Favorite children's books?

[alison]

I want to get dd a bunch of board books for Christmas. Which books or authors did you like as a child, or which do your kids love?

My dd is 15 months old, and has the attention span of 2 milliseconds. Any recs?

[ides]

Some O's favorites at that age & that he still likes are: Dear Zoo, Where's Spot, Goodnight Gorilla, Dinosaur's Binkit), The Going to Bed Book. Lots of Sandra Boynton (spelling?).

[diggitydot]

Oh, yeah. Totally on the Sandra Boynton bandwagon. Not only are the books really cute, but durable as hell. Also, she has a CD/book combo of most of them set to music. It's called "Rhinocerous Tap". My youngest is 8 and I still occasionally find myself singing the songs.

Eric Carle (the very hungry caterpillar, brown bear brown bear), Matthew Van Fleet (Tails, Alphabet). Also Jack loved picture word books at that age where he could point to or say words he knew.

[Pollyanna]

BOYNTON!!!! I completely agree, her books are THE BEST!! All of our kids have loved them (and dh and I like them too).

[houseelf]

Boyton too!

also, Harold's Purple Crayon

M should like pictures of faces. My little guy loves his baby photo book.

The little girl I nannied was all about The Rainbow Fish around that age. My personal fave will always be Pat the Bunny.

[alison]

Thanks!!! You guys are awesome.
We have a lot of Boynton. They're great, I agree. The bathtime one is really fun for dd.

[Tenacious_D]

On the Boynton bandwagon too. Mike mulligan and the steam engine
Eric carle books
The little red lighthouse
Big red barn
Runaway bunny
The hat
The mitten
Those are a few of our faves!

[DCJenn]

Dude loved The Little Engine that Could from the time he was two until just about last week. (seriously, I can do the entire book from memory)

J.

[alison]

Jenn, I dreamt last night that i was reading one of dd's books to her. That's when I realized that I need some new material!

Are any of you familiar with Around the World with Mouk? I think it's one of those things like Where's Waldo, only you can sit with your kid and talk to him or her about what's going on in each scene.

[oceanchild]

Where's Spot was a favorite in our house growing up. I recently gave it to a friend for her son's 1st birthday, and she said it's been a huge hit.

We also liked Pat the Bunny (although looking at it now, I wonder what I was thinking) and the Max books (Rosemary Wells).

[MDPhDWife]

Not sure if these will be too old for your DD, but I love a book titled "Love you Forever".

My girls were big fans of any book you could sing to like 10 Little Monkeys.

[alison]

I've started a shopping cart on amazon. I've got 10 books, and should narrow it down a bit, although I plan on donating a couple, too.

Thanks again, everyone.

[MrsK]

There is a Dr Seuss book about Mr Brown and all the sounds he makes that BabyK likes. I don't remember the name.