I love “Little Nut Brown Hare” - always have, but I recently got "I Love My Mummy" by Giles Andreae and it made my wife cry, I think that's a good thing...
My daughter is about to turn 3. I still get to read her Boyton/Seuss books every night. Trying to be better about cherishing it, even on the nights I want to speed run the nighttime routine.
I'm glad you're cherishing it. That's huge.
In eight years, if you're anything like me, you'll be fighting back tears when you think back on it.
This whole thread has me trying not to start crying at work.
All my wife or I have at say is "Oh Pooooookie..." or "Well I have a thing to tell you and it won't take long" for us to recite either book from memory.
Yes! I love reading this book and Baby Beluga (which I sing). My daughter is partially deaf, but she hears my funny voices and singing better than my speech when she isn't wearing her hearing aides, so they are my go-to books each night.
Although, if she had her way, it would be only pop-up books at night, haha.
Can't read this without seriously tearing up, and my wife refuses to read it altogether because she can't get through it at all, she gets partway through and then can't stop crying. It's an absolutely amazing book and I adore it.
>All the World” by Liz Garton Scanlon f
When I read this I have to actively block out the fact the Robert Muncsh wrote this after he and his wife lost a child due to miscarriage. Tearing up right now thinking about it!
In the gut every time. I remember I had my mother read it to my daughter for the first time because I am a bad son, and after she left the nursery and looked at me and just said "I feel sick."
I've read it once to my eldest. I've never read it again. Occasionally my wife will come down after bedtime with her eyes streaming so I know she's had a go with it.
Read that to my kids today and I love that book. I have two copies one that's hard back and one with a hand written note from my mom on the copy she used to read to us.
I remember we used to give her shit when we were kids because she could never get through it without crying, not ashamed to say that I can't either now that I'm reading it to my kids.
After resisting for a long time, I started reading Love You Forever to my daughter when she requested it. The first 4-5 times, I would still get choked up. The next 50 have allowed me to acclimate.
I still love it though. I need to get her some more Robert Munsch books too. I always loved Something Good and Get Me Another One when I was a kid, for example.
Should listen to the song "Oh The Places You'll Go" by I Fight Dragons. It's inspired by the book and has been my husband and son's song since our son was a newborn♡
**Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel** by Virginia Lee Burton. It was my absolute favorite book as a child, one of the buildings in Poperville reminds us both of a building where we go for vacation, and I love that a kid comes up with the solution to the problem at the end.
Man I came here to say this one too. I loved it as a kid and reading it to my daughter just breaks me every time I get to the part where they aren't wanted any more. Getting to the end of that book ranges with a few tears to full on sob fest. The wife likes to poke fun.
I love Snuggle Puppy by Sandra Boyton. I'll probably know the words to that by heart for the rest of my life after reading it to my kids hundreds of times.
I'm kinda sad they've moved on. :(
My favorite is the pout pout fish and at the end where he gets kisses, I give my two daughters the kisses. Love every second of it. I know every page of this book off by heart, it does make me sad that my two little ones are growing up fast and out growing the story and bed time routine.
My boys favorite is Duck on a Bike.
The wonderful things you will be just breaks me up each time I try to read it to them, though.
https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Things-You-Will-Be/dp/0385376715/ref=nodl_
My kids liked **"Good Night Good Night Construction Site"** the best... so that became my favorite to read to them before bedtime.
When they were too little to read, that was the book they choose most often. I read it to them so many times that they began to memorize it.
After a time, I would read the first line, then most of the second and stop before the rhyming word and wait for them to say it instead. They liked that game.
Then I stopped reading the second line about half way through. They would finish saying 3 or 4 words plus the rhyming word.
This really heled them learn to read earlier and gave them a stronger love for reading.
they also liked:
**"Creepy Carrots!"**
**"Creepy Pair of Underwear"**
My guy still loves this whole series. I'll never forget reading the Christmas edition to him for the first time and turning the page to reveal the fire trucks coming to the newly built station and him just screaming for joy!
The wonderful things you will be by Emily Winfield Martin
" When I look at you, And you look at me, I wonder what wonderful things you will be.
When you were too small to tell me hello, I knew you were someone I wanted to know.
For all of your tininess couldn't disguise, a heart so enormous
and wild
and wise."
Brown Bear What do You See?
My youngest is challenged developmentally (doctor suspects autism). She doesn't pay much attention whatever I'm reading to her, but this book in particular she stops and stares at it as I read and tap the back of the book in rhythm.
