Here is a list of 47 popular books for 3-year-olds:
- “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown
- “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss
- “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak
- “Corduroy” by Don Freeman
- “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle
- “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss
- “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” by Bill Martin Jr.
- “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” by Dr. Seuss
- “Llama Llama Red Pajama” by Anna Dewdney
- “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein
- “Bunny Cakes” by Rosemary Wells
- “The Little Engine That Could” by Watty Piper
- “Madeline” by Ludwig Bemelmans
- “Froggy Gets Dressed” by Jonathan London
- “The Three Little Pigs” by James Orchard Halliwell
- “Goodnight, Gorilla” by Peggy Rathmann
- “Curious George” by H.A. and Margret Rey
- “Llama Llama Misses Mama” by Anna Dewdney
- “Where Is Baby’s Belly Button?” by Karen Katz
- “Peek-a-Boo Farm” by Charles Reasoner
- “The Cat in the Hat Comes Back” by Dr. Seuss
- “The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats
- “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
- “The Mitten” by Jan Brett
- “Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes” by Mem Fox
- “Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me” by Eric Carle
- “The Little Red Hen” by Paul Galdone
- “The Wheels on the Bus” by Raffi
- “Clifford the Big Red Dog” by Norman Bridwell
- “Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever” by Richard Scarry
- “The Day the Crayons Quit” by Drew Daywalt
- “The Jolly Postman” by Allan and Janet Ahlberg
- “The Gingerbread Man” by Jim Aylesworth
- “Berenstain Bears Beginner Books” by Stan and Jan Berenstain
- “The Pout-Pout Fish” by Deborah Diesen
- “Corduroy Lost and Found” by Don Freeman
- “Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes” by Eric Litwin
- “Fantastic Mr. Fox” by Roald Dahl
- “The Owl and the Pussycat” by Edward Lear
- “Winnie-the-Pooh” by A.A. Milne
- “Caps for Sale” by Esphyr Slobodkina
- “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” by Laura Numeroff
- “Go, Dog. Go!” by P.D. Eastman
- “The Very Best of Friends” by Margaret Wild
- “The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear” by Don Wood
- “A Big Guy Took My Ball!” by Peggy Rathmann
- “Knots on a Counting Rope” by Bill Martin Jr.”