Favorite "Bedtime" Story Books for Little Kids?

My favorite book to read them is Go, Dog, Go! by PD Eastman. It is so much fun to read and is a good learning book. We also love the classic's like all Dr. Seuss books, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

Good Night Moon was my daughter's favorite (she LOVED finding the mice!). We then graduated to the I Spy books.

They also loved the Frog & Toad books (Frog and Toad are Friends, etc).
Dr. Suess books were well loved, but more for daytime reading than bedtime stories. We did more Winnie the Pooh stories at bedtime.

OH, I forgot about one they loved as they got a little older: Stellaluna.

There's a Monster at the End of this Book. A lovable Grover story.

Among many, one of our favorites is Llama Llama Red Pajama.

My daughter asked for 'How Does a Dinosaur Say Goodnight' every night for an entire year. She was crazy for that book!

Pinkalicious books (there are 4 now)
If you give a... a... (Laura Joffe Numeroff series)
Eric Carle's "Brown Bear"
Green Eggs and Ham (he's got it memorized now)
How Dinosaurs Say Goodnight

While the kids are little all of the Sandra Boynton books are fun. Barnyard Dance and Snuggle Puppy are favorites here. As the kids got older Shel Silverstein poems were fun.

Now we enjoy reading different book series together a few chapters each night (my older kids are in 1st and 3rd grade). We've read the A to Z mysteries together as well as some Encyclopedia Browns and a few Hardy Boys and Nancy Drews.

my son loves "you're my little love bug." it plays music and lights up and has a spot for the kids photo. Also my mom got him a copy of Goodnight Little Bunny, for easter which is real cute. My son also loves Nicky's Noisy Night, pry because his name is Nicky lol

i haven't read the other responses... but two of my favorites are, "You are my I love you" and "Mommy's best kisses." I don't know the authors on it off hand, but my daughter loves them! we read them at least twice a week, and the other books we read only once or so.

another favorite is Mickey Mouses Mother Goose. Its all of the mother goose stories changed with mickey mouse characters.

Go to your library for an endless supply of reading material. I don't know if it is viewed as a good thing or not but I try not to read the same thing over and over to my kids. When I go to the library I check out TONS of childrens material. I try to read something different almost every night. I'd like to believe it has been a good thing because they both automatically started reading to me around the age of 4 without any coaxing, no phonics lessons, nothing! I assume that by mixing it up it improved their vocabulary and probably also gave them a more rounded knowledge base.

Anything and everything Sandra Boynton.
Curious George
Max and Ruby
The Froggy series
Dr Suess
Anything Disney
Little House books for older kids

Libraries often have lists by age group. I'd recommend going to the children's room and picking up a list.

You have the get the book "Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes." It is the BEST and a great gift too. We love it.

Also, if you have a daughter, "Someday" is a must-have. I can't make it through without crying. So good...

My daughter has several favorites:

Anything by Eric Carle - "Brown Bear, Brown Bear", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", etc.

Anything by Dr. Suess - "Green Eggs and Ham", "The Cat in the Hat"...also the other Beginner Books like "Go Dog Go", "Bears in the Night".

Anything by Todd Parr.

And she LOVES Curious George!

We also get books from the library and if she really enjoys them, I might buy them at some point - like the Llama Llama stories, and classics like "Make Way For Ducklings".

"There's a Wocket in my Pocket" (1996 version) ends with "And the zillow on my pillow always helps me fall asleep" which to me classifys it as a bedtime book. The original version does not end that way. (We have both books at home. They're strangely different.)

My son likes "How many kisses to you want tonight?" by Varsha Bajaj

"By the Light of the Silvery Moon" by Claire Freedman is good too. It has a light in it that the kids get to press that lights up the moon.

What a great post. I'm going to my library after writing down answers from your post.

My daughter, 3, loves A Bedtime for Bear by Bonny Becker and also, by the same author, A Visitor for Bear and A Birthday for Bear. The books are so cute and I really get animated when I read them to her so it's fun for me too. My daughter is hooked on Franklin the turtle. There are a TON of books and they are really cute too. The author is Paulette Bourgeois. Nick Jr. has the show on in the morning.

We have a book called "I Love You Stinky Face", about a boy who keeps asking the mom if he was all these bizarre things like an ape or a monster if she would still love him. She gives him all silly answers, it's very cute.

I love "Guess How Much I Love You". My son has me read it at least two times a night.

we love Dr. Suess, the favorite bedtime stories for years have been
"Did I ever tell you how lucky you are?"
"Oh the places you'll go"

My kids loved "Love you forever" by Robert Munsch. They are 8,10,and 12 now and still ask me to read it when they are sick.

My kids' newest favorite is Big Black Bear by Wong Herbert Yee. My 2 year old son asks for it almost every night and my 4 year old daughter "reads" it to us because she has it memorized.