lois]

Can I tell you how tired I am of Thomas the Train? Ugh.

Lois

[caligirl34]

For those of you that have boys (and maybe girls, but it seems like a boy book), my boy LOVES the book Sam's Sandwich. It is about a boy who's sister is making a sandwich. Each page looks like a sandwich ingredient - and the girl puts it in, and Sam adds in a bug, which you uncover when you open up the page. It is written in rhyme and really cute!

Amy

[luvmybabyblankie]

Where's Elmo's Blankie is my son's favorite with all the pop ups and fun cartoon colors.

[aydee]

"Mary Had a Little Jam and Other Silly Rhymes" by Bruce Lansky

www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689033923/ref=ord_cart_shr/103-5011732-6051034?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance&n=283155

Puts a new, funny spin on familiar nursery rhymes.

AD

[aydee]

"101 Things to Do With a Baby" by Jan Ormerod.

www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688127703/sr=1-1/qid=1155317407/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5011732-6051034?ie=UTF8&s=books

My 3-year-old picked this up at the library yesterday and I thought it was so cute! The illustrations are wonderful and the content is realistic yet simple. Great gift for new big sisters and brothers!

UPDATE: Seems impossible to find a new copy of this. However, there are a lot of gently used ones online. I found one for less than $5 (including shipping) from www.abebooks.com. Definitely worth it!

AD

[haleynathansmom]

Lucky Day, this is so cute for all ages!

www.amazon.com/My-Lucky-Day-Keiko-Kasza/dp/014240456X/sr=1-2/qid=1161979303/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/002-5990790-5211245?ie=UTF8&s=books


RM

[caligirl34]

A new favorite (we are definately growing into the longer books) is Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day



Amy