{"id":11021,"date":"2018-01-23T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/?p=11021"},"modified":"2018-02-23T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T14:07:08","slug":"books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Books to Help You Share the Things You Love with Your Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading to babies is the ultimate snuggly activity for promoting a close relationship, and there\u2019s no shortage of research<\/a>\u00a0hailing its learning benefits. With the American Academy of Pediatrics urging parents to read to their children every day from birth<\/a>, though, even if you put the canon of classic baby books you received as gifts on shuffle, that\u2019s a LOT of bedtime farewells in Goodnight Moon.<\/em> Consider the opportunity to think outside the gift box. Part of the fun of being a new parent is imagining how you\u2019ll introduce your child to what you love. In today\u2019s market, there\u2019s a book for that. You\u2019ll still have to wait a few years to teach your baby how to strum guitar chords or wield a chef\u2019s knife, but in the meantime, we\u2019ve compiled this list of books to help you bring your passions right to the nursery.<\/p>\n

yes yes For Literature Lovers <\/p>\n

Even though it will be a while before your future English major can weigh in on the symbolism in W<\/em>ar<\/em> and Peace<\/em><\/a>, you can introduce Pierre and Natasha now, as fuzzy felted figures in the Cozy Classics<\/em> version<\/a> by Jack and Holman Wang. Literature-buff parents will also love the entire BabyLit<\/em> series<\/a>. The child-friendly renditions of the perilous creatures met by Odysseus in The Odyssey: A Monsters Primer\u00a0<\/em><\/a>by Jennifer Adams and illustrated by Alison Oliver are adorable. The carefully chosen short quotes in Little Women: A Playtime Primer<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>by the same team, are the perfect throwback to a simpler time.<\/p>\n

9781452152455 http:\/\/assets.readbrightly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/war-and-peace.jpg Cozy Classics: War and Peace<\/i> http:\/\/www.mycozyclassics.com\/war-and-peace\/ by Jack Wang and Holman Wang 9781423641780 The Odyssey: A Monsters Primer<\/i> https:\/\/www.gibbs-smith.com\/The-Odyssey-P1941.aspx by Jennifer Adams, illustrated by Alison Oliver 9781423643890 Little Women: A Playtime Primer<\/i> https:\/\/babylit.com\/products\/little-women by Jennifer Adams, illustrated by Alison Oliver yes yes For Art Aficionados <\/p>\n

The only challenge here is narrowing down which type of art you want to introduce to your baby first. You can go the classic route with the Mini Masters Box Set<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober. Or, go for pop art with Mudpuppy\u2019s A Is For <\/em>Andy: ABCs with Andy Warhol<\/em><\/a>, which includes illustrations by the artist himself and lettering by his mother, Julia Warhola. Color-lovers can go far beyond the basics with Pantone Colors: A Children\u2019s Book<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(and should probably plan to invest in a giant box of crayons down the road). If you can\u2019t wait to dig into art projects with your little one, start making plans together as you enjoy The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse<\/em><\/a> by master illustrator Eric Carle.<\/p>\n

9780811855181 Mini Masters Box Set<\/i> http:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/mini-masters-boxed-set.html by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober 9780735346031 A Is For Andy: ABCs with Andy Warhol<\/i> http:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/a-is-for-andy-board-book.html by Mudpuppy, illustrated by Andy Warhol 9781419701801 Pantone Colors: A Children\u2019s Book<\/i> https:\/\/www.pantone.com\/pantone-colors-childrens-book by Pantone,\u200e illustrated by Helen Dardik 9780399257131 The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/309875\/the-artist-who-painted-a-blue-horse-by-eric-carle-illustrated-by-eric-carle\/ by Eric Carle yes yes For Sports Fans <\/p>\n

When you found out you were expecting, did you or your spouse immediately begin planning your child\u2019s sports career? Give some early encouragement by reading Sporty Babies Wear Sweats<\/em><\/a>, by Michelle Sinclair Colman and illustrated by Nathalie Dion. To introduce your budding athlete to equipment and key concepts in hockey, football, baseball, soccer, basketball, and tennis, share titles from the First Sports<\/em> series<\/a>, by Sterling Children\u2019s. There\u2019s no better way to get your baby exclaiming, \u201cGoal!\u201d<\/p>\n

