If you could only have 1 book to read to your child(baby) what would it be???

[hmwnick]

I want to create a small library of children's books to give to a friend that is expecting her 1st baby! If you have kids, what was your favorite book to read to them? Thanks!

 

[In a hurry]

I really love "The Giving Tree." It never ceases to warm my heart. There are another half dozen favorites, but that is my pick!

 

[Bob Slydell]

Goodnight Moon

 

[GeorgiaAristocat]

Am I really only allowed to list one? I give "Love you Forever" to every pregnant woman I know. But I can't read it without crying.

 

[bigmerle1966]

I'll Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.

 

[In a hurry]

I bawl my eyes out each time i read that one...think I'll get it for my niece!

 

[ChrisnSteph]

Am I really only allowed to list one? I give "Love you Forever" to every pregnant woman I know. But I can't read it without crying.

I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be

 

[Barb D]

Love You Forever

Guess How Much I Love You

Pat the Bunny

 

[mickeyboat]

'Guess How Much I Love You'

I have never gotten the fascination with 'Goodnight Moon.' I wonder if I am missing something.

Denae

 

[bigmerle1966]

Am I really only allowed to list one? I give "Love you Forever" to every pregnant woman I know. But I can't read it without crying.

I posted right after you, it is a great book isn't it? I first heard it in a class I took and the person teaching the class read and sang the book to us. I just looked it up online and found out why the author wrote it.

 

[ChrisnSteph]

I have never gotten the fascination with 'Goodnight Moon.' I wonder if I am missing something.

Me neither!

 

[GeorgiaAristocat]

I just looked it up online and found out why the author wrote it.

Do tell, I have never heard the story. I'm really bad about this book, truth be told, I can't really think hard about the book without crying. But my son is only 21 months old.

 

[TimeforMe]

It's "relatively" new (compared to the classics already listed) and is called "On the Day You Were Born". Beautiful and perfect for a new baby!

 

[heathersmom]

My daughter who is 6 now loved me to read "the tub people" to her when she was about 2-3. She picked it out every night. She also likes "the very hungry caterpillar". These are for when the child is a little older, though.

 

[bananiem]

When my kids were younger I brought up at a playdate that my dh thought Love you Forever was a creepy book, with the Mom crawling in his windows after he's married and all... Anyway, the moms' at the playdate all agreed and said they always said what a good book it was because everybody else did, but they thought it was creepy too. Just a thought.
My kids liked Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Quick as a Cricket by Audrey and Don Wood, Good Night Gorilla, The Hungry Caterpillar (Well, and any book by Eric Carle) and the Sandra Boynton books.

 

[In a hurry]

Sandra Boynton is our hero! We call them the "hippo books", due to the first being "But not the Hippopotamus!"

 

[GreatDane]

"The Kissing Hand" by Audry Penn

 

[LiteBrite]

I'm a Goodnight Moon lover. The rhythm of the words is just so beautiful and soothing - perfect bedtime reading for really little kids.

 

[Cyndirella]

Another vote for "Guess How Much I Love You". So sweet!

And although I didn't understand the fascination either (as previous posters mentioned) my DD's loved "Goodnight Moon".

 

[luvflorida]

There is a series of books by Alexandra Day, about a dog, (a rottweiler), named Carl and a baby. My youngest daughter absolutely loved these books. They have very few words in them, but the illustrations are gorgeous.

The books all center around the adventures that the baby and the dog have. Usually, as soon as the mother leaves, or turns her back, the baby climbs onto Carl's back and they get into all kinds of fun.

My daughter enjoyed these books from the time she was very, very young. The fun part was making up the story and dialogue, and she would know if I strayed too far from what I had made up the night before.

The first book in the series is called, Good Dog Carl. There is a Christmas one that was a favorite, also.