First books for toddlers | Autism PDD
these are great suggestions, thanks
Goodnight Gorilla is also a great book for interaction, asking questions!
The biggest early hits at our house were:
Hand, hand, fingers, thumb by Al Perkins (very rhythmic, fun monkey pics)
Barnyard dance by Sandra Boynton (fun rhyme)
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown (beautiful illustrations by Felicia Bond)
Inside outside upside down by Stan and Jan Berenstain
any peek-a-boo book (a hole in the book that shows something from the next page)
and finally
There's a mouse about the house! by Richard Fowler. It includes a cardboard mouse to slip through the cracks in the book and follow the path shown in the illustrations.
I love reading to my kids, for an hour plus/minus every night. I think it really helped my son's language development (especially given the lack of formal interventions -- he wasn't diagnosed until age 7).
Happy reading!
The Foot Book....by Dr. Seuss. Short sentences, great beat and nice simple learning. Up, down...slow, quick, etc.
My entire family knows it by heart and my son with autism as well as my two year old love it!
Anything by Sandra Boynton
The Very Busy Spider & The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, If You Give A Pig A Pancake, If You Give A Moose A Muffin & If You Give A Pig A Party all by Laura Numeroff
No David by David Shannon
Olivia by Ian Falconer
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight & How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Room by Jane Yolan & Mark Teague
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown is a classic! She has other books as well. The Runaway Bunny was popular with my kids.
Go, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman
What Shall We Do With the Boo Hoo Baby
The Runaway Bunny
Todd Parr Books: The Mommy Book, The Daddy Book, It's OK To Be Different, etc
Where The Wild Things Are
Everywhere Babies
These are just a few of the many books we have. I also grab a bunch for her when I'm at the library so we get new ones coming in all of the time.
Almost forgot: Everyone Poops. That was very popular when we were still toilet training.
And of course anything by Dr. Seuss
Big Red Barn by Margaret wise Brown
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Bus Stops by Taro Gomi
Milton by Hayd'e Ardalan
Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear
Don Wood
My son is very visual so he loves the illustrations of the above named books.
We have 100+ childrens books he the youngest of three and the youngest
Grandchild to boot. I would first see what your child is interested and start
there.
Hi
Could anyone give me the name of some suitable books (very simple and short stories) for toddlers. Something like the famous "brown bear, brown bearm what do you see?".
Thanks
Daddy
All of Eric Carle books!
In speech therapy we had a very hard time getting Sarah to express herself or tell us about her surroundings and others and were suggested to get:
"Alexandra Day" books about Carl the dog...Beautiful illustrations about a black lab and his antics with the baby and other kids...but NO words...she had to learn to pay attention to the page and figure out what Carl was doing..lots of cause and effects and actions:)
Sarah's favorite is "Puppy trouble" that has those pull tabs on it..very funny:) She also loved Nursery rhyme books with the musical buttons..or piano:)
We sometimes had to hide those..she liked them too much! I second the Sandra Boynton books. They are the best!
"The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
"The Very Busy Spider"
"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?"
If you can get hold of a series of board books called "That's not my ..." then those are great as well.
Of course most of the ones listed but also love Small Small Pond and Big Big World (don't know who wrote them). I'll love you forever, anything Sandra Boyton, and my kids really like the Veggie Tales board books. My favorite of course is Click Clack MOO and the rest of that series. I forgot about our Clifford the Big Red Dog board book. My youngest son fell in love with Emily Elizabeth. Guess he goes for blondes...Dr Seuss books, especially the rhyming ones
Deep down in the woods at sleepy time (great if your kid loves animals, I have to read that 5 times every night)
The very hungry caterpillar
We have many of the ones listed above and they are all hits.
Very Hungry Caterpillar was T's FAVE but I would second Good Night, Gorilla ... and Boynton books for rhythm and rhymes. T liked the Hippos book by Boynton in particular. Forty Hippos?
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