Best of Baby Stuff: Books

One thing I'm excited about in having a kid? Reading!!! I loved reading as a kid and I really hope Baby Brindle will, too.

These books contain several that I grew up loving and a few more that I have grown to love since then. Jon Klaussen's books are beautiful (he's a favorite illustrator of mine) and I remember pouring over Richard Scarry's detailed illustrations in our church nursery (as a nursery volunteer). Eric Carle's books were always fascinating to me, as were books like The Eleventh Hour - a story of a dinner party with a mystery to solve. The Gashlycrumb Tinies might be a little old for kiddos, but anything by Edward Gorey is an essential to our library as far as I'm concerned. Dr. Seuss is always a classic and colorful, interactive books like Press Here and Spot It! are perfect for wee ones. Of course, we'll need those chunky cardboard and cloth books for a while so Baby B can slobber all over them and help turn the pages, but I'm looking forward to reading time! Yay for books!