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How to Say Hello

Sophie Beer - Hardie Grant
Format: Board book

Don't feel like hugging today? No worries! We can say hello with a smile, a wave or even a high five! The fourth book in Sophie Beer's feel-good series is all about consent for little readers. As is Sophie's signature style, How to Say Hello takes big concepts and nestles them...
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Yum, Yum, Mexico!: Mexican Food from A to Z

Diane de Anda - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Get ready for a tasty treat! This book features Mexican food from A to Z, including burritos, enchiladas, menudo, salsa, and much more!. Some foods are spicy, and some are sweet.Take a bite. . . . You're in for a treatof many delicious things to eat!. Kids love learning about food,...
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Dress-Up Day: A Board Book

Blanca Gómez - Abrams Appleseed
Format: Board book

After missing her class costume party, a girl decides she doesn't need an excuse to dress up in this charming board book, a relatable school story from author-illustrator Blanca Gómez. When a little girl is home sick for dress-up day at school, she decides there's no need to miss...
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We Share This Neighborhood: A Community Book (Community Books)

Dan Saks - Rise x Penguin Workshop
Format: Board book

A rhyming, heartfelt celebration of neighborhood communities and the vital role they play in young children's lives.. This formative board book is an appreciation of neighborhood communities and the many ways in which they help develop empathy, compassion, and collective responsibility....
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Noodles, Please!

Cheryl Yau Chepusova - ‎The Collective Book Studio
Format: Board book

Here's an alphabet book to set your taste buds aflame. Noodles are a universally loved food, from Ash Reshteh in Iran to Zaru Soba in Japan. In this board book shaped to mimic bowls, readers will discover 26 different varieties as they eat their way through the alphabet. Who knew noodles...
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I Love My Beautiful Hair

Elissa Wentt - Cartwheel Books
Format: Board book

A celebration of family tradition and natural hair, in this adorable rhyming board book!Little EJ is so excited to join her mom and grandmommy for her first-ever trip to the hair salon. She wants to find a special hair style. But with so many options ... how can she choose? Readers will...
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Make Tracks: Trucks

Johnny Dyrander - Nosy Crow
Format: Board book

Get to know four things that go in this chunky board book with sliders. Then make tracks as you trace each vehicle along the roads. Learn vehicle vocabulary with simple first words, clear diagrams, and helpful text prompts to encourage discussion. Then, drive 4 different types of transportation...
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¡1, 2, 3 Cumbia!: English-Spanish Manners Book (¡1, 2, 3 Baila!) (English and Spanish Edition)

Delia Ruiz - Soaring Kite Books
Format: Board book

"May I please dance with you? Yes, thank you for asking."This bilingual English-Spanish book teaches common manners through a dance class setting. The dancers also practice consent, learning how to say no and set boundaries with others. ¡Vamonos! Learn to use manners with cumbia...
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You Are New

Lucy Knisley - Chronicle Books
Format: Board book

A sweet look at the first year of a babys life from bestselling author Lucy Knisley - now in board book format!. A world of being new is waiting for little ones and the grown-ups who love them in this warm and funny book. From napping to crying to cuddling to playing, this board book introduces...
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Daddy and Me

Gary Urda - little bee books
Format: Board book

Celebrate Father's Day with this sweet ode to Daddies everywhere!. Whether you love to cook with your papa, read with your dada, go to the park with your bàba, or stargaze with your appa, everything is better with daddy. This adorable board book celebrates dads and all the wonderful...
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She Is Mama

Mackenzie Porter - Little Simon
Format: Board book

In this celebration of motherhood, a mama can be many things - from a captain of adventures to a quiet supporter - but above all else, she will always be Mama. . She is mama, she is many things. Mama is there for whatever life brings. From the author of In My Heart and You Are Home, this...
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Little Dumplings

Jekka Kuhlmann - Chronicle Books
Format: Board book

A mouth-watering, multicultural board book for little foodies and their loved ones, celebrating dumplings from kitchens all over the world! There are so many different kinds of dumplings to love! In this sweet rhyming board book, the youngest of readers are introduced to traditional dumplings...
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I'm Still Up!

Antoinette Portis - Clarion Books
Format: Book

A soothing and humorous bedtime story with a baby who is still up! This is the ideal board book for baby to read before lying down to sleep.

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Big and Little: A Book of Animal Opposites

Harriet Evans - Tiger Tales
Format: Board book

This follow-up to A to Z: An Alphabet of Animals features a pair of animals on each spread to introduce the concept of opposites in this fun lift-the-flap book.. Animals representing opposites such as big and little, light and heavy, quiet and loud, and more comparisons are hiding on each...
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Big Kids No Everything

Wednesday Kirwan - Little Simon
Format: Board book

From silly to serious, "no" can have many meanings but above all shows that little ones are getting bigger in this funny and empowering board book behind every kid's favorite two-letter word! . There are small no's and big no's loud no's and quiet no's ... But big kids...
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Love You Head to Toe

Ashley Barron - Owlkids
Format: Board book

Pairing creative rhyming similes with cut-paper collage art, Love You Head to Toe is an adorable book that compares newborn babies to baby animals on every page. Bright, playful illustrations show a different baby and a different species of animal, both engaged in similar behavior: babies...
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Global Baby Boys (Global Babies)

