Good Books for Babies (Birth-23 Months)
A librarian can help you find these and other books for your child at Skokie Public Library. Click a title to check the Skokie Public Library catalog for the status of the book in the Youth Services collection.
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- Molly Bang (Youth Picture Book ABC/123 and Board Book BAN)
- Ten, Nine, Eight
- Sandra Boynton (Youth Board Book BOY)
- Barnyard Dance
But Not the Hippopotamus
Fuzzy, Fuzzy, Fuzzy!: A Touch, Skritch, and Tickle Book
Opposites
Pajama Time - Sebastien Braun (Youth Picture Book BRA)
- I Love My Daddy
I Love My Mommy - Margaret Wise Brown (Youth Picture Book and Board Book BRO)
- Goodnight Moon
The Runaway Bunny - Eric Carle (Youth Picture Book and Board Book CAR)
- The Very Busy Spider
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eileen Christelow, illustrator (Youth Picture Book and Board Book CHR)
- Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
- Santiago Cohen, illustrator (Youth Board Book COH)
- Fiddle-I-Fee
- Donald Crews (Youth Picture Book and Board Book CRE)
- Freight Train
Sail Away
Ten Black Dots (Youth ABC/123 CRE) - Jane Dyer
- Animal Crackers: A Delectable Collection of Pictures, Poems,
and Lullabies for the Very Young (Youth Nonfiction-Easy 808.81 A)
Good Morning Sweetie Pie: and Other Poems for Young Children (Text by Cynthia Rylant—Youth Nonfiction 811.54) - Denise Fleming (Youth Picture Book FLE)
- Barnyard Banter
In the Tall, Tall Grass
Mama Cat Has Three Kittens - Mem Fox (Youth Picture Book FOX)
- Hattie and the Fox
Time for Bed
Where is the Green Sheep? - Eric Hill (Youth Picture Book, Board Book HIL, Youth Special Needs Picture Book HIL)
- Where’s Spot?
- Tana Hoban (Youth Board Book HOB)
- Black On White
White On Black
Who Are They? - John Lawrence (Youth Picture Book LAW)
- This Little Chick
- Bill Martin, Jr. (Youth Picture Book and Board Book MAR)
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Listen to the Rain - Margaret Miller (Youth Board Book MIL)
- Baby Faces
Peekaboo Baby! - Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells, illustrator (Youth Board Book OPI)
- Humpty Dumpty: And Other Rhymes
Little Boy Blue: And Other Rhymes
My Very First Mother Goose (Youth Nonfiction-Easy 398.8 M)
Pussycat, Pussycat: And Other Rhymes - Helen Oxenbury (Youth Board Book OXE)
- All Fall Down
Clap Hands
Tickle, Tickle - Ole Risom (Youth Board Book RIS)
- I Am a Bunny
- Dr. Seuss (Youth Board Book SEU)
- Dr. Seuss' ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book
- Nancy Tafuri (Youth Picture Book and Board Book TAF)
- Have You Seen My Duckling?
Mama’s Little Bears
Silly Little Goose! - Ellen Walsh (Youth Picture Book WAL)
- Hop Jump
Mouse Paint
You Silly Goose - Rosemary Wells (Youth Picture Book WEL)
- Noisy Nora
The Bear Went Over the Mountain - Lisa Wheeler (Youth Picture Book WHE)
- Te Amo, Bebe, Little One
- Sue Williams (Youth Picture Book WIL)
- Dinnertime!
I Went Walking
Let’s Go Visiting