Best Children's Books for Babies and Toddlers

How to Find Picture Books for Infants and Books That Teach Toddlers

Nov 19, 2009 Kara Gleghorn

Picture books make great holiday gifts and birthday presents for babies. Books that teach toddlers are also great choices as birthday gifts and holiday presents.

Reading to babies and toddlers entertains them and teaches them language. When looking for birthday presents or holiday gifts for young children, great options include picture books for infants and books that teach toddlers. Giving these top children's books as gifts will help parents build a valuable library for their child.

Top Children's Picture Books as Presents for Babies

Books for infants don't need a lot of words to be entertaining and stimulating. Babies learn from the sensory stimulation in a book, such as various textures to feel and bright colors to see. Choose these board books for a present that a baby will enjoy.

• Bright Baby Touch and Feel Books by Roger Priddy. These books come in multiple themes and contain bright, basic pictures and textures to touch and feel.
• Look, Look! By Peter Linenthal. Babies love contrasting images. These black and white images, with a splash of bright color, will keep their attention.
• Baby Einstein Babies by Julie Aigner-Clark. Babies love to see other babies. These book contains simple phases and pictures of babies in art, photos and illustrations. Other books that are available include Cats, Birds and Dogs.
• Oh, Baby! by Elizabeth Hathon. Each page contains an activity for baby, such as touch and feel objects, a mirror and a "mobile" on a string.

Best Children's Book Gifts for Toddlers

Toddlers are not only learning new vocabulary everyday, but are starting to learn colors, shapes, letters and numbers. Top children's books for toddlers teach some or all of these concepts. Give these books as gifts for toddlers that will help them learn.

• Pat the Bunny by Edith Kunhardt. This classic children's book teaches toddlers to follow directions by copying the actions of the two characters.
• Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book! by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel. Silly rhymes and repetition help toddlers to learn letters.
• Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton. Toddlers learn colors with these funny characters and simple and silly illustrations
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? By Eric Carle. This book uses rhymes to teach colors and animal names.
• Rainbow Fish Counting by Marcus Pfister. From the author of the The Rainbow Fish book, this sequel teaches numbers 1 through 10 and counting.

Anyone who is searching for a gift that young children and their parents will both enjoy should consider books. These are just a few of the many great books available for birthday presents or holiday gifts for babies and toddlers.

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Best Children's Books for Baby and Toddler Gifts