There are enormous benefits to reading to your child. My son and I started the nightly bedtime story routine when he was still a baby. It’s a special time for us, and helped instill in him the same love of books that I grew up with as a child. We have read so many good children’s books, but there are several that stood out as ones we both loved to read over and over.

This is the first half of the list. You can find the second post with the rest of our favorites here: More of Our Favorite Preschool Bedtime Story Books.

Here is a list of my son and my favorite bedtime stories from his preschool years. I hope you and your child enjoy these stories as much as my son and I did. The books are in no particular order. They are all gems.

Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt

There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon by Jack Kent

There is a Bird on Your Head! by Mo Willems

Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin

Ish by Peter Reynolds

Squids will be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables by Jon Scieszka

Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

Winnie the Witch by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul