The Best Books for Toddlers

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List of the best books for toddlers, ranked by parents and fans of children's literature. This list of the best baby books includes picture books, board books, and even educational children's books that teach numbers, shapes, and colors, as well as story books for young children. Vote for your favorite toddler books to move them to the top of the list, or add any that you see missing.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle

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Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown

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Green Eggs and Ham

Dr. Seuss

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Where The Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

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The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein

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Corduroy

Don Freeman

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Are You My Mother?

Philip D. Eastman

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Jamberry Board Book and Tape

Bruce Degen

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Eric Carle, Bill Martin, Jr.

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The Runaway Bunny

Margaret Wise Brown

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monster at the end of this book

Jon Stone

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We're Going on a Bear Hunt

Michael Rosen

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Scuffy the Tugboat

Gertrude Crampton

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The Little Engine That Could

Watty Piper

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Owl babies

Martin Waddell

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No Potty! Yes Potty!

Emily Bolam

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Cheerios counting book

Barbara Barbieri McGrath

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Harold and the purple crayon

Crockett Johnson

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault

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Just me and my babysitter

Mercer Mayer

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Guess How Much I Love You

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My Big Animal World Book

Roger Priddy

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Mama, Do You Love Me?

Barbara Joosse

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My Baby Sister and Me

Jane Drake, Ann Love

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Peek-a-who?

Nina Laden

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My Baby Brother and Me

Jane Drake, Ann Love

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How I Became a Pirate

Melinda Long

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Let's Learn LETTERS

David Kirk

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Love You Forever

Robert Munsch

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Moo Baa La La La

Sandra Boynton

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Look! look! look!

Tana Hoban

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Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?

Dr. Seuss

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The Silly Book

Stoo Hample

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The Story of the Three Little Pigs

Joseph Jacobs

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Tootle

Gertrude Crampton

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Cinderella

Kaye Umansky

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It Looked Like Spilt Milk

Charles Green Shaw

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Charlie and Lola's Opposites

Lauren Child

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On the Day You Were Born

Debra Frasier

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Dora the Explorer

Christine Ricci, Leslie Valdes

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Elmo!

Sesame Street

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Daddy Hugs 1 2 3

Karen Katz

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Toes, Ears, & Nose! A Lift-the-Flap Book

Marion Dane Bauer, Karen Katz

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The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss

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Time for Bed

Mem Fox

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The Snowy Day

Ezra Jack Keats

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The Happy Egg

Ruth Krauss

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Barnyard dance!

Sandra Boynton

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I Hope You Dance!

Mark D Sanders, Tia Sillers, Mark Sanders

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Once upon a Potty

Alona Frankel

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