I managed to find some other bangers like Peace At Last, Funnybones, Not Now Bernard and the Rainbow Fish. What others am I missing?

by PharaohLoz

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  1. I remember Elmer, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, and a load of the Mr Men/Little Miss books being read to me.

  2. They’re classics! I got these for my son along with Peace At Last, Each Peach Pear Plum and the Jolly Christmas Postman. The copy of jolly postman he has is actually mine from the 80s – amazing it’s still in one piece!

  3. Not now bernard used to shit me up as a kid haha. The jolly postman just unlocked an actual repressed memory.
    Some suggestions: The one about the owl, sometimes I am naughty, Elmer ect. The Rosie and Tim books are also quite decent.

  4. I did not remember the Jolly Postman at all until I seen the cover here!

  5. I remember The Jolly Postman from the late 80s. It was my favorite book when I was small – I brought a copy for my own daughter when she was tiny and also one each for both my nieces. I was very pleased when all 3 of them loved the book too.

  6. I’d forgotten how good the Jolly Postman was!

    Did anyone else here play the Jolly Postman computer games?

  7. What about the Little Red Train?

    Apparently my mum read those books to me so much as a kid that I used to turn the page on cue and she thought I’d learned to read when actually I’d just memorised when the page turns were.

  8. Classics 👌

    Read “Mog” to my niece last week, she was absolutely buzzing.

  10. You need rosies babies, it was my absolute favourite!

    And go the fuck to sleep for your evening reading

  13. 5 minutes peace is an absolute banger. I didn’t remember that from my childhood, but read it to my daughter recently.

  14. All my three kids enjoyed the jolly Christmas postman. The little packets and slots have seen better days, but it’s a wonderful book.

    It has puzzles and games and letters inside the pages.

  15. I don’t have kids myself by my job regularly takes me to schools, it always makes me smile when I see these kind of books still there, the classics I grew up with in the 90s! I certainly remember the Mog books as they reminded me of our family cat but Goodbye Mog made me bawl my eyes out.

  17. Get Each Peach Pear Plum and Giant Jam Sandwich and she’ll love em, still read them to mine 4 years down the line.

  18. The jolly postman i remember that one from the 80s.

  19. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Dear Zoo, Any of the Spot books, Thomas the Tank Engine Books.

  20. I’m now buying all my children’s favourites for my grandson and discovering how many have turned into series. Our current favourite is We’re going on a Bear Hunt.

  21. All the Julia Donaldson ones are excellent, Gruffalo, Room on a Broom etc. and the Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker was an absolute favourite of mine as a child

  22. I remember Five Minutes Peace very well. Surely the most passive-aggressive kid’s book of all time.
    Also loved Flat Stanley and Fungus The Bogeyman.

  23. The Mog books, Hairy Maclary books, Peepo, Dear Zoo, Owl Babies.

  24. Got my friend Each Peach Pear Plum (also the Ahlbergs) when she had her kid. A classic that I still remember the words of to this day ❤️

  27. Peace at last, also by Jill Murphy was one of my favourites. It must’ve been for me to remember it now!

  28. 5 minutes peace is the most honest and concise depiction of motherhood I’ve come across in literature.

    We also like Gorilla

  32. The Large Family – brilliant books . Mummy laid an Egg- fabulous

  33. We also have ‘The Jolly Postman’ in our daughter’s room. My wife is in Primary Education so we’ve a bunch of old classics.

  34. “Little Robin Red vest” for Christmas, was just thinking about this one today

  35. There’s a misconception that it’s easy to write a children’s book, but to write one that still appeals 40 years later is a hell of a skill. Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Judith Kerr and the rest were geniuses.

    I used to be a children’s bookseller and there’s a picture book for everything a little kid might go through. Angry Arthur for tantrums, The Huge Bag of Worries for general anxiety, Michael Rosen’s Sad Book for grief/bereavement, etc.

    Do you remember The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark? That one does what it says on the tin.

    A modern picture book author worth checking out is Helen Cooper. I’m certain her stuff will last.

  36. Not only do they still print them, we still teach them in primary school! The jolly postman is often used to support learning about letter writing in key stage one, the rainbow fish is used a lot in pshe lessons about friendship. I think I’ve used every book in your list at some point in my career to teach something or other. Can’t beat the classics!

  39. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and The Hungry Caterpillar are GOATs.

  40. Oh I loved Five Minutes Peace *so much* when I was young!!

  41. Grandpa’s Slippers by Joy Watson is a great kids book if you can get your hands on it! She’s a NZ author but it’s such a good book (and subsequent series), along with the Harry Maclary series by Lynley Dodd.

  42. My bedtime book 26 years ago was Peace at Last and now it is my toddler son’s favourite book!

  43. Besides what’s already been said:

    The very hungry caterpillar!!

    Maisy the mouse (there’s a great collection of them available on Amazon for a really reasonable price)

    And some more modern ones that have been a huge hit for us and helping explore emotions:

    When the cookie crumbled
    Ice cream has a meltdown
    When jelly had a wobble
    Wobblysaurous
    Stompysaurous
    Hugasaurous

    Then there’s also
    The runaway pea
    The dinosaur that pooped out a pirate
    Cats in chaos

    I just bloody love books!! And thankfully so does my boy!

  44. * Where the Wild Things Are
    * The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
    * The Owl and the Pussycat
    * The Foxwood series
    * Ivor the Engine
    * The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch
    * Old Bear

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