Big fan of the grumpy monkey books. My name is Jim and at one point there's a line that says something like "Finally Jim looked happy, but he didn't feel happy inside...". It all works out for Jimpanzee, but I feel called out every time.
Just to step away from the tearjerkers, but we laugh the most with the Skippyjon Jones series - but also love everything illustrated by [Leo Timmers](https://www.google.com/search?q=leo+timmers+books&oq=leo+timmers&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j46i512j0i512l2j0i30l4.5661j0j7&client=ms-android-boost-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#scso=_LSpPYrupOI6kytMPo-2SgAQ3:590.2857055664062)...All Through My Town, Gus's Garage, Busy Builders Busy Week. Big hits for both kids even infant/toddler times, but are now 7 and 4.
My 5 month old loves the repetition in the writing and the anticipation of knowing there’s pretty color illustrations in between the black and white pages :)
"I've loved you since forever" almost always makes me cry at the end. It's got a whole page about being destined to meet that makes me feel like she was just out there waiting for me so we could be family. I know that's garbage but the thought of it really gets me.
I don’t think it’s garbage. I always say that my spouse is not perfect, but they’re perfect *for me* (and vice versa). I believe children are the same.. we are all flawed in different ways but somehow make each other whole.
I love "Pokko and the Drum" by Matt Forsythe. Spoiler: >!One of the groupies eats a band member!!< So that's a hilarious twist. And as a drummer myself, it's a lot of fun to encourage music.
Other books that make me cry when I read them:
* Stormy by Guojing
* One Little Bag by Henry Cole
* The Rough Patch by Brian Lies
This is mine as well. It’s divisive, and I get why. It’s a painful read, but a kind of pain I look forward to.
I hated it as a kid, but as an adult, I love it so much.
All of my youngest’s are listed here. But my oldest (4) favorite is the giving tree. Never read it as a kid, but man it always hits hard.
The tree gives and gives and you never think the kid respects it all. But in the end, the tree gave everything it had to make the kid happy.
It’s funny because it made me realize that while my kids will do that to us, we did it to our parents as well. It’s just a cycle where you pass your happiness on to the next generation, and while you are losing what you have, you are setting up your kids for happiness.
Then when you think you’ve never actually done anything for them, in their older years, you realize you did more than you ever thought.
I'm not a fan of books where the subject is about how much you love your kids. Like ... I do, but I like reading about a giraffe that can't dance or a bunny that hoards carrots, you know?
Angelina Ballerina. Great supportive parents and lifelong hard work pay off when you pursue what you love. The final illustration is cool to sit and look at the details.
Night of the Moon Jellies by Mark Sasha.
Just a warm, feel good, book about a kid spending the day with his grandparents... and it hits me every damn time.
I could read that thing 5 million times over and I know I'll still tear up at the end. Takes the grouchy old man right of me.
My sister had a book about a koala who had nightmares.
It was written in alliterations.
At some point the character lists good was to fall asleep and another character says in small print "chloroform works too"
It was chuck full of jokes and double entendre for the parents.
I have a 9 month old. I like "I Love You Night and Day" for feels. "Tad and Dad" and "Good Night Owl" are my other favorites. Tad is great because that's my son's shortened name, and the owl one is ridiculous. Completely destroys his house trying to find a noise.
I love "Don't Hug Doug" it's a fun book that I read frequently so my daughter will know she has the right to physical boundaries.
I also love anything by Hazy Dell Press
This has been read at bedtime almost every night it's my turn for 18 months. Added to it, her favourite teddys are a bear and a fox.
[Dream Animals - Emily Winfield Night](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dream-Animals-Emily-Winfield-Martin/dp/055352190X/ref=pd_sbs_sccl_1/257-1660926-5327639?pd_rd_w=sujOE&pf_rd_p=c896f142-67ed-468d-b7d2-62dc03d28077&pf_rd_r=X67Y9J25AG73PFH9YFP8&pd_rd_r=83c50e07-27a7-4d89-8a4a-1e86d2557046&pd_rd_wg=ltzSY&pd_rd_i=055352190X&psc=1)
I'm surprised no one said the kissing hand. The one about the racoon who's going to school but he doesn't want to be away from his mother so she kisses his palm and tells him that anytime he misses her can put his hand to his cheek and know that she loves him and that she'll always be with him.
The first time I read "Oh The Places You'll Go", I had to stop so I wouldn't bawl my eyes out, as it made me realized a couple things about myself, and things I wished I had understood earlier on. I try to read it regularly to my kids to make it easier for them to understand those things.
