Parents, you can start reading to your baby before they are even born! It’s never too early to start reading to your child. Reading helps them with early word development and is also great to read with different voices and fun facial expressions! This short list contains books that I love to read to my baby and other books that are great for teaching your child colors, numbers, words, shapes, you name it! These are the best baby books to start a library.
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The Wonderful Things You Will Be
by Emily Winfield Martin
Any book by Emily Winfield Martin is amazing. She also does all the illustrations herself and they are unique, creative, and beautiful! In this particular book, its message to your child is one of unconditional love.
The excitement of finding out the wonderful things they will do in life and no matter what awesome person your child ends up becoming, you will love them no matter what.
Dream Animals
by Emily Winfield Martin
This is a beautifully illustrated book, full of imagination dreamworld inspiration for bedtime. One that can be a staple bedtime book for years to come in your home. I know it will be in mine.
The Velveteen Rabbit
by Margery Williams and Gareth Llewhellin
This particular edition of The Velveteen Rabbit is an adaption of the original. My daughter and I love the illustrations in this version. If you enjoyed the original when you were growing up, this is more of an up to date version of that.
Love You Forever
by Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw
This book makes me tear up when I read it to my baby. It is such a sweet story and a favorite to many for years and years.
It’s about how we love our children forever, and they will love us the same.
Many adults say this was their favorite book their parents used to read them as a child.
Hello, Bugs!
by Smriti Prasadam, Emily Bolam (Illustrator
High contrast picture books are perfect for newborn babies to look at. Newborns can’t see clearly at first, so these high contrast books are great to get a new little one interested.
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Baby Activity Crinkle Soft Cloth Books
For MONTHS, my baby’s favorite toy was crinkle books and tags. The best crinkle books are ones with crinkle in every page!
This is something we carried with us everywhere we went to keep our baby happy.
Guess How Much I Love You
by Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram
This is a fun, silly book and so sweet all at the same time. I’ve read this one countless times to my daughter, it’s a classic.
Baby Touch and Feel
by DK
When I was little, I remember enjoying the touch and feel books. So I knew my daughter would too!
Once she learned how to use her hands a little better and touched things using her fingers, purposefully (this happens somewhere around 8 months old) she really enjoyed looking through her touch and feel animals book.
She often crawls over to it, opens it up herself, sticks her pointer finger out and rubs all the little sensory inserts on the pages. This is definitely a must-have.
Find these items along with other baby must haves in the list of Newborn Essentials.
First 100 Board Book Box Set (3 books)
by Roger Priddy
Around the same time frame babies start showing interest in the Touch and Feel book (around 8 months old) is the perfect time to introduce these First 100 books as well.
Go ahead and start introducing them to the names of colors, shapes, animals, numbers, and so much more- covered in these books.
I let my 9 month old daughter look through them on her own and she turns the pages herself, looking at all the colorful pictures. I will also sit with her and point to pictures and say the name of the object.
A few days ago, she opened the First 100 Animals book that comes in this set, she pointed to the duckling, and said duck! I was amazed.
It may have been a coincidence and she may not of even been trying to say duck, but I was still in awe because she’s only 9 months old.
These are the best (super early) educational books you can get for a tiny baby and I highly recommend them.
Start your baby’s library!
Books are such wonderful learning resources, even for very young babies. It’s never too early to start teaching your child. These are my favorite books to suggest for starting your baby’s first library.
Do you have any favorites to suggest? Please share with everyone in the comments!
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