Maya Ajmera - Charlesbridge
Format: Board book

Celebrate baby boys everywhere! In the tradition of best-selling GLOBAL BABIES, GLOBAL BABY BOYS shines a spotlight on boys from around the world, celebrating their strength, diversity, and potential. Babies love to look at babies and this bright collection of photos is a ticket to an around-the-world...
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Grandma and Me

Carole Weatherford - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Board book

A celebration of family love from award-winning children's author Carole Boston Weatherford, this beautiful rhyming board book is filled with all the sweet reasons why Grandma's love is so special!With simple rhyming text, a young child reflects on the many reasons they love their...
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It's Your Time to Shine

Dianne White - Little Simon
Format: Hardcover

Inspire readers to go off into the world as the bold and brave person they are with this empowering board book that tells them now is their time!. It's your time to shine. Show the world who you are: confident, courageous a bright rising star! Growing up means there are times for feeling...
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Indestructibles: Hey, Diddle Diddle

Jonas Sickler - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

Here is a book babies can really sink their gums into. Built for the way babies read, Indestructibles are printed on an amazing paperlike material that can’t be ripped, torn, or punctured. Indestructibles are 100 percent safe and nontoxic, and if they get too funky, just throw them...
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Welcome: A Mo Willems Guide for New Arrivals

Mo Willems - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Mo Willems' introductory guide for new arrivals welcomes readers to the world using bold, eye-catching graphics and clever text that is perfect for reading aloud. With a fun and heartwarming message, Welcome playfully interacts with the reader with its meta-humor, while addressing...
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I'm Hungry! (Funny Little Books by Elise Gravel Book 4)

Elise Gravel - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Hardcover

What else can I eat?The little monster is hungry. What can they eat? A slice of pizza! But the monster is STILL hungry, so they gobble up the plate, the pizza box, the fridge ... until the only thing left is the child reading the book. Burp!This adorable board book will make the young picky...
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Indestructibles: Baby Babble

Amy Pixton - Workman Publishing
Format: Paperback

Indestructibles are the books built for the way babies read. They are 100 percent baby-proof, chew-proof, rip-proof, and drool-proof. Printed on a unique nontoxic, paperlike material that holds up to anything babies can throw at it - gumming, spilling, dragging across the floor - Indestructibles...
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Hello, My World

duopress labs - duopress
Format: Board book

Hello, sun. Good to see you, puppy. What's going on, butterfly? Hello, My World ... Making connections between images on a page and the real world is an important building block for your baby's communication skills - and this charming introduction to simple objects found around...
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Listen Up! Train Song

Victoria Allenby - Pajama Press
Format: Hardcover

Toddlers love trains and the noises they make. uses repeating verse and bright photographs to match this enthusiasm with a unique take on the conceptual sound book that is perfect for reading aloud. Each spread uses onomatopoeia to highlight the ting-a ling! of subway door chimes, the chuff-a-gruff-a!...
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Lullaby

Langston Hughes - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

“My little dark baby, / My little earth-thing, / My little love-one, / What shall I sing / For your lullaby?" With a few simple words as smooth as a song, the poet Langston Hughes celebrates the love between an African American mother and her baby. The award-winning illustrator...
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Indestructibles: Baby Animals

Stephan Lomp - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

Babies love baby animals, and now they can learn all about them in a book that's indestructible. This charmingly illustrated menagerie includes some of the fuzziest, wuzziest, cuddliest, and cutest babies in the animal kingdom. With over two million copies in print, Indestructibles...
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Get Out of My Bath!

Britta Teckentrup - Nosy Crow
Format: Print book

Ellie the elephant loves to have fun in the bath, but she's not the only one. Her fun is interrupted when a crocodile decides to join her, followed by a flamingo, then a mouse and even a tiger! Poor Ellie's bath is ruined. What can she do? She sucks all the water into her trunk, of course!...
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Bright Baby Touch and Feel Spring

Roger Priddy - Priddy Books; Mus Brdbk edition
Format: Board book

With seasonal pictures to celebrate the arrival of Spring, this is an engaging book to share with babies and toddlers. There are chicks, bunnies, spring flowers and photographs of other familiar Spring things to look at, and the pages have different touch-and-feel textures, which little...
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Tickle Time!: A Boynton on Board Board Book

Sandra Boynton - Workman Publishing Company; Brdbk edition
Format: Board book

Sometimes kids just need a good tickle. Maybe your child is grumpy, or frustrated, or looking for a little extra attention. Well, we have the cure. Reach for Tickle Time!and like magic, everyones bright and sunny and giggling again.Tickle Time! is the twelfth in Boyntons astoundingly successful...
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Quantum Physics for Babies

Chris Ferrie - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Board book

Quantum Physics for Babies by Chris Ferrie is a colorfully simple introduction to the principle which gives quantum physics its name. Baby will find out that energy is "quantized" and the weird world of atoms never comes to a stand still. It is never too early to become a quantum...
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Peekaboo Who?

Elena Selena - Twirl
Format: Board book

Can you guess who? Who's hiding behind bright blue feathers? Who's covering their face with yellow wings, or a bushy orange tail? Little ones will delight in lifting the flaps to find out just who is playing peekaboo in this cheerfully illustrated board book. * Stimulates creative...
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Illusions in Art: Food

Chiêu Anh Urban - Candlewick Studio
Format: Board book

These illusions will play tricks on your eyes! Find two foods on each page in a clever, stylish exploration of negative and positive space for the very young.. A twisty pretzel loops around and back. What fruit is hidden inside this snack?Look closely. What do you see? Could that be two orange...
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