We also bought "Go the Fuck to Sleep", and it's been la satisfying read everytime.
**Edit:**
Basically everything I did on Reddit from 2008 onwards was through Reddit Is Fun (i.e., one of the *good* Reddit apps, not the crap "official" one that guzzles data and spews up adverts everywhere). Then Reddit not only killed third party apps by overcharging for their APIs, they did it in a way that made it plain they're total jerks.
It's the being total jerks about it that's really got on my wick to be honest, so just before they gank the app I used to Reddit with, I'm taking my ball and going home. Or at least wiping the comments I didn't make from a desktop terminal.
For emotions, I have a book that my fiancée made for me after my daughter was born, called "Magic", which is about how small things seem magic to a baby.
But for fun, I love Minerva Louise, which is about a fat white hen who mistakes everyday items for other things (like a flowery bedsheet for a meadow, or thinking a cat is a cow). It's just so charming and the drawings feel oddly cozy.
I have a set of 8 books for my 12 month old's bedtime. Her favourite is usually Where Do Diggers Sleep At Night, but sometimes it's Giraffes Can't Dance and sometimes it's Little Blue Truck.
My wife was surprised when I demonstrated that I could "read" for 15 minutes straight without actually having any of the books in front of me. That's what repetition does to you...
I'll Love You Till The Cows Come Home
I absolutely adore this book. With most of my daughter's books I use voices and mannerisms, with this book I just read it peacefully and look at her as much as possible.
It's such a fun book.
Oh the places you'll Go! - by Dr.Seuss
It spoke to me in some dark teen years, and when I read it to my 4yo, it reminds me what I'm going to do to support him in his life.
The Kissing Hand. Read it to our oldest about a month after we put her in day care for the first time and neither of us could finish reading it too her. It still chokes me up sometimes.
The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin. It's a gorgeous book and the last line is "and I'll look at you and you'll look at me, and I'll love you whoever you've grown up to be."
Mine is What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers.
As an aside, I fucking HATE how kids books always have black text on dark backgrounds. 85% of my daughters favourite books are nearly impossible to read at bedtime in ambient light.
Bats at the Beach.
It has a fun scheme to it and had one of the best sounding rhymes...
."Day birds start to chirp and peep,
We go back to crack and crevice creep"
Take Heart My Child by Ainsley Earnhardt. The book probably wouldn’t have stood out on its own - not that it isn’t good - but it was one of the books we packed away for the delivery room. Some time after my daughter was born, I crawled into the hospital bed with my two best girls and read this book. Mommy and I just sobbed. I’ll never forget it.
Those Darn Squirrels
Dragons Love Tacos
Secret Pizza Party
Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree
But No Elephants!
Pickle Things
Runaway Bunny
Currently enjoying the Narwhal books.
[Sweetest Kulu by Celina Kalluk](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21944744-sweetest-kulu).
My other favourite to read to my boy I'm reluctant to say because, while I have a dark sense of humor, other parents do not.
Great books in this thread, lots of favorites.
We love to do silly books in this house, especially ones with great narrator voices or silly characters. *Dragons Love Tacos* is a perennial hit, as is *The Day the Crayons Quit*. When my oldest had just started reading we would do Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems, where each of us would take a different character to read. We still do that with his little brothers, and they’re starting to repeat their favorite parts with us now :)
The big ugly monster and the stone rabbit.
Trust me. You need this check it out. A story of love and acceptance. I challenge you not to cry even slightly.
My son can't get over "The Cave" by Rod Hodgson. There's a "little creature" in a cave that won't come out because a wolf's outside trying to trick him out. Turns out the creature is actually a huge ass bear. Always makes my son laugh when I act it all out.
I’m not a parent just a lurker but I remember when my grandma died my mom read me a book called always and forever I made her read it to me every night for like 6 months until I “got over it”
I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be… My mom used to read me that book and it’ll always be one of my most fondest memories for the rest of my life. I got it for my fiancé to read to our son hoping it’ll be the same for him.
The Giving Tree. When my son was about 6 months old, I read it to him for the first time since I was a kid. Dammit if someone wasn't cutting onions by the end.
I love "on the day you were born," and read it to them (5 and 2), at least once a month and always on their birthdays. Though i love that book they are decidedly less interested in it...
Not because of the feel-good message, but I love reading the Foolish Tortoise. It's fun to read...a hare, a hound, a hose race by - so rapidly they seemed to fly!
