Summer reading for babies! What books have you been reading to your baby?

This summer we've been reading Brown, Bear Brown Bear What Do You See a lot, we love our new Animal Alphabet slide and view ABC book as a daily read, and recently we borrowed from the NYPL One Two Buckle My Shoe which was fun to read and now I sing that little song all the time to Phoenix.

Sing-a-long books are fun and easy to read to your baby with expression and enthusiasm. Keep in mind your baby loves your voice and the tone of voices you use helps to shape your babies understanding of emotions, expression and mood.

We will be recording more "this is how you read to your baby" sessions soon.

Here are some books we have been reading:

This morning before Phoenix's nap we read these two and usually I pick a couple books we haven't read in awhile to keep it interesting, for me too. Phoenix fell asleep while I was reading Star Seeker.

Star Seeker published by Barefoot Books

One Gorilla, a favorite, has beautiful illustrations of primates.

That's our new Owl from the Central Park Zoo

This Music book features different instruments in English and French

One of our library reads

 

Crazy about Animal Alphabet: Slide and Seek the ABCs

I love Animal Alphabet: Slide and Seek the ABCs board book we picked up at Babies R Us. Mainly  because Phoenix is so engaged and curious when we read it, each page shares 2 letters of the Alphabet and part of the animal/s is/are seen (such as the tail of an alligator) and then you slide over the panel and the whole animal is seen. It's a great pick as a baby's first ABC's book and when your child starts using his hands more he/she will watch you slide the panel and begin to as well :)

Animal Alphabet on Amazon
Animal Alphabet on BN.com

Goodnight Statue of Liberty a NYC book to share with your baby

goodnight Statue of Liberty, good night Hudson river settling down after a busy day with family in town, went to SoHo and Little Italy to Chinatown and a visit w the bull downtown and Trinity church, to the Seaport and Wall Street, the 9/11 Memorial and Battery Park.

Here is a goodnight NYC book we read often.

~Isobella & Phoenix

Phoenix's first modeling job tearsheet

Phoenix was four months here

 

Central Park Zoo adventures

Central Park Zoo today! Phoenix loves the penguins and seeing the turtles and parrots! Yes again we are really using our membership and will be soon checking out the Queens and Brooklyn Zoo's too!

 

Library reads! Rain, 0, Bears, Green and Alligators in the mix!

Books we read and love from the library, part of our summer reading but are perfect books for year round reading, for babies of all ages. Coming up a post on how to be silly with your baby.

Listen to the Rain by Bill Martin and John Archambault and illustrated by James Endicott (a fun sound book to read to your little one about the drip, drop, putter, patter, sounds of the rain)

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Zero by Kathryn Otoshi  (Zero shows us how big of a number she can be!)

Otto the Book Bear by Katie Cleminson  (a bear pops out of a book and searches for his new home and finds it at the library)

green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger  (creative cut-out book based on all things green)

There's an Alligator Under My Bed by Mercer Mayer  (a funny and creative story about a boy who uses his imagination to scare aware his fears)

We loved Fete Paradiso at Governors Island

Fete Paradiso at Governors Island is a must see this summer, very fun and beautiful vintage carnival rides for all ages, check it out!


All summer starting now.
http://www.feteparadiso.com/

Beautiful vintage carnival rides on governers island every weekend. Fete Paradiso opened today! Also, we didn't have time to try out the massive tree house exhibit on the lawn which also looked cool from a distance 

Oooo la la Check out the Parisian Ball: http://www.feteparadiso.com/parisian-ball


My Father passed away and I found it ironic that the collection was from Francis Staub when Staub was my Father's last name too.