Books for Early Talkers
(Birth to Two-Year-Olds)
Alborough, Jez
Hug
Narrative skills
2000
Baker, Keith
Big Fat Hen
Phonological awareness
1994
Blake, Michel
Baby’s Day
Narrative skills
2007
Boynton, Sandra
Moo Baa La la la
Phonological awareness, print motivation
1995
Brown, Margaret Wise
Goodnight Moon
Phonological awareness
1947
Cabrera, Jane
Ten in the Bed
Phonological awareness
2006
Carle, Eric
Eric Carle’s ABC
Letter knowledge
2007
Cimarusti, Marie T.
Peek-A-Moo and Peek-A-Zoo
Print motivation
Cowell, Cressida
What Shall We Do With the Boo-Hoo Baby?
Narrative skills
2000
Hill, Eric
Where’s Spot?
Print motivation
1980
Hoban, Tana
Black on White and White on Black
Print awareness
John Deere Co.
John Deere Farm ABC
Letter knowledge
2006
Katz, Karen
Counting Kisses and Where is Baby’s Belly Button?
Print motivation
Kubler, Annie
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
Phonological awareness
2002
Lawrence, John
This Little Chick
Narrative skills
2002
Lewis, Kevin
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo
Narrative skills
1999
Martin, Bill
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See (and other similar titles)
Phonological awareness
1996
Martin, Bill
Chicka Chicka ABC
Letter knowledge
1993
Martin, David
We’ve All Got Belly Buttons
Print motivation
2005
Miller, Margaret
Baby Faces and Baby Food and Peekaboo Baby
Print motivation
Murphy, Mary
I Kissed the Baby and I Like it When
Print motivation
O’Connell, Rebecca
Baby Goes Beep
Print awareness
2003
Opie, Iona
My Very First Mother Goose
Phonological awareness
1996
Oxenbury, Helen
Tickle Tickle (and other rhyme board books)
Phonological awareness
1999
Oxenbury, Helen
Tom and Pippo Stories
Print motivation
1998
Rathmann, Peggy
Good Night, Gorilla
Narrative skills
1994
Reiser, Lynn
You and Me, Baby
Phonological awareness, print motivation
2006
Votry, Kim
Out for a Walk
Vocabulary (Infant sign language - ASL)
2003
Williams, Vera
More, More, More Said the Baby
Vocabulary
1990
More book suggestions for early talkers are available at www.wccls.org under the Kid’s Place link, as well as bilingual book suggestions.
Ask a librarian for the accompanying Every Child Ready to Read @ your library brochure for more ideas about how you can help your child be ready to read.