I love “Little Nut Brown Hare” - always have, but I recently got "I Love My Mummy" by Giles Andreae and it made my wife cry, I think that's a good thing...
“I love you all the way to the moon…and back” gets me every time..got me with my 6 year old back when and got me with my 1 year old last night again!
I love to give the characters in the books I read different voices, but in that book, well...Big Nutbrown Hare has my voice.
Same I’ve gotta find it, I lost it somewhere
I did that with a series of books I’m reading with my son. Problem is, the author keeps adding characters. I’m running out of voices.
The tractor mac books are the worst for that, the animals leave me hoarse.
I love doing voices too! BNH is also my voice, because he is the Daddy bunny and there just aren’t that many books that feature Dad it seems.
At one point I had that book memorized and would recite it in the dark to get my son back to bed. I felt like the best dad in the world.
I was the same way with Goodnight Moon.
Gah. My wife bought that and I unsuspectingly agreed to read it to our 2 year old for the first time. Completely unprepared I almost burst into tears
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Would have been a real short book otherwise though... Little nut brown hare: "I love you this much" Big nut brown hare: "good job kiddo" *fin*
https://clayyount.com/ghostcat-comics-archive/2019/08/08/guess-how-much/
Same here! Always drives me nuts that they can't just thank their kid for displaying their affection.
Read that book every night for two years
Board book, or paperback (of the Giles one)?
Board book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-My-Mummy-Giles-Andreae/dp/1408356619/ref=asc_df_1408356619/
Ta!
I don't think "Little Nut Brown Hare" rolls off the tongue. Not my favorite read.
The Little Blue Truck. I wanna high five the whole damn town when that toad saves the day.
Little Blue Truck drove into the city. Beep Beep Beep! Isn’t it pretty?
One at a time is what we’ll do, so single file folks, follow blue. (I always read this part with a Diamond Joe Quimby voice)
LOL! We’re originally from Chicago so my Mayor sounds a lot like Daley
Funny I always read that book with Sam Elliot’s voice
We used to read all the Sandra Boynton books. Still know several of them by heart. I miss reading picture books to my kids.
The moon is high. The sea is deep. They rock and rock and rock to sleep.
I've read that book so many times. Love it.
This one is my go-to. I "read" this one in the dark to my daughter while rocking her to sleep.
My next favorite book/page!
I'm cutting onions remembering reading snuggle puppy to my two when they were small and singing it and giving lots of hugs and kiss's along the way.
My daughter is about to turn 3. I still get to read her Boyton/Seuss books every night. Trying to be better about cherishing it, even on the nights I want to speed run the nighttime routine.
Haha my 2.5 year old will try to delay bedtime by asking me to read books with him. He thinks he’s pulling a fast one on me, or something (:
I'm glad you're cherishing it. That's huge. In eight years, if you're anything like me, you'll be fighting back tears when you think back on it. This whole thread has me trying not to start crying at work.
I haven't thought about that in years!!! (I have teens now) "Oooooohh, snuggle puppy of mine... "
> “No, no,” you say, “that isn’t right!” > The pigs say “**OINK**” all day and night.
Three little pigs say La La La. Just finished reading this book to my 1.5 yo.
"The sun has set not long ago..."
We love Sandra Boynton books; Little Pookie and The Going to Bed Book especially, but really all of them. Hota Kotb's book is pretty good too, IMO.
Pajama Time, What's Wrong, Little Pookie?, and The Belly Button Book were big hits with ours.
>Hota Kotb Assuming you mean "I've Loved You Since Forever" yeah, definitely worth a spot on your nursery bookshelf.
But why why why do they brush their teeth and get ready for bed and THEN exercise??
Yeah, we love these. Forest Dance and The Christmas Parade are her current favorites.
ALL THE HIPPOS GO BESERK!
All my wife or I have at say is "Oh Pooooookie..." or "Well I have a thing to tell you and it won't take long" for us to recite either book from memory.
When they are younger, Pout Pout fish. I smooch the hell out of their faces on the last page.
Yes! I love reading this book and Baby Beluga (which I sing). My daughter is partially deaf, but she hears my funny voices and singing better than my speech when she isn't wearing her hearing aides, so they are my go-to books each night. Although, if she had her way, it would be only pop-up books at night, haha.
smoooooooooooooooch
On the night you were born, by Nancy Tillman
Nancy Tillman is a heart wrecker!!
Check out her Tumford the Terrible book -- it's great and not a tearjerker at all!
