The 20 Best Books for One-Year-Olds
We were invited to a first birthday party this weekend, and planning our gift gave me the opportunity to round up the books we loved reading again and again (and again) at one with each of our boys. (And then I sobbed over photos of their adorable little former selves for longer than I care to disclose.) Here they are in no particular order:
Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Helen Oxenbury
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
Belly Button Book by Sandra Boynton
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Little Blue Truck by Alice Shertle
Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Pout Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen
Duck and Goose by Tad Hills
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
Where’s Spot by Eric Hill
First 100 Words by Roger Priddy
Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins
Llama llama Red Pajama by Dewdney
Happy Baby Sad Baby by Leslie Patricelli
I Love You to the Moon and Back by Amelia Hepworth
The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin
The Goodnight Train by June Sobel
Jamberry by Bruce Degen
Baby Beluga by Raffi