Any suggestions for a cute and original newborn book for present?
My best friend has had a baby, a little girl. I’ve decided each year for her birthday I’m going to buy her a new book. Any suggestions for a cute and original newborn book to start me off? ?? ?
I assume this will still be in print in AUS. LOVE these illustrations!
https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Love-Jenni-Overend/dp/0916291960/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511768241&sr=1-6&keywords=julie+vivas
I know a bit old for her now but the Faraway Tree books are great. I still have mine i was given when 4. In hardcover.
Yes I still have mine too! And my hardcover Snugglepot and Cuddlepie!
Yep me too!!
https://www.amazon.com/Day-You-Were-Born/dp/015205944X
Joking. But maybe for the parents if they have that kind of sense of humour. I always get my friends’ newborns Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and write a little inscription inside for them to read as they get older. I like it because I find my friends enjoy reading it during bonding time with their kids and can read it over the years even as they get older.
I’ve bought this for a couple of my friends! ?
Goodnight Moon
Bought it for ourselves ( grandparents) . Would not dare to buy for the parents … not sure about their sense of humour
Good night moon
Our tiniest babes have always loved the ones with rhythmical prose. Since newborn eyes are still developing, high contrast pictures would be the most effective – such as books by Eric Carle. One that would grow with the little one would be something like Ten Little Ladybugs – and as the baby gets older, she will love its bumps and sentence patterns. My oldest loved flipping the pages of that one. 🙂
Give her Machiavelli or Wilde. She might not be able to read it but when she grows up, she’ll always go back to reading the first book she ever got from the most dearest person. And it should carry messages she may never be too old or young to read, giving this gesture a meaning. ?
When she gets older, put What do You Say to a Kangaroo by Mercer Mayer (I think) on your list.
http://mesmerised.com.au/
Great idea and i made a pact to do the same thing rather than add to landfill by buying superfluous toys!
The book in the link is by a Tas author and my nephew loved it!
Pat the Bunny! My babies chewed up a couple of them a piece!
Trust me this is a no brainer.
Each Peach, Pear, Plum
Some favorites of my 3yo, over the years:
Ten Little Fingers, Ten Little Toes
Good Night Construction Site
Hug Time
Pout Pout Fish
The Going to Bed Book
Llama Llama Red Pajamas
Where is the Green Sheep
Another idea is to get each year’s Caldecott winner – my mom does this and it’s great.
Pat the Bunny for traditional and then I’ve been giving Feminist Baby
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes!
Also, I swear my son learned his colors from Mouse Paint. Better for a 1-3 year old, though
Thanks everyone! So many great ideas to try and choose from!
Start a set of Little Golden Books.
On The Night You Were Born. (I try and give it to my friends with new babies!)
https://www.booktopia.com.au/on-the-night-you-were-born-nancy-tillman/prod9780312601553.html?source=pla&gclid=Cj0KCQiAjO_QBRC4ARIsAD2FsXO6cZBryDvcjhB08_LXf7FhruhBe9Jd3deliHeh27SoneItB6FF_JoaAjupEALw_wcB
These books are all so beautiful!
Margaret wise brown
Anything by Sandra Boynton; Dr. Seuss; Nancy Tillman in board book format for baby. As she gets a bit older, my favorite picture book is Animalia by Graeme Base.
The lost my name book. Uses the letters in the child’s name for the story and you can add a personal dedication.
Mine loved, The House in the Night.
Goodnight Moon
What a lovely idea ??
Miss Rumphius
“You Are My I Love You” by Maryann K. Cusimano
It seems to be becoming a thing that at baby showers, instead of including cards with the gift, the guests include a baby book to start off the child’s library. (Thought I’d share this.)
Peepo by the Allenbergs.
On The Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman
Goodnight Moon and as she gets a bit older, Make Way For Ducklings
Cute idea.
Oh The Places You Will Go. ♡
This is a good one to buy when they start school and secretly every year have the teacher for that grade write something about them and give it as a graduation present.
On the night you where born
Good night stories for Rebel girls.
Baby’s Day Out
Dr Suess (read aloud even when she is tiny!) and The Runaway Bunny (shows how much she is lived in a charming story)
10 Fingers 10 Toes
On The Day You Were Born
https://www.wonderbly.com/en-US/personalized-products/lost-my-name-book
I love you stinky face. I Love You Stinky Face https://g.co/kgs/3Lra6e
I like those Llama Llama books
My mother gave every new baby a copy of Mother Goose.
This! I got one when I was a kid and I had to get one for each of my girls.
Pat the Bunny
Goodnight Moon
Oh both my kids loved Goodnight moon. Its’s such a beautiful, simple book
These! As a mom to a book obsessed 1 year old, we read these almost every day.
Another vote for Goodnight Moon in board book form.
Pick simple, short books for the next few years, and get them in board book form. Babies read with their mouths. ?
