Looking for Books for 2 Year Old.

My daughter's favorite book at this time was called Llama, Llama, Red Pajama. It rhymes great and she actually learned a lot of it. She also loved Brown Bear, Braown Bear and there is Polar Bear, Polar Bear by Eric Carle. Also do you have the Little Touch Leap Pad?

My son is 3 and loves to read "Eek it's Squeak!" by Louise Rogers its a peep-and-slide book and we read it so much that it is falling apart. Very easy read and short enough to keep his attention.

My boy loves "Llama, Llama, Red Pajama" "Mama, Where are you?" and "If you love me". The last one plays a tune if you push a button and a little heart lights up. He loves to do that and sing along in the book.

All my kids have enjoyed the Sandra Boynton books and Eric Carle books. One Eric Carle book that my kids LOVE that I didn't see mentioned in other posts was The Very Lonely Firefly. The fireflies light up on the last page, and they have each been fascinated by trying to touch the lights. They also like the books that play music/make sounds--we have an Elmo piano book, one where Spot goes for a walk, and an Old McDonald's farm one. There are also the "classics" like The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats), The Mitten (Jan Brett), and Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (Eileen Christelow). And one of my favorite books to read to my kids is The Kiss that Missed (David Melling). Oh, and Good Night, Good Knight (Shelley Moore Thomas and Jennifer Plecas) is also a good one. I better stop there, or I might go on forever! Happy reading with your little one!

My son wasn't big into books like my daughter is, so you know these had to be interesting to get his attention:

Tails by Matthew Van Fleet
My Big Dog by Stevens & Crummel
The Cookie Store Cat by Cynthia Rylant
The Best Cat in the World by Leslea Newman
Have You Got My Purr? by Judy West
Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
Mortimer by Robert Munsch
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew by Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Martin & Archambault
The Monster at the End of This Book by Stone & Smollin
The Littlest Angel by Charles Tazewell
A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon
Pete's a Pizza by William Steig
Wave Hello to Thomas! by Awdry & Bell
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

Hi C.,

Both my kids loved anything by Eric Carle. He also does the beautiful watercolor illustrations for his many books.

If you are in Austin try Book People. Their kids' section is great!

Happy Reading! ( I'm envious....reading with my little ones was one of my favoritie activities...they're now 22 and 12!) ;-)

D.

Anything Dr. Seuss!!!!!

Sandra Boynton is our favorite author for little kids board books. Just can't get enough of them, and many of them are "singable". Just very zany and cute. Have fun reading!

Richard Scary books are great....also the old Sweet Pickles series from the 70's...those were pretty funny.

Margaret :)

My son is five now and he still likes me to read these to him sometimes. I read them to him a million times when he was about two. He loved them!

What Makes A Rainbow
Goodnight Moon
Pizza Pat
Can You Say Dinosaur?
Horton Hears A Who

Mo Willems books like Knuffle Bunny and the pigeon books are hilarious.

Todd Parr books like Do's and Don'ts are also very cute. He also does books about nontraditional families.

Those books are not that educational but you can also throw in Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

My son has always enjoyed the Seuss books-especially "Hop on Pop" and, one that I think I have read over a million times, "Green Eggs and Ham". His current fabe night time books are "Goodnight Moon" (he looks for the mouse and kisses him night night on the pgs he can find him!), and "Brown Bear Brown Bear". He loves the Curious George books too. He is now almost three and I LOVE the fact that he asks me to sit and read with him, through out the day! Good luck and Merry Xmas.

Mine will be two in December, so I'm guessing they're about the same age. His favorite books right now are the Richard Scary ones (Best Word Book Ever, Busy Busy Town, Cars and Trucks and Things That Go). He also really likes "Everywhere Babies," "Mama's Day," "Opposites," "Pajama Time," and "Kitten's First Full Moon."

Sorry not to give you authors on any of these!

My two-year-old loves the "How Do Dinosaurs..." series by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. They are perfect for this age-group!

