Books for Baby

A good source for info on, and recommendations for, books for children is A Time to Read by Mary-Ruth Wilkinson (a theologian and expert on children’s books) and her daughter.  Our favorite books for children include:

• The Jesus Storybook Bible
• I Love You Through and Through
• Babycakes
• [The Maisy Books]

Also, we have nothing against used books at all — in fact that’s how we’ve acquired most of our “grown ups” library.

 

We’d love to have:

• [anything by Maurice Sendak]
• [anything by Margaret Wise Brown]
• [anything by George MacDonald]
• [anything by Oscar Wilde]
• [anything by Beatrix Potter]
• [anything by Shirley Hughes]
• [anything by Nancy Shaw]
• [anything by Dr. Seuss]
• [anything by Rosemary Wells]
• [anything by Kevin Henkes]
• [anything by Arnold Lobel]
• [anything by Jan Brett]
• [anything by Peter Spier]
• [anything by Paul Galdone]
• [anything by Thomas Locker]
• [anything by Chris Van Allsburg]
• [anything illustrated by Barbara Cooney]
• [anything illustrated by Barry Moser]
• [anything illustrated by Peter Parnall]
• [anything illustrated by Tomie de Paola]
• The Friendly Beasts. Illustrated by Sarah Chamberlain.
• The Rhyme Bible. L. J. Sattgast.
• My Very First Mother Goose/Here Comes Mother Goose. Edited by Iona Opie and illustrated by Rosemary Wells.
• Time of Wonder. Robert McCloskey.
• King of the Wind. Margurite Henry.
• The Baby’s Book of Babies. Photos by Anthea Sieveking.
• Something from Nothing. Phoebe Gilman.
• Sounder. William Armstrong.
• To Every Thing There is a Season. Leo and Diane Dillon.
• If Once You Have Slept on an Island. Rachel Field.
• I am a Bunny. Ole Risom.
• Johnny Crow’s Garden. L. Leslie Brooke.
• We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. Michael Rosen. Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury.
• The Maggie B. Irene Haas.
• Tell Me a Mitzi. Lore Segal. Illustrated by Harriet Pincus.
• My Mama Had a Dancing Heart. Libba Moore Gray.
• Grandpa’s Face. Eloise Greenfield. Illustrated by Floyd Cooper.
• The Rainbabies. Laura Krauss Melmed. Illustrated by Jim LaMarche.
• Rain Rain Rivers. Uri Shulevitz.
• Tuesday. David Wiesner.
• Tops and Bottoms. Janet Stevens.
• Once When I was Scared. Helena Clare Pitman. Illustrated by Ted Rand.
• The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake. Nancy Willard.
• The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket. Sonia Levitin.
• Pepe the Lamplighter. Elisa Bartone. Illustrated by Ted Lewin.
• The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks. Katherine Paterson. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.
• Round and Round the Garden. Sarah Williams. Illustrated by Ian Beck.

Books we already have:

• The Runaway Bunny (small and large in cardboard)
• ABC (cardboard cube by Crocodile Creek)
• Finger Plays for Nursery and Kindergarten
• The Berenstain Bears Don’t Pollute
• Goodnight Moon (large, cardboard)
• Where the Wild Things Are (paperback)
• Mary’s First Christmas
• Llama Llama Red Pajama
• Knuffle Bunny: Mistaken Identity Mo Willems
• So Much
• All the Places to Love. Patricia MacLachlan. Illustrated by Mike Wimmer.
• I Went Walking. Sue Williams.
• The Story of Christmas French Chapman
• Sunrise, Sunset Harnick and Schoenherr
• The Nativity Vivas
• I Love You Through and Through Rossetti-Shustak
• How Many Kisses Goodnight Thomas
• Colours Little Scholastic
• I Heard a Little Baa MacLeod
• My Food! Ziefert
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear Bill Martin Jr.
• The Rainbow Fish Pfister
• Good Morning, Good Night! Mitchell
• Baby Cakes Wilson
• Pajama Time Sandra Boynton
• Good Night, Sleep Tight! Shhh… Fujikawa
• A Child’s Book of Prayers Hague
• Noah’s Ark Adams
• The Empty Pot Demi
• Stone Soup Muth
• Mother Goose Long
• The Baby’s Good Morning Book Chorao
• Farm Faces iBaby
• Counting Animals Cappetta
• My Body/Mi Cuerpo Rosa-Mendoza
• Five Silly Monkeys Haskamp
• Winnie-the-Pooh’s Colours Milne
• Winnie-the-Pooh’s 1-2-3 Milne
• Winnie-the-Pooh’s A-B-C Milne
• Winnie-the-Pooh’s Opposites Milne
• Who are They? Hoban
• The Easter Story Harrast
• Barnyard Dance Sandra Boynton
• Colours: A Glitterboard Book
• Baby Beluga Wolff
• Joseph and his Brothers Weiss
• Colours Bolam
• But Not the Hippopotamus Sandra Boynton
• You Can Drive a Fire Engine Bracken
• The Tallest Tree Lieber
• Baby Animals Tildes
• Belly Button Book! Sandra Boynton
• God Sees Our Pets Poole
• God Loves the Jungle Animals Poole
• Open the Barn Door… Santoro
• Numbers/Numeros Priddy Books
• Old MacDonald Tormont
• Peek-a-Who Laden
• Keiki Counting Ye
• Farm Animals Bicknell
• Look Look! Linenthal
• Bath Time Sandra Boynton
• Count My Blessings Meij
• Baby Finds Brimax
• What Does Violet See? Aigner-Clark
• Gallop! Seder
• Whose Toes are Those? Asim
• The Farm Book Pfloog
• Who Am I? Crozoh
• Barney’s Farm Animals Kearns
• Nelly and Caesar: In, Out, and Other Places Godon
• My Mommy and Me Macnaughton
• My First Book of Shapes Aigner-Clark
• The Cow Who Fell in the Canal Krasilovski
• The Hunter Casanova
• What Colour is Love Gurley
• The Berenstain Bears: Back to School Berenstain
• This First Thanksgiving Day Melmed
• New Junior Cookbook Better Homes and Gardens
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig
• Mary’s First Christmas Walt Wangering Jr.
• I Have to Go Ross
• En las Piernas de Mama Scott
• The First Step Bible Gold’n'Honey Books
• Baby Animals on the Farm Shooter
• David and Goliath Bartlett
• The Saggy Baggy Elephant Jackson
• When We Were Very Young Milne
• Blue Train, Green Train Awdry
• Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Seuss
• Dr. Seuss’s A-B-C Seuss
• Are You My Mother? Eastman
• The Foot Book Seuss
• The Easy-to-Read Little Engine That Could Piper
• The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room Berenstain
• Pleasant Fieldmouse Wahl
• Hando and Fabian McCarty
• Sheep out to Eat Shaw
• Winter Days in the Big Woods Ingalls-Wilder
• Brundibar Sendak
• Where the Wild Things Are Sendak
• A Treasury of Curious George Rey
• Good Babies Myers
• The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey Wojciechowski
• Stories for Children Oscar Wilde
• The Hungry Coat Demi
• Love you Forever Munsch
• The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis
   
  (and many more — I need to update this list!)