What's more exciting than reading a book once?
Reading a book twice!
What's more exciting than reading a book multiple times? Well, reading a series of books with the same characters and by the same author!
Book series allows for more books to unpack what happens with the character your child loves. The familiar is comfy. Curling up by the fire with something known and something a mystery is what we all want. Book series are also like t.v. episodes instead of a movie. 2-year olds have short attention spans and need short books. They also know what they like. Our daughter loves animals and sounds so the following book series have been a hit for us.
1.) Biscuit Books
Our daughter was gifted a few Biscuit books from one of her Grandma's last Christmas when she was a year and a half. Now, we have read over 20 Biscuit books! She even got a Biscuit stuffed animal for her two-year old birthday. Whenever we go on trips we make sure to bring along a Biscuit book. The last time we went out to eat, the Biscuit book we brought kept her calm while waiting for food. Our daughter loves pointing to the words and saying "woof, woof!"
Our favorite Biscuit book is Biscuit Loves the Library; we have read it over and over again!
Here is a list of other Biscuit books we have read:
Biscuit's Day at the Farm
Biscuit and the Little Pup
Biscuit in the Garden
Biscuit Plays Ball
Biscuit Goes Camping
Biscuit's Birthday
Meet Biscuit!
Biscuit's Show and Share Day
Mind Your Manners, Biscuit!
Biscuit Visits the Doctor
Biscuit and the Little Llamas
Biscuit is Thankful
Biscuit and the Great Fall Day
Bathtime for Biscuit
Hello, Biscuit!
Biscuit wants to Play
Biscuit Loves the Park
Biscuit Finds a Friend
Hello, Biscuit! Hello, Friends!
Biscuit's Big Friend
Biscuit's Pet & Play Farm Animals
Biscuit Feeds the Pets
Biscuit's Loves the Park
Biscuit's and Friends A Day at the Aquarium
Biscuit and Friends Visit the Community Garden
The Biscuit Books were created 28 years ago by author Alyssa Satin Capucilli. Pat Stories is the illustrator. Biscuit is "everyone's favorite little yellow puppy," as it says on alyssacapucilli.com
The Biscuit books are part of the I Can Read! My First Shared Reading Collection of books.
Our daughter stays interested and engaged in what this silly puppy is doing and she has started to make early connections of when I point to "Woof" I say "Woof."
She will sit and read her Biscuit books to herself, sometimes even for twenty minutes!
2.) Pookie Books
Author Sandra Boynton has a knack for writing books that are just right for kids and their parents. She has great rhyming words and the words are singable like lyrics to a song. There are 10 books in this series from Halloween to Easter. Pookie and his mom are piggies. The books are written like the mom is saying the story and then there are words by the picture of Pookie of his comments. Like when the mom says she likes watching him think as he plays and draws and he says "This is for you, Mommy" as he paints a picture of a heart. These books would make a perfect holiday gift for a two-year old. The books in this series are board books which are perfect for carless two-year olds. How many times have I said not to stand on books?!
Our favorite in this series might be I Love you Little Pookie. Some times we even call our girl "Pookie" for fun and she laughs.
Here is a list of other Pookie books we have read to date:
Let's Dance, Little Pookie!
Night-Night, Little Pookie
Happy Birthday, Little Pookie
Merry Christmas, Little Pookie
What's Wrong, Little Pookie?
Spooky Pookie
Pookie's Thanksgiving
3.) Llama Llama Books
I remember a preschool teacher saying how much she loved this series. We are signed up to recieve a book from the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. One month, Llama Llama Meets the Babysitter came in the mail, our daughter was almost 2 1/2. She had me reading her that book six times a day for two weeks! We have since gotten her other Llama Llama books for her to read. The other day several books were laid out in the living room and the Llama Llama book is the one she went for! We even had one of her friends over, and that's the book her friend went too, as well!
Here's some other Llama Llama books we have read:
Llama Llama: Opposites
Llama Llama Holiday Drama
Llama Llama Zippity-zoom
Llama Llama Colors
Llama Llama Jingle Bells
Llama Llama Misses Mama
Llama Llama Mad at Mama
Llama Llama Hide & Seek: A Lift-the-Flap Book
Anna Dewdney lived from 1965 to 2016. She is an author and illustrator and her first Llama book: Llama Llama Red Pajama, received critical acclaim in 2005. There are 68 titles in this series.
4.) Little Blue Truck Books
After listening to a podcast, we checked this book out from the library. We loved the book and our daughter did too! Many of our friends' kids love Little Blue Truck too. After checking the series from the library, we now own our own copy for taking on trips with our daughter.
Little Blue Truck is by Alice Schertle and illustrated by Jill McElmurry. We love the truck and animal sounds that are printed as part of the text to read and the theme of friendship and helping others is a plus as well. The are Spanish versions of these books as well for those of you teaching your child in more than one language. There about 10 books in the Little Blue Truck series.
Other books in this series that we have read:
Little Blue Truck Leads the Way
What Do You Say, Little Blue Truck?
5.) Pete the Cat
I taught Kindergarten for a year and bought some books for the classroom with my own money. My daughter had found Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons and has read it, with and without me, probably about 100 times. This is one of the characters I wouldn't have introduced to her yet but she loves it! People love the Pete the Cat books so much that there are now almost 80 books with the Pete the Cat character!
Once we were trying to shop at a bookstore and our daughter wasn't allowing us to look at any books because she kept wandering around and pulling books. So, we gave her the book Pete the Cat Sir Pete the Brave and it kept he occupied for us to look at books. Then we bought her the book to take home, a win-win for the books, ha-ha!
Pete the Cat is originally illustrated by James Dean and written by Eric Litwin. The series was continued by James and Kimberly Dean. We have to mention that we really like The Poop Song book by Eric Litwin.
My brother gifted us a Pete the Cat missing cupcake game last Christmas, when she was 1 1/2, and we haven't gotten into playing board games with her yet but when we do we have it at the ready.
Here are other Pete the Cat books that we have read:
Pete the Cat and the Itty Bitsy Spider
Pete the Cat's Groovy Guide to Life: Tips From a Cool Cat for Living an Awesome Life
Pete the Cat Go, Pete, Go!
Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes
If I had to predict which book series my daughter would be loving at this age when she was born, I would have never guessed it would have been these five book series.
I wonder what the next year brings? Will she continue to love these characters?
What are the best book series for three year olds?
Leave your recommendations and thoughts in the comments below!
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