Better Beginnings with Books
Books for Young Infants – Birth to 8 Months
Time for Bed by Mem Fox, Illustrated by Jane Dyer
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, Illustrated by Shelia McGraw
What Is That? by Tana Hoban
Books for Mobile Infants – 8 to 18 Months
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
Night-Night Baby by Elizabeth Hathon
Books for Toddlers – 18 to 36 Months
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
The Cheerios Play Book by Lee Wade
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
How Do I Feel? by Pamela Cote
Books for 3 and 4 Year-old Children
Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno
Happy Birthday Moon by Frank Asch
Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Freight Train by Donald Crews
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
In The Tall Grass by Denise Fleming
The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins
Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
Pretend You’re A Cat by Jean Marzollo
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Caps for Sale by Ephyr Slobodkina
Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells
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