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50+ of the Best Child Picture Books

January 24, 2014 by Amber 49 Comments

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A great big list of stories that you will actually WANT to read to your kids. These are great!

I had so much fun putting together last week’s post about my favorite chapter books to read to my kids and there has been such a great response to it, that I thought it might be fun to pull together a list of some of my favorite and the best child picture books as well!

These are the books that I feel happy when my kids grab them for me to read to them. I try to prod them in the direction of these books.

 

Best Child Picture Books:

Most of these will be in no particular order, but I’ve got to start with my all time favorite. LOVE this book. Great pictures, great message. The Very Cranky Bear!

Crankybear

Also by the same author and also wonderful-The Very Itchy Bear:

Itchybear

And The Very Brave Bear:

Bravebear

These other bear books (by Karma Wilson) are my other absolute favorites. There are a bunch-Bear Feels Sick, Bear Snores On, Bears New Friend, Bear Wants More, Bear Stays Up for Christmas, Bear Says Thanks, Bear Feels Sick and they are ALL fantastic!

Bearfeels

 You probably already know and love these? Click, Clack, Moo and Giggle Giggle Quack and Duck for President-all by Doreen Cronin. Such a great set of books!

Clickclackmoo

This one is FUNNY! Millie Waits for the Mail:

Millie

Another great bunch of books are these duck books-Duck Soup, Duck at the Door, Duck and Cover and Sitting Duck:

DuckSoup

Do you know Gerald and Piggie? There are a BUNCH of books about this cute combo. They are easy readers too, so your early reader may be able to actually read these. And they are  FUNNY!

weareinabook

This one just feels like the story of my life (and it’s funny!). Too Many Toys:

Toomanytoys

These ones will make you giggle too! Three books-Parts, More Parts and Even More Parts-and they are all great!

Moreparts

The Pout Pout Fish is so fantastic! Amazing message and cute and funny. And there’s a handful of other ones about Mr. Pout Pout too!

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This one is another that ranks right up at the top. LOVE IT! Silly Tilly:

Sillytilly

Another cute one (and you can do voices in this one) is The Perfect Nest:

PNEST_HJ_US

Another great one by Mo Willems-Leonardo the Terrible Monster:

Leonardo

These are a recent discovery for me-Secret Agent Splat and there’s a bunch of other Splat books. They are cute and the illustrations are amazing!

Splat

This is just a sweet book with cute pictures and you can make fun sound effects. The Napping House:

Thenappinghouse

This one has me enthralled by the pictures and the story is cute too-The Little White Owl:

Owl

A very fun twist on the monster under the bed-I Need My Monster:

Ineedmymonster

Do you know the Dinosaur Books? How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight and a bunch of others. They are perfect for teaching behavior PLUS they are cute!

Dinosaurs

I am so glad my boys will let me read them these Olivia Books because I love them! There’s a bunch of these ones too!

olivia

OK, now tell me some of your favorites!

And be sure to check out my favorite chapter books as well:

Pileofbooks

 

 

 

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Comments

  1. Stacey says

    January 24, 2014 at 6:14 am

    We love the Llama Llama books!!!

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  2. Ashley W. says

    January 24, 2014 at 6:35 am

    You mentioned Mo Willems, but I didn’t see anything about the Pigeon books. Those are some of our favorites! We also love Cowlick by Christin Ditchfield.

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  3. Audrey says

    January 24, 2014 at 10:37 am

    My girls love the story ‘Room on the Broom’ and ‘The Gruffalo’

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  4. mara Curtis says

    January 24, 2014 at 10:55 am

    Any book by Julia Donaldson I.e the Grufalo, Room on the Broom, Tiddler…

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  5. Angela Bergeron says

    January 24, 2014 at 4:04 pm

    Mo willems’ Knuffle Bunny series and Don’t let let the pigeon drive the bus series are also fantastic. Our other house favorites are the Pinkalicious and Pete The Cat series and the 3 ninja pigs is hilarious and a great twist on a classic. And I can’t forget chika chika boom boom because its so fun the little critter series and lastly I love you stinky face. Can you tell we love to read? We’re just starting chapter books, but those were our favorite picture books.

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    • Angela says

      January 30, 2014 at 6:18 am

      Ooh I forgot How Full Is Your Bucket. I got it on a whim through scholastic and it’s such a good lesson to teach others nicely. Then the kindergarten class did a project on it the next month and each kid in the class put a page in with what fills their buckets and then it went home to the families so we could each put a page in it. Anyways, great picture book with a good lesson.

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  6. Amy says

    January 25, 2014 at 5:26 am

    All the books mentioned are great. We also like the Otis books by Loren Long. Great books about friendship. Also Penquin and the pine cone and Penguin takes a Vacation. Super books!

    Reply
  7. Heather says

    January 25, 2014 at 6:53 am

    We love the Skippyjonjones books, too.

