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Baby Loves
Illustrated by Mary Cassatt
Atheneum 2003
Ages: All ages
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
American Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt conveys the exuberant love mothers feel for their new baby with her impressionist paintings of a baby clapping hands, drinking milk, feeding ducks or kissing mommy good night. MORE...
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Baby Days: A Quilt of Rhymes and Pictures
Illustrated by Belinda Downes
Candlewick 2006
Ages: Birth to 3
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
Beautifully embroidered illustrations and traditional rhymes, including rock a -bye baby on the tree top, will welcome your baby home. There is an envelope in the back of the book for extra keepsakes. MORE...
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Ten Tiny Tickles
Illustrated by Karen Katz
Margaret K. McElderry 2005
Ages: Birth to 3
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
Another warm slice of family life begins as the mother gives her baby "one little, tickle on a lovely, sleepy head." As the baby is bathed, fed, and dressed, each loving member of the family takes turns tickling her chin, hands, tummy and toes. MORE...
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Hush, Little Baby
Illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Greenwillow 2006
Ages: Birth to 3
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
What an elegant, exuberant version of the southern Appalachian lullaby, Hush Little Baby! Brian Pinkney, a Caldecott honor award illustrator has put this familiar song in a new context. Here we have a picture of an African American family in early 1900's in which Mama has to go off to work and Papa is at home caring for the little ones. The words dance across the pages and the pictures make you smile. What joy this book will bring to all new families! Also, there is a wonderful piano arrangement at the end of the lullaby for you to play and sing to your baby. MORE...
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Where's the Giraffe?
by Ingela Arrhenius
Illustrated by Ingela Arrhenius
Nosy Crow 2017
Ages: Birth to 3
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
A perfect book for a one-year-old or a toddler who is eager to look under the cloth flaps and can lift them up without tearing the book. A delightful romp that reveals other hidden animals. MORE...
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Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
by Mem Fox
Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
Harcourt Children's Books 2008
Ages: Birth to 3
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
A cheerful rhyming text compares babies born in different places and circumstances. An elegant gift for a newborn baby. MORE...
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Cuddle Time
by Libby Gleeson
Illustrated by Julie Vivas
Candlewick 2004
Ages: Birth to 3
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
A little girl tells her little baby to "play" while they crawl down to the "monster's room" (their parents bedroom) and they jump into their bed. There they are tickled and tumbled and they all giggle and snuggle together with a delicious sense of joy. MORE...
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Welcoming Babies
by Margy Burns Knight
Illustrated by Anne Sibley O'Brien
Tilbury House Publishers 1998
Ages: Birth to 3
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
Images of babies surrounded by many loving adults shows the diverse and multicultural ways we welcome babies into this world. An introduction into the various ceremonies Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hopi, Latin American, Greek, Korean among others, will expand your child's appreciation of people in other lands. MORE...
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Hugs and Kisses
by Christopher Loupy, Eve Tharlet, J. Alison James (translator)
North South Books 2006
Ages: Birth to 3
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
This warm story is about a puppy named Hugs who sets out one morning to get a kiss from everyone he meets. He finds out that a pig's kiss is a little scratchy and muddy, a duck's kiss is hard and damp and a horse's kiss is damp and sticky, but when he returns home, he finds that his mother's kiss is best of all. MORE...
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Guess How Much I love You?
by Sam McBratney
Illustrated by Anita Jeram
Candlewick Press 1996
Ages: 3 to 5
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
This is an endearing story about the immeasurable bond of love between a hare and his baby son. Searching for ways to tell his dad how much he loves him, little hare says, "I love you all the way to my toes!" His dad replies, as he swings him in the air over his head, "And I love you all the way up to your toes!" This engaging dialogue about unconditional love continues until little Nutbrown Hare settles in his bed and whispers, "I love you right up to the moon and back". The watercolor illustrations enrich this story. The book can be bought with a stuffed little animal as well as in a Big Book format to read aloud at storyhours. MORE...
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Everything You
by Elizabeth McPike
Illustrated by Jay Fleck
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
Ages: Birth to 3
Topic: Bedtime Reading
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
A welcome lullaby to a new baby who is special in every way. Beautifully illustrated with huggable animals. MORE...
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If I Could: A Mother's Promise
by Susan Milord
Illustrated by Christopher Denise
Candlewick Press 2008
Ages: Birth to 3
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
This book is in free form verse. A mother raccoon sings a love song to her toddler at bedtime. "You are the song, you are the light, a treat and treasure, a joy and delight." MORE...
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Mama Says: A Book of Love for Mothers and Sons
by Rob D. Walker
Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
The Blue Sky Press 2009
Ages: Birth to 3
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
In a dozen languages from around the world, Mama captures the universal bond between mothers and their children. The exquisite and strikingly beautiful illustrations by the Dillons capture the importance of courage, honesty, and sharing. MORE...
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Jazz Baby
by Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by Laura Freeman
Lee & Low 2002
Ages: Birth to 3
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
"Jazz baby, Jazz baby, blow your horn, You've got rhythm sure as you're born." This jazzy story in rhyme will welcome all new babies with a lively beat! MORE...
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