Thanks for sharing all of these suggestions!

DS3 loves books more than toys, so we have quite a growing collection. I am attracted to books with beautiful / unusual illustrations because it keeps me from getting bored.

Here's my list of faves from when DS was about 2-2.5:

-Anything by Jim Arnosky (Every Autumn Comes the Bear, Rabbits and Raindrops, Otters Under Water, etc)
-The Cat at Night, and Hardscrapple Harvest by Dahlov Ipcar
-Margaret Wise Brown is a solid Author, we've liked: Home for a Bunny, The Golden Egg Book, Sneakers the Seaside Cat
-It's Winter, It's Spring, and It's Fall by Linda Glaser
-The Mitten (the version by Alvin Tresselt is the very best)
-Kitten's First Full Moon and Old Bear by Kevin Henkes
-Red are the Apples by Marc Harshman
-We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Micheal Rosen
-Roadwork by Sally Sutton
-A Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na
-A Penguin Story by Antoinette Portis
-A Tree is Nice by Janice May Udry
-Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car by Eileen Christelow
-The Wind Blew, and Goodnight Owl by Pat Hutchins
-The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord
-Corderoy by Don Freeman
-Feather's for Lunch by Lois Ehlert
-Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
-Turtle Splash by Cathryn Farwell
-My Heart is like a Zoo by Micheal Hall
-Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni
-My Many Colored Days by Dr. Suess

Here are some more advanced books we've added since DS was about 2.5:
-Mike Mulligan and More: 4 Classic Stories by Virginia Lee Burton
-Septimus Bean by Janet Quin-Karkin
-Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White
-The Runaway Pumpkin by Kevin Lewis
-Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal, Lentil, and One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
-Where Do They Go When it Rains by Gerda Muller
-Jack's Garden by Henry Cole
-Paddington by Michael Bond
-Charlie the Ranch Dog by Ree Drummond
-Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
-When I was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant (I skip the page with the dead snake :D)
-Papa Piccolo by Carol Talley
-The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde Swift (DS loves the youtube video about the real little red lighthouse up in NYC)
-The Tomten by Astrid Lindgren (This book is a little out there for some people... If you buy this, it is imperative that you get an import copy, as the US printings are low quality. Mine is a used Hardcover, Import, January 1, 1992 from Amazon.)
-Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

Last edited by Space_Cadet; 11/23/13 09:24 AM.