The Top 100 Toddler Books I Highly Recommend
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My son absolutely loves books, which totally warms my heart. He also loves to have us read him the same book over… and over… and over… and over… and over… 😂👀📚
As such, I have read each of these an absurd amount of times, and can vouch for them being wonderful little books for the whole fam!
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? — Bill Martin Jr.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar — Eric Carle
The Pout-Pout Fish — Deborah Diesen
Where's Spot? — Eric Hill
The Rainbow Fish — Marcus Pfister
Green Eggs and Ham — Dr. Seuss
Snuggle Puppy!: A Little Love Song — Sandra Boynton
You Are My Happy — Hoda Kotb
The Pudgy Where Is Your Nose? Book — Grosset & Dunlap
Jamberry — Bruce Degen
Ten Tiny Toes — Caroline Jayne Church
A Recipe for How Much I Love You — Danielle Kartes
It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse! — Laura Numeroff
Good Night, Biscuit — Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Peekaboo Rex! — Sandra Boynton
Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA — Jimmy Fallon
Everything Is Mama — Jimmy Fallon
Good Morning, Farm Friends — Annie Bach
Tad and Dad — David Ezra Stein
The Bunny Rabbit Show! — Sandra Boynton
Hello Sacred Life — Kim Krans
Oh My Gosh, Mrs. McNosh — Sarah Weeks
Goodnight Moon — Margaret Wise Brown
10 Tiny Puppies — V.C. Graham
I'll Love You More — Andi Landes
Llama Llama Red Pajama — Anna Dewdney
I Love My Daddy — Page Publications
Splash, Splash — Jeff Sheppard
What Is a Narwhal? — Ginger Swift
Fox in Socks — Dr. Seuss
I Love You Like No Otter — Rose Rossner
Solitary Animals — Joshua David Stein
One Duck Stuck — Phyllis Root
Always — Emma Dodd
Rub-a-Dub Sub — Linda Ashman
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? — Dr. Suess
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site — Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom — Bill Martin Jr.
The Home Builders — Varsha Bajaj
Llama Llama Zippity-Zoom — Anna Dewdney
If Animals Kissed Good Night — Ann Whitford Paul
Be Brave Little One — Marianne Richmond
Noah’s Noisy Night — Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld
P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever — Raj Haldar
Llama Llama Hoppity-Hop — Anna Dewdney
Little Owl's Day — Divya Srinivasan
Bee My Friend — IglooBooks
Green Tractor — Kersten Hamilton
Doggies: A Counting and Barking Book — Sandra Boynton
Moo, Baa, La La La! — Sandra Boynton
Boop the Snoot — Ashlyn Anstee
It's Not Easy Being a Bunny — Marilyn Sadler
You're My Little Sweet Pea — Annette Bourland
Good Night, Gorilla — Peggy Rathmann
The Very Lazy Ladybug — Isobel Finn
Llama Llama Wakey-Wake — Anna Dewdney
Hop on Pop — Dr. Seuss
The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree — Gail Gibbons
I Love You to the Moon and Back — Amelia Hepworth, Tim Warnes
The Friendly Duck — Deborah Borgo
Llama Llama Nighty-Night — Anna Dewdney
Five Little Ducks — Pam Paparone
Lots of Opposites — Christy Webster
Corduroy — Don Freeman
Sleep Tight, Polar Bear — Sabina Gibson
The Going to Bed Book — Sandra Boynton
Corduroy's Shapes — MaryJo Scott
Clam-I-Am! All About the Beach — Tish Rabe
Eek! Halloween! — Sandra Boynton
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish — Dr. Seuss
Hello, World! Birds — Jill McDonald
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie — Laura Numeroff
Babies Love First Words — Scarlett Wing
See, Touch, Feel: A First Sensory Book — Roger Priddy
The Monster at the End of This Book — Jon Stone
Hands Are Not for Hitting — Martine Agassi
Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 — Bill Martin Jr.
The Foot Book — Dr. Seuss
A is for Apple — Tiger Tales
I Like to Be with My Family — Rachel Kalban
I Yoga You — Genevieve Santos
The Shape Of Me And Other Stuff — Dr. Seuss
Go, Dog Go — P.D. Eastman
The Poky Little Puppy — Janette Sebring Lowrey
The Little Engine That Could — Watty Piper
I Go Woof Woof — Insight Editions
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! — Dr. Seuss
First 100 Words — Roger Priddy
The Bunny Book — Patsy Scarry
The Tooth Book — Dr. Seuss, Joe Mathieu
Spot Loves His Daddy — Eric Hill
Night-Night, Forest Friends — Annie Bach
Spot Loves School — Eric Hill
Are You My Mother? — P.D. Eastman
Sleepy Time Nighty-Night — D.S. Park
Little Hockey — Matt Napier
Ten Apples Up On Top! — Theo LeSieg
Toilet Time: A Training Kit for Boys — Janet Hall
I Thought I Saw a Lion! — Lydia Nichols
From Head to Toe — Eric Carle