![The Very Hungry Caterpillar [Board Book]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415zAVZ9TiL._SL75_.jpg) | The Very Hungry Caterpillar [Board Book] by Eric Carle
Buy new: £2.95 / Used from: £0.01 This is the all time classic. Simple text, iconic images. Works on many levels.
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 | The Snowy Day (Picture Puffin) by Ezra Jack Keats
Buy new: £3.46 / Used from: £0.01 I remember this one from my youth. The pictures are striking and the simple story captures children's fascination with snow.
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 | The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
Buy new: £2.96 / Used from: £0.01 A rhyming story of a mouse and a monster. This is great fun and to its compliment feels like it has been around forever.
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 | Doing the Garden (Going ...) by Sarah Garland
Buy new: £4.60 / Used from: £1.46 Everyday life is depicted in these simple well drawn pictures. Few words but plenty of detail in the pictures that children love to talk about.
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 | Peace at Last by Jill Murphy
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £0.01 Trying to get a good nights sleep in hard in the noisy house. The noises are great.
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 | Meg and Mog by Helen Nicoll
Buy new: £4.16 / Used from: £1.19 Simple bold illustrations and fun stories appeal to the very young.
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 | Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell
Buy new: £3.46 / Used from: £0.01 An amusing fable about a lazy farmer and a hard working duck. This is a very clever book, the language and pictures blend together perfectly, into an entertaining moral tale.
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 | Peepo! (Picture Puffin) by Janet Ahlberg
Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £0.01 The pictures evoke a homely wartime setting with great use of a hole to peep onto the next page. The word Peepo is repeated to great effect.
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 | The Magic Bed by John Burningham
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £0.71 Lovely illustrations and a story that delves deep into young childrens fantasies.
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 | Things I Like by Shirley Hughes
Buy used from: £0.01 Rhyming text and great illustrations explore everyday life, seasons, colours and things children like.
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 | Bing: Yuk! by Ted Dewan
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.73 Anarchic and vibrant books that my children and I find hilarious!
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 | Mucky Duck by Sally Grindley
Buy used from: £0.01 The excellent collage type illustrations help show just how messy this duck is. O you mucky duck!
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 | I am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed (Charlie and Lola) by Lauren Child
Buy new: £4.17 / Used from: £0.98 Superbly captures childrens logic and speech patterns to turn bedtime in to a fantastic leap of the imagination.
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 | Brian Wildsmith's Animal Gallery by Brian Wildsmith
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.89 Another from my own youth. Collective nouns for animals and exquisite illustrations.
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 | Hairy Maclary: Five Lynley Dodd Stories (Viking Kestrel Picture Books) by Lynley Dodd
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £7.92 Excellent use of language. Engaging animal characters and fantastic pictures. Perfect!
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 | Cockatoos (Red Fox picture books) by Quentin Blake
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £0.01 The finest illustrator of all and a very funny story of his own.
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 | Who is Mrs Green? by David McKee
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £2.59 Creator of Mr Benn can do no wrong. The illustrations are excellent and full of detail. The story shows the cause and effect through a chain of events.
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 | Buzz Off by Gordon Green
Buy new: £5.39 Had to slip my own book in. What can I say. This book is fantastic.
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 | Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £0.01 Great pictures and an engaging story. Aliens dont exist according to the Man on the moon but children can count them in the background on each page.
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 | Ravenous Beast with DVD (Book & DVD) by Sharkey
Buy used from: £0.01 The ravenous beast is hungry; he's hungry, hungry, hungry. This is great fun with bold illustrations and a lot of phrases that have stuck in our house. "Nonsense Smonsense!"
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 | Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
Buy new: £4.69 / Used from: £1.87 Snurp!
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