Best children italian language books according to redditors

I'm sure that plenty of people will disagree with me, but I REALLY don't like textbooks for self-study. It's always seemed to me that the authors of textbooks half-ass explaining things since they assume you'll have a teacher who can explain it to you. (Also they tend to be really expensive!)

For getting your feet underneath you, I honestly love phrasebooks (Rick Steves; Lonely Planet) and picture dictionaries.

At the start, I used (still use!) the "Practice Makes Perfect" series. They're not expensive at all, though they might as well be printed on newspaper - these are NOT long term reference works... there are a ton of these in the series that I haven't listed below, but these are good:

• Practice Makes Perfect Basic Italian
  
• Practice Makes Perfect Italian Vocabulary
  
• Practice Makes Perfect Italian Pronouns And Prepositions
  
• Practice Makes Perfect Italian Sentence Builder
  
• Practice Makes Perfect Italian Conversation
  
  These are more expensive but absolutely worth the price:
  
  
• Modern Italian Grammar: A Practical Guide (and the corresponding workbook maybe)
  
• Soluzioni: A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian
  
• A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian
  
• Using Italian: A Guide to Contemporary Usage
  
• Using Italian Vocabulary
  
• Using Italian Synonyms
  
  Edit: Forgot this one but it's worthwhile also - Italian Fluency: Twin-Words and Essential Vocabulary.
  
  Avoid at all costs ... "Italian for Dummies"; "501 Italian Verbs" :)

Alright, here goes nothing! Kinda Long list, sorry for wall of text!

YouTube

• Learn Italian with Lucrezia
  
  
• Tia Taylor (More culture than anything; but American Girl who lives (or lived) in Italy for awhile. While I feel like she tries to make videos JUST for views, some of her earlier ones are very informational!
  
  
• Debby Arts: I really enjoy drawing, and I came across her one day. Her main youtube channel is in English, but she does have an Italian version.
  
  
• FavijTV is a decent gamer youtuber. I don't watch him that often, but decent none-the-less.
  
  Twitch.tv
  
  
• Rengoland (my personal favorite, super chill dude, also fluent in English but streams in Italian for his viewers)
  
  
• Paoloidolo
  
  Sites
  
  
• I believe Uni. of Vermont Italian
  
  
• Italian Grammar Exercises!
  
  
• Reading of Italian Passages This site has everything though.
  
  Here are all of my books that I bought, I can't find some of the old ones that were given to me though!
  
  
• Practice Makes Perfect: Italian
  
  
• English Grammar for Students of Italian
  
  
• 501 Italian Verbs
  
  
• I love this buy, I dislike Anki Vocabulary Cards
  
  
• Same thing as above, but grammar
  
  
• Regret this buy, but I own it: Living Language
  
  
• This is a picture vocab book. A SIMILAR ITEM (i.e. not this one specifically) was given to me when I first was learning Italian. Picture Voacb Book
  
  
• Grammar cheat sheet
  
  
• And I have some school books from uni classes I took.
  
  Italian movies I recommend
  
  
• Benvenuti al Sud
  
  
• Benvenuti al Nord
  
  
• La Vita è Bella
  
  
• Un americano a Roma
  
  
• La grande Guerra
  
  
• Il Postino
  
  Others
  
  Other resources include the free ones that are giving in the language resources! I also go over to /r/Italy and /r/Italianlearning and read topics and help others with Italian!

Are you searching a grammar book for Italian or one for foreign learners?

About the vocabulary, you should check this book; you can read children's fairy tales at The Fable Cottage and
The Italian Experiment(not only tales but even some idiomatic expressions) .
If you can, talk or char in Italian with a native.

That is so nice of you. :) My daughter Lana will be 4 in less than a month. She loves to learn. She is actually learning Italian. She's a natural. This book would help her a lot in learning Italian. If you pick Lana seriously feel free to but used if it's cheaper. Why spend more for the same exact thing?