Some favorite baby books

[netmouse]

I wanted to highlight some of our favorite books to read to/with Rosie. I feel I should add that we also love anything and everything by Jane Yolen, and most books by Sandra Boynton. But this post is going to focus on some books that Rosie has *particularly* liked, that we highly recommend to the baby in your life.



Peekaboo I Love You
from Lamaze

Peekaboo games with everyone in the family including the pets. An interactive cloth book with flaps to open and peek under. Great book for Rosie to practice her sign language. And her Peek-a-boo. :)



Smile!
Baby Faces Board Book #2, by Roberta Grobel Intrater

This book introduces the common phrases used to coax a smile out of a kid while also expressing love for babies in all moods. Rosie seemed fascinated by the photos.



Grandpa
Talk-about-Books, by Debbie Bailey (Author), Sue Huszar (Photographer)

Basic statements about what kids do with their grandpa, illustrated with great photos and captioned sweetly.



Peekaboo Morning
Text and illustrations by Rachel Isadora

When Rosie points to this book, she says "Daddy", and sure enough the legs on the front cover belong to Daddy. This is a joyous book. At the end when the baby finds "You!", Brian started a tradition of bringing the book up to Rosie's cheek as though the baby in the book is giving her a kiss, and she loves that too.



Everywhere Babies
by Susan Meyers, illustrated by Marla Frazee

Wonderful rhymes, and delightful, easy to understand, yet complex, illustrations, that Rosie has spent more time with as she learns more words and concepts.

Do you have a favorite baby or toddler book to recommend?

Comments

[aimeejmc.livejournal.com]

Hippos Go Berserk by Sandra Boynton. Hands down.

[lisajulie.livejournal.com]

Owl Babies and Sheep in a Jeep. Also Stellaluna.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Charlie Parker Plays Bebop. As an added bonus, kids have no idea which friends and relatives are comfortable scatting and which are not and will thrust it at random people and demand, "BEBOP!" or "CAT ALONE!", which will result in the most uptight person you love attempting to reproduce the sound of 1950s jazz with just their mouth and the words on the page and figure out what on earth this book is doing. It is good.

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

All of those look adorable. I've noticed that even school-aged kids LOVE pop-up and window books, anything where they can manipulate something on the page.

If she likes looking at pictures of other babies, she might love "Global Babies," which even my 4- and 5-year-olds love. It's also bilingual, in English & Spanish:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=global+babies

[sorcycat.livejournal.com]

E's favorite:
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Babys-Mommy-Karen-Katz/dp/0689835612/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337619500&sr=8-1

[sueij.livejournal.com]

The top two on your list were two of our favs, too. Fun to see them.

Another two sent to us as favs of friends, that we came to love as well, were Ten Nine Eight (great counting backwards) and More More More, Said the Baby. Both culturally diverse, as well. And we love ALL the Boynton books. Keep them forever, too, as they are GREAT when kids start reading. Simple, repetitive, clear printing, pictures go well with the words. Jessie learned to read this year and spent a month doing nothing but reading them. And Doggies was a favorite, 'cause you get to bark like ten different kinds of dogs.

Geez, there's so many good books out there. Impossible to name just a few. We adored Dinosaur's Binket (another Boynton) and went through at least two copies.

Tickle, Tickle and All Fall Down

[lizdmg.livejournal.com]

Helen Oxenbury has some really excellent board book, especially for littles who like to read books to themselves after they've heard them a few times. Rich in diversity and humanity, yet simple and sparse of words.