With a new book lover in the house, we have once again pulled out the stash of board books (though many of them have never really been put away). Right now Bea is learning how to pull them out of the basket, flip the pages and stick them in her mouth. We try not to let them become chew toys, but we do keep in mind that she learns about the world through her mouth at the moment. Luckily there is usually a brother or sister on hand to pull it out and say "Beatrice, we don't eat books, we READ books!" All that really matters at this age is that she snuggles up on our laps and learns that books=good. Things like turning pages, looking at the pictures, listening to and reading (!) the words will develop in the years to come. For right now, we are just enjoying snuggling our little lady and drooling our way through some books together.
Here is a list of some of our favorite board books:
- Fire Truck and Dinosaur by Peter Sis
- Pete's A Pizza by William Steig is such a sweet story
- Baby Loves Spring and other titles by Karen Katz
- That's Not My... series by Usborne
- Farm Kisses by Marianne Richmond
- Happy Baby Colors and other titles by Roger Priddy
- Hello, Bugs! and other titles by Smriti Prasadam
- Bear in Sunshine series by Stella Blackstone
- Little Quacks Bath Book by Lauren Thompson is perfect for in the tub
- Vegetable Glue by Susan Chandler is a very silly book
- Sassy Look Photo Book can be filled with family pictures and chewed on
- Doggies and all other board books by Sandra Boynton
- Good Night Our World Series by Adam Gamble (we have Chicago and Seattle)
- Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
- Dog and other feely books by Matthew Van Fleet
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (of course!)
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