Tips for Choosing Books

Look for books with some of these attributes:

 

For Storytime

 

Babies

• Large, bright images pictures as babies vision isn't great yet

• Books that you can sing

• Books that rhyme

• Concept books; ABC's, 1,2,3's

• Books with animal noise

 

Toddlers

• High contrast images

• Very simple stories

• One to two sentences per page

• Interactive stories; movement, animal noises, etc.

• Books you can sing and move to

• Books with repeated phrases

 

Preschoolers

• ​Humorous books without sarcasm, especially about underwear

• Books with simple plots

• Books with predictive plots

• Fiction and non-fiction books

 

Bilingual

 

 

For Parents

 

Babies

• Books with real baby faces

• Sturdy books that babies can chew on

• Lift-the-flap and other interactive elements, like textures

• First word books

• Nursery Rhymes

• Concept books; ABC's, 1,2,3's

 

Toddlers

• Books about your child's favorite interests

• Books with large fun pictures

• Favorite characters

• Books you loved as a kid

• Concept books; ABC's 1,2,3's

• Wordless Books

• Books you and your child enjoy (you will have to read them a million times)

 

Preschoolers

• Books that relate to your child's life

• Wordless books

• Longer books with more in depth stories

• Search and Find books

• Favorite characters

• Non-fiction

 

Bilingual