Building Your Baby's 1st Library
Reading together with your baby is such a wonderful experience that brings so much joy! Not only does it create lasting memories for you and your child, but reading together also helps to build a lifelong love of reading. There are so many great books available for little ones that it can be daunting to start building their first library, so your team at Momease is here to lend a hand by profiling a few of our fave first books for baby to help you get started. What better way to introduce your baby to the magical world of reading!
Follow Little Blue Truck as he travels saying hello to every animal he sees as he drives by. When he encounters a dump truck stuck in mud, he gets himself stuck while trying to help! With the help of all his animal friends, Little Blue Truck is able to save the day. Not only a favourite with babies because of it's colourful drawings, your toddler will be demanding this book on repeat with it's great rhyme scheme and silly animal sounds. You will have this book memorized from front to back in no time.
A simple and sweet story about love! Listen in to Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare as they use larger and larger measures to describe their love for each other. This story is a great "snuggle up and read" book for babies and children of any age and will have you describing the lengths of your love with your little one.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar munches his way through everything he can eat, only to get a stomachache! After eating a nice leaf, he goes through a transformation. This board book is a great tactile tool for your little one once they start to want to turn the pages themselves. When your baby reaches toddlerhood, you'll be adding more and more food to the caterpillar's lunch!
Say goodnight to objects and characters in this young bunny's room as he gradually falls asleep. This will become a go-to book in your baby's library for bedtime as they notice something new in bunny's room with every bedtime. This book was written to be read snuggled in close with your softest voice.
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
For any future truck lover, this story shows how construction trucks get ready to go to sleep after a hard day's work. This book is a parent favourite at Momease - as is anything written by Sherri Duskey Rinker. Collect her library of vehicle-themed books and help your little one say goodnight, goodnight!
In this cute and silly board book, help baby learn all the parts of their body. Told in rhyme, this board book will easily be a hit with your baby! Your little one will soon be following along with the words in the book, pointing out their own body parts as you read. Our favourite part? Baby's arms that are made for super hugging!
A west coast classic, this baby's-first-words board book includes beautiful imagery of west coast animals by Roy Henry Vickers, a Vancouver Island local and Canadian artist. Visit and revisit images of our beautiful Island and coast with your little one while you read and discover images of our wilderness.
Join a young beluga on their adventures out at sea before they head home for bedtime with mom. This instant classic by Raffi, a Canadian singer and songwriter residing on Salt Spring Island, will likely bring back memories of your childhood and have you belting out Baby Beluga, Bananaphone and Down by the Bay on repeat.
Join different animals as they celebrate the arrival of your little one. Near and dear to our hearts, this delightful book celebrates each unique child by exclaiming that there has never been another in the world quite like them. Our children have loved this story, and we hope yours will too!
Join an ark full of animals as they get ready for bed - from bath time to exercise time in this silly and fun book from Sandra Boynton. Short and sweet, you'll have this one memorized in no time for those car naps, stroller naps or even in-the-carrier naps. Boynton's bouncing rhymes will quickly become a cherished part of your bedtime routine.
A Robert Munsch classic that follows a mother singing a lullaby to her son through all the busy (and sometimes chaotic) stages of his life. Children will love the repetitiveness of the story as well as the words to the song. Parents often tell us they can't get through a reading of this one without reaching for some tissues, and it's easy to see why. Munsch pulls on our parental heartstrings from the very first page.
We just can't get enough of Roy Henry Vickers' imagery! We love to celebrate all things local, and this author/illustrator duo have lots of amazing titles. There are so many introductory alphabet books out there, but only this one will have you dreaming of the West Coast with your little one.
Thank you so much for reading! You can find these classic library staples, plus many more children's books in-store at Momease Baby Boutique, or online in our Books section at momease.ca.
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