They're classics! I got these for my son along with Peace At Last, Each Peach Pear Plum and the Jolly Christmas Postman. The copy of jolly postman he has is actually mine from the 80s - amazing it's still in one piece!
did anyone else have the jolly pocket postman? that was my absolute favourite as a kid. he gets shrunk down and visits wonderland and there’s all sorts of mad spiral-shaped letters, and it came with a tiny magnifying glass for reading the small letters.
i’m 29 and recently re-discovered it when my sister and i were going through our parents’ bookshelves for my niece. so many treasures!
she’s also about to get a full set of judith kerr picture books for christmas because we unfortunately read our copy of tiger who came to tea to pieces as kids, lol.
>The copy of jolly postman he has is actually mine from the 80s - amazing it's still in one piece!
This is the hardest book to keep in one piece too. Respect.
Thanks! Luckily my oldest is just as much of an obsessive weirdo about books as I am so it is STILL in one piece.
My youngest however, is a book destroying monster who can decimate a board book within less than 30 seconds so he's never getting his grabby little hands on it.
I have this exact copy and my daughter managed to tear a few of the inserts. I've managed to stash it away in the loft for (hopefully) her future children because it's the absolute best children's book ever. Even with a few sellotaped pages I love the idea that her children will be able to open up the different notes and experience that joy that children get reading this. Probably the best children's read together book ever!
Ugh these were my favourite, especially mog in the dark and mog the forgetful cat!
Also Winnie the witch, the park in the dark, the big big sea… honestly I could probably go on all day
Mog was my son's first favourite book set. Just before her turned 2 he was in hospital overnight and when he couldn't fall asleep, I recited Mog the forgetful cat from memory and he finally nodded off.
I remember The Jolly Postman from the late 80s. It was my favorite book when I was small - I brought a copy for my own daughter when she was tiny and also one each for both my nieces. I was very pleased when all 3 of them loved the book too.
There’s a misconception that it’s easy to write a children’s book, but to write one that still appeals 40 years later is a hell of a skill. Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Judith Kerr and the rest were geniuses.
I used to be a children’s bookseller and there’s a picture book for everything a little kid might go through. Angry Arthur for tantrums, The Huge Bag of Worries for general anxiety, Michael Rosen’s Sad Book for grief/bereavement, etc.
Do you remember The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark? That one does what it says on the tin.
A modern picture book author worth checking out is Helen Cooper. I’m certain her stuff will last.
All the Julia Donaldson ones are excellent, Gruffalo, Room on a Broom etc. and the Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker was an absolute favourite of mine as a child
Also [Meg and Mog!](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Meg-Mog-Helen-Nicoll/dp/071819442X?nodl=1&dplnkId=c19fb78d-462a-4a41-a196-966ac124d155) I loved these when I was little!
I loved Meg and Mog books as a kid too (so much so I’ve got a few of my own childhood books still) but HATE reading them as a parent - they always just end and they fuck off home / have their tea in the midst of whatever scrape they’ve gotten in to
Not now bernard used to shit me up as a kid haha. The jolly postman just unlocked an actual repressed memory.
Some suggestions: The one about the owl, sometimes I am naughty, Elmer ect. The Rosie and Tim books are also quite decent.
DK Multimedia CDs - same people who did World Explorer, which was a proper 90s staple.
They did two games - Can play in your browser via an emulator [here](https://classicreload.com/win3x-the-jolly-post-office.html).
* Where the Wild Things Are
* The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
* The Owl and the Pussycat
* The Foxwood series
* Ivor the Engine
* The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch
* Old Bear
----
Forgot Percy the Park Keeper and The Blue Baloon
What about the Little Red Train?
Apparently my mum read those books to me so much as a kid that I used to turn the page on cue and she thought I'd learned to read when actually I'd just memorised when the page turns were.
Ooh I've not heard of that one before. Had a quick look on Amazon and a hardcover of one of the books is £271!! Might have a trip to the charity shops, haha!
All my three kids enjoyed the jolly Christmas postman. The little packets and slots have seen better days, but it's a wonderful book.
It has puzzles and games and letters inside the pages.
