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Children's Books We Read All the Time
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items These books my children and I love! There are books for all ages, including board books that help with speech development, social and emotional books, and even beginning reader books and chapter books for reading comprehension.
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Toddler Board Books
Social and Emotional Books
Beginning Reader Books
Chapter Books
Toddler Board Books
I love Sandra Boynton's books but this Doggies one is my son's favorite. I love that it introduces counting in a fun way, and my son likes to bark like the different dogs which is great for copying different sounds!
Doggies
These books a staples in starting your toddler's library! So cute and fun to ready! They actually keep my toddler's interest!
Boynton's Greatest Hits Big Yellow Box Set
Such a great set! All of these are must have books and great for language development! I personally love Happy Hippo Angry Duck, because it helps introduce emotions to toddlers.
Boynton's Greatest Hits Big Green Box Set
This book is a great interactive book! There are little discs of each food for the different animals and my toddler loves dropping them in and "feeding" the animals. It is also great for speech development!
Feed the Animals!
This book is a must have! It's great for speech development and includes rhyming! It's so creative and cute!
Peek-a Who? Interactive Lift the Flap Book
A classic but a must have! Great way to help children learn the hand motions for the song.
Wheels on the Bus (Raffi Songs to Read)
A perfect sensory book that includes animals, counting and fine motor control! So many benefits from this book! My toddler loves listening to the clicks when he pokes the dots. It's a great independent toy!
Melissa & Doug Poke-a-Dot Old MacDonald’s Farm
This is a must have! So cute and repetitive to help with speech. My toddler loves opening the flaps and seeing the different animals.
Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book
A classic and so cute! I love the rhyming words!
Sheep in a Jeep (board book)
My toddler loves all the Little Blue Truck Books. The simple sounds help him with his speech, when he beeps like the truck and vrooms like the dump truck.
Little Blue Truck: Farm Adventure & Friendship
Love this touch and feel book! Especially with the realistic pictures of sea animals. My toddler loves to look at this book independently too and feel all the different pages.
Ocean Friends Touch & Feel Sensory Book
We love Where's Spot, it's a classic and a must have! We also use it with our Yoto cards to listen along with the book!
Where's Spot?: A Lift-the-Flap Book
Social and Emotional Books
Such a great book for helping children learn how to make choices and strengthen their decision making. My daughter loves the waffle and thinks all the food references are so funny.
Waffle Can't Decide (Food for Thought)
This is a great book to help children learn how to navigate friendships. It helps them learn how to stand up for themselves and communicate with their friends. This book has been a great thing to reference when my daughter is talking about disagreeme...
The Not-So-Friendly Friend: Set Boundaries
I love this book for my 5 year old! She entered a bossy stage and this book helped her learn about her power of flexibility and how to think of others. She still talks about how to be flexible and listen to others because of this book!
It's My Way or the Highway (Leader I'll Be!)
This is one of my favorite books for kids! It's a fun way to talk about positive mindset! My daughter references "think, feel, do" from the book when she is feeling down. It has been a great reminder for the whole family!
Taco Falls Apart (Food for Thought)
Such a cute book to teach children to love themselves and build confidence! My daughter loves the food references and thinks it's so fun! I love the positive messages!
S'more Is Enough (Food for Thought)
This is one of my favorite social/emotional books for kids! I love how simply it explains a part of their brain so they can learn how their body works. It's been so helpful in my daughter understanding why she responds to things certain ways and how ...
How to Train Your Amygdala
Such a great book to help explain anxiety to children and how to handle their worried thoughts! Puts a positive spin on how to handle their worries.
Avocado Feels a Pit Worried: Facing Fears
Simple way to teach children about different emotions. This book does a great job of explaining different emotions and feelings. My daughter loves to look through the book and find her current feeling. Great book to have in a space to help children n...
In My Heart: Deluxe Gift Edition Book
Such a great book for kids and adults! Gives create examples about how everyone handles their emotions differently and how sometimes all someone needs it just to be close by to listen! This book is a parenting staple and must have!
The Rabbit Listened
Beginning Reader Books
This is a great book to help children with sounds and all the words a phonetically correct! A rare find and a must have!
lowercase letter sound book
These are the best beginning reader books I have found! I use these in my classroom and children love them! The pictures are cute and the story is actually interesting to the children. All the words are decodable and great for first readers! MUST HAV...
Miss Rhonda's Readers: Set ONE
Great next step for after children have read the first series or who are ready for longer beginner readers.
Around Town with Miss Rhonda Revised Edition
Another great book by Rhonda Readers! This one is great for readers who are ready to start chapter books!
On The Farm
Chapter Books
Such a cute beginner chapter book! My daughter loves when princess Magnolia becomes the princess in black and has to battle monsters! Is is always wanting to know if the other characters are going to find out who she is!
The Princess in Black
A must have to complete the princess and black collection! My daughter is obsessed with all of these and always wants more!
The Princess in Black: Books 4-6 Box Set
Such a good book about a pig who loves hot buttered toast and is adored by her owners. My daughter thinks these books are so funny. They are great for reading comprehension or begining chapter books.
Mercy Watson to the Rescue: Funny Chapter Book for Kids 5-7
These books are my favorite children's chapter books! I love this series and my daughter does too! The characters are so cute and the story lines are so fun and just the right amount of conflict and problem solving. These are a must have!
Hotel Flamingo 5-Book Set by Alex Milway
Such a great series and easy to read! Great books to start working on reading comprehension or for older children to start reading chapter books.
The Princess in Black: Three Smashing Adventures
A great series about a cute little pig! MY daugher loves hearing about Mercy's new adventures in each book!
Mercy Watson Boxed Set: Adventures 1-6
This is a great longer chapter book for reading comprehension. I love that it Harriet works through her feelings through the book in a realistic way.
Just Harriet
Such a cute book. My daughter loves listening to this logner chapter book. She was so interested about the wild animal.
A Boy Called Bat: Heartwarming Story
This is the perfect chapter book series for kids! It has just the right amount of pcitures to help my daughter stay focused but also use her own imagination. The animal characters each have their own personality come through!
Hotel Flamingo