We are all avid readers in our house and we've read soooo many amazing picture books to the boys over the years. These are just "some" of the hundreds of books we've loved reading to them:
- Luna and Me
- Instructions (Neil Gaiman)
- Scranimals
- The Mischievians
- Unnatural Selections
- All the Skippyjon Jones books (Judith Schachner)
- The Bear stories by Benjamin Chaud
- Charlie and Kiwi
- Max's Dragon and other Max books by Kate Banks (also The Eraserheads)
- How to Bake a Book
- Tales for Very Picky Eaters
- Super Hair-O and the Barber of Doom
- The Fort that Jack Built
- All of Julia Donaldson's (The Snail and the Whale, The Gruffalo, etc.)
- fractured fairy tales (like the Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot, or the Three Ninja Pigs)
- the original Pete the Cat books (only the ones by Eric Litwin)
- Panda-monium at Peek Zoo
- The Book with No Pictures
- Mr. Brown's Fantastic Hat
- The Whisper
- The Curious Garden
- If I Built a House
- The Hundred Decker Bus
- several of the Claude Ponti books (wildly interesting illustrations)
- Nerdy Birdy
- Blizzard
- It's Only Stanley
- The Monsterator
- Agent A to Agent Z
- The Incredible Book Eating Boy
- Kathryn Otoshi books
- Journey (Aaron Becker)
- Hervé Tullet books
To teach your child to speak more quietly:
- Decibella and her Six Inch Voice
Non-fiction/math-related:
- Your Fantastic Elastic Brain
- Hungry for Math
- That's a Possibility
- If - A Mind-bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers
And honestly, if you love those, I have more. Lots more. It's hard to believe there are so many great picture books out there!
