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