Fave baby books?

Re: Fave baby books?

• Hnova86 member

  April 2014

  My DS loves the hard cardboard ABC books with lots of pictures, pop up or things that flip on the pages. He also has a bunch of super basic books like "my first words" or "bedtime baby signs"(a sign language book that's all of 5 pages long). literally just super simple books. He often gets overwhelmed with books that have too much to read on the pages. He'll like them when he's older but at 2yrs old it's hard for him to understand and we've been reading everyday since we brought him home. So for those longer books i just make up a short story that goes with the picture. He'd rather look at all the pictures and flip the pages. Lol.

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• ThereBeDragons member

  April 2014

  Our household standard collection:

  Where the wild things are

  Goodnight moon

  Tikki Tikki Tembo 

  Chika Chika Boom Boom

  Brown Bear Brown Bear

  The Beast in the Bathtub

  
  

  We have a lot more than that, but that's what we replace when it gets a little too loved and always have on hand for visiting kids. There's a little something for every age group.

  
  

  Highly recommended to us or given to us:

  Anything by Sandra Boynton. My inlaws are friends with the Boynton family so they are all raised on a steady diet of these board books. I'm not quite as taken with the entire library, but I do like Moo Baa La La La and my nephews were obsessed with Personal Penguin.

  That's not my hat.

  On the night that you were born.

  Matilda

  
  

  And probably a dozen more I can't remember off the top of my head. Just remember that paper books are going to be super fragile mom/dad only books until the kiddo is at least two (and three+ seems to work best for lowest number of destroyed books) and board books are not indestructible. If you know that you will have to be reading Goodnight moon every single night and that a break in the routine would be meltdown inducing- keep a spare in the closet for the inevitable day when baby slobber plus a little arm strength reduces it to a pulpy mess. And absolutely aim for board books for any book you want kiddo to handle before 2. If it doesn't come in board book form- it's probably still a little out of their comprehension range at that point anyway.

  
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• fatbarbie0226 member

  April 2014

  Touch and feel books, lift the flap books and minnie mouse are favorites around here.

  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Xath member

  April 2014

  Board books and touch and feel books are great for the tiny stage. When he was super little, my H read him the Illiad, because he wanted to read it and DS1 just liked to listen to the sound of his voice. It took almost 2 years (at about 2 pages per night) but towards the end, some of DS1's first words were Zeus, Hector, and Agamemnon.
  
  Second what @ThereBeDragons‌ said about Sandra Boynton.
  
  Current favorites in our house are:
  Press Here (Herve Tulet)
  The Dark (Lemony Snicket)
  Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
  Bunny Cakes (Rosemary Wells)
  I Want My Hat Back (Jon Klassen)
  Harold and the Purple Crayon
  Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Seuss)
  I Love You Forever (if you find the full version a bit too creepy, the Hallmark recordable version edits out the part where she drives across town and breaks into his house to cradle him in his sleep)
  
  Most of the above are great for the 2+ age range. The following are board books he has loved for quite some time and still enjoys:
  
  Goodnight Moon
  Goodnight Gorilla
  You Are My I Love You
  Go Dogs Go (short board book version)
  Monster at the End of This Book
  Penguins (Usborne)
  The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  That's Not My (dinosaur, princess, cat, dog, etc)
  
  I found that Priddy Books makes the best Touch and Feel books with the most diverse tactile sensations in each book. The DK ones tend to have a lot of "fuzzy" and "soft" over and over again.
  

     
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• Kageer member

  April 2014

  All of the above plus Karen Katz board books as well. And if you are having a boy, at some point "Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site".

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• frasey member

  April 2014

  Are you my Mother?

  Very Cranky Bear

  My World (sequel to Goodnight Moon. I hate this but DD loves it)

  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

  
  

  Also any book with pictures of things, like vocab-type books. She will look at those for ages! 

  

  
  

  
  

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• sisterjanet member

  April 2014

  I like Bob Shea's books, and thank goodness Benjamin seems to as well.  The Dinosaur ones are really fun to read aloud.
  

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• caycelee member

  April 2014

  The runaway bunny is my favorite
  

  
  

  

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• laurblum member

  April 2014

  @kimbus22 I received On The Night You Were Born as a gift. It is so sweet! Pregnancy emotions took over and I cried when I read it!

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• N0nSequitur member

  April 2014

  Anything by mother goose

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• sopsongbird member

  April 2014

  Go the F*ck to Sleep   then look it up on youtube and have Samuel L. Jackson read it aloud.  Freaking awesome!
  
  Seriously though,
  
  I have all the books from when I was little and they were Toad and Frog, Golden's, and stuff like that.  I loved them!  I love the lists that you ladies are posting though! 
  

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• Ziegeficker member

  April 2014

  My son loves books with little flaps — his current favorite is the Fisher Price Little People Let's Go to the Farm book. There isn't much reading to that, but he plays with it a lot and brings it to me to look at while he sits on my lap.
  
  I recently got a personalized book made from the company I See Me! and really like it, though that's more of a sentimental thing.

  
  
  
  
  

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• bumpuser10194737 member

  April 2014

  Goodnight Moon
  Any Eric Carle- especially Brown Bear, Brown Bear, etc.
  Steam Train, Dream Train
  Goodnight Construction Site
  The Big Hungry Bear
  I Love You Through and Through
  A Cuddle for Little Duck
  Bear Snores On
  When the World Was Waiting for You
  Click, Clack, 123
  Bear's New Friend
  If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
  Little Owl's Night
  Snuggle Up, Sleepy Ones

  
  

  
  

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• ns1 member

  April 2014

  Also Press Here and Eric Carle anything. Goodnight Moon is another essential. I also like Il Sung Na's illustrations.

   

  

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• RachelCA29 member

  April 2014 edited April 2014

  Two books I'm trying to find from my childhood I really want my son to have are "A Kiss on the Nose" (published 1984) and the Little Golden Book "Amanda's First Day of School" (published 1986) They are out of print, so kind of hard to find. My mom has been trying to find them around her house. I hope she finds them!

  

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• Tnpeach member

  April 2014

  Love all these books. Favorite is "You Are My I Love You", hands down.

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• mmks member

  April 2014

  These are all great books! A couple that aren't on the list that were favs when my son was itty were:
  Peek a Who?
  The That's Not My ... books (we have That's Not My Snowman and That's not my bunny)
  Little Blue Truck
  

  
  
  
  
  

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• colson1742 member

  April 2014

  I love you through and through

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• LoveIsAll25 member

  April 2014

  I have a lot board books but the ones my DS really enjoy are by Sandra Boynton.

  
  

  The Going to Bed Book

  But Not the Hippopotamus

  Moo Baa La La La 

  
  

  He also likes a book from the Ugly Doll Series called 1 2 3 4 U.

  
  

  And then we have a BIG hard cover book with different stories that I found at Marshalls. I recommend buying baby books at Marshalls, I always find them cheaper there than any other store. 

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• rainydayluck member

  April 2014 edited April 2014

  Dear Zoo was and still is one of DD's favorites.
  
  This is My Monster is also a great one.
  
  Everyone Poops was the book we always read while on the toilet potty training. She loved it.
  
  Here are some that might be better when older and likes funny stories:
  Click Clack Moo
  Stuck
  Z is for Moose

  
  

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  DD2: IUGR, low AFI delivered at 37 weeks
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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