    Reply
  8. fitzmom says

    January 25, 2014 at 8:10 am

    We love the Gruffalo books. It’s written in iambic pentameter! Books written in meter ( like Dr Seuss books) are supposed to help kids remember the story and new vocab words.

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  9. Marisa Nyman says

    January 25, 2014 at 12:21 pm

    We loved “Is Your Mama A Llama?” Also, “Corduroy” and “Make Way For Ducklings.” Have bought all 3 for my 2 year old grandson. Now I have to dig out all our favorites. Obviously it’s dependent on the age group.

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  10. Keri says

    January 25, 2014 at 10:29 pm

    Goodnight Moon, love, love that book.

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  11. Ana says

    January 29, 2014 at 9:49 am

    Awwww we like little owl too but my little guys fav is defenetly Wombat and “i like to curl up in a ball” :))))

    Reply
    • brandy says

      November 3, 2014 at 6:30 pm

      My 2 year old LOVES sometimes I like to curl up in a ball! ! She acts it out as we read it. Love that book

      Reply
  12. Nicole says

    February 2, 2014 at 6:43 am

    We of couse love the Bear Snores On (and all others in the series) but the others that have to be read all the time are: Little Blue Truck, The Hungry catepillar, Brown Bear Brown Bear, The Very Busy Spider, Green Eggs and Ham.

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  13. Rachel says

    February 12, 2014 at 10:34 pm

    I’m not a mom, but I’m a nanny! Two of our favorites are the Adam Rubin/Daniel Salmieri books… DRAGONS LOVE TACOS and SECRET PIZZA PARTY. They’re hilarious. “The Taco Book” (as it’s known around our house) is especially terrific: the language is accessible and the pictures are just hysterical. “Hey kid!” always cracks him up. (He’s three.)

    Jan Thomas has a bunch of great ones too, but our favorite of those is “Let’s Sing a Lullaby with the Brave Cowboy”. You can even go online to find a recording of the lullaby!

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    • Rachel says

      February 12, 2014 at 10:35 pm

      Oh! And I wholeheartedly second the vote for the Llama Llama books by Anna Dewdney. So wonderful!!

      Reply
    • Amber says

      February 18, 2014 at 4:11 pm

      I don’t know any of those ones. I will have to check them out.

      Reply
  14. Stephanie says

    February 16, 2014 at 4:28 pm

    some of my favorites have already been mentioned in the comments: pete the cat, skippyjon jones, and the pigeon books. I also love duck on a bike, and the if you give a mouse books!

    Reply
  15. Meaghan says

    February 17, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    Little Blue Truck! My son made us read that until we literally had it memorized. We’ve given it at every baby shower since.

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  16. Amy says

    February 26, 2014 at 8:05 pm

    I love Goodnight goodnight construction site , Where is my t.r.u.c.k?, How do I love you? And dr. Suess’s ABC’s

    I’m a sucker for meter.

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  17. ginabean says

    March 4, 2014 at 1:59 pm

    Any of the Skippyjon Jones books by Judy Schachner are fab.
    “Children Make Terrible Pets” and “You Will Be My Friend” by Peter Brown–these books are darling!
    “The Gruffalo” and “The Gruffalo’s Child” by Julia Donaldson are cute, and my clients LOVE the stories
    “When a Dragon Moves In” by Jodi Moore
    “Love Monster” by Rachel Bright
    “Dragons Love Tacos” by Adam Rubin

    Thank you for this list! I’m a Speech-Language Pathologist and I work with kids, and I LOVE CHILDREN’S BOOKS!

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    • ginabean says

      March 4, 2014 at 2:00 pm

      Also, any book that John Lithgow has written is fantastic—my favorite is Marsupial Sue.

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    • Amber says

      March 6, 2014 at 9:28 pm

      I’ll have to try some of those ones!

      Reply
  18. Barb says

    March 5, 2014 at 7:50 am

    My kids loved The Runaway Road, Henry’s Aweful Mistake and One Little Monkey…we had them memorized, they come back so easy when the grand kids want them read!

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  19. Melissa says

    March 14, 2014 at 6:59 pm

    My students love Robert Munsch books! His most popular is Love You Forever, but that’s a serious one. His others are very funny.

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  20. TheBargainBabe says

    March 20, 2014 at 12:05 pm

    I have a Children’s books addiction and you are SUCH an enabler! :)

    I have got to get my hands on those itchy bear books. Have seen Splat but never read him, I will make it a point to do so this week.

    Reply
    • Amber says

      March 21, 2014 at 8:21 pm

      Ha ha ha ha ha! Not a bad addiction though!

