Favourite kids books?
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Topic: Favourite kids books?
Posted By: Mikaela
Subject: Favourite kids books?
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 10:47am
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What are the current favourite kids books in your house at the moment?
I need some ideas on what to look for at the library! ------------- http://www.bump-and-beyond.com"> 
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Posted By: Bubnumber2
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 10:50am
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My 3 year old LOVES the book 'We're Going On a Bear Hunt'. Another one is 'Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars'.
Actually, I could list a heap of books, because he will want to read whatever he lays his little hands on, but those two are particular favorites.  ------------- http://www.bump-and-beyond.com/"> 
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 11:01am
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Michaela's like that too, on a Saturday morning while DH sleeps in I sit on the couch and she brings me book after book after book and I read to her until she gets sick of it. At bedtime she only gets one story and she has to choose. He favourites which she chooses from are "My cat likes to hide in boxes" "Beautiful butterflies" and the amazing machine books "Dazzling Diggers", "Amazing Aeroplanes" and "Roaring Rockets" (I really need to buy the rest of the series for her). -------------  
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Posted By: tamiem
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 11:08am
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Hungry caterpillar
The little yellow digger series The Hairy Macleary series In fact anything by Lynley Dodd, Joy Cowley, Margaret Mahy etc. Try looking on Google - I found this for baby/toddler books: http://www.kiwifamilies.co.nz/Topics/Book-Reviews/Babies-Toddlers-Favourites.html |
Posted By: Neeks
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 11:18am
Keziah  Hairy Maclary (Lynley Dodd).. They are the only books she'll sit and listen to the whole story LOL-------------  
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Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 11:26am
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Our favourites change all the time too. Current goodies are:
Vegetable Glue (even I love this one!) We're going on a bear hunt Arthur's Tractor (a fairytale with tractors and princesses) Oh, The Places You'll Go (Dr Suess) I generally just grab a handful of books at the library, flick through them to make sure there's a good picture/word ratio (too many words and DD1 gets bored, not enough and it's too simplistic for her) and we usually end up with at least one or two that she loves. She reads everything so I get lots of different books to keep up with the variety. ------------- Mum to two gorgeous girls! |
Posted By: LittleBug
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 11:48am
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Hairy MacLarey, Hungry Caterpillar, Where do Rainbows Come From? and Peter Rabbit ------------- Chloe (4 years) and Oliver (3 years). |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 11:53am
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Recently loved:
"http://www.amazon.com/Not-Stick-Antoinette-Portis/dp/0061123250" - 'Not a Stick' by Antoinette Portis And she also has 'Not a box' which is cool. I love anything by Pamela Allen. She rocks. |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 11:54am
P.S. That's my taste. Hannah has NO taste. She's right into Disney Princess at the moment. 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 12:28pm
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Hungry catterpillar, Hairy McClarey books and Dr Seuss. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 1:13pm
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Grandma McGarvey is a big favourite in our house.
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Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 1:19pm
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Joshua loves the Large Family series.
I love them too, they are really tongue in cheek about things like "we all tidied up. then mrs large tidied up again" |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 1:54pm
| Oooo I love '5 minutes peace' |
Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 1:57pm
| Yeah, thats my fave too Nikki. |
Posted By: EnJsmum
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 7:32pm
| My Daughter LOVED the gurrufelo (pos not spelt right), guess how much I love you and Dr Suess, Hop on Pop is a great first book! My son loved the Dazzeling Digger/terrific trains books MrsMojo mentioned |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 8:18pm
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we're going on a bear hunt
brown bear brown bear (sensing a theme now are we?) fairy tales are big now Goldilocks - we use this as a cautionary tale about how you shouldn't steal, break and enter - my version had goldi eaten Little mermaid - i have the death version too. hmmm, wonder if this is why Jake is having nightmares.... |
Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 8:25pm
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Ella current favourite is a book which has words and illustrations to 'Wheels on a Bus.'.....I have to read it to her several times a day and no matter where I put it, she manages to find it. She also really like this musical pop-up book I brough for her- series is called Snappy Sounds. ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 01 August 2008 at 8:31pm
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Favs here are:
The very hungry catterpillar Guess how much I love you and the Thats not my ______ series ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 9:01pm
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Anything Margret Mahy, Lynley dod or doctor seuss, or eric carle (hungry caterpillar etc)
They also love the books in the series of "if you give a mouse a muffin", "if you give a mouse a cookie" etc (very cute funny books) There is another series called "daisy books" about a girl named daisy - we had one called tiger ways, which the girls liked, and another called "eat your peas" which was sooo funny cos all thru the book it would say "eat your peas Daisy" but we'd replace it with Ayja, because we have huge fights with her over eating peas. We find lots of interesting ones at the library by chance. We have just introduced the girls to Roald Dahl - I got georges marvelous medicine for $3 the other day and I ende dup reading the whole thing in 3 nights before bed - they loved it so much. I'm glad that they like his writing - I love him as a writer. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 10:01pm
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Rowan Bears in Pairs and That's not my Teddy.
She lets out little squeals each time you turn the page. So cute!! -------------  
 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 10:24pm
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Where the wild things are ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 10:27pm
These books are great! ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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.Mel wrote:Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 3:31pm
aw kels i am so glaad that he love his book it is a fav with rhylz as well (and we have gone on to get so many more of those types) also that very hungry catterpillar one we got on our visit to palmy he loves. ------------- Ann
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 3:39pm
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Maisy Mouse is always a fave here
Hairy Mclarey He also LOVES the cheapy books I can pick up from warehouse. |