Books - adult and children’s

[walterismydog]

We are huge book lovers and I’m soooo excited to build a library for this babe.

What are your favorite children’s books?
For me, the best I’ve recently read is Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers. If you haven’t read this, it’s the most perfect baby shower book gift. I’ve given it to several friends and the day I found out I was pregnant I ordered one for mine.

What about adult books? Pregnancy-related specifically.
I’ve checked out a few pregnancy books from the library I plan on starting this weekend. I’m trying to avoid information overload, which is tough.

[spitforspat]

Kid books:

The Wonderful Things You Will Be
Dream Animals
Everywhere Babies
Sandra Boynton board books
This little Feminist box set

I'll let you know when I think of more!

[Deleted]

Goodnight Moon is an iconic children's book, so I was thrilled when we got a copy of it at a shower. My favorite book when I was growing up was Angelina Ballerina, but it's out of print -- again, I was thrilled when my mom found a good copy of it to give K at a used book store (my own copy, on the other hand, is half held together by packing tape, so I'm also glad K has her own copy now).

We also have a collection of the classic Golden Books that we got from a shower too. I'm looking forward to reading those to kiddo too.

Dr. Seuss books are good as well.

[cherryvalance]

We bought and received a ton of books, but our favorites, as parents, to read with DS are:

The Wonderful Things You Will Be
On The Night Your We're Born
Wherever You Go, My Love Will Find You

His favorites are:

Still a Gorilla (he is so obsessed we bought him a stuffed gorilla that he snuggles all the time and he's being a Gorilla for Halloween)
Never Touch a Dinosaur
Where is Baby's X series (he likes the pop up flaps)

[cherryvalance]

Pregnancy wise, I just did What to Expect. Between online sources, apps, etc, it was too overwhelming for me, so I pared everything down.

[tacoflavoredkisses]

One of my daughter’s favorites is called If You Were My Bunny. Such a sweet story, but involves some lullaby singing too.

[noodleoo]

Sept 22, 2018 16:26:17 GMT -5 tacoflavoredkisses said:

One of my daughter’s favorites is called If You Were My Bunny. Such a sweet story, but involves some lullaby singing too.

I LOVE this book so much! So sweet and I loved singing the songs to DD when she was a baby. 

I also love:
Giraffes Can’t Dance
It is Time to Sleep, My Love
Elephant and Piggy books (DD loves these)
Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too (great book about dad, which is nice since most only include moms. I got it for H for Father’s Day, from DD)

For adults, I really liked the Wonder Weeks book. A friend gave me her copy. I think there is an app too, but I liked reading the book which probably has more detail. 

[lovesherheels]

Pregnancy books: Expecting Better. One of my friends also swears by The Wonder Weeks (which I keep meaning to start).

[walterismydog]

Sept 22, 2018 20:55:58 GMT -5 lovesherheels said:

Pregnancy books: Expecting Better. One of my friends also swears by The Wonder Weeks (which I keep meaning to start).

My friend just sent me Expecting Better. It looks interesting. I may start it tomorrow. I

[lovesherheels]

Sept 22, 2018 20:59:19 GMT -5 walterismydog said:

Sept 22, 2018 20:55:58 GMT -5 lovesherheels said:

Pregnancy books: Expecting Better. One of my friends also swears by The Wonder Weeks (which I keep meaning to start).

My friend just sent me Expecting Better. It looks interesting. I may start it tomorrow. I

The friend of mine that recommended it works in stats, so it was super in her wheelhouse. I am less numerically inclined, lol, but I'm glad I read it as it gave me lots of good data and food for thought. It's an easy read, too, which was a bonus.

[nellgirl]

Llama Llama Red Pyjama
Rosie Revere, Engineer
Duck in a Truck
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
Time for Bed by Mem Fox
I Like it When
Goodnight Moon

[pooh8402]

As a person with a disability, I don't cringe at the word "disability" fwiw. Another one in that vein is an Usborne book called Boy, where the main character is deaf.

[walterismydog]

I love you guys! This is amazingly helpful!

[cherryvalance]

turbo's list is fantastic.

In choosing our night time books last night, I remembered (and second):

Guess How Much I Love You (My H loves this one because it's a dad and his baby)

The Snowy Day (such a lovely story that reminded me of being a kid and beautiful illustrations)

Whoever You Are (another Mem Fox one about how we're all the same)

ETA: We also have Rebel Girls, but he's too little right now.

[oliviapope]

I love book recommendations posts.

I gravitate towards books that talk about race/social issues and science books as we're atheists. So in addition to classics like Where The Wild Things Are, Good Night Moon, and Chicka Chicka Boom we have:

Counting on Community and A is For Activist- Innosanto Nagara
Let's Talk About Race- Julius Lester
Older Than the Stars- Karen C. Fox
I Wonder- Annaka Harris
Any book by Todd Parr
National Geographic Kids
Here We Are: Notes For Living on Planet Earth- Oliver Jeffers
Bedtime Inspirational Stories: 50 Amazing Black People Who Changed the World- L.A. Amber
Africa Is Not a Country- Margy Burns Knight
The Hello Atlas- Ben Handicott
We're All Wonders- R.J Palacio
A Galaxy of Her Own- Libby Jackson

I also have a lot of books for black history month.

For adults I like:
5 Love Languages of Children- Gary Chapman
The Whole Brained Child- Daniel Siegel
UnSelfie- Michelle Borba
Raising Free Thinkers and Parenting Beyond Belief- Dale McGowan

And humorous parenting books
Toddlers Are Assholes- Bunmi Laditan
I Just Want To Pee Alone- (Written by mom bloggers)
Parenting Illustrated With Crappy Pictures- Amber Dusick
The Honest Toddler- Bunmi Laditan

[grover]

I Wish You More
It made me bawl in the middle of Target while pregnant after infertility treatments. Still love it.

[walterismydog]

These progressive/diverse recommendations are exactly what I'm looking for. Our main goal is to raise a child who respects and enjoys all cultures and all types of people. A feminist regardless of sex. Thank you all so much. This is a fantastic resource!!

[sandandsea]

I’m trying not to repeat so I’ll add
Little blue truck
Rainbow rob
Baby beluga
Goodnight goodnight construction site
In my pond (also tree,ocean, barn, etc)

[konapoppy]

Turbo’s list is great. We also have Please, Baby, Please and Last Stop on Market Street. Round is a mooncake is good. We also have a lot of the classics in Spanish.

We like the Gerald and Piggie books too (fun to read).

[grover]

Not going to lie, I also like the Usborne that's not my series for when she was little. Like 9 months when she started holding them herself and now she's 18 months and still goes straight for them. Our other regular books have pages ripped, but those little buggers are tough. And they're repetitive between the books in the series, so she's learning some vocabulary.

[walterismydog]

I’ve just been down a major rabbit hole and now have almost 200 empowering books on my registry. lol. Y’all are awesome!