Personal Family Favorites: Babies and Toddlers

Books are in indispensable part of my kids’ baby and toddler-hoods. Even before they can talk or sign, my kids learn to LOVE looking at books, turning pages and pointing to familiar objects. We use dialogic reading techniques with our kids to get them engaged from a very young age.

If you’re looking for an authoritative list of the best books for babies and toddlers, I recommend starting here. The books on this page are simply MY babies and toddlers favorite books. Some of them are famous, universally-loved books. Others are kind of quirky. All of them have been asked for over and over and over again my at least one of my kids when they were 2 or under.

Favorite Books for Babies and Toddlers

Here they are, my own family’s favorite books for babies and toddlers, in no particular order. Click each title for more detailed comments and information.

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

That’s Not My Dragon by Fiona Watt

First 100 Words by Roger Priddy

I Love You Through and Through by Bernadette Rossetti Shustak

The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boyton

Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt

Potty by Leslie Patricelli

Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? by Dr. Seuss

Peek-A Who? by Nina Laden

Where is Baby’s Belly Button by Karen Katz

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

The Everything Book by Denise Fleming

Mommy, Where Are You? by Mack

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