 | Cowboy Baby (Story Book & DVD) by Sue Heap
Buy used from: £1.44 Great for girls and boys - try your best wild west accent
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 | Hairy Maclary: Five Lynley Dodd Stories (Viking Kestrel Picture Books) by Lynley Dodd
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £7.93 Rhyming books, fast and slow bits, great pictures and humour. Dogs and Cats have wonderful names too.
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 | Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy
Buy new: £3.83 / Used from: £0.59 They love this from 18 months onwards. I still read it with my 5yr old who reads some of it himself. Peace at Last by the same author is a good read too.
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 | Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 MY favourite Julia Donaldson, although Smartest Giant in Town is a close second
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 | Meg's Castle (Meg and Mog) by Helen Nicoll
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £0.01 This was the first M&M I bought, all great as first books to share with tiny ones. Vivid colours and simple language.
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 | The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.37 Nearly as old as me, but still a classic. Kids love listening to the CD too.
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 | Minnow on the Say by Philippa Pearce
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.95 As good as Tom's Midnight Garden, voluptuous literary descriptive - fantastic to read out loud and increase childs vocabulary at the same time (reading to 8yr old)
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 | The Little Red Train Gift Collection by Benedict Blathwayt
The girls had these books first, particularly since the illustrations are so detailed and beautiful. Stories are fun too.
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 | Duck in the Truck by Jez Alborough
Buy used from: £0.01 Another first, closely followed by the other "Duck" books. The children love finishing the phrases and seeing how rude and naughty duck can be.
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 | Follow My Leader by Emma Chichester Clark
Buy used from: £0.09 More famous for the great Blue Kangarro books, this story tells how a Tiger wants to join in "Follow My Leader" and how a boy and his dog outwit him. Fantastic rhythm.
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