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The Elephant & Piggie series, by Mo Willems. IMHO, the best kids book we've encountered. Some of the nice features: a) well drawn and sharply delineated chara

The Elephant & Piggie series, by Mo Willems. IMHO, the best kids book we've encountered. Some of the nice features: a) well drawn and sharply delineated characters. (One of my pet peeves about some kids books is difficult to distinguish images that tend to get lost in a sea of bright colors.) b) the text is _large_ and changes size according to the emotions of the characters. c) phrases are repeated -- great for language acquisition -- but not in a way that's irritating or vacuous. d) funny stories; real emotions that toddlers can grok. e) good construction -- high quality printing, thick pages, etc...

esmi 9y ago
I definitely like that series as well but I'd add: f) Written with a rhythmic metre -- An example being Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen. It almost feels like one sings this book rather than read it. I've noticed with the books that are almost musical in nature young kids can "read along" (basically recite) the entire text after just a few readings even when the vocabulary is tough and absolutely beyond their reading ability. And if you leave it and come back to it in a couple of weeks they'll still know it with uncanny accuracy.
artpepper2 9y ago
+1 Another nice thing about that series, for an early reader, is you can read one character and your child takes the other.
jacobolus 9y ago
The 20 month old thinks they are funny, but personally I find these books boring after 10 times reading the same book. YMMV. Some of his recent favorites: Green Eggs and Ham, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, Duck in the Truck, Snip Snap! What’s That?, Gaston, Caps for Sale, Harry the Dirty Dog, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.
kasey_junk 9y ago
Completely unrelated & not meant to replace the books, which I adore. Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus, ios app is awesome. Exactly what I want in a kids app.
- randomwhatever 8y ago
  my kid loved this book, and I read it maybe 40 times, but the whole style + text, I still enjoyed it ) there is also one called (I think, not English native) 'it is not a box' really nice and kids love it

esmi 9y ago

I definitely like that series as well but I'd add: f) Written with a rhythmic metre -- An example being Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen. It almost feels like one sings this book rather than read it. I've noticed with the books that are almost musical in nature young kids can "read along" (basically recite) the entire text after just a few readings even when the vocabulary is tough and absolutely beyond their reading ability. And if you leave it and come back to it in a couple of weeks they'll still know it with uncanny accuracy.

artpepper2 9y ago

+1 Another nice thing about that series, for an early reader, is you can read one character and your child takes the other.

jacobolus 9y ago

The 20 month old thinks they are funny, but personally I find these books boring after 10 times reading the same book. YMMV. Some of his recent favorites: Green Eggs and Ham, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, Duck in the Truck, Snip Snap! What’s That?, Gaston, Caps for Sale, Harry the Dirty Dog, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.

kasey_junk 9y ago

Completely unrelated & not meant to replace the books, which I adore. Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus, ios app is awesome. Exactly what I want in a kids app.

randomwhatever 8y ago
my kid loved this book, and I read it maybe 40 times, but the whole style + text, I still enjoyed it ) there is also one called (I think, not English native) 'it is not a box' really nice and kids love it