With the wide array of books available on the shelves, it is difficult to choose the best books for babies and toddlers!

Fortunately, I had a little help picking my Top 5… my daughter’s!  Off course, books like ”Goodnight Moon” and “Moo Baa La La La” are wonderful too!  The 5 books below will stay on my families bookshelf forever though, while others may be donated or given away to other children!  I only received one of the below at my baby shower, leaving me to believe that these may be a great gift for a new mother and her child… just a thought

Jamberry
	Out of all the books I have read to my children, this one is my top pick!  I still recite the words, “One berry, two berry, pick me a blueberry.”  My girls and I love this book.  We still read it on occasion.  The rhyming is perfect!  The illustrations are beautiful!  If you have not read this book to your children yet, you are missing out!

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt: Anniversary Edition of a Modern Classic
	One of my all time favorite books for children!  This story is one that parents and children can have a lot of fun with!  Act out the scenes, hunt for bears, sing the words and more!  We’re Going On A Bear Hunt is too great of a book to have sitting on a shelf.  A must read for your little one!

Is Your Mama a Llama?
	“Is Your Mama a Llama?”  The best way to describe the book… it’s simply sweet… A young Llama, looking for his Mama and all the lovely animals he meets along the way.  Children learn a little about animals while enjoying a touching story.

Silly Sally (Big Book)
	“Silly Sally Went To Town”… she hops, she runs, she naps and more… laugh with your children while reading all the silly things Sally does while heading to town hopping backwards and upside down!  The Rhyming is enough to get your kids to try and read with you!  This book is filled with giggles!

The Rainbow Fish
	What child doesn’t love rainbows?  In this book, children learn a lesson about inner beauty vs. outer beauty through a very simple story.  I read this for the first time when my eldest was 5.  It is definitely a book I wish we shared much earlier!