The benefits
From as early as one month old, your baby can smile in response to your smile.From two months she is beginning to recognise your voice and respond to it, and by five months she can reach for a book, see the different colours and enjoy varied sounds and textures. The first books you buy should be simple, bright and colourful, and also made to withstand plenty of enthusiastic handling. Your baby will want to explore the texture of the book as well as the pictures in it, by touching, feeling and even attempting to chew it!
As well as letting your baby hold and handle the book as much as he wants, you can also look at the pictures, point things out and talk about them. First baby books will have few or no words and simple pictures.
At this stage your baby will be learning to recognise familiar objects and matching them to the words you are saying.
What to look for:
- Sturdy board books
- Soft cloth books
- Books with different textures or noises to explore
- Wipe-clean books
- Waterproof books for the bath
- Books with photographs or drawings of familiar objects
- Books with photographs or drawings of babies
We recommend
- Baby StepsfromIQ Baby
- A Bear With A Pear,
illustrated by Nicj Sharratt - As Big As A Pig, by Ailie Busby
- Baby’s Play And Learn Pack, by Miriam Stoppard
- Bear’s Busy Family, by Stella Blackstone, illustrated by Debbie Harter
- Big Band,by Barbara Nascimbeni
- Big Dinosaurs, illustrated by Katherine Redfern
- Buzzy Little Bee, by Ellen Weiss
- Dog Days, by Krisztina Nagy
- Elmer’s Weather, by David McKee
- Hey Diddle Diddle, by Ailie Busby
- I Spy You, by Jan Ormerod
- I Won’t Bite, by Rod Campbell
- My Toys, designed by Alix Wood and Jenny Fry
- Noisy Animals, by Jane Kemp and Clare Walters
- Padded cot panel and book, by Lamaze
- Peekaboo!, by Jan Ormerod
- Puppy and Baby in the Park, by Maggie Moore
- Spot’s Big Touch And Feel Book, by Eric Hill
- Spot’s First Christmas, by Eric Hill
- Teletubbies Noisy Books The Big Book of Beautiful Babies Board Book
- That’s Not My Puppy, by Fiona Watt, illustrations by Rachel Wells
- The Baby and Toddler Treasury, written and illustrated by many well-known names
- The Great Santa Surprise, by Suzy-Jane Tanner
- Tiny Teethers: Puppy and Zoo, illustrated by Cathy Gale
- Toys And Clothes, by Fisher-Price
- What Shall We Do? and Who will be my friend?
- Where’s the Bone?
- Yellow Book, Blue Book, Red Book and Green Book, by Ian Beck
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