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This is a CrowdRanked list of the best baby books ever written on the topic of parenthood. If you are having a baby, or already have one, these are the books you can't afford NOT to read. Controversial or not, these guides to all things infant are repositories of years of child-rearing wisdom. Make your own list and rank these books as you see fit, or just make a list to add books you think are missing.

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    Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare

    Benjamin Spock M.D.
    Most Listed
  2. 2
    Marc Weissbluth
    Children's literature
    Pediatrics
  3. 3
    Margaret Wise Brown
    Fiction, Children's literature
    Classics, Moon, Animal, Rabbits
  4. 4
    Up 13
    Eric Carle
    Picture book, Fiction, Children's literature
    English Literature, Animal, Education, Language
  5. 5

    Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, Revised Edition

    American Academy Of Pediatrics
  6. 6

    What to Expect the First Year

    Heidi Murkoff
    Marriage, Family, Child development
  7. 7

    What to Expect When You're Expecting

    Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel
  8. 8
    Children's literature
  9. 9
    William Sears
    Marriage, Health, Medicine, Fitness, Parenting, Relationships, Family, Pediatrics, Child development, Childbirth More
  10. 10
    Robert Munsch
    Fiction
    Love
  11. 11

    Cheerios counting book

    Barbara Barbieri McGrath
  12. 12

    Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

    Anne Lamott
    Memoir
    Parenting, Anne Lamott
  13. 13

    Owl babies

    Martin Waddell
    Fiction, Children's literature
    Animal, Family
  14. 14

    No Potty! Yes Potty!

    Emily Bolam
  15. 15

    My Big Animal World Book

    Roger Priddy
  16. 16

    Mama, Do You Love Me?

    Barbara Joosse
  17. 17

    Just me and my babysitter

    Mercer Mayer
    Fiction, Children's literature
    Family
  18. 18

    Peek-a-who?

    Nina Laden
  19. 19

    Dr. Spock on parenting

    Benjamin Spock
    Most Passionate
  20. 20

    My Baby Sister and Me

    Jane Drake, Ann Love
  21. 21

    Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?

    Dr. Seuss
    Children's literature
  22. 22

    Moo Baa La La La

    Sandra Boynton
    Fiction, Children's literature
    Animal
  23. 23

    Brown Bear, Brown Bear

    Johannes J. Martin, Bill Martin, Jr.
  24. 24
    Jenny McCarthy
    Humour
    Health, Medicine, Fitness, Parenting, Family, Gynecology, Childbirth, Pregnancy More
  25. 25

    My Baby Brother and Me

    Jane Drake, Ann Love
  26. 26

    Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

    Eric Carle, Bill Martin, Jr.
  27. 27

    Let's Learn LETTERS

    David Kirk
  28. 28

    The Silly Book

    Stoo Hample
    Children's literature
  29. 29

    Mother Goose

    Rita Warner, Brenda Jackson, Elizabeth Miles
  30. 30
    Ezra Jack Keats
    Picture book, Fiction, Children's literature
    African American, Classics, Recreation, Sports, Snow
  31. 31

    We're Going on a Bear Hunt

    Michael Rosen
    Children's literature
  32. 32

    It Looked Like Spilt Milk

    Charles Green Shaw
  33. 33

    Cinderella

    Kaye Umansky
    Children's literature
    Drama, English Literature
  34. 34

    Hand rhymes

    Marc Brown
  35. 35

    Look! look! look!

    Tana Hoban
  36. 36

    Organic Baby Foods

    Amanda Grant
  37. 37
    Joseph Jacobs
  38. 38

    Barnyard dance!

    Sandra Boynton
  39. 39

    Daddy Hugs 1 2 3

    Karen Katz
  40. 40

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

    Marion Dane Bauer, Karen Katz
  41. 41

    Elmo!

    Sesame Street
  42. 42

    Dora the Explorer

    Christine Ricci, Leslie Valdes
  43. 43

    Babycare for Beginners

    Frances Williams
  44. 44

    The Breastfeeding Book

    Maire Davies
  45. 45
    William Sears
    Children's literature
    Marriage, Parenting, Relationships, Family, Childbirth
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    1. I wish I could vote more than once on this book. Anyone who has a baby.... and who wants that baby to learn how to sleep (yes, I said "learn") should read this. Both my kids slept through the night at 4 mos, and have been fabulous sleepers ever since (8 years later).

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