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Please suggest some good book you use at age of 3 for your kids

This is just for my knowledge, I am not checking or judging anything,

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We have started the Little People BIG DREAMS series which my son loves!
He’s slowly getting into Disney books too😊

Gerda Muller wordless picture books - the one about Seasons. Usborne books about Weather etc, Julia Donaldson books. Big lift the flap books... highly recommend wordless picture books.... Booksforbugs is our favourite shop

Heres some titles we are currently enjoying:

- Geoffrey gets the Jitters
- Barbara Throws a Wobbler
- Pirates/Dinosaurs on the Bus
- Bunnies on the Bus
- Hen in the Bed
- 10 Minutes to Bed... series
- Mavis the Bravist
- The Littlest Yak
- 'You Choose' series
- 100 Dogs/Cats/Birds
- Usborne 'Peep Inside' series
- Usborne 'Questions and Answers about...' series (flaps galore)
- Pom Pom is Super/Gets the Grumps
- The Best Worst Day Ever

There's some great resources online for book suggestions for different ages. Here's some links:

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/our-recommendations/best-books-for-0-5s/

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/reading-and-stories/bookbug-story-library

Happy reading!

My 3 year old loves these series of books
Wonky donkey
10 minutes to bed
Any Julia Donaldson
Magic pet shop
10 little monkey/ dinosaur / princess ect

My boy loves the You can’t take an elephant on holiday books, oh no George, horace the hippo, green eggs and ham, there’s a mouse in my chair, we’re going on a bear hunt, The grufallo. We also got a subscription to This Bear Can Read which I really like.

He also likes the large 100 words picture books as he likes to tell me everything he can see

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