I would say that any of the Eric Carle books would be good. My kids loved them from about 2 1/2yrs till even now and they are 12, 7, and 4. Course I only say that about my 12 yr old son because sometimes I have him read to the others. My daughter also loved the one... I'll Love You Forever. The author was Robert something...
Good Luck!

My daughter will be two in January and loves "Llama Llama Mad at Momma" we have been reading that one since she was about 6 months old and now if we ask what book she wants to read it is that one. She will go and find it were ever she put it last. She has even started to repeat some of the words. It's funny to hear a 22 month old say llama. Good Luck.
Try searching Amazon.com for good kids books. We try to go to Half Priced Books or a resale shop for books.
Beth
Mom to a 22 month old girl, and 8 almost 9 yr old girl and an 11 yr old boy.

My kids loved the traditional "Dr. Suese" my spelling isn't great on his name. As we read together I pointed at each word so they would learn to read, not memorize the stories. Both of my kids are grown and love to read!!

Hi C.,

My favorite books to read my kids, and the kids at the pre-school were the Dr. Suesse books. They are fun, colorful and funny! They use great imagination. I LOVE the book "Sneeches and other stories". It is mine and my children's favorite. Especially "The Pants With Nobody in Them." Also "Fox in Sox" is a good tounge twister and lots of fun for your son to watch mommy read!
And, of course, "Good night moon" and "Where the Wild Things Are"

I hope this helps. Have a wonderful holiday season. God bless.
D.

My son always loved "Where the Wild Things Are", "The Dinosaur Stomp", and of course the Cat in the Hat books.

Hi there! I have 17 mo old twins. They are huge Sandra Boynton fans. Especially, the Belly Button Book and Moo Baa LaLaLa. They are all super cute! They also love Milly Moo (they are asleep or i would tell you the author) I would venture to say that Milly Moo is their absolute favorite! Good luck!

My daughter is almost two as well and I have just bought a bunch of those little board books by Sandra Boynton. I used to teach preschool and all of the two year olds love those books. There is one about colors, where all the little animals have on different colored clothes, but the turkey keeps putting his on wrong. Every time I would read,"OOOPS" The whole class would just crack up.
They also loved chicka chicka boom boom,and my many colored days.

My daughter loves "It's okay to be different", "Otto's Birthday" and "The Boy of Color"...they are both very colorful and teach a great lesson

Good morming...I'm not C. G, don't know why that name is coming up.

Anyway, great books that come to mind to "read" to your son until he can read to you is "Hank the Cow Dog"...my twins loved to be read to and my husband, me and the twins would lie in bed and Daddy would do the reading with different accents. What a fun time that was. We rented them from the library before investing in them. I think there's 42 volumms. Worth every penny!
Merry Christmas...

From K. J. 44 year young; Spa business owner in Brenham. Married almost 7 years to a pretty great guy most of the time! LOL 3 Step-daughters and our son 1.

My daughter loves Sandra Boynton Books. They rhyme and have great story lines. You can find many of them discounted at ross and marshalls stores like that carry them. She also really likes the I SPY books they are fun to look for the items hidden(obviously) in the pictures. I recently saw both of these at Marshall's in box sets. He will love them they are such fun!

Both of my kids love the "How does a Dinosaur" series. They are colorful large books. Some titles are

How does a dinosaur say good night

How does a dinosaur eat their food

How does a dinosaur go to school

On the Night you were Born
Any Clifford book
Any Froggy Book
Curious George
Rumble in the Jungle
There are many more, but I'm not at home to look. Hope this is helpful.

These are a few my kids like
Sheep on a Ship by Margot Apple

Mrs. Mcnosh hangs up her wash by Sarah Weeks

Hungry Harry by Joanne Partis

The Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood

A Fish out of Water by Helen Palmer

My boys both love "Zoom City", "Goodnight Gorilla", "How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?", "How Do DInosaurs Eat Their Food?", and "Hairy Toe". "Hairy Toe" is about a monster that loses a toe and an old lady finds it. It is hilarious and has lots of repetition. Also, Sandra Boynton books are great (THe Going to Bed Book, Barnyard Dance).

our two year old loves all of the Sandra Boynton books - we read them every day!

