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Best books for kids
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items From magical adventures and laugh-out-loud stories to heartwarming bedtime favorites, these children’s books are perfect for building a love of reading. 💕 Whether you’re shopping for a baby shower, birthday, holiday, or simply adding to your little ...
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Award Winning Picture books
Wordless Picture books
Reading together
Board Book
Before they can read, they will love to hear your voice
So much gentle fun finding the green sheep!
Where is the Green Sheep?: Fox, Mem
Have fun teaching your child how to make sounds! Great lap reads
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? - (Big Bright & Early Board Book) by Dr ...
Talk to your child as you both discover where the duckling is trailing
Have You Seen My Duckling? - Caldecott Honor
First pick for dog lovers. Have fun lap reading and invite the child to participate by making the sounds!
Doggies: 9780671493189 - Sandra Boynton
Gentle book for night reading. For kids and adults alike with nightly ritual.
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown & Hurd
Get your child to become enthusiastic at the reading hour with another engaging reading experience.
Boo! Baa, La La La!
Learn the colors though oops and humor! Gentle reading guaranteed giggles and engagement :-)
Blue Hat, Green Hat - Books
The best way to learn the alphabets playfully. Has large alphabets to hand trace. So much engagement, voices, and humor!
A to Z by Sandra Boynton, 9780671493172
No more bed time struggles for your reluctant bear!
The Going To Bed Book by Sandra Boynton
Oo! Why not the Hippopotamus? Gentle lessons for your boisterous lion or your quiet lion.
But Not the Hippopotamus
Reading this book allows the child to automatically identify the limbs of the body. And so much fun in learning!
Horns to Toes
Little hands to count, rhyme, enact and much more. Wonderful book for hours of engagement. Excellent for lap reading.
Five Little Chicks - Nancy Tafuri
Kids love animals. A wonderful way to engage your young reader and read together with sounds they can make.
Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boynton
A book for deep engagement for kids and parents who love texture and tracing.
You're My Little Baby: A Touch-and-Feel Book
For kids who love movement. Join pigs who twirl, cows playing fiddle, and other unforgettable animals in their barnyard dance!
Barnyard Dance! (Boynton on Board)
A must for dinosaur lovers of all ages!
Dinosaur Dance! by Sandra Boynton
One flock of sheep and one sturdy red jeep. Will their outing be a success? Join the reading fun to find out more.
Sheep in a Jeep - Books
Enchanting illustrations paired with loving sentiments that express the love between a parent and child. With cut-outs and raised pieces throughout, little ones will enjoy a hands-on reading experience alongside an adorable story that can be savored ...
You're My Little Sunshine (Board Book 0-2 yrs)
Finally a book that celebrates the dreams, acceptance, and love that parents have for their children . . . now and forever. This is the perfect heartfelt gift for kids of all ages!
The Wonderful Things You Will Be
This baby board book set is the perfect way to introduce basic scientific concepts and STEM to even the youngest scientist and makes a wonderful newborn baby gift!
Baby University Board Book Set: Science for Toddlers
Featuring the favorite puppy Spot, the book is filled with hide-and-seek fun on every page, this interactive classic has had children across the globe searching for everyone’s favorite pup
Where's Spot?: A Lift-the-Flap Book
A simple rhyming text with peek-a-boo cutouts take the most loved baby and toddler game and puts it in children's book form!
Peek-a Who? (Lift the Flap Books, Interactive ...
Finding friendship and happiness and learning to care.
The Rainbow Fish: Pfister, Marcus - Books
Saying good bye to friends with plenty of humor
See You Later, Alligator (RhymeTime Animals) ...
What a best way to celebrate your little cuddle bug by reading this sweet and colorful rhyming board book!
You're My Little Cuddle Bug
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” is one of those magical first books children can return to again and again. With its bold colors, rhythmic repetition, and lovable animals, little ones naturally want to join in, guess what comes next, and “r...
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? 50th
When three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, they can't help but wonder where she is. A comforting story about separation, anxiety, big feelings, and missing mom.
Owl Babies: Martin Waddell: 9781406303575 - Books
Olivia is everyone's favorite pig.
Olivia by Ian Falconer - 9780689874727
This beloved classic tells the story of a mischievous gorilla and his bedtime pal is perfect for fans young and old!
Good Night, Gorilla: Peggy Rathmann: 9780590210546
Award Winning Picture books
The best picture books are presented here. Many of them are award winning Caldecott winners
For children who are ready for longer stories from the life of the author. Enables long deep conversations with children.
