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Best Books for Babies

Read to Your Baby!

Reading aloud to your baby is the most important thing you can do to help develop a love of reading. Check out your library's collection of sturdy little board books that are perfect for your baby's small hands and fingers. We also have wonderful picture books for you to read aloud to your child.

Favorite Board Books for Babies

1 is One— Tasha Tudor
A You’re Adorable — Buddy Kaye
The Ants Go Marching — Pamela Conn Beall
Big Red Barn — Margaret Wise Brown
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? — Bill Martin, Jr.
Busy Fingers — C.W. Bowie
Can I Have a Hug? — Debi Gliori
The Carrot Seed — Ruth Krauss
Clap Your Hands — Lorinda Bryan Cauley
Counting Kisses — Karen Katz
Daddy Kisses — Anne Gutman
Daisy's Hide-and-Seek — Jane Simmons
Dear Zoo — Rod Campbell
Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? — Eric Carle
Doggies — Sandra Boynton
Dr. Seuss’s ABC — Dr. Seuss
Eensy Weensy Spider — Mary Ann Hoberman
The Everything Book — Denise Fleming
Everywhere Babies — Susan Meyers
Fish Eyes — Lois Ehlert
Five Little Ducks — Raffi
Freight Train — Donald Crews
Goodnight Moon — Margaret Wise Brown
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes — Annie Kubler
Helen Oxenbury’s Big Baby Book — Helen Oxenbury
Hello Lulu — Caroline Uff
Hippos Go Berserk — Sandra Boynton
How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten? — Jane Yolen
Hug — Jez Alborough
I Kissed the Baby — Mary Murphy
I Love Trucks — Philemon Sturges
I Love You, Little One — Nancy Tafuri
I Went Walking — Sue Williams
If You’re Happy and You Know It — Annie Kubler
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? — Nancy White Carlstrom

Little Cloud — Eric Carle
Lulu’s Busy Day — Caroline Uff
Maisy Loves You — Lucy Cousins
Maisy’s Fire Engine — Lucy Cousins
Mama Mama — Jean Marzollo
Mice Squeak, We Speak — Tomie dePaola
Moo Moo, Brown Cow — Jakki Wood
Mr. Gumpy’s Outing — John Burningham
The Napping House — Audrey Wood
Night-Night, Baby — Elizabeth Hathon
Oh My, Oh My, Oh Dinosaurs — Sandra Boynton
Oh, Baby! : a touch and feel book — Elizabeth Hathon
Olivia Counts — Ian Falconer
Olivia’s Opposites — Ian Falconer
On Your Potty — Virginia Miller
Owl Babies — Martin Waddell
Papa Papa — Jean Marzollo
Piggies — Don Wood
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? — Bill Martin, Jr.
Show Me! — Tom Tracy
Silly Little Goose — Nancy Tafuri
That’s Not My Dinosaur — Fiona Watt
Tickly Under There — Debi Gliori
Time for Bed — Mem Fox
Tumble Bumble — Felicia Bond
The Very Hungry Caterpillar — Eric Carle
What Daddies Do Best — Laura Numeroff
What Do You Say? — Mandy Stanley
What Mommies Do Best — Laura Numeroff
What Shall We Do With the Boo-Hoo Baby? — Cressida Cowell
When Mama Comes Home Tonight — Eileen Spinelli
Where is Baby’s Belly Button? — Larem Katz
Where’s My Teddy? — Jez Alborough
Where’s Spot? — Eric Hill
Who Said Moo? — Harriet Ziefert
Wiggle Waggle — Jonathan London

Page reviewed May 11, 2009


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