Favorite Board Books 

Sturdy books for infants and toddlers

Classic Board Books

 

Babies edited by Lara Holtz

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baby Cakes by Karma Wilson; illustrated by Sam Williams

 

 

 

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Eric Carle and Bill Martin, Jr.

 

Buenos Dias Baby!  by Libby Ellis

 

 

 

 

 

 

But Not the Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton

 

 

 

 

Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eating the Alphabet by Louis Ehlert

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers; illustrated by Marla Frazee

 

 

Freight Train by Donald Crews

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuzzy, Fuzzy, Fuzzy: a touch, skritch and tickle book by Sandra Boynton

 

 

Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann

 

 

 

 

 

Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

 

 

 

 

 

Hands Can by Cheryl Willis Hudson; photographs by John-Francis Bourke

 

 

I Kissed the Baby by Mary Murphy

 

 

 

 

 

I Love Trucks by Philemon Sturges, illustrated by Shari Halpern

 

 

 

I Went Walking by Sue Williams and Julie Vicas

 

 

 

 

Look at the Animals by Peter Linenthal

 

 

 

 

 

Moo, Baa, LaLaLa by Sandra Boynton

 

 

 

 

 

   Mouse Paint by Ellen Walsh

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Aunt Came Back by Pat Cummings

 

 

 

 

 

My Car by Byron Barton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown

 

 

 

 

 

The Carrot Seed by Ruth Kraus; illustrated by Crockett Johnson

 

 

 

The Napping House by Audrey Wood; illustrated by Don Wood

 

 

 

The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

 

 

 

 

 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

 

 

 

 

 

Tomie’s Baa Baa Black Sheep and Other Rhymes by Tomie DePaola

 

 

Wee Willie Winkie by Salley Mavor

 

 

 

 

 

What Do You Say? by Mandy Stanley

 

 

 

 

 

What Shall We Do with the Boo-Hoo Baby? by Cressida Cowell; illustrated by Ingrid Godon

Where Is Baby’s Belly Button? by Karen Katz

 

 

 

 

Who Said Moo? by  Harriet Ziefert; illustrated by Simms Taback

 

 

 

Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim; illustrated by LeUyen Pham

 

 

Whose Toes are Those?  Asim, Jabari; illustrated by LeUyen Pham

 

 


More … Favorite Board Books 

Touch and Feel Books

Baby Animals Touch and Feel (DK Publishing)

 

Big and Wild by Christiane Gunzi (A Feels Real Book)

On the Farm A Touch and Feel Book

 

 

Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt (A Touch and Feel Book)

 

Books that GO! (Automobile Books)

Big Wheels by Anne Rockwell

 

Machines at Work by Byron Barton

My Car by Byron Barton

 

 

 Mother Goose and Rhyme Books

 

Baby Cakes by Karma Wilson and Sam Williams

 

 

My First Nursery Rhymes by Bruce Whatley

 

 

Whose Toes are Those?  by Jabari Asim; illustrated by LeUyen Pham

 

Point and Say Books

Black on White by Tana Hoban

 

 

 

Simms Taback’s Big Book of Words by Simms Taback

White on Black by Tana Hoban

 

 

 

 


 

 Books available in Soft Back and Hard Back form

 (Paperback versions are preferred; however, we will accept hardbacks)

 

 Rhyme Books

Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming

 

 

 

Charlie Parker Plays Bee-Bop by Richard Allen

 

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archchambault

Jamberry by Bruce Degen

 

 

 

 

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury

 

 

Multicultural Books

Abiyoyo by Pete Seger

 

 

 

 

A Cool Drink of Water by Barbara Kerley

 

 

Apple Pie 4th of July by Janet S. Wong

 

 

Hats Hats Hats by Ann Moris

 

 

 

Hush! by Minfong Ho and Holly Meade

 

 

I Love My Hair by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley and E.B. Lewis

More More More, Said the Baby by Vera B. William

 

Just Like Josh Gibson by Angela Johnson; illustrated by Beth Peck

On Mother’s Lap by Ann Herbert Scott and Glo Coalson

 

Story Of Ping by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese

 

 

Favorite Stories

 

A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A House Is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman; illustrated by Betty Fraser

 

 

 

A Mother for Choco by Kelko Kasza

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock retold by Eric Kimmel; illustrated by Janet Stevens

 

 

Anansi and the Talking Melon retold by Eric Kimmel; illustrated by Janet Stevens

 

 

 

Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School by Mark Teague

 

 

 

 

Freight Train by Donald Crews

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good Thing You’re Not an Octopus by Julie Markes and Maggie Smith

 

 

 

 

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crocket Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hoop Kings by Charles R. Smith, Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hoop Queens by Charles R. Smith, Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julius by Angela Johnson; illustrated by Dav Pilkey

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just Like Josh Gibson by Angela Johnson; illustrated by Beth Peck

 

 

 

 

Madeline by Lugwig Bemelmans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by  George Levenson and Shmuel Thaler

 

 

 

Red Are the Apples by Marc Harshman and Cheryl Ryan, illustrated by Wade Zahares

 

 

Shining by Julius Lester; illustrated by John Clapp

 

 

 

 

 

 

So Much by Trish Cooke

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So You Want to be President? by Judith St. George; illustrated by David Small

 

 

 

Squanto’s Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac; illustrated by Greg Shed

 

The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by A. Wolf, as told to Jon Scieska; illustrated by Lane Smith

 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Water Hole by Graeme Base

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen; illustrated by Kadir Nelson

 

 

 

 

 

Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

 

 

 

 

We All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey through Tanzania by Laurie Krebs and Julia Cairns

 

When I was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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