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"My Mum" and "My Dad" by Anthony Browne |
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"Dinosaurs Love Underpants" by Claire Freedman - "it is as funny for kids as it is for us" |
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"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle |
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"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown |
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"Moo Cow, Kung-Fu Cow" by Nick Sharratt |
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"Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss "Any Dr. Seuss books!" |
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"Fix It Duck" by Jez Alborough |
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"The Gruffalo" ,"The Gruffalo's Child" , "A Squash and a Squeeze", "The Snail & the Whale", "Stick Man",
"What The Ladybird Heard", "The Smartest Giant in Town", "Monkey Puzzle", "Room on the Broom", "Charlie Cook's Favourite Book", "Tyrannosaurus Drip", "Tabby McTat" by Julia Donaldson |
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"Fancy Nancy" by Jane O'Connor |
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"Guess How Much I Love You!" by Sam McBratney |
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"Giraffes Can't Dance" by Giles Andrae |
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"We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen |
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"The Tiger Who Came For Tea" by Judith Kerr |
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"The Sheep-Pig" by Dick King-Smith |
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"Before You Sleep" by Benji Bennett, "the Adam books by Benji Bennett especially "Before You Sleep". My 3 and 4 year old know them by heart." |
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"The Ravenous Beast" by Niamh Sharkey |
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"Winnie The Witch" by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul |
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"The Dragon's Dinner" by Susannah Corbett |
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"The Way Back Home" by Oliver Jeffers "in fact all of his books!" |
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"Monkey See Monkey Do" by Donough O'Malley |
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"The Last Noo-Noo" by Jill Murphy |
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"Each Peach Pear Plum" and "Peepo!" and Happy Families set of books by Janet & Allan Ahlberg |
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The Hairy McLairy books by Lynley Dodd |
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"Sneezy Bear" by Neil Griffiths |
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any Charlie and Lola books by Lauren Child |
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"Astrosaurs" by Steve Cole - "dinosaurs in space" |
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"Harold and the Purple Crayon" by Crockett Johnson |
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"Giant Jam Sandwich" by John Vernon Lord |
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"There are cats in this book" by Viviane Schwarz |
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"Busy Garage" or any of the Busy Ladybird books |
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"No Matter What" by Debi Gliori |
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any Kipper books by Mick Inkpen |
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Mr Men books by Roger Hargreaves "Bought the Mr. Men box set recently and my 5 year old is lovin them!" |
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"What Colour is Your Underwear" by Sam Lloyd |
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"Corduroy" by Don Freeman |
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Anything with winnie the pooh (A. A. Milne) |
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Usbourne Apple Tree Farm Box Set by Heather Amery & Stephen Cartwright |
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"Little Lumpty" by Miko Imai "can be hard to find but a wonderful book about a little egg that grows up in the town of Dumpty and becomes fascinated with climbing Humptys wall" |
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"Where the wild things are" by Maurice Sendak "is still my favourite, and my son's" |
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"Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" by Mo Willems |
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"The Enchanted Wood" by Enid Blyton
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For slightly older kids "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein. |
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For older kids boys especially "The Giggler Treatment" by Roddy Doyle is hilarious! |
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"Pippi Longstocking" by Astrid Lindgren |