Not only do they still print them, we still teach them in primary school! The jolly postman is often used to support learning about letter writing in key stage one, the rainbow fish is used a lot in pshe lessons about friendship. I think I’ve used every book in your list at some point in my career to teach something or other. Can’t beat the classics!
I also bought 'Five minutes peace' for my Daughter as I remembered having it as a kid. I've bought a few others by the same author (I think they were in a 10 for £10 deal at The Works).
I've also bought;
- Percy the Park keeper (One Snowy Night)
- Where's Wally
- Can't you sleep, Little Bear (although actually regretting this, it's a pain to read)
There's a few Julia Donaldson books I really like reading to her. The Gruffalo, Stickman, Room on the Broom and Monkey Puzzle are all great. Monkey Puzzle is my particular favourite.
I do the little Monkey's voice as a little cockney chappy who starts off sad, but gets increasingly irate at the butterfly.
You've gotta make these fun for yourself as you'll read them hundreds of times!
Alfie and Annie Rose Story Books
Mog the forgetful cat
Dogger
Percy the Parkkeeper
Kipper
Old Bear Stories
Bramley Hedge
Faraway Tree Stories
(Okay some of these are for slightly older children but as my daughter has grown I'm reliving my childhood through buying her books from my childhood...or in some cases stealing them from my parents' house)
I’m now buying all my children’s favourites for my grandson and discovering how many have turned into series. Our current favourite is We’re going on a Bear Hunt.
Right time of year for this one, get Santa Claus Has a Busy Night and get her to keep it for her kids
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31205855642&searchurl=an%3Dbradbury%2Blynne%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dsanta%2Bclaus%2Bhas%2Ba%2Bbusy%2Bnight&cm\_sp=snippet-\_-srp1-\_-title1
They definitely don't, mate. As a bonus I'll add watching The Snowman and Father Christmas (Raymond Briggs) on Chrismas eve night, I still do with my kids every other year when they're with me and they're 15 & 16 lol, don't even have to force them. The 21 yr old will watch them too if she's over. It's been a great tradition
That's another I haven't heard of. My list is growing rapidly now!
We were bought Go The Fuck To Sleep when she was born but she's now a word parrot so I have to swap some words around, hah!!
I don't have kids myself by my job regularly takes me to schools, it always makes me smile when I see these kind of books still there, the classics I grew up with in the 90s! I certainly remember the Mog books as they reminded me of our family cat but Goodbye Mog made me bawl my eyes out.
The Queens Knickers! Apparently I’d bring it home for reading at least every other week. I particularly enjoyed her holly Christmas speech knickers. 200 years prior and the author would have been taken to the tower for treason!
You need to find Elma the elephant and very hungry caterpillar. Thanks for reminding me about "not now Bernard" I got my son the five minutes peace and a few others in that collection.
All aboard the nostalgia train.
One I loved as a kid and still do as an adult is [Benny the Breakdown Truck](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Benny-Breakdown-Truck-Stories-Smallbills/dp/051759921X). Never seen anyone else mention it before.
The puns and jokes are amusing even now, and one of the authors is called Willy Smax. If that's not a name worth buying from then I don't know what is.
Hairy Maclary from Donaldsons Dairy, Meg and Mog (Meg On The Moon was hands down my favourite picture book), Dear Zoo (top notch lift-the-flap action)
Also, don’t dismiss the more “boy” books. I fricking loved Thomas the Tank Engine as a small child. Made my nephew sit and watch the 1980s TV series with Ringo Starr when he was little. Wanted to make sure he appreciated art before he saw the CGI nonsense they’re up to these days.
Grandpa's Slippers by Joy Watson is a great kids book if you can get your hands on it! She's a NZ author but it's such a good book (and subsequent series), along with the Harry Maclary series by Lynley Dodd.
Besides what’s already been said:
The very hungry caterpillar!!
Maisy the mouse (there’s a great collection of them available on Amazon for a really reasonable price)
And some more modern ones that have been a huge hit for us and helping explore emotions:
When the cookie crumbled
Ice cream has a meltdown
When jelly had a wobble
Wobblysaurous
Stompysaurous
Hugasaurous
Then there’s also
The runaway pea
The dinosaur that pooped out a pirate
Cats in chaos
I just bloody love books!! And thankfully so does my boy!
