Here is the ultimate booklist to read before you're 14 chosen by experts. The list has been broken down into four age bands, with 25 titles in each band.
The best books for 0-5 years olds
Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet & Allan Ahlberg
The Jolly Postman or Other People’s Letters by Janet & Allan Ahllberg
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Gorilla by Anthony Browne
Would You Rather? by John Burningham
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
Princess Smartypants by Babette Cole
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox & Helen Oxenbury
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett
Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
Dogger by Shirley Hughes
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
Not now, Bernard by David McKee
Meg and Mog by Helen Nicholl & Jan Pienkowski
I Want My Potty! by Tony Ross
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss
The Elephant and the Bad Baby by Elfrida Vipont & Raymond Briggs