There are alot of books that I’m not going to do individual posts on simply because they’re already well known, but I can’t pass them by completely as they have played a big part in our reading journey. George really loves all of these as I think all children and parents do so they’re definitely worthy of their popularity:

Wacky and funny, I don’t think George was too sure about the Cat at first, but he was obviously won over as he refused to leave a shop in Brighton until we bought him a little Cat in the Hat doll. We’re big Dr Seuss fans here so I’ll be back with other titles, but this one is always a winner.

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We had an old charity shop version of this that George quite liked, but it was when he received a new version with an accompanying Spot toy that he really loved it. I think he probably thought that his Spot was the actual Spot in the book, which of course he is in a way. He was then delighted to receive the Spot Easter book from his Grandma and greeted it with a big “Spot!” They are all simple but engaging for little ones. Easy to identify illustrations and lots of great flaps.

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Thanks to his Grandma Lala, George probably has the biggest collection of Hungry Caterpillar toys. They’re brilliant and were amongst his first toys so this had to be one of the first books we read to him. This is probably the best early book for introducing colours and numbers, fruit and even salami and also teaching a bit of biology. George’s favourite part though is probably poking his holes through the caterpillar’s various meals! He is a huge Eric Carle fan so I’ll be posting about a few of his other favourite titles.

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I think this was one of those books we originally got from the library and half the flaps were missing. This is a great way to introduce animals and their characteristics. There’s also a great simplified buggy book version with die-cut animals. This isn’t George’s favourite Rod Campbell, but he does pull it off the bookshelves quite a bit. His favourite is definitely It’s Mine so I’ll definitely blog about that soon.