https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:49:02 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044776 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:01:38 +0000 yoursilverlining 1044776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PurplePeony: Wow, that would be so cool to have all sorts of baby/kid books in different languages! Once your LO got really familiar with a certain book, it would be neat to be able to give them the same book in a different language - even if they couldn't read it, just seeing their favorite words would be fun. We have a copy of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" in Latin, which is a nice holiday conversation piece! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044759 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:53:52 +0000 Boheme 1044759@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I adore Eric Carle books! </p> <p>We were also given two copies of a book called 'I Love You Through and Through' and it is so sweet. It's become our go-to bedtime book! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044727 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:28:54 +0000 Mrs Checkers 1044727@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Eric Carle! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044691 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:04:06 +0000 swedishfish 1044691@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh, I forgot about Laurie Keller. My absolute favorite book to read aloud is Arnie the Doughnut! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044685 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:00:15 +0000 Anagram 1044685@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>-The Knufflebunny, Pigeon, and Piggie and Elephant books by Mo Willems</p> <p>-Jon Scieszka's cracked fairy tales books</p> <p>- a Bad Case of Stripes and the whole David series by David Shannon</p> <p>- the Baby Brain series by Simon James (kids love these!)</p> <p>- Fancy Nancy</p> <p>- Princess peepers</p> <p>- the Clay Boy</p> <p>I was an elementary librarian for a few years before I moved to middle school and those were our most requested for story times. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044660 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:50:02 +0000 swedishfish 1044660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: I :heart: Mo Willems!</p> <p>My favorite book to read with LO right now is a board book called Disney It's a Small World: Guess Who! But I'm a Disney lover :happy: </p> <p>Robert Munsch has great books to read aloud when LO is older. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044656 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:47:55 +0000 tororojo 1044656@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Agree on Sandra Boynton--our favorites are But Not the Hippopotamus and The Going to Bed Book. I also like the tiny Dr. Seuss board books...you can get them at Target and I'm sure lots of other places, but mini ones are cool b/c the stories are short enough to hold the attention of my 5 month old, and are also her favorite thing to chew on. :) Whereas long Dr. Seuss books, like One Fish, Two Fish... are way too long for a baby. Or my baby, anyway. And Goodnight Moon! Or Goodnight Ipad, depending on your style. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044652 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:43:43 +0000 swurlygurl 1044652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrskc: I love that Peek-a-Who book :)</p> <p>My favorite baby books are: Corduroy, all the Eric Carle books, and Peter Rabbit books </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044632 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:33:43 +0000 mrskc 1044632@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son LOVES his Peek-a Who? book. @PurplePeony: we went to Taiwan while I was pregnant and picked up some books in Chinese. Wish we would have gotten more! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044580 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:13:49 +0000 PurplePeony 1044580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yoursilverlining: Oh, in reading over your list again -- we have a beautiful Winnie the Pooh book with several of the stories in it, but it's translated into my hubby's first language! Trying to decide whether to get English ones, too. He's visiting his family soon and I keep telling him that he needs to pick up lots of baby books while he's there (it's not a language like Spanish or French where you can easily find translations in US bookstores). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044563 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:06:36 +0000 PurplePeony 1044563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thank you for all the suggestions! I'm organizing them into a list and can't wait to hit the local bookstore to browse through as many as I can :) Keep the suggestions coming! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044468 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:35:33 +0000 lemondrop 1044468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Boynton- Our current obsessions are Moo, Baa, La La La, Little Pookie, and Blue Hat, Green Hat, Oops. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044467 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:35:31 +0000 lamariniere 1044467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: we just had a friend bring us The Day the Crayons Quit, and I think we have them all now. :happy: Stuck is probably our favorite. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044460 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:32:46 +0000 hilsy85 1044460@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree with a lot of the above...the llama, llama books, sandra boynton books, goodnight moon, brown bear brown bear what do you see, lift the flap books, the "that's not my..." series (touch and feel books), knuffle bunny, little blue truck. </p> <p>@lamariniere: I &lt;3 oliver jeffers! I'm slowly buying all the books he's done :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1044413 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:14:54 +0000 lamariniere 1044413@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Everything by Oliver Jeffers, Curious George, the Elmer books, Corduroy, the Olivia books, Madeline, I like some, but not all of the Eric Carle books. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1043944 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:48:05 +0000 Rubies 1043944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sandra Boynton! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1043940 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:46:03 +0000 Maysprout 1043940@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Shel Silverstein, good night moon, Snuggle puppy, moo baa la la la, Little Critter books, lift the flap books (we have nat geo ones but I don't think it matters, now at 2 she doesn't rip them anymore and just loves lifting and moving stuff on the pages) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1043939 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:46:02 +0000 autumnlove 1043939@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sandra Boynton, Mem Fox and Mo Willems </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1043935 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:45:02 +0000 yoursilverlining 1043935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we started building LO's library we started with the "classics" (sets, mostly!)</p> <p>Winnie the Pooh<br /> Beatrix Potter<br /> Angelina Ballerina<br /> Harry Potter (older than Kindergarden, but fun!)<br /> Peter Pan<br /> The Secret Garden<br /> Corduroy<br /> The Very Hungry Caterpillar<br /> Dr. Seuss<br /> Pat the Bunny<br /> Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? </p> <p>My LO's favorite book is "If I Were a Kitten", it has great textures for babies to feel, and is made by Jellycat. She also has some Fancy Nancy books, which seem to be very popular, but is too young for them now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1043932 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:44:17 +0000 Bao 1043932@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sandra Boynton books, Dr. Seuss, Matthew Van Fleet books (Tails, heads, Cat etc), Chica Chica Boom Boom, Little Critter, Baby Einstein, Touch and feel books, Llama Llama, Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and any others by Eric Carle. I could go on forever, we have way more books than we can count! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1043925 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:39:17 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1043925@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Where the Wild Things Are. </p> <p>Shel Silverstein poetry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1043924 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:38:58 +0000 MamaMoose 1043924@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Good Night Moon, All the Sandra Boynton books, and being a Boston girl I love Make Way for Ducklings and anything else by Robert McCloskey </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1043919 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:37:08 +0000 regberadaisy 1043919@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Any of the llama llama books! Karen Katz lift the flap books are a fave of my LO. Good Night, Sweet Butterflies. These are LO's faves. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/must-have-books-for-babys-library#post-1043915 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:36:00 +0000 PurplePeony 1043915@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What are your favorite books for babies up through kindergarten-age? I want to start building a library of books for our LO, and I'm having a hard time registering so it would be great to put a bunch of books on there to sort of fill it out. </p> <p>I remember loving the Madeline books, but I started reading really early and had moved on to chapter books before I started school. So my "book memory" for baby books is pretty much nil, and so many have been written since then! </p>