      Reply
  21. Deb Maxwell says

    March 29, 2014 at 10:52 am

    I love this list, and I’m going to share it with my students’ families! Some authors that I didn’t see anywhere: Sandra Boynton–Pajamatime, The Going to Bed Book, and Moo, Baa, La la la; Herve Tullet–Press Here, Lauren Thompson–Little Quack series, Jonathan London’s Froggy books, Helen Lester–Tacky is my favorite–but I love them all, Iza Trappani–I’ve never found one I didn’t like, and Cynthia Rylant is fantastic, I love her picture book The Old Woman Who Named Things.

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    • Amber says

      April 4, 2014 at 8:09 am

      Oh yes! Those are some that we love too!!

      Reply
  22. Coleen says

    April 11, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    My kids love ‘Baby Danced the Polka’, ‘No Sleep for the Sheep’ both by Karen Beaumont, and ‘The Wonky Donkey’ by Craig Smith. Some newer favorites for them are ‘Pete the Cat’, ‘Pirates Love Underpants’ and ‘Little Blue Truck’.

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  23. Christina says

    April 12, 2014 at 7:05 pm

    These are some great books. Here are some more great books that my son who is 8 loves to read. Pete the Cat books are another great read my son loves them, Splat the Cat is also a great series, Dragons love Tacos, Clark the Shark series, Waking Dragons, The Snatchabook, The Monster who lost his mean, The Pout Pout fish in the big big dark.

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  24. Lisa S. says

    April 12, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    “I Love You, Stinkyface” by Lisa McCourt and her other Stinkyface books, “Press Here” by Herve Tullet is big fav now & “Diary of Wombat” set in Australia by Jackie French. Can’t go wrong with any of those!

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  25. Heather Lumb says

    May 1, 2014 at 1:51 pm

    WAit, wait. I count only twenty books. What am I missing where is the fifty? This is hurting my head!

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    • Amber says

      May 1, 2014 at 5:29 pm

      Many of them are series-I was referring to those.

      Reply
  26. Traci says

    May 15, 2014 at 5:33 am

    We love a new one out called “Too Much Glue!” by Jason Lefebvre.
    We also like all the Richard Scarry books.

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  27. Sandy says

    July 20, 2014 at 7:27 am

    My children have loved: Jamberry by Bruce Degen, But No Elephants by Jerry Smath, Donald Duck and the Magic Stick, The Flea’s Sneeze by Lynn Downey, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Down by the Cool of the Pool by Tony Mitton, Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car by Eileen Christelow, Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter series and the Berenstain Bears serier.

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    • Amber says

      July 29, 2014 at 5:45 pm

      More to check out!

      Reply
  28. Beth says

    August 8, 2014 at 8:19 pm

    Anything by Monica Wellington. Our favorite was always Crepes By Suzette. Suzette sells Crepes from a push-cart in Paris. The book is full of collages of Paris scenes, a new cartoon animal joins Suzette on every spread, my favorite is that Suzette’s customers are all people from famous paintings. There’s even a crepe recipe for you to try at the end of the book. It’s like a treasure hunt on every page!

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  29. Lara says

    August 27, 2014 at 9:16 pm

    “One Dog Canoe” by Mary Casanova

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  30. erica says

    August 28, 2014 at 4:40 am

    My son loves Read to Tiger and Creepy Carrots. Both cute books with cute endings.

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  31. Teresa Young says

    September 15, 2014 at 7:42 pm

    a couple of my recent favorites are The Day the Crayons Quit and Fraidyzoo!

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  32. Christy says

    November 2, 2014 at 7:51 am

    Stand Back, Said the Elephant: I’m
    Going to Sneeze

    Bark, George

    Runaway Bunny

    Knuffle Bunny series

    I love picture books!

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  33. Christy says

    November 2, 2014 at 7:53 am

    Oh, also Library Lion. That’s a relatively new title for our house.

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  34. Raquel says

    November 2, 2014 at 1:39 pm

    The latest we’ve read, and read, and read, and read… are Tea Rex, Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, How To, and E-I-E-I-O: How Old McDonald got His Farm. Can’t say which one is our favorite, we love them all!

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  35. Tuesdaii says

    November 2, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    PRESS HERE -herve tullet

    great and interactive, love your choices by the way

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  36. Emily says

    November 2, 2014 at 7:42 pm

    We LOVE the amazing I Took the Moon for a Walk and Bear in a Square.

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  37. Caitlyn says

    November 2, 2014 at 7:54 pm

    The day the crayons quit… That’s a wonderful story to read. Kids loved it. Also the pigeon books are amazing!!!

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  38. May says

    November 3, 2014 at 1:44 am

    My kids love the day the crayons quit, duck duck moose, how to catch a star. These books are silly but also have useful messages.

    Reply
  39. Keri says

    November 18, 2014 at 6:52 pm

    My daughter has two books that are obviously her favorite and she LOVES books. One is The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but her top would be Bad Kitty. Great for preschool ages learning letters.

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