Reading books aloud to children stimulates their imagination and expands their understanding of the world. It helps them develop language and listening skills and prepares them to understand the written word, none of this is a surprise. Here is a list of our tried and true favorites!
- Julia Donaldson: The Grufflo and Room on the Broom
- Eric Carle: Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See and The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- William Stieg: Shrek, Dr. De Soto, and Amos & Boris
- Corduroy
- Little Gorilla
- Dinner at the Panda Palace
- Clap Your Hands
- Just Like My Brother
- Road builders
- Play with me
- Cordroy’s Shapes
- Squeak
- Where is your nose?
- Shhh Bears Sleeping
- The Rabbit Listened
- Red house tree house little bitty brown mouse
- There’s a hole in the log on the bottom of the lake
- One Leaf, Two Leaves Count with Me
- Let’s count Arizona
- Scotland 123
- Monsters Love Underpants
- Under the Sea Search and Find
- The Gas We Pass
- Good Night Cowboy
- Good Night Moon
- Good Night St. Louis
- Good Night, Buenas Noches
- Good morning Yoga
- The Good Egg
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If you Give a Cat a Cupcake
- The Frog and Toad Series
- Oscar Otter
- Side by Side and Dad by My Side
- Dr. Suess: Green Eggs & Ham, the Cat in the Hat, 10 Apples Up on Top, Hand, Hand, Fingers Thumb, and Go Dog Go
- Richard Scary’s Best Word Book Ever and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
- Big Franks Fire Truck
- Lift the Flap Books we love include: Dear Zoo, Where’s Spot, 100 First Words, and Where’s the Unicorn
- Our Sandra Boynton Collection: Doggies, Blue Hat Green Hat, A to Z, Spookie Pookie, and The Going to Bed Book
- Baby Duck (Finger Puppet Book)
- I Love Classical Music
- The entire Raffi collection, including: Baby Beluga, Five Little Ducks, Down by the Bay, Shake My Sillies Out, and Wheels on the Bus
- The Itsy Bitsy Spider
- Thomas the Engines A crack in the track
- The I Spy Series
- The Quiet Book
- Happiness is a Warm Puppy
- Most of the Little Owl Collection, including: Little Owl’s Night, Little Owl’s Day, Little Owl’s Numbers, and Little Owls Colors
- I Spy on the Farm
- Bats at the Beach
- Who Moved My Gooey Butter Cake?
- The Curious George Series
- And lastly, this isn’t a book you can buy but rather a book you can make, a family photo album. My toddler loves flipping through it! I use Mixbook
Also…our new beloved Quiet Time Timer
And of course, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, an excellent parent resource for babies and toddlers!