
Favorite Board Books
Sturdy books for infants and toddlers
Classic Board Books
Babies edited by Lara Holtz |
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Baby Cakes by Karma Wilson; illustrated by Sam Williams |
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Eric Carle and Bill Martin, Jr. |
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Buenos Dias Baby! by Libby Ellis |
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But Not the Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton |
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Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell |
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Eating the Alphabet by Louis Ehlert |
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Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers; illustrated by Marla Frazee |
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Freight Train by Donald Crews |
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Fuzzy, Fuzzy, Fuzzy: a touch, skritch and tickle book by Sandra Boynton |
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Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann |
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Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown |
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Hands Can by Cheryl Willis Hudson; photographs by John-Francis Bourke |
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I Kissed the Baby by Mary Murphy |
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I Love Trucks by Philemon Sturges, illustrated by Shari Halpern |
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I Went Walking by Sue Williams and Julie Vicas |
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Look at the Animals by Peter Linenthal |
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Moo, Baa, LaLaLa by Sandra Boynton |
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Mouse Paint by Ellen Walsh |
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My Aunt Came Back by Pat Cummings |
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My Car by Byron Barton |
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Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang |
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The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown |
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The Carrot Seed by Ruth Kraus; illustrated by Crockett Johnson |
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The Napping House by Audrey Wood; illustrated by Don Wood |
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The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle |
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle |
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Tomie’s Baa Baa Black Sheep and Other Rhymes by Tomie DePaola |
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Wee Willie Winkie by Salley Mavor |
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What Do You Say? by Mandy Stanley |
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What Shall We Do with the Boo-Hoo Baby? by Cressida Cowell; illustrated by Ingrid Godon |
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Where Is Baby’s Belly Button? by Karen Katz |
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Who Said Moo? by Harriet Ziefert; illustrated by Simms Taback |
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Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim; illustrated by LeUyen Pham |
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Whose Toes are Those? Asim, Jabari; illustrated by LeUyen Pham |
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More … Favorite Board Books
Baby Animals Touch and Feel (DK Publishing) |
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Big and Wild by Christiane Gunzi (A Feels Real Book) |
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On the Farm A Touch and Feel Book |
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Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt (A Touch and Feel Book) |
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Big Wheels by Anne Rockwell |
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Machines at Work by Byron Barton |
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My Car by Byron Barton |
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Baby Cakes by Karma Wilson and Sam Williams |
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My First Nursery Rhymes by Bruce Whatley |
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Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim; illustrated by LeUyen Pham |
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Black on White by Tana Hoban |
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Simms Taback’s Big Book of Words by Simms Taback |
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White on Black by Tana Hoban |
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(Paperback versions are preferred; however, we will accept hardbacks)
Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming |
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Charlie Parker Plays Bee-Bop by Richard Allen |
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archchambault |
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Jamberry by Bruce Degen |
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We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury |
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Abiyoyo by Pete Seger |
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A Cool Drink of Water by Barbara Kerley |
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Apple Pie 4th of July by Janet S. Wong |
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Hats Hats Hats by Ann Moris |
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Hush! by Minfong Ho and Holly Meade |
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I Love My Hair by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley and E.B. Lewis |
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More More More, Said the Baby by Vera B. William |
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Just Like Josh Gibson by Angela Johnson; illustrated by Beth Peck |
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On Mother’s Lap by Ann Herbert Scott and Glo Coalson |
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Story Of Ping by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese |
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A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams |
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A House Is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman; illustrated by Betty Fraser |
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A Mother for Choco by Kelko Kasza |
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Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock retold by Eric Kimmel; illustrated by Janet Stevens |
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Anansi and the Talking Melon retold by Eric Kimmel; illustrated by Janet Stevens |
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Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina |
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Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School by Mark Teague |
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Freight Train by Donald Crews |
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Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann |
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Good Thing You’re Not an Octopus by Julie Markes and Maggie Smith |
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Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crocket Johnson |
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Hoop Kings by Charles R. Smith, Jr. |
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Hoop Queens by Charles R. Smith, Jr. |
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Julius by Angela Johnson; illustrated by Dav Pilkey |
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Just Like Josh Gibson by Angela Johnson; illustrated by Beth Peck |
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Madeline by Lugwig Bemelmans |
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Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh |
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Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann |
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Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson and Shmuel Thaler |
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Red Are the Apples by Marc Harshman and Cheryl Ryan, illustrated by Wade Zahares |
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Shining by Julius Lester; illustrated by John Clapp |
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So Much by Trish Cooke |
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So You Want to be President? by Judith St. George; illustrated by David Small |
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Squanto’s Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac; illustrated by Greg Shed |
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The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins |
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The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant |
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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by A. Wolf, as told to Jon Scieska; illustrated by Lane Smith |
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle |
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The Water Hole by Graeme Base |
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Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen; illustrated by Kadir Nelson |
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Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard |
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We All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey through Tanzania by Laurie Krebs and Julia Cairns |
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When I was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant |
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Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak |
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READ! 365 is a campaign of Beginning with Books - Center for Early Literacy