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Baby`s first birthday..............asked to buy books!

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triplets · 08/09/2013 00:01

I`m all for that! Bit out of touch as to what nice books there are for babes, any ideas please?

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stargirl1701 · 08/09/2013 09:16

Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett.

Mumzy · 08/09/2013 09:12

Owl babies

northernlurker · 08/09/2013 00:40

dd1 is 15 and dd3 is 6 with dd2 in between and our board book Peepo and Each Peach are still going strong. Yes that's the way to go!

ShadowSummer · 08/09/2013 00:37

Each Peach Pear Plum is a firm favourite in our house.

Lift the flap ones are also good - seconding recommendations for Dear Zoo. There's some good ones by Julia Donaldson too.

Also, whatever baby book you decide to get, I'd go for board book versions if possible given you're buying for a one yr old - they're harder for an overenthusiastic toddler to damage.

sweetiepie1979 · 08/09/2013 00:32

I love pip and posy

mirry2 · 08/09/2013 00:31

Do they still publish Spot lift the flap books? My dd had her first one when she was one and loved it. she's still got her Spot dog.

If you've got an Early Learning Centre near you they do age appropriate books.

steppemum · 08/09/2013 00:27

my all time favourite baby book is dear zoo. It was the earliest book that mine liked.

Lift the flap are good, Spot are good too. I would avoid any that are just pictures and words, and go for ones with very simple story lies, they last longer.

staverton · 08/09/2013 00:24

The baby catalogue by the Ahlbergs
Dear zoo
Maisie books
To grow into: anything by shirley hughes eg dogger
Mpg books

sleepyhead · 08/09/2013 00:19

Oops! Alison Jay not Jeffers (I love Oliver Jeffers' illustrations too)

sleepyhead · 08/09/2013 00:14

I love Counting: a child's first 123 by Alison Jeffers.

Ok, he/she's a way off numbers, but the pictures are gorgeous and there's loads to spot in them. They're based on fairytale characters as well, so the big bad wolf, sleeping beauty, frog prince etc all pop up - it was ds1's favourite book for a long time.

You can also get a wall frieze, and there's an ABC too.

northernlurker · 08/09/2013 00:14

You can get some basic Mog board books too.

northernlurker · 08/09/2013 00:13

Where the Wild Things are - Maurice Sendak. We've read that to ours from being tiny and it's wonderful.

Peepo and Each Peach Pear Plum - J&A Ahlberg - still classics.

sarahandemily · 08/09/2013 00:06

I got a set of 10 Julia Donaldson books from the book people for my dd's first birthday. It's fab. Lots of simple ones they will love straight away like "chocolate moose for greedy goose", and others to grow into including the classic Gruffalo. In fact she is 3.5 and we still read most of them now

nancerama · 08/09/2013 00:02

The Oliver Jeffers "once there was a boy" box set is lovely.

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