Toddler Books

How Can Toddler Books Enhance Development? Books offer many ways to help stimulate sensory motor development in young children. The first stage of child development is often referred to as the Sensory Motor Stage, typically 0-2 years of age where a child learns about himself and his/her environment through motor and reflex actions.
Books can help develop different sensory motor skills such as touch, hearing, sight and even smell. For infants and toddlers, there are soft books with moving parts, books with sounds and colors, and board books with textures to feel. For older toddlers, there are flap books, pop up books and even scratch and sniff books.

Books for Infants and Young Children

• Books for Infants and Toddlers

Making Your Own Books

• Animal Drawing Books
• Apple Picking
• Book About Colors
• Fall-ing for Math (An Addition Book)
• Farm Book
• Fish Shape Book
• Math at My Home Book
• Mix and Match Name Book
• Counting Money Book
• Ocean Flap Book
• Photo Books
• Pumpkin Bread Book
• Touch and Feel Picture Book
• Touch and Feel Counting Book
• I Am Thankful For...
• Twas the Night Before Christmas (retold)

Books with Activities

• Green Eggs and Ham
• Little Blue and Little Yellow
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Kindergarten Here I Come
• Twas the Night Before Christmas
• All You Need For a Snowman
• Busy Penguins Board Book or 365 Penguins
• Rainbow Fish
• Tiny Snowflake: Make Popsicle Snowflakes

Looking for a Craft to Match a Book Theme?

• Ocean
• Clay Fish in a Fishbowl
• Rock Fish

Book Lists

• Caldecott Book List
• Newberry Book List

• Reading Strategies

Here are some Reading Strategies for children just starting to read. I used this in reading groups so children would have some strategies to decode words. I also gave this to parents to help give them some tips when they read with their child.