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Choosing Books as Gifts for Children
Recommended Titles for Babies and Toddlers
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Animal Crackers: A Delectable Collection of Pictures, Poems, and Lullabies for the Very Young by Jane Dyer
Little, Brown, 1996; $19.99
Gentle watercolors illustrate traditional nursery rhymes and poems about familiar experiences and concepts such as numbers, shapes, and seasons. Excerpts are available in a set of three board books for $12.95.Baby’s Day and Let’s Play by Michel Blake; illustrated with photographs by Trish Gant
Candlewick, 2007; $5.99
These two board books feature colorful familiar objects set in black-and-white photographs.The Everything Book by Denise Fleming
Henry Holt, 2000; $18.95
Colors, shapes, and other concepts are introduced along with some simple rhymes. There is also a board book edition, but it doesn’t include “everything.”I Like It When… by Mary Murphy
Red Wagon, 2005; $6.95
This board book has bold red, black and yellow for babies’ eyes to notice in the simple pictures of a penguin child and adult enjoying their time together.Look at You!: A Baby Body Book by Kathy Henderson; illustrated by Paul Howard
Candlewick, 2007; $15.99
A multicultural cast of babies demonstrates a variety of moves.My Very First Mother Goose edited by Iona Opie; illustrated by Rosemary Wells
Candlewick, 1996; $22.99
This collection of nursery rhymes is illustrated with large pictures of endearing animal characters.