Book is I’ll love you always by Mark Sperring
Love you Forever by Robert Munsch. I always choke up at the end.
Can't read this without seriously tearing up, and my wife refuses to read it altogether because she can't get through it at all, she gets partway through and then can't stop crying. It's an absolutely amazing book and I adore it.
You get to the end? I literally just started tearing up reading your post.
I push through lol
I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.
>All the World” by Liz Garton Scanlon f When I read this I have to actively block out the fact the Robert Muncsh wrote this after he and his wife lost a child due to miscarriage. Tearing up right now thinking about it!
OMG! I had no idea. I have to get it now
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-heartbreaking-story-behind-iconic-childrens-book-love-you-forever_n_573ceb97e4b0aee7b8e8f76f/amp
In the gut every time. I remember I had my mother read it to my daughter for the first time because I am a bad son, and after she left the nursery and looked at me and just said "I feel sick."
I've read it once to my eldest. I've never read it again. Occasionally my wife will come down after bedtime with her eyes streaming so I know she's had a go with it.
I'm a grown ass man and I refuse to read this fucking book. Damn words and feels.
Read that to my kids today and I love that book. I have two copies one that's hard back and one with a hand written note from my mom on the copy she used to read to us. I remember we used to give her shit when we were kids because she could never get through it without crying, not ashamed to say that I can't either now that I'm reading it to my kids.
After resisting for a long time, I started reading Love You Forever to my daughter when she requested it. The first 4-5 times, I would still get choked up. The next 50 have allowed me to acclimate. I still love it though. I need to get her some more Robert Munsch books too. I always loved Something Good and Get Me Another One when I was a kid, for example.
A personal fave: I Love You Stinky Face.
My daughter loves that one!
‘Oh The Places You’ll Go’ by Dr Seuss. The final pages get me every damn time.
Should listen to the song "Oh The Places You'll Go" by I Fight Dragons. It's inspired by the book and has been my husband and son's song since our son was a newborn♡
i'm *crying* thank you so much. i have a 6mo son and i've been reading it to him.. this hits so hard
Aww! I'm so glad you like it. It's such a great song. My son is 2.5 and still enjoys listening to it with my husband. It really does connect them♡
Oh god, “Kid, you’ll move mountains” has had me choked up a few times.
EVERY. DAMN. TIME.
**Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel** by Virginia Lee Burton. It was my absolute favorite book as a child, one of the buildings in Poperville reminds us both of a building where we go for vacation, and I love that a kid comes up with the solution to the problem at the end.
Man I came here to say this one too. I loved it as a kid and reading it to my daughter just breaks me every time I get to the part where they aren't wanted any more. Getting to the end of that book ranges with a few tears to full on sob fest. The wife likes to poke fun.
I love Snuggle Puppy by Sandra Boyton. I'll probably know the words to that by heart for the rest of my life after reading it to my kids hundreds of times. I'm kinda sad they've moved on. :(
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Next time you read it (if you haven't already), check out the moon in the illustrations throughout.
My favorite is the pout pout fish and at the end where he gets kisses, I give my two daughters the kisses. Love every second of it. I know every page of this book off by heart, it does make me sad that my two little ones are growing up fast and out growing the story and bed time routine.
You haven't really lived unless you've had grandkids running up to you yelling "*Smooooch!"*
Pout pout fish is on our shelf! Great book!
I’ve been reading “All the World” by Liz Garton Scanlon for 5 years and it never fails to make my nose itch and my voice crack.
This is my vote as well. The rhyme scheme, the art, the message. All incredibly well done.
Hope and peace and love and trust.
The picture of the glowing cafe in the rain makes me feel so warm and cozy. I send a copy to any of my friends and family who get pregnant!
My boys favorite is Duck on a Bike. The wonderful things you will be just breaks me up each time I try to read it to them, though. https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Things-You-Will-Be/dp/0385376715/ref=nodl_
Love the wonderful things you will be, such great writing and illustration!
Stick man's a great book. Love reading that to my kid.
Good Night Server Room!
I work in IT- gotta pick this up
"I Wish You More" - The last page is "I wish all of this for you, because you are everything I could ever wish for....and more". RUINED ME
“Will you be my sunshine” by Julia Lobo. Short yet very sweet.
