Great Books For for Squishing, Lifting, and Playing: Ages 0-2
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Your baby’s not just going to sit there quietly as you read, so make her interaction part of the experience. These board books will welcome her fingers as well as her eyes.
Where Is Baby's Belly Button?
Babies will adore this lift-the-flap board book and peekaboo game. Sturdy flaps reveal baby's belly button, feet, hands, and more. With bold, charming illustrations by Karen Katz, this is the perfect...
Peek-A-Who?
The reader can look through die-cut pages for a visual clue to complete a game of peek-a-boo. Full color illustrations plus a mylar mirror.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
A hungry caterpillar eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep.
This Little Piggy
With an adorable piggy face on each fingertip and a board book attached to the palm, this soft hand-puppet is the perfect way to play and read with your baby!
Little Scholastic series
Zoo
With intricately designed die-cuts, flocking placement, and removable pieces, "Zoo," a casebound board book with five spreads, is a book that thinks outside of the book.
Little Scholastic series
Fish Eyes
This counting book depicts the colorful fish a child might see if he turned into a fish himself.
Zoë Kashner is a freelance writer. Previously, she was an editor for Scholastic's READ 180 program, the reading intervention program for elementary, middle, and high school students. She was also the editor of The World Almanac for Kids.
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