Landon loooooooves Elephant & Piggie books. He loves to read the speech bubble text in the characters' voices. This one is especially funny and is definitely a top pick for our family.

This book is too advanced at this stage for Landon to read, so we loved reading this one at night aloud together. It follows an orphan boy named Hugo who lives inside the walls of a train station as he tries to solve the mystery of a spell-binding mystery. This book looks huge at first look, but it is full of really great illustrations to help tell the story.

This book has been loved by toddlers for decades, including both my boys.  It has lift the flap pictures to go along with the silly story about a zoo sending many different zoo animals to a child who wanted a pet.  In the end they find the perfect pet.

A circus ship sinks off the coast of Maine, and all the animals are left to escape to a nearby island. This is one of my favourite books to read aloud, and the kids love the story and searching for all the animals in the illustrations.

This is the first in a series of early chapter books that Landon loves. They combine history, fantasy and time travel as you follow Jack and Annie on their adventures in their magic tree house. We started with me reading this series to Landon and now he reads these aloud to Ried and I.

There was a point in time when Landon was OBSESSED with trains, and that's when this book joined our collection. Since then it has been read dozens of times and is a favourite around here. Katy Caboose is tired of being last on the train and dreams of a different life. Then one day her wish comes true when an accident happens that leads to the peaceful life she always wanted.

My husband and I grew up watching Sharon, Lois & Bram, so there's something especially sweet and nostalgic about singing this almost every night with Ried. It's one of his first choices when he picks a book at bedtime.

Something about this book just makes toddlers love it! It was first recommended to me in several mom groups, so it was one we added to our shelf when Ried was born and it has been well loved. He loves making the silly animal noises and "reading" the words along with me now.

I just love this story about an unlikely friendship. Everyone is scared of the old, weathered scarecrow. But one day he does something unexpected - he saves a baby crow. They soon become inseparable, until the baby crow grows up and flies away. The scarecrow stands in the field heartbroken through the long Fall and Winter until the crow returns in the Spring with a surprise.