Toddler Books We Love to Read

As a former elementary school teacher, I own hundreds of picture books - most of which were relocated to my daughter's room when I quit teaching.  Recently I went through the ones in my daughter's room and decided to "downsize" a little by packing some away, putting others in her closet, and reorganizing the rest in easy-to-use white tubs.  I am so much happier with her bookshelves now that they hold both age-appropriate books and some of her toys.

Some of the books I left on her shelves:
 
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? By Bill Martin Jr.
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Counting Kisses: A Kiss & Read Book by Karen Katz
From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton
Goodnight, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Have You Seen My Duckling? Nancy Tafuri
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
Just Grandma and Me by Mercer Mayer
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Old Bear by Kevin Henkes
Peek a Moo by Marie Torres Cimarusti
Silly Sally by Audrey Wood
Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth
Time for Bed by Mem Fox
Welcome, Precious by Nikki Grimes
Where’s Spot? by Eric Hill

At 18 months, my daughter especially loves peek-a-boo books (like Nancy Tafuri’s Have You Seen My Duckling?), lifting up tabs in Eric Hill’s Spot books, and books where she can take part in an action (like Eric Carle’s From Head to Toe).  We go to the library just about every week and browse through its board books and picture book shelves.  I also spend time looking through the library's booklists online and placing holds...so that when we get to the library it's not such a challenge chasing after my busy toddler and perusing books!