The top requested bedtime books from my 12 month old… and a few highlights from mom/dad too!
Sweet book with great cadence about a neighborhood of pups
The Dogs You Will Meet - Metz & Veres
Our daughter loves to touch these holes and impressions in the pages
Itsy Bitsy Spider (Touch & Trace Nursery Rhymes)
My favorite - love the rhymes and the sweet animals
Time for Bed: Soothing Bedtime Classic
A top favorite - my daughter loves turning the pages and the touch and feel. She anticipates “drooly dog sticks” every time and pokes the sticky tongue!
Dog: Van Fleet, Matthew, Stanton, Brian
“OOPS” gets a laugh on every page!
Amazon.com: Blue Hat, Green Hat - Sandra Boynton
A cute rhyming book that we read every night without fail!
Llama Llama Red Pajama
One of my favorite Little Blue Truck sequels - the animals sheltering from the storm and then going for a bedtime ride.
Good Night, Little Blue Truck: A Heartwarming Bedtime Story about ...
One of my own childhood favorites, I love the rhyming and illustrations in this book.
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? - Yolen, Teague
My daughter LOVES a lift the flap book and this simple book with different animals under each flap is a hit.
Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book
My daughter loves the textures and is eager to flip the pages on this one - the “rough” paws are a fan favorite!
If I Were A Rabbit Board Book - Official Jellycat
A fun book for a “doggy” loving girl, a nice quick read before bed.
Dog's First Baby: A Board Book by Natalie Nelson
While I get out of breath describing the donkey, my daughter loves pressing the sound button!
The Wonky Donkey Sound Book
Another classic lift the flap favorite.
Where's Spot? A Lift-the-Flap Book by Eric Hill
A fun interactive book my daughter likes to poke at the dots - I feel like this will continue to be an even bigger hit as she gets older.
Press Here (Herve Tullet) - Books
This is another classic, actually one I never read as a kid but is my husbands favorite to read to our daughter. It has become a bedtime staple.
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
A sweet book about how being different can be a good thing.
Giraffes Can't Dance by Andreae & Parker-Rees
Honk Shoooooooo
Dinosnores (Boynton on Board)
The hat trilogy is a fun series for both kids and parents. The illustrations add so much to the story! Watch the eyes…
I Want My Hat Back
My daughters favorite of the three hat books, she pulls this one off the shelf almost every night!
This Is Not My Hat (The Hat Trilogy)
A heartwarming ending to the hat trilogy after the first two books end in mishaps.
We Found a Hat (The Hat Trilogy)
We love the Raffi books! Quack quack quack quack
Five Little Ducks - song and lyrics by Raffi
Sing along to the wheels on the bus! Hot topic in our house - do you sing it “all around the town” or “all through the town”?
Wheels on the Bus (Raffi Songs to Read)
Can't go wrong with the original little blue truck - beep beep beep!
Little Blue Truck
I honestly may have this book memorized at this point - a win for both my daughter and when babysitting my nephews. We love giving voices to the different underwater creatures, especially accentuating the “BLUB BLUB BLUBBBBB”
The Pout-Pout Fish by Diesen & Hanna
I love Greg Paprocki illustrations and this alphabet book about camping is perfect for our outdoor loving family.
C Is for Camping (Alphabet Primers) - Books
Remember… don't use your hands!! A fun froggy story about a big game.
Froggy Plays Soccer by London & Remkiewicz
Bah doo bah doink doink - my daughter loves the silly noises and cute piggies in this book!
Perfect Piggies! (Boynton on Board)
We picked this one up at Smoky Mountain National Park and read it about 1000 times in the car on the way home - an instant favorite!
Busy Bear Cubs (A Busy Book)
This one is pulled off the shelf every night - the big flaps and easy to mimic sounds of what baby says are a hit for my daughter to keep asking for “more” “more” “more”!
What Does Baby Say? Lift-the-Flap Book
My daughter loves the real life photos in this series! We need to pick up some more.
How We Eat (We Are Little Feminists, 5)
My daughter loves the real life photos in this series! We need to pick up some more.
We Are Little Feminists: On-the-Go
I think all three books in this series are great - the imitation book is the first and we have seen so much progress since we started reading with my daughter. She anticipates what's coming now - especially with “pop the bubbles” and will start sayin...