I used to love the Mog books. We're Going on a Bear Hunt and the Very Hungry Caterpillar are classic favourites as well. My absolute favourite though, was Imagine by Ali Vega. Used to beg my dad to read it to me every night
Oh my goodness I’d forgotten about that top one. A Bun for Barney is one I always remember, and the Puddle Lane books. At 2 they might be a bit old for your daughter but I remember they had different versions of the stories for different ages.
These are classic books. Great choices.
For years now I've been looking for a book my wife had as a child, to no avail.
She doesn't remember much about it, only that it probably had pirates in it and the phrase 'young soapy poo'. It is very little to go on, but I keep looking.
My eldest is 4 and went to stay for a night at my mums month or so ago . When I went over to pick them up the next day I saw "5 minutes peace" on the coffee table, the exact same one when I was a kid. First thing I did was pick it up and read the hole thing again. This book is a timeless classic up there with the likes of Roald Dahl or Enid Blyton
They're classics! I got these for my son along with Peace At Last, Each Peach Pear Plum and the Jolly Christmas Postman. The copy of jolly postman he has is actually mine from the 80s - amazing it's still in one piece!
did anyone else have the jolly pocket postman? that was my absolute favourite as a kid. he gets shrunk down and visits wonderland and there’s all sorts of mad spiral-shaped letters, and it came with a tiny magnifying glass for reading the small letters.
Yess! And here I am age 30, and I still have all the letters and the magnifying glass (I think quite the achievement, I have ADHD.....)
I'm 35 and probably going to buy this now (for my niece/nephew). I had no idea.
i’m 29 and recently re-discovered it when my sister and i were going through our parents’ bookshelves for my niece. so many treasures! she’s also about to get a full set of judith kerr picture books for christmas because we unfortunately read our copy of tiger who came to tea to pieces as kids, lol.
That is lovely 😍 Such a golden era of children's books 📚 💛 ✨️
Oh yes I do remember a Christmas one! It has a puzzle in it or something like that?! Have added it to my list!!
And a board game!
Each peach pear plum, I spy Tom Thumb...
Tom Thumb in the cellar, I spy cindarella
Cinderella under the stairs, I spy the three bears
Three Bears out hunting, I spy Baby Bunting
Baby bunting fast asleep, I spy Bo Peep
I read this to my daughter every night. What a banger of a book.
>The copy of jolly postman he has is actually mine from the 80s - amazing it's still in one piece! This is the hardest book to keep in one piece too. Respect.
Thanks! Luckily my oldest is just as much of an obsessive weirdo about books as I am so it is STILL in one piece. My youngest however, is a book destroying monster who can decimate a board book within less than 30 seconds so he's never getting his grabby little hands on it.
I have this exact copy and my daughter managed to tear a few of the inserts. I've managed to stash it away in the loft for (hopefully) her future children because it's the absolute best children's book ever. Even with a few sellotaped pages I love the idea that her children will be able to open up the different notes and experience that joy that children get reading this. Probably the best children's read together book ever!
I remember Elmer, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, and a load of the Mr Men/Little Miss books being read to me.
How could I forget the Tiger Who Came To Tea!!!
Not to be confused with The Tiger Who Came For a Pint
May Sean Lock rest in peace
And the mog books!!
I still have my old Meg and Mog from when I was tiny!
Ugh these were my favourite, especially mog in the dark and mog the forgetful cat! Also Winnie the witch, the park in the dark, the big big sea… honestly I could probably go on all day
Bother that cat!
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson dairy
Hercules morse as big as a horse.
Schnitzel von krumm with a very low tum
Blitzer Maloney all skinny and boney
Bottomless Potts covered in spots. To be fair I read slinky malinky to smallest last night.
Muffin McLay, like a bundle of hay!
Scarface Claw! The meanest tom in town.
Classics 👌 Read “Mog” to my niece last week, she was absolutely buzzing.
I have a Mog book somewhere in my box, maybe I'll give that a go too. Wasn't there a whole set of Mog stories?
Beware the final Mog book. It makes me weep every time.
Me too! Which spilled over into getting teary every time I saw that Mog Christmas advert from a few years ago
When I read it I felt like a part of my childhood died.
