child's play recommendation

[astolat]

I am happy but wiped out after yesterday and today so you guys are getting a super-short but I hope valuable post (well, for the other toddler moms on my flist), inspired by conversation from dinner last night

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[inmyriadbits]

I remember loving The Paper Bag Princess and The Baby Unicorn growing up. I had a LOT of favorite books, but those are the first two that come to mind.

[amberdreams]

Pippi Longstocking, My Naughty Little Sister, Milly-Molly-Mandy and Mrs Pepperpot were my particular faves - alongside fairy stories from the Lang collections which I devoured like sherbet. Gawd knows how they've aged though...

[shape5]

I know you asked for books, and I have movie recommendations, but still.

If you want good kid's movies with girls who do more than marry up, I suggest, well, most of the Miyazaki movies. My daughter loves Whisper of the Heart (aka The Cat Movie), but My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's delivery service are also about girls having adventures. One of them even agrees to be nice to a boy who admires her awesomeness.

We're a bilingual home so we seem to read mostly Sesame Street books in English.

[rhiannonhero]

This is a good resource. http://www.amightygirl.com/

[rhiannonhero]

Here's the page with books ages 3 to 5: http://www.amightygirl.com/books/fiction?age_range_filter=8

Definitely look beyond just the first page. I saw some of my daughter's old faves on pages 5 and 9 for example.

[avidrosette]

Seconding the rec on your DW for The Magic School Bus books. My kids loved them.

They also loved:
Ladybug Girl by David Soman & Jacky Davis, and its sequel, Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy.

Jane and the Dragon by Martin Baynton, and all its sequels

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman

The Bake Shop Ghost by Jacqueline Ogburn and Marjorie Priceman

My Pony by Susan Jeffers

The Madeline books by Ludwig Bemelmans

The Gardener by Sarah Stewart and David Small

Going West by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and the rest of this series, picture book versions of the Little House books with strong, compressed writing and beautiful illustrations

Pickles to Pittsburgh by Judi and Ron Barrett, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

anything by Gail Gibbons, especially New Road

June 29, 1999 by David Weisner

Liberty's Voice by Erica Silverman, and anything by this author, esp. Raisel's Riddle

Maybe for a bit older: the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne. These are available on CD and we listen to them in