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Leading to Reading: Booklist

Booklists icon white The list below is simply comprised of popular picks — both classics and recent titles — for your baby, toddler, or preschooler. The next time you're at the library, ask your librarian for other suggestions. And check out our resources on choosing good books for more ideas.

Babies Toddlers Preschoolers

Books for Babies

	You Are My I Love You Maryann Cusimano Love
	*Goodnight Moon* Margaret Wise Brown
	*All the Places to Love* Patricia MacLachlan
	Counting Kisses: A Kiss and Read Book Karen Katz
	More, More, More, Said the Baby: 3 Love Stories Vera Willliams
	Color Zoo Lois Ehlert
	*Ten, Nine, Eight* Molly Bang
	*Pajama Time* Sandra Boynton
	*Moo, Baa, La La La* Sandra Boynton
	I Kissed the Baby! Mary Murphy
	Peek-A-Who? Nina Laden
	I Love You As Much Laura Krauss Melmed
	*Dear Zoo* Rod Campbell
	Piggies Audrey & Don Wood

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Books for Toddlers

	Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin, Jr.
	We're Going on a Bear Hunt Helen Oxenbury
	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bill Martin, Jr.
	My Very First Mother Goose Iona Opie, Rosemary Wells
	Hop on Pop Dr. Seuss
	The Wheels on the Bus Paul Zelinsky
	Yo! Yes? Chris Raschka
	No, David! David Shannon
	Noisy Nora Rosemary Wells
	Rosie's Walk Pat Hutchins
	Yummy Yucky Leslie Patricelli
	The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle
	Olivia Ian Falconer
	It Looked Like Spilt Milk Charles G. Shaw

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Books for Preschoolers

	Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
	The Napping House Audrey & Don Wood
	Dr. Seuss's ABC Dr. Seuss
	Hattie and the Fox Mem Fox
	Bear Snores On Karma Wilson, Jane Chapman
	Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys, and Their Monkey Business Esphyr Slobodkina
	Owen Kevin Henkes
	*Seven Blind Mice* Ed Young
	Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale Mo Willems
	Old Black Fly Jim Aylesworth
	When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old’s Memoirs About Her Youth Jamie Lee Curtis
	My Many Colored Days Dr. Seuss
	Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Mo Willems
	The Missing Piece Shel Silverstein