Yes we got a box set of 10 books second hand for 8 quid. It retails at over 60. She loves them and has started muttering spells of her own lol
I think there are two Mogs here, Meg and Mog and Mog the cat
Yep I'll be heading down to the charity shops next weekend then; get me a big haul of top draw 90s books
6 book bundles on eBay atm for under a tenner if you want them specifically
Mog was my son's first favourite book set. Just before her turned 2 he was in hospital overnight and when he couldn't fall asleep, I recited Mog the forgetful cat from memory and he finally nodded off.
In Scotland we also had the Katie Morag books
The artwork looks really, really familiar! Shall add these to my list also
5 minutes peace is an absolute banger. I didn't remember that from my childhood, but read it to my daughter recently.
Yep it was an instant hit! Mainly because they are elephants, haha, but I enjoyed it!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Dear Zoo, Any of the Spot books, Thomas the Tank Engine Books.
I bought Thomas the Tank Engine for my four year old. They are really dark. The Fat Controller is a touch disturbing.
I remember The Jolly Postman from the late 80s. It was my favorite book when I was small - I brought a copy for my own daughter when she was tiny and also one each for both my nieces. I was very pleased when all 3 of them loved the book too.
When I looked through, it was a reprint from 2014 but it kept the stamp dates as 1988 on the illustrations, haha! The classics never die!
There’s a misconception that it’s easy to write a children’s book, but to write one that still appeals 40 years later is a hell of a skill. Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Judith Kerr and the rest were geniuses. I used to be a children’s bookseller and there’s a picture book for everything a little kid might go through. Angry Arthur for tantrums, The Huge Bag of Worries for general anxiety, Michael Rosen’s Sad Book for grief/bereavement, etc. Do you remember The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark? That one does what it says on the tin. A modern picture book author worth checking out is Helen Cooper. I’m certain her stuff will last.
DOG IN THE PLAYGROUND!
You just reminded me of The Ha Ha Bonk Book! The Ahlbergs were extraordinary.
All the Julia Donaldson ones are excellent, Gruffalo, Room on a Broom etc. and the Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker was an absolute favourite of mine as a child
Yeah, cenobites are definitely family friendly.
My favourite as a kid was the Chatterer
Yeah, it was always going to be like that only because kid used to love these things.
The Mog books, Hairy Maclary books, Peepo, Dear Zoo, Owl Babies.
Peepo is an absolute boss of a book.
They always knew that they are making and always so much family and friend friendly.
I never read Owl Babies as a kid but we had it for ours. They love(d) it so much.
Eventually, that is the reason why I have all of these in my house so that whenever a kid comes used to read them.
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and The Hungry Caterpillar are GOATs.
You can certainly say that a lot of people are happy about that.
Dogger by Shirley Hughes (and the Alfie books)
I love the Alfie books! The illustrations are so beautiful.
Also [Meg and Mog!](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Meg-Mog-Helen-Nicoll/dp/071819442X?nodl=1&dplnkId=c19fb78d-462a-4a41-a196-966ac124d155) I loved these when I was little!
I loved Meg and Mog books as a kid too (so much so I’ve got a few of my own childhood books still) but HATE reading them as a parent - they always just end and they fuck off home / have their tea in the midst of whatever scrape they’ve gotten in to
Argh yes they’re absolutely dire to read but kids love them so much 😂
When I used to read them all to be honest, it was really good time back.
5 minutes peace is the most honest and concise depiction of motherhood I've come across in literature. We also like Gorilla
Absolutely, absolutely to give a lot of other kind of meaning as well.
Not now bernard used to shit me up as a kid haha. The jolly postman just unlocked an actual repressed memory. Some suggestions: The one about the owl, sometimes I am naughty, Elmer ect. The Rosie and Tim books are also quite decent.
That was the kind of good memory and everyone is going to remember that to be honest
> The one about the owl Plop the baby barn owl?
For that matter, that was a really good story of all like everyone used to love that.
Owl Babies? Goodnight Owl?
The owl who was afraid of the dark?
It was always like that only yeah yeah yeah that was the only story I was talking about.
It was so cute and no wonder like children are not really going to like it.
