Top Five Books For A Baby

Isn’t he a heartthrob?  Shane Bradford, my little sister’s first child, was born on October 8, 2008, weighing in at 8 lbs 4.6 ounces, and 22 inches long.

We can’t wait to meet him in person! Unfortunately, it’s going to be a while before the cousins can get together.  With one sister in California, another in New York, and the rest in Florida, family reunions are rare occasions.

In the meantime, I’m putting together a gift basket of our favorite read aloud baby books.  These are books that we truly loved reading over and over again.  Hopefully, it won’t be too long before I can start sharing them with my youngest nephew:

Moo Baa La La La is one of several books by Sandra Boynton that are just plain old fun to read.  We started reading it nightly when Kayla was just a few weeks old, and by the time she was a toddler she was singing along to this and our other favorite Boynton books, Barnyard Dance and But Not The Hippopotamus.

Pat The Bunny, by Dorothy Kunhardt, is the sweet, classic baby book that was loved to death by my first child, and had to be replaced for the second. By then, we also received a copy of Pat The Puppy that somehow seemed more appropriate in our household.

Babies and parents, we all got a kick out of Alexandra Day’s Good Dog, Carl and the notion that a Rottweiler could do the babysitting. 

We kept hoping that our Labrador would take on the diaper duty, but he was never as “helpful” as Carl.

Is Your Mama A Llama - It’s the rhymes that had my little ones asking for this one again and again, but it’s the sweet ending that made me want to share it with them.

Jamberry - by Bruce Degen.  It’s a silly story about a boy and a bear searching for berries, but I always end up smiling and tapping my feet as I read it. 

A Few More Favorite Board Books:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - by Eric Carle

Sheep In A Jeep - by Nancy E. Shaw

Good Night, Gorilla - by Peggy Rathmann

Good Night Moon - by Margaret Wise Brown

Guess How Much I Love You - by Sam McBratney

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? - By Bill Martin Jr.

More cousin blog posts:

Introducing… - The cousins.  Four sisters, living in three states, trying to keep the cousins in touch.

Kissin’ Cousins - Danielle and Isabella at Dana Point, CA.

Homeschooling In Chaos - Homeschooling the cousins on vacation.

Easter Hats - The cousins list gets a little longer when you include second cousins (my cousin’s kids): Atticus and Audrey.

Who is the typical American family?  -   And, when you include the children of friends who are like sisters, well, I can’t include them all today but here are Joshua and Jamie!

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