Our Favourite Baby Board Books

If there is one thing that I can absolutely always justify buying, it’s more books for Mabel. That girl loves her books! And good thing, because I love them just as much, if not more. There are so many adorable kid’s books out there and it seems like they just keep getting better with beautiful illustrations and even more empowering messages than ever. The designer in me probably gets more joy out of them than my kid at this point, but she can’t contain her enthusiasm to help turn the pages, so I like to think she values a good story and a strong aesthetic too.

I thought it would be fun to round up some of both mine and Mabel’s favourite kid books that we’ve read. Since she’s not quite a year yet, I would say that this list is more geared towards babies, but these books are still the perfect addition to any kid-book library and would make an adorable baby shower gift.

1. The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt // 2. The Littlest Family’s Big Day by Emily Winfield Martin // 3. A Forest’s Seasons by Ingela P. Arrhenius // 4. TouchThinkLearn: Farm by Xavier Deneux // 5. I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen // 6. Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (not a board book but an absolute classic for any age) // 7. Peek-a-Who by Nina Laden (Mae’s personal favourite) // 8. I’d Know You Anywhere, My Love by Nancy Tillman // 9. Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg // 10. and 11. My First Ada Lovelace and My First Harriet Tubman by Maria Isabel Vegara Sanchez (all in this series are adorable) // 12. Yum Yummy Yuck by Amanda Jane Jones 

I’m always on the look out for beautiful baby board books, so if you have any good recommendations then please share them below and happy reading (or in Mabel’s case, happy obsessive page-turning)!