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Re: Books for 2-4 year old girls..
« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2013, 17:02:20 pm »
Emma loved Charlie and Lola books at this age - could relate easily as the sib issue was similar....we just got them from my school library at the time.

Nowadays Emma loves rhyming books - so anything with a rhyme at the end...at all...and if it doesn't rhyme, she makes it rhyme!

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Re: Books for 2-4 year old girls..
« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2013, 17:38:19 pm »
I HATE reading Octonaut books   . They are so annoyingly written. Too wordy and waffly

Totally with you on that one!

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Re: Books for 2-4 year old girls..
« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2013, 18:12:23 pm »
The Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson is really lovely and a bit girly.
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Re: Books for 2-4 year old girls..
« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2013, 18:48:32 pm »
DD enjoys the Olivia books (she has Olivia and Olivia Saves the Circus) and Madeline (I find the original Madeline is more age appropriate, in Madeline's Rescue Madeline falls into the Seine and almost drowns...and in Madeline and the Bad Hat there's a neighbour boy who makes a guillotine and has to get saved from a dog attack...They are older books so maybe that sort of stuff was ok to put in kids books then  :-\ )  Both series are about girls but not too girly :)

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Re: Books for 2-4 year old girls..
« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2013, 19:47:38 pm »
Must just be me that likes Octonauts then... :-[
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Re: Books for 2-4 year old girls..
« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2013, 21:27:37 pm »
Must just be me that likes Octonauts then... :-[

Oh I *love* the octonauts  ;D, but just find the books not very well written-I suppose because the stories are just copied from the tv rather than being written specifically for print. 
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Re: Books for 2-4 year old girls..
« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2013, 21:53:38 pm »
Some of the books came first (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octonauts) so might be worth having a look at them
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Re: Books for 2-4 year old girls..
« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2013, 22:09:00 pm »
We also like: Giraffes can't dance, Pirate ABC, Green Eggs and Ham, Click Clack Moo...Cows that Type.  Not girlie but lots of fun to read.



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Re: Books for 2-4 year old girls..
« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2013, 22:11:12 pm »
Must just be me that likes Octonauts then... :-[

Oh we LOVE the Octonauts - my 2 play them all.day.long. They love the books. I hate reading them. I guess it just isn't in my speaking style at all. DD loves Peso!!

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Re: Books for 2-4 year old girls..
« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2013, 22:54:01 pm »
At 3 DD's fav book was Polly's Pink Pyjamas by Vivian French http://www.amazon.com/Pollys-Pink-Pajamas-Vivian-French/dp/0763648078#reader_0763648078, girly but not too girly.

She also loved (and still does) The Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+paper+dolls

Down the back of the chair by Magaret Mahey http://www.amazon.com/Down-Back-Chair-Margaret-Mahy/dp/0618693955#reader_0618693955