Suggested Reading - Birth to Three

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Birth to One Month: Looking at faces to develop vision and attachment:

*Baby Faces by M. Miller
*Wow! Babies! by P. Gentieu
Padded Board Books: Baby Faces

One Month: Nursery Rhymes:

*Tomie's Little Mother Goose by T. dePaola
Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes by B. Potter
My Very First Mother Goose by I.A. Opie & RWells

Two Months: Book to prop with simple, high-contrast pictures so baby can practice visual skills:

What Is That? by T. Hoban
*Black on White by T. Hoban
*It Looked Like Spilt Milk by C. G. Shaw

Three Months: A book to prop or a nursery rhyme book:

Humpty Dumpty: And Other Rhymes by I. A. Opie, R. Wells
*Read To Your Bunny by R. Wells
Baby Animals Black and White: Black and White by P. L. Tildes

Four Months: Animal Sounds-focus on listening/hearing:

*Who Says Quack? by J. Smith & P. Dunlap Grosset
Big Red Barn by M. Wise Brown
Animal-Shaped Board Books: Farm Animals by B. Watts & D. Brown

Five Months: Chunky, chubby, cloth or vinyl book for baby to explore and manipulate, single picture on each page:

*Baby's First Words by L. Wik
Baby's Animal Friends by P. Dunn
Padded Board Books: All About Baby by S. Shott

Six Months: Vinyl or cloth book, good for mouthing:

*Red, Blue Yellow Shoe by T. Hoban
Bath Books: Bathtime
Whale Baby by J. Labrack & D. Reagan
Kite In The Park by L. Cousins

Seven Months: Small chunky book with brightly colored pictures:

*Farm Animals by P. Dunn
Touch and Feel Baby Animals -DK Books
*Baby! Talk! by P. Gentieu

Eight Months: Labeling baby's facial features:

*Smile! by R. Grobel Intrater
Baby Faces by K. Suter
*Peek-a-boo by J.Ormerod

Nine Months: Motor development is the focus of the plan:

Grow! Babies! by P.Gentieu
*Baby's 1-2-3 by N. Ricklen
Mommy and Me by N. Ricklen

Ten Months: Learning to feed self. Activity is to have baby unwrap a book:

*Pots and Pans by P.Hubbell
*Wrapping Paper Romp by P. Hubbell
Let's Eat by A. Posner & T. Taylor

Eleven Months: Use the home-made zip-lock bag book;

No commercial book is needed for this plan.

Twelve Months: Screening is the focus of this plan:

*I See by R. Isadora
*Play Rhymes by M. Tolon Brown
Show Me! By T. Tracy & D.LaBrosse

Thirteen Months: Lift-the-flap, interactive book:

*Where's the Baby? By C. Christian & L. Dwight
*Where's Spot? by E. Hill
Open the Barn Door by C. Santoro

Fourteen Months: Baby faces showing various feelings:

*Pretty Brown Face by A. Pinkney, B. Pinkney & J.B.Pinkney
*Copy Cat Faces by D. Chancellor
Funny Faces by N. Tuxworth

Sixteen Months: Play dough/Stress/Temper tantrums plan:

*I Touch by R. Isadora
You Go Away by D. Corey & D. Paterson
When You're Mad: And You Know It by E. Crary, S. Steelsmith & M. Katayama

Seventeen Months: Story emphasizing feelings:

I Love You Very: A Child's Book Of Love by F. Weedn & L. Weedn Gilbert
I Feel Happy: A Bedtime Book of Feelings by F. Weedn & L. Weedn
Mommy Loves Me by D. Warren & B. Lanza
Daddy Loves Me by D. Warren & B. Lanza

Eighteen Months: Activity is a pretend play picnic. Choose a book about foods, mealtime, picnics:

Hide-And-Seek Picnic by T. Speer
Blues #1 Picnic by B. Yablonsky & K. Craig
Boom, Baby, Boom, Boom! by M. Mahy & P. MacCarthy

Nineteen Months: Sounds. Book which includes pictures of things that make sounds:

Train Song by C. Lukas, R. Torrey & R. Torrey
Bananas Gorilla's Sounds by R. Scarry
Bang! Bang! Toot! Toot! by R. Cowley

Twenty Months: Motor activity: Step, jump, climb. A book about physical development

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear by S. Scott
*We're Going On A Bear Hunt by M. Rosen & H. Oxenbury
I Can by H. Oxenbury

Twenty-one Months: Make a word book. Read a "word-less" book:

*A Boy, A Dog, A Frog, And A Friend by M.&M. Mayer
*Peter Spier's Rain by P. Spiers
Snow Day by D. Peddle
Bedtime! By A. Kuble
Truck by D. Crews

