Childrens books

Just looking for a childrens book. Nothing too obscure. Something other than Peter Pan etc. Perhaps a more modern 'classic' (say in the last 30 years).

 

What age group?

 

It's for a baby...but meant so they can enjoy it through out their childhood and something they enjoy reminiscing about as an adult.

 

Moomintrolls!

Old whinnie the pooh (has to be old) and eventually give them The Tao of Pooh, when they get older.

 

Try looking for Usbourne Illustrated books (such as Usbourne Fairy Tales for Little Children). They are really good books with great illustrations and good stories.

Dear Zoo

Millie Moo

The Gruffalo

Theres a nice book called Playtime Rhymes by Sally Gardner

I have a 2 year old who loves all of the above books. Some of them i can remember from being a small child. Theres loads out there.

Take a trip to Waterstones... youll come out with shit loads and an empty wallet lol.

 

Dinotopia

 

Richard Scarry's illustrated books were always my favorite as a child.

 

berenstain bears

 

Possibly:
Moomins
Winnie The Pooh
Dinotopia
Snoopy
(Listening to Tao of Pooh - phttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksVgOSJ_Kv0 probably won't bother with that)
Too young (meant so they can enjoy it through out their childhood):
Dear Zoo
Millie Moo
I think she will be getting 6 copies of 'The Gruffalo'
Likely:
Usbourne Fairy Tales for Little Children

I might:
Stig Of The Dump
Tracey Beaker

'Take a trip to Waterstones... youll come out with shit loads and an empty wallet lol.'

They are In London, so I was going to just send a book via the Internet.

 

no Tao of pooh is for when a someone that read pooh as a child gets a little older. I loved it!

 

I know you meant as they get older.
It's just seems a tad preachy.
It feels like almost giving them a bible.

 

Eric Carle is fantastic. His illustrations are beautiful, and the stories are great.

 

'Seven Tales by the Brothers Grimm' and ' Treasury of Classic Stories for Children' seem like good books...

 

Can't go wrong with Classic Stories.

 

True.

I'm going to buy a few...


I'm buying Snoopy, for sure...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CHARLES-M...0982168981?pt=Non_Fiction&hash=item43bfe38995

 

If you are going to buy a few then get a couple that the baby can enjoy in the first years such as "Pat the Bunny" or a couple board books that they can actually handle and drool on.

For picture books one of my favorites is:
On the Night you Were Born by Nancy Tillman
or
Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak)
or Paddington or Dr Seuss books.

Books that can be read to a child or they could read as they get older:
Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnnett
Charlotte's Web E B White
Chronicles of Narnia C S Lewis
Black Beauty Anna Sewell
Lassie Come Home Eric Knight
Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle

It is so hard to pick just one or two. People buying for babies often think of clothes etc. but giving a book for the child is something that can last a long time into the life and would be something remembered. Best wishes on your choice (s).

 

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Cheers Glen.

 

I forgot to mention

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

And when older

Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster
The Little Prince by Antoine de saint-Exupery

(OK I will shut up now.)

 

One of my favourite children books is Ronja the robber's daughter by Astrid Lindgren. It's for when they're a little bit older though. There's also superb movie adaption.

 

i'd try and find a really well illustrated version of the greek myths and legends, for something that they can sort of grow up with.

people in my family tell me that i taught myself to read with asterix and tintin, after the entire collection of both was leant to us by my next door neighbour, so i reccomend those as things to have around a kid as it grows.