Books for Young Twins Wherein They Can See Themselves

November 29, 2006 8:11 AM

Can you recommend any good books for toddlers/young readers in which the protagonists are twins? Bonus points for stories where the protagonists are non-identical twins
posted by anastasiav to Grab Bag (10 answers total)

The Bobbsey Twins?
posted by jozxyqk at 8:17 AM on November 29, 2006

Best answer: There are some good recommendations on this site. I have personally used Twin to Twin and my kids, fraternal twins, seem to enjoy it a lot.
posted by carmina at 8:39 AM on November 29, 2006

There's a cute recent picture book, "Hello Twins!"--the twins are a boy and a girl.
posted by Jeanne at 8:40 AM on November 29, 2006

Topsy and Tim? Bit old-school, but I used to like them. I'm pretty sure they were twins.
posted by corvine at 8:52 AM on November 29, 2006

For when they're a bit older, Sweet Valley High, and all of the spin-offs- Sweet Valley Kids (Elizabeth and Jessica in second grade), Sweet Valley Junior High (eighth grade), Sweet Valley Senior Year (twelfth grade), and Sweet Valley University. Horribly predictable, but I loved them when I was younger.
posted by kidsleepy at 9:03 AM on November 29, 2006

American Girl has a set of dolls called the "Bitty Twins" and you can personalize them for looks, but they have a small book series that go along with the dolls. I'm looking on the website but can't find a place to buy the books individually.
posted by banannafish at 9:34 AM on November 29, 2006

Here's the link for Hello Twins, mentioned above. It really is quite good (I don't really like the cover, but I felt differently after reading it). It was just named one of the 10 Best Illustrated for 2006 by NYT.

When I searched for hello twins on amazon, some other pretty fun-looking stuff came up.
posted by lampoil at 10:16 AM on November 29, 2006

The Twins series (The Scotch Twins, The Belgian Twins, The Spartan Twins etc) by Lucy Fitch Perkins. My favourite as a child was The Cave Twins. The twins in each book are mixed-gender.
posted by paduasoy at 12:23 PM on November 29, 2006

Beverly Cleary's Janet and Jimmy picture books and Mitch and Amy for when they're old enough for chapter books.
posted by brujita at 1:52 PM on November 29, 2006

Also for slightly older readers, but The Baby Sitters Club had a couple of books where the twin sisters write autobiographies of themselves (I know one of them was called Abby). The girls are identical, but are so different in interests and personality that you wouldn't know that they're twins.
posted by cholly at 5:50 PM on November 29, 2006