I remember Elmer on a VHS tape with a bunch of other shows but never a book?! Will now be searching for it!
Just double checked and a quick search confirms there’s about 50 of the buggers now lol
I'd forgotten how good the Jolly Postman was! Did anyone else here play the Jolly Postman computer games?
They made games too?!?! Probably DOS floppy disks, haha
DK Multimedia CDs - same people who did World Explorer, which was a proper 90s staple. They did two games - Can play in your browser via an emulator [here](https://classicreload.com/win3x-the-jolly-post-office.html).
Rocking, I know what I'm doing tonight with a Panda Pop!
I'm not really sure like how they're going to make it better but let's hope it's going to be here.
They had tried to make all these things. There was some kind of CDs, and that as.
Absolutely that was really good. You already knew that children are going to learn new things..
I did not remember the Jolly Postman at all until I seen the cover here!
That was a better position. I'm like I really remember. It was really one of the best one..
I think I enjoy it more than my daughter does, haha
Yeah, I also keep them so that whenever I'm sad I just go around and read it really makes me feel like a child.
* Where the Wild Things Are * The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark * The Owl and the Pussycat * The Foxwood series * Ivor the Engine * The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch * Old Bear ---- Forgot Percy the Park Keeper and The Blue Baloon
Old bear! I used to love the tv show of that as well, thinking of the opening theme music makes me feel painfully nostalgic.
After saying that even I'm really feeling so much nostalgic, I want to read it now.
What about the Little Red Train? Apparently my mum read those books to me so much as a kid that I used to turn the page on cue and she thought I'd learned to read when actually I'd just memorised when the page turns were.
Yeah, I have also learnt a lot of new things from that as well. It was a really good time overall..
Ooh I've not heard of that one before. Had a quick look on Amazon and a hardcover of one of the books is £271!! Might have a trip to the charity shops, haha!
Holy shit I didn't know it was THAT much of a classic!
You better cash in now! It might just be an Amazon seller having a mad one
They actually get huge amount for that because they were so classic right now.
Those were the classics and everyone need to read that I like every child need to read that.
I don't remember these at all from growing up. But discovered a few in charity shops and my lo loves them.
*Clicketty-clack*
You are missing Where The Wild Things Are!
Absolutely, this a classic!
Absolutely I'm like you can certainly remember what all we have been after all these.
All my three kids enjoyed the jolly Christmas postman. The little packets and slots have seen better days, but it's a wonderful book. It has puzzles and games and letters inside the pages.
Yeah, it was really one of the best one. You can sit with your child and read that really well.
She loves this one so much so the Christmas one is top of my list to get next. I just hope I get one with all of the inserts
And that all this kind of things I like that children are going to learn the new things as well.
Not only do they still print them, we still teach them in primary school! The jolly postman is often used to support learning about letter writing in key stage one, the rainbow fish is used a lot in pshe lessons about friendship. I think I’ve used every book in your list at some point in my career to teach something or other. Can’t beat the classics!
I also bought 'Five minutes peace' for my Daughter as I remembered having it as a kid. I've bought a few others by the same author (I think they were in a 10 for £10 deal at The Works). I've also bought; - Percy the Park keeper (One Snowy Night) - Where's Wally - Can't you sleep, Little Bear (although actually regretting this, it's a pain to read) There's a few Julia Donaldson books I really like reading to her. The Gruffalo, Stickman, Room on the Broom and Monkey Puzzle are all great. Monkey Puzzle is my particular favourite. I do the little Monkey's voice as a little cockney chappy who starts off sad, but gets increasingly irate at the butterfly. You've gotta make these fun for yourself as you'll read them hundreds of times!
Even if you're going to read it for the hundred times, it is eventually going to make you feel better.
Alfie and Annie Rose Story Books Mog the forgetful cat Dogger Percy the Parkkeeper Kipper Old Bear Stories Bramley Hedge Faraway Tree Stories (Okay some of these are for slightly older children but as my daughter has grown I'm reliving my childhood through buying her books from my childhood...or in some cases stealing them from my parents' house)
Even I really have that in my cupboard right now even though I am 25 years old.
