Suggested baby and toddler books

Favourite stories...

Rod Campbell:  Dear Zoo

A sturdy board book with flaps to lift.  Which animal is under the flap?  Lots of things to talk about and new words to learn.

Michael Rosen:  We're going on a bear hunt.  

A family imagine an adventure looking for the scary bear.  Lots of different sounds and plenty of repetition.

Books about babies...

Chris Fairclough:  Bathtime, Eating, Playing

Babies love to look at pictures of other babies.  These three books are shaped and have good clear photographs of babies doing different things.

Allan Ahlberg:  Baby sleeps, Blue pram, Doll and teddy,  See the rabbit.

These board books have pictures from the popular "Baby's catalogue", all about things that babies like.

Helen Oxenbury:  Tom and Pippo read a story.  

There is a whole series of books about Tom and his toy monkey Pippo.  In this book they enjoy reading a story together

Books to feel...

Nick Sharratt:  Twinkle, twinkle, little star

A board book with lots of rhymes to share, textures to feel, and shapes to trace with your finger.

Rod Campbell:  Fluffy chick

Fluffy chick is just one of the animals on the farm that you can feel in this simple story.

Clothes, Farm, Wild Animals, Home

These board books combine bright colour photographs with textures and objects to feel.

Animal friends...

Mick Inkpen:  Wibbly Pig likes bananas.

One of a series of small books about the adventures of Wibbly Pig.

Debi Gliori:  Mr Bear says Goodnight  

The "Mr Bear says" series has rhyming stories.