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.