The Butterfly (Kindness Editions): Polacco
Engaging conversation with a bear makes an absolutely fascinating and repeated reading.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? 50th
When Max dresses up in his wolf suit and causes havoc in the house, his mother sends him to bed. Max sets sail from there to an island inhabited by the Wild Things, who crown him as their king and share a wild rumpus with him.
Where the Wild Things Are
When summer gets too hot to handle, a hot dog rides to the beach!
Hot Dog (2023 Caldecott Medal) by Doug Salati
A curious kitten comes to visit a little island in the vast ocean.
The Little Island (Caldecott Medal Winner)
What does an owl who dreamed of becoming a knight gotta do?
Knight Owl (Caldecott Honor Award Winner) (The ...
When Sylvester finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come true….
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble - Books
It is Kitten's first full moon. When she sees it, she thinks it is a bowl of milk in the sky. And she wants it. Does she get it? Well, no . . . and yes. What a night!
Kitten's First Full Moon: Caldecott Winner
For rainy summer days and rainy days when you long for timeless seaside stories filled with nautical splendor! The days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Inside, the daily life of a lighthouse keeper and his...
Hello Lighthouse (Caldecott Medal Winner)
Inside the house where at nighttime things become both comforting and intriguing. A normal house with a bed, many books—and outside, too, there are sources of light and joy—the moon, the sky—that reveal a reassuring order in the universe.
The House in the Night: Caldecott Winner
The story of an imaginary friend or not.
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend
Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful scattered lupine seeds wherever she went.
Miss Rumphius : Cooney, Barbara
Swimmy the brave who shows his little friends how to unite and see the world together.
Swimmy: Lionni, Leo: 9780399555503
What will happen next when we are waiting? Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for...
Waiting: A Gentle Story About Patience
When Johnny goes to hunt for the biggest bear in the forest; he comes home with a little bear—that grows and grows and grows
The Biggest Bear: A Caldecott Award Winner â A Classic Picture Book ...
Wordless Picture books
Wordless Picture Books 📚✨ No words. No limits. Just imagination. Discover beautiful wordless picture books that invite children to slow down, notice the details, create their own stories, and see a whole world between the pages. 🌈 Perfect for littl...
Eternal favorite the Tomie dePaola's classic wordless picture book is just as fun as a serving of pancakes for breakfast! Missing ingredients and mischievous pets create one humorous complication after another for a little old lady determined to make...
Pancakes for Breakfast: A Wordless Cooking Story
Daisy is a dog whose world revolves around her favorite toy ball. And when a dog at the park accidentally pops the ball…
A Ball for Daisy: Caldecott Medal Winner
Powerful story of kindness beautifully illustrated.
The Lion & the Mouse (Caldecott Medal Winner)
Exquisitely illustrated wordless picture book that invites children to become the storytellers. In a quiet winter forest, a curious fox and a bright red cardinal discover a hat blown high into a tree. Together, they carry it through snowy woods, pass...
The Winter Fox: You-Tell-Me Wordless Book
A boy and his dog go walking in the swamp. They spot a frog in the water. Can they use a net to catch him? So begins their adventure
A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog Series
In an enchanting exploration of nature at night, the book is one boy's camping adventure into the shadows and finds all sorts of nighttime creatures, fascinating insects, plants, trees, and streams—all brilliantly illuminated in the beam of his flash...
Flashlight: Picture & Wordless Books for Kids
With the precision of a movie the events of an unpredictable Tuesday unravel
Tuesday: A Whimsical Frog Story Classic
This wordless picture book introduces young artists to the works of Monet while inspiring creativity and promoting passion over perfection.
Claude: A Wordless Picture Book About Art
When a young boy falls asleep with a book in his arms, he embarks on a magical wordless journey.
Free Fall: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
In a stunning book the story of a little girl's day at the beach is told in water color pictures.
Wave | Suzy Lee
Nearly wordless captures the journey from of the hare and tortoise from start to finish with stunning illustrations.
The Tortoise & the Hare: Pinkney, Jerry
Filled with humor, definite chuckles the baby bird’s first flight, when Baby bird has other ideas..
Fly!: Teague, Mark, Teague, Mark - Books
Reading together
Books You Have to Read Together 📚💛 The sweetest children’s books are the ones that turn reading into a two-person activity! These “You Read to Me, I Read to You” style books are made for back-and-forth reading, silly voices, shared laughs, and cozy...
Care to make voices? May be even dress up! O! the fun you can have reading together.
Very Short Fairy Tales to read together
Reading tall tales together translates into many wonderful skills and talents.
Very Short Tall Tales to Read Together
And now for your favorite rhymes in two or more voices
Mother Goose Rhymes to read together