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6 Books Every Baby or Toddler Should Own
As a self proclaimed book lover, there has been nothing I love more than sharing my love of books with my children. From a very young age, I made sure my children had lots of books from black and white ones, to touchy feely ones and musical ones too. If I were to buy 6 books for a new born baby, this is the six books that I would buy them to start off their first little library.
Dear Zoo – Rod Campbell
This is a book that both of my children have adored. I think it’s beauty is in its simplicity. As each page has a different animal and flap to lift, we always change the ending too so that the dog has the same name as our pet dog.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
An absolute classic, my son can recite parts from this book by heart. I think there are very few of us that do not know the story of the very hungry caterpillar who keeps on eating. It’s also a great story of transformation too.
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Wow Said the Owl – Tim Hopgood
We stumbled upon this book by accident in the book store years ago. I have this wonderful video of my son reciting it. It’s just a lovely book with great repetition, helps children learn about colours and a charming story about a little owl as well.
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First 100 Words – Roger Priddy
My daughter took a little while to get into books, and this book was the first book she really truly took to. She used to sit with it for ages looking at all the pictures and eventually learning the words for all of them. She looked at it and sucked it so much that it did eventually fall apart!
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat (Teddy Bear Sing-Along)
This is a fab book my daughter has and my son had the Old MacDonald had a farm version. Both of these books have been loved so much. The book is a musical version of the classic children song, with photographs and different verses on each page.
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That’s Not My Series
Another classic this series seems to have every eventuality – my dinosaur, my unicorn, my fairy, my tractor. You name it, this series has it. The books are light for young children and also have lots of fab textures for children to touch as you read.
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Phew! New baby on the way and fortunately we have 5/6 of these (though a different That’s Not My…). Will definitely need to hunt out that sing along book – I think BookBairn would enjoy it as much as her baby brother! She loves a noisy book! Great post! #KLTR
We have all of these (or similar) except wow owl. Clearly I need to look out for that 100. #kltr
Great post! We have half the books on the list, so I am off to source the other three!
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Love this list of books. I read to my babies even when I was pregnant! X
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What a fab list. We have most of these. My little ones loved the hungry caterpillar finger puppet one we had xx
I think you’ve named the ultimate in baby books, I can remember all of these when mine where little, along with Elmer.
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We’ve a couple of these delightful books. #KLTR
I’ve never heard of Wow said the Owl: must look it up. But totally agree with your choices.
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Love these books. There’s a couple we don’t have so will look into them 🙂
We love The Hungry Caterpillar! Haven’t heard of Wow said the Owl either, will have to check that out. xx
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Great choices. Our favourite is possibly Dear Zoo at the moment! #KLTR
Oh I was nodding along to these! We haven’t read the row the boat one but have read all the others in some form. I think my girls are too old for row the boat now or I’d buy it. Sad times!
Nat.x
Oh yes we have most of these too! We
Loved dear zoo and the that’s not my series… and the hungry caterpillar is a must! Thank you for hosting #KLTR ?
What a great selection, we have most of these and they’ve been read many many times! #kltr
I love the “That’s not my” touchy feely series. They are fantastic books. I have not read row row row the boat yet but it looks like a great one too! Angela x