As you can tell by now I love lists and I love board books. I love board books because they are basically indestructible with toddlers, babies, and with special needs children.

1. Rainbow Sea (Children’s Sparkle Books) Beautifully illustrated and written this one is an absolute masterpiece.
2. Touchy Feely: Ocean Buddies (Touchy Feely) For all those sensory kids out there!
3. Ship Shapes  Never too early to learn shapes, right?
4. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed the Sea (Classic Books With Holes) Great ryhme for early language learners!
5. Joshua By The Sea By one of the BEST African American children’s authors EVER.

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Five Best Ocean Board Books

Here are Five Tips to choosing books for your 0-2 year old.

1. Select sturdy board books or felt books that will withstand throwing, pulling, and messes. Felt books can be washed and board books and vinyl books can be wiped clean.

2. Have a variety of books on hand that represent encompass your child’s interests.

3. Make sure that you can hold his or her attention so keep the books short and sweet at this age.

4. Don’t forget to add concepts like colors, numbers, and letters even at this age. Books like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom starts little ones with the alphabet early on.

5. Don’t forget action, pictures, repetition, and rhyme.

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Five Tips for Choosing Books for Ages 0-2

The pictures in First Look and Find Board Books are colorful and simple, and the objects children need to find on each page range from easy to locate to challenging.  My kids first started using these books when they were about 2 1/2 years old, and it was difficult for them to find a few of the pictures, but for the most part, they could find them.  Now, at 3 1/2, they can find everything without any problems.  In fact, we’ve graduated to more challenging games on each page such as counting items and more.

The best part is since they’re board books, young children have a hard time destroying these books.

I highly recommend these books for toddlers and beyond.  There are more advanced Look and Find books for preschoolers and older children (we have those, too), but these are great for children to start with and enjoy for years.  I’m constantly amazed at the new ways my kids find to use their First Look and Find Board Books.

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First Look and Find Board Books Review

The story is adorable, but the illustrations in the book are what separate it from all the other children’s books we have.  The pictures are colorful and really make you feel like you’re part of the story. 

If you ever saw our copy of Sweet Dreams, it would be very obvious that it’s one of the most popular books in our house.  The pages are crinkled and torn from use with almost everyone taped back together. 

Sweet Dreams actually comes in three different versions.  The hard cover version that my family has (called Sweet Dreams), a smaller board book (called Snuggle Bunnies) and a version sold through the Christian book market (called Good Night, God Bless).  Each version was given a different title because slight modifications were made for the different formats. 

I highly recommend Sweet Dreams, and I’m very happy to announce that Lisa McCue who illustrated Sweet Dreams as well as many other popular children’s books (my triplets love the Corduroy series that she illustrated) has agreed to participate in an interview that will appear on One Book Two Book very soon.  Stay tuned or subscribe to the One Book Two Book feed so you don’t miss it!

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Sweet Dreams – One of My Favorite Children’s Books

First, I should mention that this book comes in several versions – a board book, hard cover, with a bunny toy, etc.  My favorite version is the board book, because it’s perfect for reading to kids of all ages, including infants and toddlers who are particularly rough with books.

Guess How Much I Love You is the story of a young bunny, Little Nutbrown Hare, and his parent, Big Nutbrown Hare (the book can be read with Big Nutbrown Hare as the mother or father), and their conversation before Little Nutbrown Hare goes to bed one evening.  Little Nutbrown Hare tells Big Nutbrown Hare how much he loves his parent (for example, “straight up to the moon”).  Each time Little Nutbrown Hare tries to quantify his love, Big Nutbrown Hare responds with an even bigger amount of love (for example, “straight up to the moon and back”) until Little Nutbrown Hare finally falls asleep.

This book is so cute and so wonderful for a parent to share with his or her child.  I highly recommend it. 

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Guess How Much I Love You – Review

• Wal-Mart
• Levy Home Entertainment
• Lion Sales of NW Brunswick
• Farris Wholesale Outle
•  Crane Book Sales
• Ingram Book Co.
• BPDI Corp.
• Books A Million
• Christmas Tree Shop
• Amazon.com
• Barnes&Noble.com

Consumers are being told to take the toys away from children immediately and bring them back to the retailer where they were purchased for a return or exchange.  Follow the link to read the complete recall announcement and additional details from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

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Little Builder Board Books Recall