The bug books by David Carter, the Maisie books by Lucy Cousins, anything by David Carle, a lot of Sandra Boynton.

My son loved the Little Blue Truck books, Dear Zoo, and also flap books of all kinds. Karen Katz books were favorites and he loved the Spot books.

I recently discovered these awesome interactive books by Matthew van Fleet. SIL bought Heads for DS and I subsequently bought Dogs. He adores the latter, loves it so much he cries when I put it away. There are tabs you pull to make the animals move. The rhymes are really cute too.

Other favorites include Dear Zoo, I Love You Through and Through, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Goodnight Moon, and this small Thomas the Tank Engine book that is shaped like a train with little wheels and a snap closure.

Little Blue Truck
Brown Bear
Llama llama, mad at mama

Little Blue Truck
Little Blue Truck Leads The Way
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
The Going To Bed Book (Sandra Boynton)
All The Hippos Go Berserk
Where Is Baby's Yummy Tummy

Those are 16 month old DS's favorites. I also love Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type, but DS isn't as into that one as I am yet.

Freight Train by Don Crews

Ha, the thread of disliked books actually might be a good source for books to try, since they're specifically discussing books that most folks make a big fuss about (but that some smaller subset just doesn't like).

At that age, my daughters seemed to like big, colorful picture books with photos of everyday objects they could point to and name. And also...

* The King (by Dick Bruna <-- yikes, don't Bing this book at work,)
* Goodnight Moon (yes, *that* book by Margaret Wise Brown)
* Goodnight Little One (another Margaret Wise Brown book)
* Simple illustrated books with nursery rhyme songs (Twinkle Twinkle; Mary Had a Little Lamb; Itsy Bitsy Spider; etc.)
* Brown Bear, Brown Bear and The Very Hungry Caterpillar board books

How do dinosaurs count to ten
I went Walking
Dinosaur Roar
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Good Night Moon
Brown Bear
Jam Berry
Big Red Barn

Anonymous wrote:Eric Carle's "From Head to Toe." It's really simple, but my son, who for some reason is really hesitant to do interactive songs, really took to this book. I mean, it's not a song...but it is interactive. Especially great if you like to ham it up, OP!

PP here. I guess I should point out that I don't mean "interactive" as in lift-the-flap. You have to do animal motions and poses.

Eric Carle's "From Head to Toe." It's really simple, but my son, who for some reason is really hesitant to do interactive songs, really took to this book. I mean, it's not a song...but it is interactive. Especially great if you like to ham it up, OP!