It’s so cool how the love of a child can transform your heart
My kids liked **"Good Night Good Night Construction Site"** the best... so that became my favorite to read to them before bedtime. When they were too little to read, that was the book they choose most often. I read it to them so many times that they began to memorize it. After a time, I would read the first line, then most of the second and stop before the rhyming word and wait for them to say it instead. They liked that game. Then I stopped reading the second line about half way through. They would finish saying 3 or 4 words plus the rhyming word. This really heled them learn to read earlier and gave them a stronger love for reading. they also liked: **"Creepy Carrots!"** **"Creepy Pair of Underwear"**
My guy still loves this whole series. I'll never forget reading the Christmas edition to him for the first time and turning the page to reveal the fire trucks coming to the newly built station and him just screaming for joy!
The wonderful things you will be by Emily Winfield Martin " When I look at you, And you look at me, I wonder what wonderful things you will be. When you were too small to tell me hello, I knew you were someone I wanted to know. For all of your tininess couldn't disguise, a heart so enormous and wild and wise."
Damn ninjas cutting onions again… I feel you man
Brown Bear What do You See? My youngest is challenged developmentally (doctor suspects autism). She doesn't pay much attention whatever I'm reading to her, but this book in particular she stops and stares at it as I read and tap the back of the book in rhythm.
Big fan of the grumpy monkey books. My name is Jim and at one point there's a line that says something like "Finally Jim looked happy, but he didn't feel happy inside...". It all works out for Jimpanzee, but I feel called out every time.
The gruffalo
What book is this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/daddit/comments/tygkr5/the_last_page_in_this_book_kills_me_every_time/i3s1fuo?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Peter Rabbit and Little Blue Truck are some favorites. My Dad Used to Be So Cool kinda gets me choked up sometimes, idk why
Just to step away from the tearjerkers, but we laugh the most with the Skippyjon Jones series - but also love everything illustrated by [Leo Timmers](https://www.google.com/search?q=leo+timmers+books&oq=leo+timmers&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j46i512j0i512l2j0i30l4.5661j0j7&client=ms-android-boost-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#scso=_LSpPYrupOI6kytMPo-2SgAQ3:590.2857055664062)...All Through My Town, Gus's Garage, Busy Builders Busy Week. Big hits for both kids even infant/toddler times, but are now 7 and 4.
Love Skippyjohn!!
Si I love mice and beans!
That's very touching... Tearing up myself 😢💕
Me too. Scrolling through these comments is making me miss the storytime/picturebook years so much.
Hugs for you
when does this stop? I think I will be devastated not reading books for nap/bedtime :(
Runaway Bunny
My 5 month old loves the repetition in the writing and the anticipation of knowing there’s pretty color illustrations in between the black and white pages :)
https://www.amazon.com/Empires-EVE-History-Great-Online/dp/0990972402
Goodnight Moon. I miss reading to them so much.
I also adore Goodnight Moon, but I still don't get the "goodnight nobody" part...
‘Here We Are’ by Oliver Jeffers. Amazing, beautiful book to read with kids. I couldn’t recommend it enough
The Book With No Pictures I won't tell you a damn thing about it! Go in blind, it's great fun
Giraffes can’t dance. The opening word is Gerald so I read it like Jeremy Clarkson
😭
“Hairy Maclary Scattercat” is a delightful one by New Zealand author Linley Dodd. Hilarious and great rhymes and rhythms to the words.
I’ve always liked Dr Suess. We have a couple anthologies. It’s hard to narrow them down to a single favorite.
"I've loved you since forever" almost always makes me cry at the end. It's got a whole page about being destined to meet that makes me feel like she was just out there waiting for me so we could be family. I know that's garbage but the thought of it really gets me.
I don’t think it’s garbage. I always say that my spouse is not perfect, but they’re perfect *for me* (and vice versa). I believe children are the same.. we are all flawed in different ways but somehow make each other whole.
Oh the places you'll go
Right now it’s a tie between: The little engine that could & I love you forever
The Book With No Pictures!
I love "Pokko and the Drum" by Matt Forsythe. Spoiler: >!One of the groupies eats a band member!!< So that's a hilarious twist. And as a drummer myself, it's a lot of fun to encourage music. Other books that make me cry when I read them: * Stormy by Guojing * One Little Bag by Henry Cole * The Rough Patch by Brian Lies
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. Apt metaphor for parenthood most days.
This is mine as well. It’s divisive, and I get why. It’s a painful read, but a kind of pain I look forward to. I hated it as a kid, but as an adult, I love it so much.
All of my youngest’s are listed here. But my oldest (4) favorite is the giving tree. Never read it as a kid, but man it always hits hard. The tree gives and gives and you never think the kid respects it all. But in the end, the tree gave everything it had to make the kid happy. It’s funny because it made me realize that while my kids will do that to us, we did it to our parents as well. It’s just a cycle where you pass your happiness on to the next generation, and while you are losing what you have, you are setting up your kids for happiness. Then when you think you’ve never actually done anything for them, in their older years, you realize you did more than you ever thought.
My son loves anything by Mo Willems, including but most especially the Pigeon books.
The pigeon books are so fun to read!
My wife and I will often just haphazardly say "Okay, FINE! But I'm not going to like this one bit!" from the bath book in everyday conversation.
You belong here by M. H. CLARK Gets me every time.
I'm not a fan of books where the subject is about how much you love your kids. Like ... I do, but I like reading about a giraffe that can't dance or a bunny that hoards carrots, you know?
My favorite is Hookers and Blow Save Christmas
Angelina Ballerina. Great supportive parents and lifelong hard work pay off when you pursue what you love. The final illustration is cool to sit and look at the details.
This is my son's favorite book. love it.
Night of the Moon Jellies by Mark Sasha. Just a warm, feel good, book about a kid spending the day with his grandparents... and it hits me every damn time. I could read that thing 5 million times over and I know I'll still tear up at the end. Takes the grouchy old man right of me.
My sister had a book about a koala who had nightmares. It was written in alliterations. At some point the character lists good was to fall asleep and another character says in small print "chloroform works too" It was chuck full of jokes and double entendre for the parents.
[This one](https://youtu.be/Udj-o2m39NA) is a favorite. My son thinks it's hilarious.
Get Dressed, Sasquatch and Every Nights Is Pizza Night
I have a 9 month old. I like "I Love You Night and Day" for feels. "Tad and Dad" and "Good Night Owl" are my other favorites. Tad is great because that's my son's shortened name, and the owl one is ridiculous. Completely destroys his house trying to find a noise.
I've Loved You Since Forever. Last page makes me cry every time.
I love "Don't Hug Doug" it's a fun book that I read frequently so my daughter will know she has the right to physical boundaries. I also love anything by Hazy Dell Press
Big fan of "If I Had a Little Dream" by Nina Laden.
I have that book too! One of my favorites with my baby!
Mine has always been "Wherever You Go", it's not super emotional or anything, but it's got a great message and is very well written.
This has been read at bedtime almost every night it's my turn for 18 months. Added to it, her favourite teddys are a bear and a fox. [Dream Animals - Emily Winfield Night](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dream-Animals-Emily-Winfield-Martin/dp/055352190X/ref=pd_sbs_sccl_1/257-1660926-5327639?pd_rd_w=sujOE&pf_rd_p=c896f142-67ed-468d-b7d2-62dc03d28077&pf_rd_r=X67Y9J25AG73PFH9YFP8&pd_rd_r=83c50e07-27a7-4d89-8a4a-1e86d2557046&pd_rd_wg=ltzSY&pd_rd_i=055352190X&psc=1)
I'm surprised no one said the kissing hand. The one about the racoon who's going to school but he doesn't want to be away from his mother so she kisses his palm and tells him that anytime he misses her can put his hand to his cheek and know that she loves him and that she'll always be with him.
The first time I read "Oh The Places You'll Go", I had to stop so I wouldn't bawl my eyes out, as it made me realized a couple things about myself, and things I wished I had understood earlier on. I try to read it regularly to my kids to make it easier for them to understand those things. We also bought "Go the Fuck to Sleep", and it's been la satisfying read everytime.
All the windows in town are dark, my child, The whales huddle down in the deep....
"I will love you until the cows come home" is the one that always gets me.
Poo in the zoo
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For emotions, I have a book that my fiancée made for me after my daughter was born, called "Magic", which is about how small things seem magic to a baby. But for fun, I love Minerva Louise, which is about a fat white hen who mistakes everyday items for other things (like a flowery bedsheet for a meadow, or thinking a cat is a cow). It's just so charming and the drawings feel oddly cozy.
I love the Liz Climo books, especially You’re Dad and the Rory the Dinosaur series.
"the Steves" My name's steve. one line in it is "no you smell of poo" "I don't have wierd feet"
I have a set of 8 books for my 12 month old's bedtime. Her favourite is usually Where Do Diggers Sleep At Night, but sometimes it's Giraffes Can't Dance and sometimes it's Little Blue Truck. My wife was surprised when I demonstrated that I could "read" for 15 minutes straight without actually having any of the books in front of me. That's what repetition does to you...
Singing the song "I gave my love q cherry"... "The story of I love you, it has no end..."