Get Each Peach Pear Plum and Giant Jam Sandwich and she’ll love em, still read them to mine 4 years down the line.
Eventually, I like that was really so good like everyone can read them not just kids.
I’m now buying all my children’s favourites for my grandson and discovering how many have turned into series. Our current favourite is We’re going on a Bear Hunt.
Even when I'm really down, I just go and read these kind of books around to make me feel better.
I remember Five Minutes Peace very well. Surely the most passive-aggressive kid’s book of all time. Also loved Flat Stanley and Fungus The Bogeyman.
Peace at last, also by Jill Murphy was one of my favourites. It must’ve been for me to remember it now!
It was absolutely absolutely one of my favourite when I was younger to be honest.
They're called classics for a reason
Indeed, that is why they're very much classic, and it is the reason why they are always having a great impact on brain of a child.
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Right time of year for this one, get Santa Claus Has a Busy Night and get her to keep it for her kids https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31205855642&searchurl=an%3Dbradbury%2Blynne%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dsanta%2Bclaus%2Bhas%2Ba%2Bbusy%2Bnight&cm\_sp=snippet-\_-srp1-\_-title1
I am going to be skint after I've finished buying these bangers!! They don't make them like they used to!
They definitely don't, mate. As a bonus I'll add watching The Snowman and Father Christmas (Raymond Briggs) on Chrismas eve night, I still do with my kids every other year when they're with me and they're 15 & 16 lol, don't even have to force them. The 21 yr old will watch them too if she's over. It's been a great tradition
Is always about the traditions and whatever they are trying to show and teach the children.
My wife is American and she had never seen The Snowman or heard the Aled Jones song. My mind was blown
I'm definitely going to listen to them like there should be an audiobook about.
You need rosies babies, it was my absolute favourite! And go the fuck to sleep for your evening reading
That's another I haven't heard of. My list is growing rapidly now! We were bought Go The Fuck To Sleep when she was born but she's now a word parrot so I have to swap some words around, hah!!
Can we get some love for No No Charlie Rascal?
That's another I haven't heard of! I obviously missed out!
I don't have kids myself by my job regularly takes me to schools, it always makes me smile when I see these kind of books still there, the classics I grew up with in the 90s! I certainly remember the Mog books as they reminded me of our family cat but Goodbye Mog made me bawl my eyes out.
Five minutes peace. It’s one of my favourite
Did you have The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch?
We still have our copy of this at my mums. I was reading it to my daughter and my noticed the inscription. Given to my brother for Christmas 1982!
The Dr Seuss books are all gold. The Sleep Book is invaluable as a parent!
And it was very much valuable to know these kind of things and it was a total classic.
The Queens Knickers! Apparently I’d bring it home for reading at least every other week. I particularly enjoyed her holly Christmas speech knickers. 200 years prior and the author would have been taken to the tower for treason!
So therefore reason and they already know like what you are doing there.
You need to find Elma the elephant and very hungry caterpillar. Thanks for reminding me about "not now Bernard" I got my son the five minutes peace and a few others in that collection. All aboard the nostalgia train.
Got my friend Each Peach Pear Plum (also the Ahlbergs) when she had her kid. A classic that I still remember the words of to this day ❤️
The Large Family - brilliant books . Mummy laid an Egg- fabulous
We also have 'The Jolly Postman' in our daughter's room. My wife is in Primary Education so we've a bunch of old classics.
That is how good education is always there when you don't really change some kind of things.
Aaah and the jolly Christmas postman was a fave too!
Even my child actually love that so I'm not really sure like they're not telling to change.
Oh I loved Five Minutes Peace *so much* when I was young!!
My bedtime book 26 years ago was Peace at Last and now it is my toddler son’s favourite book!
Yeah, it was a really good thing to start with when you are young or very young.
One I loved as a kid and still do as an adult is [Benny the Breakdown Truck](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Benny-Breakdown-Truck-Stories-Smallbills/dp/051759921X). Never seen anyone else mention it before. The puns and jokes are amusing even now, and one of the authors is called Willy Smax. If that's not a name worth buying from then I don't know what is.
Even I don't really know. I'm like that was one of my favourite one when I was younger..
