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Children's Booklist - Best Books for Babies


Title: Mama's Day
Author: Linda, Ashman
Summary: In rhyming text, mothers and their babies are described sharing in a variety of activities, from playing at the ocean to reading books and taking a bath.


Title: Whose Toes are Those?
Author: Jabari, Asim
Summary: Children are invited to explore their toes by playing This Little Piggy.


Title: Easy Street
Author: Rita, Gray
Summary: Relates, in rhyming verse, how dump trucks and paving machines layer and compact hot asphalt to make a street.


Title: Welcome, Precious
Author: Nikki, Grimes
Summary: Illustrations and text welcome a new baby to some of life's delights, from the glistening mystery of soap bubbles to the swish of leaves in the breeze.


Title: Look at You!:A Baby Body Book
Author: Kathy, Henderson
Summary: Lively poems and large-scale illustrations encourage babies and toddlers to explore their abilities and the world around them.


Title: Look at the Animals!
Author: Peter, Linenthal
Summary: Simple text introduces the activities of various animals.


Title: Hush, Little Baby
Author: Brian. J, Pinkey
Summary: An illustrated version of the traditional folk song in which a father promises the world to his restless baby daughter.


Title: Cheep! Cheep!
Author: Julie, Stiegemeyer
Summary: With a small cheep, a newly hatched bird awakens its sleeping family and receives a hearty welcome.


Title: Baby Cakes
Author: Karma Wilson
Summary: Babies love their teddy bears.


Title: Duckie's Ducklings(A one-to-ten counting book)
Author: Frances, Barry
Summary: Duckie is ready to take the family for a swim. But where are her ducklings?


Title: Tomie's Mother Goose Flies Again
Author: Tomie, DePaola
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Title: Honey Baby Sugar Child
Author: Alice Faye, Duncan
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Title: Snuggle Up, Sleepy Ones
Author: Claire, Freedman
Summary: As night falls in the jungle, all sorts of animals settle down to sleep.


Title: A Truck Goes Rattley-Bumpa
Author: Jonathan, London
Summary: Describes trucks of all sizes, shapes, and colors doing a variety of tasks.


Title: Star Baby
Author: Margaret O'Hair
Summary: Easy-to-read, rhyming text explores the world of babies, as they do such things as point, scoot, rock, and hug.


Title: Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling
Author: Tracey Campbell, Pearson
Summary: An illustrated version of the traditional nursery rhyme.


Title: Alphabet House
Author: Nancy Elizabeth, Wallace
Summary: Nancy Elizabeth Wallace has done it again with her adorable three dimensional artwork created with cut paper, scissors, and a glue stick.


Title: This Little Piggy: Lap Songs, Finger Plays, Clapping Games and Pantomime Rhymes
Author: Jane, Yolen
Summary: A collection of singing games and nursery rhymes involving various parts of the body, to be used with very young children.


Title: Tomie's Baa Baa Black Sheep: and other rhymes
Author: Tomie, DePaola
Summary: An illustrated collection of nursery rhymes.


Title: Snug in Maama's Arms
Author: Angela Shelf Medearis
Summary: As she snuggles her daughter in her arms at bedtime, a mother describes how animals and children around the world go to sleep.


Title: Little Bo-Peep
Author: Tracey Campbell, Pearson
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Title: Truck Duck
Author: Michael, Rex
Summary: A variety of animals drive vehicles whose names rhyme with their own.


Title: Te Amo, Bebe, Little One
Author: Lisa, Wheeler
Summary: Share a mother's lilting love song to her newborn as he turns into a toddler, in a pleasing mix of English and Spanish lyrical verse.


Title: Me Baby, You Baby
Author: Ashley, Wolf
Summary: Simple rhyming text describes a day in the life of two babies as they greet the day, go to the zoo with their mothers, and return home at night.