Books for babies...

[Poppy]

What books are the 'classics' for babies? I have plenty ideas for when my wee one is older but I'd like to know which are the best story books for very little ones. He's only 4 months old at the moment and I'd like something we can look at and read together which he'll enjoy more and more as he understands more. thanks
Poppy

[B00]

My baby is 16 months old and has just recently become interested in books, until now she's always either chewed them or thrown them- lol.

She loves the touchy feely books (the kind with different textures on each page).

I would also recommend getting some with as few words on each page as possible as I've found if I don't turn the pages over quickly, she bores easily.

Hope this helps.

[mycatis]

The tiger who came to tea (one of my favs lol)

The very hungry catterpillar

[kick3m0n]

my wee guy likes The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Very Busy Spider, but at 4 months, I'm not sure how keen you lo would be. I'd go for books specifically designed to stimualte babies that age, and forget the wordy ones until they're interested. Rod Campbell books, Usbourne Touchy Feely and Lift the Flap books are brilliant from a very early age and have concepts that wee ones can cope with. Great colours, textures, big bold drawings....you usually get 3 for 2s in Borders or ELC. My wee boy totally loved them when he was very small, and even at 2.5, will often now still pick them up and look through them on his own, pointing out all the things he recognises.

[stoo_pid]

As kick3m0n says, the Early Learning Centre is the best place to start. Our 4 month old loves really loves the touchy-feely books. Most of the books Pid Junior likes come from the Baby Einstein range but obviously what stimulates one baby won't necessarily work for another.

Now he's old enough to respond we actually let him choose his own books - if we're in ELC, Mothercare, etc. we'll show him the ones we think he might like. Sounds daft I know but he'll look blankly at one book after another & then when he sees one he likes he goes mad!

[Bohne]

My baby is not even born, yet, but I just bought the caterpillar one, too, since I remember loving that as a child!

:o)

[kick3m0n]

Bohne, that's a lovely idea. I remembered it from when i was a child, and I was so pleased when one of my friends gave us it as a baby gift when our son was born. He loves it soooo much, even now, at 2.5 years old.

[spudqueen]

Join your local library, there will be loads of books there, my sons used to love all the board books from the library, though we did have some of their favourites at home, a board book of 'Winkin, Blinkin and Nod' was my eldest sons favourite and they both enjoyed a book which had photographs of everyday things on every page, like food, toys, bath things etc