babybook
BUILDING BABY’S LIBRARY, ONE GREAT BOOK AT A TIME By Jan Pierce, M.Ed.
28 | birminghamparent | march / april 2021
BEST BOOKS TO CHOOSE FOR BABIES • Choose sturdy board books or washable cloth or vinyl books. • Choose bright colors and simple pictures on solid backgrounds. • Babies respond to rhythm in language and simple rhymes. • Babies enjoy seeing pictures of familiar objects such as animals, food or clothing. • Babies love stories about the things they do such as eating, taking a bath or going to sleep. • Babies like repetition. They like books with repeated words or phrases. • Babies like to touch a variety of textures and help to turn pages in a book. • Babies love to read homemade books with pictures of their family members.