Hi C.,
I bought lots of books for my son when he was a toddler- these by far were his favorites. (I'm now reading them to my daughter who loves them too):

-Goodnight Moon
-Goodnight Gorilla
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Peek-A Who by Nina Laden
- Moo Baa La La La by Sandra Boynton
- Blue Hat Green Hat by Sandra Boynton
- Mr Brown Can Moo Can you? by Dr. Seuss
- Where's Spot by Eric Hill

have fun reading together!
Adla

My son at that age loved the book "Oh, David". I can't find it to tell you the author, but he had it memorized and thought he was reading it to me. It has cute colorful drawings and not many words.

Dear C. -

Check out Usborne Books at www.ubah.com/G2768. These are great books for children of all ages.

B.

There is a pretty new book out there that is starting to get a lot of attention. It's called Gallop and is AWESOME! We saw it at this little shop while on vacation and it was over $40, now you can get it almost anywhere from under $15. My daughter likes to read it every night, and I buy it for every birthday present and get rave reviews.

I find that my son (17 months) likes the activity books. I found a really cute one that has the buttons on it that match the book and it makes sounds and also has little lift a flaps on it to find the characters. I found it yesterday at toys r us for like $7 but i'm sure you can find them pretty much anywhere like target or wal-mart too.
Good luck!

Hi C.,
We always gave our children books for Christmas. I am especially fond of "The Hat"(hardboard) and "The Mitten" by Jan Brett. Any book written and illustrated by her is entertaining because her illustrations are so fun. There is a Christmas Treasury by her which include both those plus five others.
HTH, C.

Hi Csndice,,
Well he for sure needs a CHRistmas book,,,any books about shapes color,,an ABC book most all stores carry a large selection of chrildrens book ,, they really just need to be short to hold his intrest
Merry Christmas to you
L.

hi C. we love 2 authors, one is max lucado, and martin waddell.they write beautiful stories!! have a blessed christmas and a awesome 2009

"Little Critter" Books. The "Berenstein Bears" Books.
“Little Bear” Books. Of course all of the “Peter Rabbit” books.

One of my daughters all time favorite toddler authors was Robert Munsch. He is hysterical. My daughter also loved his illustrator.

By the way each time I would read her a book, even as an infant, I would also read the name of the author and the name of the illustrator. My daughter knew every author and illustrator of her favorite books by heart. I would ask her who wrote, Mortimer? She would say, “Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko”! She can still recite many authors and the illustrators of children’s books to this day.

We purchased books at Target, Half price books, Bookstop, Bookpeople and Garage sales.

You got some great lists, but I didn't see Guess How Much I Love You, which was much loved in our house! And just in case you haven't already figured it out - our finding was that until at least 4, the board books are the best - before then impulse control is not so much for the little ones.

Happy Reading!

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" are two hardcover and hardpage books that are very simple to read and very easy for a two year old to understand. I read them to my son when he was two and he still likes them now that he is four. Good luck!

These are the greatest books and are really excellent quality. My children love these books.

www.misshoneysbooknook.com

Greetings.

My daughter has a favorite book from Discovery Toys, written by Nick Sharratt, titled "Once Upon A Time". It has 36 press out pictures and she can choose a different picture to change the story each time she reads it. She loves it! The girl version is a princess story but I just bought the boy version titled "Ahoy, Pirate Pete" for my 1 yr old son. I purchased it at a show for $14.99. From the back of the book, I got the following information: Discovery Toys www.discoverytoysinc.com or by calling 1-800-341-8697.

Dr.Seuss
BOB books sets 1-3
Curious George collection
Little Golden readers
Five Little Monkeys
Good night Moon
Time for Bed PB Bear
and book written by Eric Carle books
Any ABC and 123 books