Best of the Best Books for Babies
In honor of the 10th Anniversary of Best Books for Babies and 25th Anniversary of Beginning with Books, we revisited the one hundred titles that receieved Best Books for Babies designations and selected our twenty-five favorites.
We hope you enjoy sharing these books with the babies in your life!
1, 2, Buckle My Shoe by Anna Grossnickle Hines, Harcourt
Babies on the Goby Linda Ashman, illustrated by Jane Dyer, Harcourt
Baby Danced the Polkaby Karen Beaumont, illustrated by Jennifer Plecas, Dial Book for Young Readers
Black & White by Tana Hoban, Greenwillow Books
Cheep! Cheep! by Julie Stiegemeyer, illustrated by Carol Baicker-McKee, Bloomsbury Publishing
Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling& Little Bo Peep by Tracey Campbell Pearson, Farrar Straus Giroux
Duckie’s Ducklings by Frances Barry, Candlewick Press
Easy Street by Rita Gray, illustrated by Mary Bono, Dutton
Fuzzy, Fuzzy, Fuzzy: a touch, skritch and tickle bookby Sandra Boynton, Little Simon
Global Babies Charlesbridge
A Good Day by Kevin Henkes, Greenwillow Books
Here Comes Mother Goose by Iona Opie, illustrated by Rosemary Wells, Candlewick Press
Hush, Little Baby by Brian Pinkney, Greenwillow Books
Look at the Animals by Peter Linenthal, Dutton Children’s Books
Look at You! A Baby Body Bookby Kathy Henderson, illustrated by Paul Howard
Maisy’s Amazing Big Book of Words: 300+ Wonderful Words and 25 Flaps by LucyCousins, Candlewick Press
My Car by Byron Barton, Greenwillow
Peekaboo Morning & Peekaboo Bedtime by Rachel Isadora, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pio Peep by Alma Flor Ada, illustrated by Escriva Vivi, RAYO
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, Harcourt
This Little Piggy by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Will Hillenbrand Candlewick Press
A Truck Goes Rattley-Bumpa by Jonathan London, illustrated by Denis Roche, Henry Holt
What Shall We Do with the Boo-Hoo Baby? by Cressida Cowell, illustrations by Ingrid Godon, Scholastic, Inc.
Whose Chick Are You? by Nancy Tafuri, Greenwillow Books
You and Me, Baby by Lynn Reiser, photographs by Penny Gentieu, Alfred A. Knopf