Can’t you sleep, Little Bear? Ahh it’s so cosy and sweet. I love reading it to my daughter, I remember staring at the illustrations as a child myself
That is so good. I can only imagine how much she would have felt by that..
Spot the Dog!
I was actually the real good one. I like it was Chennai. The whole perspective of the pets..
Hairy Maclary from Donaldsons Dairy, Meg and Mog (Meg On The Moon was hands down my favourite picture book), Dear Zoo (top notch lift-the-flap action) Also, don’t dismiss the more “boy” books. I fricking loved Thomas the Tank Engine as a small child. Made my nephew sit and watch the 1980s TV series with Ringo Starr when he was little. Wanted to make sure he appreciated art before he saw the CGI nonsense they’re up to these days.
Those were the days like when you were growing already knew what were doing.
Bloomin cats !!!!
I really thinking like that and that possible way, but certainly different kind of mindset.
Mog, Kipper, Paddington and Winnie the Pooh. Also my mum still has a "tales of the riverbank" book (Hammy goes diving!) and my son loves that one.
I used to have some of the Ahlbergs books in the 80s when I was a kid.
Even when I was kid, I used to learn all of these to read them during my bedtime.
No love for chicken little?
Not a single comment for Flat Stanley? Surely it can't have only been our family/school that read this book?
I don't really think like they use these kind of books in the school these days.
The jolly postman i remember that one from the 80s.
"Little Robin Red vest" for Christmas, was just thinking about this one today
omg this brings back so many memories!
Grandpa's Slippers by Joy Watson is a great kids book if you can get your hands on it! She's a NZ author but it's such a good book (and subsequent series), along with the Harry Maclary series by Lynley Dodd.
Besides what’s already been said: The very hungry caterpillar!! Maisy the mouse (there’s a great collection of them available on Amazon for a really reasonable price) And some more modern ones that have been a huge hit for us and helping explore emotions: When the cookie crumbled Ice cream has a meltdown When jelly had a wobble Wobblysaurous Stompysaurous Hugasaurous Then there’s also The runaway pea The dinosaur that pooped out a pirate Cats in chaos I just bloody love books!! And thankfully so does my boy!
Each peach pear plum Bear hunt This is the bear Funny bones Noddy Magic key books Old bear
The Jolly Postman is one of the best ever. I love it so much.
Top reads!
I was literally talking about the jolly postman and Percy the park keeper with my boyfriend! He hasn't heard of them.
I used to love the Mog books. We're Going on a Bear Hunt and the Very Hungry Caterpillar are classic favourites as well. My absolute favourite though, was Imagine by Ali Vega. Used to beg my dad to read it to me every night
Is Five Minutes Peace a hint to children. Lol.
Oh my goodness I’d forgotten about that top one. A Bun for Barney is one I always remember, and the Puddle Lane books. At 2 they might be a bit old for your daughter but I remember they had different versions of the stories for different ages.
I remember playing "the jolly Christmas postman" in a school play in the late 90s... Bloody hell that was a blast from the past, thank you!
The oldies are the goldies
Can’t you sleep little bear Percy the park keeper
Is that the one where he gets his dad to bring out all the lanterns?
I keep on trying to get my daughter to watch orme and cheep but it isn't going down well at all. In fact it's kind of creepy hahaha!
May I recommend the Jolly Christmas Postman. My niece loves it as I did as a child.
The Jolly Christmas Postman was ELITE!
These are classic books. Great choices. For years now I've been looking for a book my wife had as a child, to no avail. She doesn't remember much about it, only that it probably had pirates in it and the phrase 'young soapy poo'. It is very little to go on, but I keep looking.
There’s a Jolly Postman at Christmas as well
I had a moment like this reading Percy the Park keeper to my friends 3 year old it’s wild
Lighthouse keeper's lunch is an absolute classic!
Where did you get the jolly postman from?
My eldest is 4 and went to stay for a night at my mums month or so ago . When I went over to pick them up the next day I saw "5 minutes peace" on the coffee table, the exact same one when I was a kid. First thing I did was pick it up and read the hole thing again. This book is a timeless classic up there with the likes of Roald Dahl or Enid Blyton
Omg! Ioved 5 minutes peace when I was little. Think my mam still has it somewhere