I love you through and through, both my girls loved it when they were babies into toddlers
This is a beautiful idea. I do this for my friend’s daughters each Christmas with an inscription about how the book represents them. The book is the first gift they open each year ?
I have a huge collection of baby board books, as I run a daycare, and the all-time favorites are anything by Sandra Boynton. Doggies, oops, or ABC are great ones to start with.
Boynton a big favorite in our household!
My daughter loved these as a baby.
Usborne books
PRESS HERE. It’s magical. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/books/review/childrens-books-ice-by-arthur-geisert-press-here-by-herve-tullet.html
Goodnight Moon board book
I always gift Where The Wild Things Are when I go to baby showers. It’s my all time favorite, and love to share it with others.
Selena, recently there was a novel, A House Among the Trees by Julia Glass, that’s loosely based on the life of Maurice Sendak. You might enjoy that.
Oh, Thanks! I’ll definitely grab that one.
https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Loves-Rock-Wednesday-Kirwan/dp/1442459891
This! https://www.chimamanda.com/book/dear-ijeawele-or-a-feminist-manifesto-in-fifteen-suggestions/
I Wish You More- by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
It’s more for explaining how you, or the parents, love and think of the little girl. But it’s amazing and powerful!!
https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Fills-Happiness-Monique-Smith/dp/1459809572/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511802841&sr=8-1&keywords=my+heart+fills+with+happiness+board+book
Love you forever
How many kisses do you want tonight
Sandra Boynton, especially Pajama Time
I have often paired Goodnight Moon with a warm blanket.
I always give the books about Carl the Rottweiler by Alexandra Day. They’re beautifully illustrated, they tell fun stories of gentle mischief and have practically no words – so they enable children to read before they are actually able to recognize words.
Love the Carl books!
Are you my mom?
Are you my mom?
Take Heart, My Child: A Mother’s Dream https://www.amazon.com/dp/1481466224/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_yAfhAbVJYRT80
I personally love this book, not really a baby book but I love the message in it
On the Day You Were Born or On the Night You Were Born
I do this with my nephews and niece too, and it’s so fun to pick out every year. I really love the Baby Lit books! Maybe you can find a favorite of your friend’s to get for her baby? https://babylit.com/
Time for Bed is another favorite. Consider a board book for the little ones! https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/time-for-bed-mem-fox/1100734349/2672285542841?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Catch-All%2C+Low_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP79700&gclid=Cj0KCQiAjO_QBRC4ARIsAD2FsXPK7lWJchDBs2aWzAKSc8g82XU2vXUr5yIi3glPx6WFiHj7LEB3UXEaAgW2EALw_wcB
The giving tree ❤️
My cousin’s son and his wife just had a baby, the first in that branch of the family — I sent 3 Babar “board books” via Amazon. I paid for gift wraping and my cousin told me it was very nicely done.
Ferdinand the Bull.
Goodnight Gorilla is a very cute story with great pictures.
For many years, when my granddaughters were small, I bought a book wirh an associated doll or toy…. memorable one was a Madeleine doll and a book about Monet and Giverney. Also one I bought at a museum… was an undressed doll and instructions to create her clothes.
Do a customized one. There are several sites where you can customize a book. Here’s one example: https://www.putmeinthestory.com/
My girls fav at young ages was All of Baby Nose to Toes.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0920668372/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511810360&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=i+love+you+forever&dpPl=1&dpID=612wpFrT0WL
My daughter loves Harriet you drive me Wild by Men Fox. And Dinosaur Dump. Yes she is at that age where dinosaur poo is cool. 🙂
Olivia. Especially the Christmas one. I second the Carl books! No words just amazing pictures
Paperbag Princess
On the Night You Were Born is a beautiful book.
Madeleine. Read it to my now 25year old daughter every night.
“Read” (currently) and “Read” (formerly) mix up. ? Either way, charming!
@Sally read… formerly!! ?
The Bible.
Not my idea of cute I have to say. And those fragile pages wouldn’t last long…
No thanks ^^
goodnight moon
the miraculous journey of Edward trulane
I love that book!
https://www.walmart.com/ip/On-the-Night-You-Were-Born/12554225?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222228000182184&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=52945212528&wl4=pla-75131587488&wl5=9002229&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=12554225&wl13=&veh=sem
Who Loves to Boogy ?
Beatrix Potter’s books
Anything by Sandra Boynton. If you’re going to read it a million times it helps if it’s fun and bouncy.
My youngest (now 19!) loved the board book Hand Hand Fingers Thumb by Alan Perkins. Has a bee-bop jazz kinda vibe. We never tired of reading it!
Babies by Gyo Fugikawa
“On the day you were born” by Debra Frasier
“The hungry caterpillar” and “all the world” are a couple of our favorites. There’s so many good ones. The “How do dinosaurs…” books are great too. And “click clack moo.”
I’ve picked a couple now – thanks for all the ideas everyone!!