Twenty-two Months: Lift the flap book. Transitions:

*What Happens Next? by C. Christian & L. Dwight
Daddy and Me Lift & Look Board Books
Bug In A Rug by S. Heap

Twenty-three Months: Social/Emotional. Beginning conversational skills:

*Busy Bugs, Lazy Bugs by D.A. Carter
*Goodnight Moon by M. Wise Brown
HUG by J. Alborough
*I Like Me by N.L. Carlson
*Max's Bath by R. Wells

Twenty-four months: Screening and visit to the Doctor:

It's Great to be Two by F. Pragoff
*The Berenstain Bears Go To The Doctor by S. & J. Berenstain
Jonathon Goes To The Doctor by S. K. Baggette & W. J. Moriarty
Freddie Visits The Doctor by N. Smee
*Max's Ride by R. Wells
*In and Out, Up and Down by J. Henson
*Opposites by S. Boyton
*Oh My, Oh My, Oh Dinosaurs by S. Boyton
*The Foot Book: Dr. Suess' Wacky Book of Opposites by Seuss

Twenty-five Months: Simple counting books and shape matching:

*Let's Look At Sizes: by N. Tuxworth
Bear in a Square by S. Blackstone and D. Harter
One Moose, Twenty Mice by C. Beaton

Twenty-six Months: Gross motor and labeling of body parts:

Hop, Skip, Jump by N. Tuxworth
*Froggy Gets Dressed by J. London & F. Remkiewicz
*Eyes, Nose Fingers, Toes by J. Hindley & B. Granstrom
*Uh Oh! I Gotta Go: Potty Tales from Toddlers by B. McGrath & S. Dieterichs
*Going To The Potty by F. Rogers & J. Judkis

Twenty-seven Months: Colors:

*Let's Look At Colors by L. B. Staff & N. Tuxworth
*Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by E. Carle & B., Jr. Martin
Primary Cats by M. Heatwole
*Keith Haring Big by K. Haring
*I Love Colors by M. Miller
*Baby's Colors by N. Ricklen

Twenty-eight Months: Feelings, especially night time fears, sharing and bedtime:

Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? by M. Waddell & B. Firth
*Time For Bed by M. Fox & J. Dyer
*The New Baby by F. Rogers
*Peter's Chair by E. J. Keats
*There's A Nightmare In My Closet by M. Mayer
Go Away, Big Green Monster! by E. Emberly

Twenty-nine Months: Look and find book:

I Spy Little Book by J. Marzollo & W. Wick
*Each Pear, Peach, Plum by J. & A. Ahlberg
Who Ate It? by T. Gomi
Have You Seen My Duckling? by N. Tafuri

Thirty Months: Discipline and problem solving:

*I Was So Mad by M. Mayer
*Will There Be A Lap For Me? by D. Corey, N. Poydar & A. Levine
*Swimmy by L. Lionni
*Froggy Goes To School by J. London & F. Remkiewicz
*Good Night Gorilla by P. Rathman
*Let's Go Froggy by J. London & F. Remkiewicz

Thirty-one Months: Blocks and building activity:

Machines At Work by B. Barton
Diggers and Dump Trucks by A. Royston
*Freight Train by D. Crews
*Zoom City by T. Hurd

Thirty-two Months: Matching:

*Spot's Big Book of Colors, Shapes and Numbers by E. Hill
Let's Look At Mix and Match by N. Tuxworth
*What Is Round? by R. Kai Dotlich

Thirty-three Months: Food and/or cooking:

lunch by D. Fleming
Eat Up, Gemma by S. Hayes & J.Ormerod
Feast For 10 by C. Falwell
ABC Yummy by L. Jahn-Clough
Alligator Arrived With Apples: A Potluck Alphabet Feast by C. Dragonwagon, et al.

Thirty-four Months: Taping parent reading book:

*The Very Busy Spider by E. Carle
*Playtime Rhymes by P. Lamont & S. McKeller
*The Itsy Bitsy Spider by R. Wells
*Alphabears: An ABC Book by K. & M. Hague
*Jamberry by B. Degan

Thirty-five Months: Patterning, sequencing and music:

*Very Hungry Caterpillar by E. Carle
The Wheels On The Bus by Raffi & S. Kantorovitz Wickstrom
*Five Little MonkeysJumping On The Bed by E. Christelow
*Roll Over by M. Peek

Thirty-six Months: Good preschool literature:

The Runaway Bunny by M. Wise Brown
The Little Engine That Could by W. Piper, G. Haumann & D. Haumann
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Caps For Sale by E. Slobodkina

*These titles were also found in previous PATNC book set lists.