Take Time to Read With Your Bunny
Newborn to Three
Months
Infants see high contrast colors (black and white or red and yellow). They are also very nearsighted, so hold objects 8 to 12 inches from baby's face.
Black On White by Tana Hoban. Board Book
What Is That? by Tana Hoban. Board Book
Happy Faces Board Book
Babies hear from birth and love music and rhymes.
Sleep, Baby, Sleep. Nicolette Larson. +Cas Songs
My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie. ++Myv
One Fish, Two Fish,
Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr.
Seuss. ++Easy Reader Seu
Sleep, Baby, Sleep:
Lullabies and Night Poems by Michael Hague. +808.81 Sle
Three to Six Months
Babies see across the room. Books should have pictures that
are simple, bold and bright. Babies begin reaching for a rattle or book and will bring them to their mouth. Begin using board books.
Tickle, Tickle * Clap Hands * Say Goodnight * All Fall Down
by Helen Oxenbury - Board Books
Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton. Board Book
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Board Book
Babies are babbling; encourage these first attempts at talking by repeating sounds back to them. Use books with animal noises or silly rhymes and embellish them.
Farm Animals by Lucy Cousins. Board Book.
Barnyard
Banter by Denise Fleming. ++Fle
Chicka Chicka ABC by Bill Martin. Board Book
Babies enjoy large hand movements such as patty-cake and peek-a-boo.
Eentsy, Weentsy
Spider by Joanna Cole. +791.1 Col
The Lap-Time Song and Play Book. +796.1 Lap
Six to Nine Months
A baby begins to recognize simple, familiar objects. As small
muscles improve babies can hold board books and move the pages.
Baby In a Car by Monica Wellington. Board Book
It's My World: What I Eat by Heidi Goennel. Board Book
Everyday House by Cynthia Rylant. Board Book.
Babies love to look at other babies. Babies still love noises
and animal sounds; they begin to copy the sounds adults make.
This Little Baby's Bedtime by Lynn Breeze. Board Book
Faraway Friends by Gyo Fujikawa. Board Book.
The Little
Car by Ian Tucker. Board Book
Nine to Twelve Months
Older babies understand stories about daily experiences and begin to point to familiar objects.
Runaway
Rabbit by Ron Maris. ++Mar
Tom and Pippo series by Helen Oxenbury. ++Oxe
Babies' Bodies by Sally Kilroy. Board Book
Here Are My
Hands by Bill Martin ++Mar
Babies like music and may sway, clap or hum along.
Skip to My Lou by Nadine Westcott. ++Wes
If You're Happy and
You Know It by Nicki Weiss. +781.62 Wei
Five Little Monkeys Sitting In a
Tree by Eileen Christelow. ++Chr
Twelve to Eighteen Months
A young toddler can enjoy longer stories of familiar actions.
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown ++Bro
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Board Book
How Do I Put It On? by Shigeo Watanabe ++Wat
Thank You Nicky! by Harriet Ziefert. PB++Zie
Books illustrated with actual photographs can be introduced, also try introducing new situations.
Going Places. Board Book
Just Look by Tana Hoban. ++Hob
Songs can be sung.
Music For 1's and 2's by Tom Glazer. +Parent's Shelf
782.42 Gla
Roll Over by Merle Peek. ++Pee.
Wheels On the Bus by Maryann Kovalski. ++Kov
Eighteen to Twenty four
Months
Toddlers like stories which have repeat actions or questions.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill
Martin. ++Mar
Wide Mouthed Frog by Andrea Butler. ++Easy Reader
But
Finding Robin Redbreast by Harriet Ziefert. ++PB Zie
Simple concepts can be shared (such as counting and colors).
Red, Blue, Yellow Shoe by Tana Hoban. Board Book
The Noisy Counting Book by Susan Schade. ++Sch
One Yellow Lion by Matthew VanFleet. ++Van
Infant Toddler Videos
Even More Baby Songs
A live action music video for very young children, featuring 10 songs by Hap and Martha Palmer. +VHS Eve
Infantastic Lullabyes on Video.
Children's songs presented in instrumental versions with animated background scenes, so as to be suitable
for infants. +VHS Inf
Sharon Lois & Bram sing A to Z.
Live concert perfomance of children's songs, with one song for each letter of the alphabet. +VHS 782.42 Sha
A Toddler Treasury, Vol. 1.
Animated music videos for the very young. Songs include Animal Fair, Pat-a-Cake, Three Blind Mice, and others. +VHS Tod