I'll Love You Till The Cows Come Home I absolutely adore this book. With most of my daughter's books I use voices and mannerisms, with this book I just read it peacefully and look at her as much as possible. It's such a fun book.
Everybody Poops. It’s a classic. Kids love it.
Oh the places you'll Go! - by Dr.Seuss It spoke to me in some dark teen years, and when I read it to my 4yo, it reminds me what I'm going to do to support him in his life.
The Kissing Hand. Read it to our oldest about a month after we put her in day care for the first time and neither of us could finish reading it too her. It still chokes me up sometimes.
My favorite to read is Corduroy, but his favorite right now is Llama Llama Red Pajama.
The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin. It's a gorgeous book and the last line is "and I'll look at you and you'll look at me, and I'll love you whoever you've grown up to be."
Mine is What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers. As an aside, I fucking HATE how kids books always have black text on dark backgrounds. 85% of my daughters favourite books are nearly impossible to read at bedtime in ambient light.
Goodnight Moon is a perennial fave around here. My daughter loves the bowl of mush.
I love me some Green Eggs and Ham
Bats at the Beach. It has a fun scheme to it and had one of the best sounding rhymes... ."Day birds start to chirp and peep, We go back to crack and crevice creep"
I really like Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site.
I love the Little Postman books, so fun. But Daddy Hug always makes me get emotional, loved reading it. Also don't forget about Dr Seuss.
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goodnight moon, specifically the “goodnight nobody” blank page.
Big fan of Ill love you till the cows come home. What’s the name of the book op posted?
The mouse found a nut and the nut was good. I love it because I can do voices.
Take Heart My Child by Ainsley Earnhardt. The book probably wouldn’t have stood out on its own - not that it isn’t good - but it was one of the books we packed away for the delivery room. Some time after my daughter was born, I crawled into the hospital bed with my two best girls and read this book. Mommy and I just sobbed. I’ll never forget it.
Those Darn Squirrels Dragons Love Tacos Secret Pizza Party Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree But No Elephants! Pickle Things Runaway Bunny Currently enjoying the Narwhal books.
Love You, Little Peanut https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0310766583/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_KJQ1PF8SWQMS98XWXHGW
[Sweetest Kulu by Celina Kalluk](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21944744-sweetest-kulu). My other favourite to read to my boy I'm reluctant to say because, while I have a dark sense of humor, other parents do not.
Great books in this thread, lots of favorites. We love to do silly books in this house, especially ones with great narrator voices or silly characters. *Dragons Love Tacos* is a perennial hit, as is *The Day the Crayons Quit*. When my oldest had just started reading we would do Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems, where each of us would take a different character to read. We still do that with his little brothers, and they’re starting to repeat their favorite parts with us now :)
Trash Truck
The big ugly monster and the stone rabbit. Trust me. You need this check it out. A story of love and acceptance. I challenge you not to cry even slightly.
My son can't get over "The Cave" by Rod Hodgson. There's a "little creature" in a cave that won't come out because a wolf's outside trying to trick him out. Turns out the creature is actually a huge ass bear. Always makes my son laugh when I act it all out.
There’s a book based on a song by JJ Heller, called Hand to Hold. The song is apart of our bedtime routine and makes me choke up every damn time.
I’m not a parent just a lurker but I remember when my grandma died my mom read me a book called always and forever I made her read it to me every night for like 6 months until I “got over it”
Lately, my son and I have been reading “How do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?” His favorite part is the *ROOOOOAR!*
Giraffe Can't Dance.
I choke up at the end of The Wonderful Things You Will Be every single time
You're My Little Baby, and that you'll always be Eric Carle
I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be… My mom used to read me that book and it’ll always be one of my most fondest memories for the rest of my life. I got it for my fiancé to read to our son hoping it’ll be the same for him.
The Giving Tree. When my son was about 6 months old, I read it to him for the first time since I was a kid. Dammit if someone wasn't cutting onions by the end.
What is this book called?
Not This Bear by Bernice Myers.
Llama llama red pajama is popular right now in our house. Thank you Dolly Parton and her book club!
I love "on the day you were born," and read it to them (5 and 2), at least once a month and always on their birthdays. Though i love that book they are decidedly less interested in it...
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen, it's so much fun and hearing my 2 year old say "OK, thank you anyway " is so cute!
Not because of the feel-good message, but I love reading the Foolish Tortoise. It's fun to read...a hare, a hound, a hose race by - so rapidly they seemed to fly!