Recommended books for 3 to 5 year olds

Author	Title	Cover
Julia Donaldson	The Gruffalo Monkey Puzzle Room on the Broom Night Monkey, Day Monkey The Snail and the Whale
Benedict Blathwayte	Tangle & the Firesticks
Allan Ahlberg	The Man Who Wore All his Clothes
Geraldine McClure	Tom Finger Selkie
Pamela Allen	Who Sank the Boat? Brown Bread & Honey
Ahlberg	The Adventures of Bert
Raymond Briggs	The Snowman The Bear Ug
Judith Kerr	The Other Goose
Frances Thomas	What if? Maybe one Day
Sarah Dyer	Five Little Fiends
Joan Aiken	Arabel & Mortimer
Brisley	Marigold at Godmother's House Jane
Beatrix Potter	Jemima Puddleduck Samuel Whiskers
Troughton	How Rabbit stole the fire Tiger child Wizard Punchkin
Ryan	Pugwash (series)
McCaughrean	Unicorns, Unicorns!
Bob Graham	Buffy Brand New Baby The Red Blanket
Paul Geraghty	The Great Green Forest Slobcat Over the Steamy Swamp
Jeanne Willis	The Monster Bed Dr. Xargle (series)
Debbie Gliori	A Lion at Bedtime No Matter What
Jill Murphy	Peace at Last etc All the Mrs. Large books
Catherine Storr	Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
Jane Ray	Story of the Creation Hansel & Gretel Noah's Ark
Charles Causeley (ed)	Macmillan Treasury of Poetry
Shirley Hughes	Complete Alfie stories
Tony Ross	I want a Cat Reckless Ruby Don't do that!
Alison Lester	Imagine
Ken Wilson	Max Big Red Engine Long Train Yellow Taxi Spaceship (pop-ups)
Jan Pienkowski	Good Night! I'm not scared (pop-ups)
Ted Dewar	Crispin the Pig who had it All
Ian Beck	Tom and the Island of the Dinosaurs The Golden Acorn
Antonia Barber	The Mousehole Cat The Enchanter's Daughter
Jean de Brunhoff	Babar (series)
Nick Butterworth	Thud
Emma Chichester Clark	The Frog Princess Shakespeare's Verse
Jan Mark	Haddock
AA Milne	The House at Pooh Corner
Roald Dahl	Fantastic Mr. Fox The Crocodile
Philip Pullman	Puss in Boots
Dr. Seuss	Cat in the Hat Comes Back
	One fish, Two Fish The Places you'll go
Bemelmans	Madeleine
Hoban	Bedtime for Frances
Margaret Wise Brown	Goodnight Moon
Helen Bannerman	The Story of Little Babaji
David McKee	Not Now Bernard

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