What are the best all-time kid's books, Christmas and otherwise?

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FrostyShimmer

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Hi everyone,
I've been trying to pick out a few books for my daughter. What would you recommend as the best kids' books out there?
She's 11 months old now, but I'm looking for anything to read to a toddler or preschooler.
So far I have:

Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon 123
The Cat in the Hat
The Grinch who Stole Christmas
Runaway Bunny
 

HouseElf

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Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny are wonderful, the best!

Another couple my boys loved:

Are You My Mother?
Green Eggs, and Ham

Love You Forever

The Mitten

The Night Before Christmas

Who is coming to our house?

The Crippled Lamb

Anothe great story I read with some of my clients: Bear Stays Up for Christmas
 

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Indiana
Anything by Dr Suess
Where the Wild Things Are
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (and most anything by this author, too Eric Carlisle)
The Little Engine That Could
I Love You Forever
Goodnight Moon
 

Gingerbug

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I've always loved Mr Willowby's Christmas Tree....

:tree:
 

sierra_mtns

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My boys loved "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and all the other books in that group; Moose=Muffin, Pig=Pancake(?), etc.
 

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I gave You Are My Miracle to my youngest son on his first Birthday (which is December 14th, so the Christmas theming worked well). I also like You Are My I Love You by the same author. Here's a link:
http://www.amazon.com/You-Miracle-Maryann-Cusimano-Love/dp/0399240373

My oldest son loved the series of bear books by Martin Waddell:
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Bear-S...2X/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1319652903&sr=8-10

My daughter loved Prayer For A Child by Rachel Field:
http://www.amazon.com/Prayer-Child-...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319652988&sr=1-1
Time For Bed (which was a present the day she was born):
http://www.amazon.com/Time-Bed-Big-...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319653513&sr=1-1

All 3 loved Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom:
http://www.amazon.com/Chicka-ABC-Jr...=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319653291&sr=1-6

All the ones already mentioned were favorites here as well.

Trying to think....hmmmm. If only I could get to my Christmas books. They are stored until we decorate. The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett...anything by Jan Brett. LOVE her illustrations.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=jan+brett

Hope this helped. Sorry for all the links. I am a visual person & tend to think everyone else needs to see what I am talking about. lol.

Bren

P.S. What a wonderful age your daughter will be this Christmas! Mine are 14, 11 and soon to be 8. I had to really think hard to remember the books they loved at a year old.
 

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Fluttering happily in the clouds!!
Dr Suess
Beatrix Potter stories too (Peter Rabbit and lots of other animals - Enligh classics)
Mr Men and Little Miss

I know that there's one that DD loved for years, and I can never remember the name but it's pretty famous here, it starts "Once there was a boy, and one day, a penguin came to the door. The boy thought the penguin was lost, and wanted to help..." (Yes, I almost know it by heart !!)

Once she started to get into longer books, Roald Dahls have been the BIG hit. Charlie and the chocolate factory, Matilda, and DH is just finishing Danyy the Champion of the World.

We always have "The night before Christmas" on Christmas Eve, and she also loves a french book about 24 mice preparing every day in December for Christmas and their daily adventures (I have to read it in french and then translate to english).

The hungry caterpillar was also a huge hit.

Dorling Kingsley also have little board books that are about ABC, Colour, Opposites, Words, Numbers and Time (possibly a few more too) - you can get them individually or in little libraries of 3, and we have 2 libraries. She still likes those, as she can now read the words herself, but the colours and pictures were great when she was smaller to read herself or read with us (great when she was learning to talk too).

We have so many books that favourites are difficult, but there's a few of the most loved.
 

FrostyShimmer

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Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I'd heard of a couple of them, but most of them are new to me. I'll have to place an order later this week. It's been nearly a year of the same three books over and over again fifteen times a day. :)

I do have the Night Before Christmas, though it's crumbling apart....I think it was my Mom's as a kid, so probably best not to let the baby touch it. She loves books, but she also has a seek and destroy mentality at this stage.
 

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These are nice books--all of them. When the little one gets older, the Little House Books and the "Rose" Books (by Laura's daughter), are also good choices. You can read them aloud, then they can read themselves. Be sure and get out the hankies -- some parts are very touching when read out loud to a child.
 

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ODS reminded me that they loved Hailstones and Halibut Bones (a poetry book about colors). He reads it to his daughter all the time and she loves it.
 

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Big Red Barn -- My kids loved that one as much as Goodnight Moon.