Moms

buddhagouda

My best friend's baby is turning one next month. I want to get her some books for her birthday. What are your favorites?

EABwork

Not a mom, but my favorite kids book (sold a lot of them at the book store I used to work at) is Each Peach Pear Plum.  It is a rhyming plus I spy book with great illustrations.  "Each peach pear plum, I spy Tom Thumb.  Tom Thumb in the cupbard I spy Mother Hubbard..."

KristenBtobe

Maggie loves anything interactive, especially ones with a lift-the-flap (Karen Katz in particular). The sturdier the flap, the better. Pat the BunnyAnything with pictures of babies or animalsAny Sandra BoyntonRhyming books

noisy_penguin

I like most things Eric Carle - The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the Grouchy Ladybug are Will's favorites. Will really likes a book my MIL gave him called "This is the Baby" about a baby that hates getting dressed, he likes the rhyming and pointing out all of the articles of clothing. Will really likes Richard Scarry too, my brother gave him a set of books about various modes of transportation and Will LOVES them. "Truck! TRUUUUUUUCK!!! CAAAAAAAAAAR!!" Bethie gave Will "Hippos Go Berserk" by Sandra Boynton, and we all like that one (though there are some other Boynton books that bug me). Oh, and I love this book (and others by this author) because they're cute, and the caretaker can either be mommy or daddy (or grandma or grandpa or whoever) since it's never named. I hate books that are all "Mommy said this while she was washing the dishes, Daddy came home from work blah blah blah." [url]http://www.amazon.com/Like-When/dp/0152056491[/url] In our house Daddy makes the dinner and Mommy goes to work.

noisy_penguin

Oh, and we got this book from Will's pediatrician (except the English/Spanish version) and he LOVES flipping the flaps over to find the baby. [url]<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Baby-Russian-English-Language/dp/1932065865/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252950148&sr=1-4" rel='nofollow'>http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Baby-Russian-English-Language/dp/1932065865/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252950148&sr=1-4</a>[/url]

EABwork

Pat the Bunny was another of my all time favorites as a kid, and to sell to people.  The Hungry Caterpillar is awesome. 

KristenBtobe

I crack up every time Maggie leans in to smell the flowers.

CaliopeSpidrman

I love this book because it's scratch & sniff:[url]http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Smell-Christmas-Scented-Storybook/dp/0375826432/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252950525&sr=1-1[/url]And you have to get the Grover books -- Grover's Everything In The Whole Wide World Museum [url]http://www.amazon.com/Grover-Everything-Whole-World-Museum/dp/0394827074/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252950581&sr=1-1[/url]And Grover's The Monster At The End of This Book: [url]http://www.amazon.com/Monster-this-Book-Little-Golden/dp/037582913X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252950613&sr=1-1[/url]Harold & the Purple Crayon, Courduroy, and Are You My Mother are also good ones.

buddhagouda

Eeeeeek. This kid is going to have more books than I do, and that's saying a lot.

KristenBtobe

We have Grover and Corduroy, they are a little long for a one year old but great for the long term library.The Tad Hills Duck and Goose board books are really cute too.  Maggie loves Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin.

noisy_penguin

I forgot about Peedie! Will loves Peedie. And the pictures are so cute.[url]http://www.amazon.com/Peedie-Gossie-Friends-Olivier-Dunrea/dp/0618356525/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252951145&sr=1-1[/url]Oddly, Will really likes reading Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day before bedtime. It's too long for the rest of the day, but he picks it out at bed time.

KristenBtobe

If your friend's daughter is anything like many 1 year olds who are obsessed with repetitive book reading, she'll be grateful for the variety of books. If I have to read this crappy Sesame Street book I got in the dollar bin at Target one more time, I may gouge my eyes out.

MamaKin

my favorite kids book:[img]http://i28.tinypic.com/2n856xv.jpg[/img]they're making a movie about it. i have mixed feelings. don't ruin my favorite kids book, man.

CaliopeSpidrman

Ooooh, I remember this book!  I loved it.[url]http://www.amazon.com/First-Counting-Book-Lilian-Moore/dp/0307020673/ref=pd_sim_b_21[/url]And Scruffy the Tugboat:[url]http://www.amazon.com/Scuffy-Tugboat-Adventures-Down-River/dp/0307020460/ref=pd_sim_b_77[/url]And I liked Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny.

Ferdy2584

I', with penguin on this one-- Eric Carle the way to go---try "Brown Bear, Brown Bear"---we got that for Liv in Board Book Style

Ferdy2584

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noisy_penguin

Oh god, I know Kristen. Will likes this terrible Sesame Street colors book, it has no story line, and there are way too many colors in it to be useful for learning (seriously? Will needs to know the difference between tan, brown, and chocolate brown?). I hid it on Thursday.

KristenBtobe

I  have perfected my Cookie Monster voice. ME HUNGRY FOR COOKIES!

buddhagouda

My two year old nephew thinks Cookie Monster is the most brilliant thing in the world. He loves to be Cookie Monster.

jbloom

I used to loooove Corduroy!  Up until last year I still had my original Corduroy bear