9781582463131 Sporty Babies Wear Sweats<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/200319\/sporty-babies-wear-sweats-by-written-by-michelle-sinclair-colman-illustrations-by-nathalie-dion\/ by Michelle Sinclair Colman, illustrated by Nathalie Dion 9781454914860 First Sports<\/i> series https:\/\/www.sterlingpublishing.com\/search\/?series=first-sports by Sterling Children’s yes yes For Musicians <\/p>\n

Introduce your baby to a world of musical possibilities with Music Is\u2026<\/em><\/a>, written by Brandon Stosuy and illustrated by Amy Martin, which spans a cappella to percussion. For a read-aloud that will get you humming and tapping your favorite songs, try Baby Loves to Rock!<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Wednesday Kirwan. As an alternative to traditional lullabies, read Elvis Presley\u2019s Love Me Tender<\/em><\/a>. Stephanie Graegin\u2019s sweet illustrations probably aren\u2019t quite what Elvis imagined when he wrote the lyrics, but they will give you plenty to talk about with your baby, from your musical aspirations for her to memories of your first moments together.<\/p>\n

9781481477024 Music Is\u2026<\/i> http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Music-Is\/Brandon-Stosuy\/9781481477024 by Brandon Stosuy, illustrated by Amy Martin 9781442459892 Baby Loves to Rock!<\/i> http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Baby-Loves-to-Rock!\/Wednesday-Kirwan\/9781442459892 by Wednesday Kirwan 9780735231221 Elvis Presley\u2019s Love Me Tender<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/562823\/elvis-presleys-love-me-tender-by-elvis-presley\/ by Elvis Presley, illustrated by Stephanie Graegin yes yes For STEM Enthusiasts <\/p>\n

Scientist parents can introduce their babies to protons and electrons in Quantum Physics for Babies<\/em><\/a> by Chris Ferrie, while mathematicians will find plenty to discuss in ABCs of Mathematics<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by the same author. If you\u2019re an engineer, try Baby Loves Aerospace Engineering<\/em><\/a>, \u00a0written by Ruth Spiro and illustrated by Irene Chan. Simple explanations reveal the flight secrets of everything from birds to rockets.<\/p>\n

9781492656227 Quantum Physics for Babies<\/i> http:\/\/books.sourcebooks.com\/babyuniversity-forbabyseries\/ by Chris Ferrie 9781492656289 ABCs of Mathematics<\/i> http:\/\/books.sourcebooks.com\/babyuniversity-abcsseries\/ by Chris Ferrie 9781607349457 Baby Loves Aerospace Engineering<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/535252\/baby-loves-aerospace-engineering-by-ruth-spiro-author-irene-chan-illustrator\/ by Ruth Spiro, illustrated by Irene Chan yes yes For Nature Lovers <\/p>\n

If you dream of family trips to the world\u2019s most scenic spots, or if you just want to relive your adventurous pre-parenting days, take your baby on a whirlwind tour in All Aboard: National Parks<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Kevin and Haily Meyers. If digging in your own yard is more your speed, prime your baby to join you one day with the simple facts and cheerful illustrations in Hello World! Backyard Bugs <\/em><\/a>by Jill McDonald. For those who simply love to marvel at nature\u2019s wonders, add the beautiful Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0 written by Nicola Davies and illustrated by Mark Hearld, to your collection. Snuggle up together with some pillows to prop up this large volume and share the eloquent verses about everything from lizards to feathers.<\/p>\n

9781423642367 All Aboard: National Parks<\/i> https:\/\/babylit.com\/products\/all-aboard-national-parks by Kevin Meyers and Haily Meyers 9780553521061 Hello World! Backyard Bugs<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/248562\/hello-world-backyard-bugs-by-jill-mcdonald\/ by Jill McDonald 9780763655495 Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature<\/i> https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/217452\/outside-your-window-by-nicola-davies\/ by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Mark Hearld yes yes For Top Chefs <\/p>\n

If you love to shop for, prepare, and savor good food, take your baby on a bountiful trip to the market and back with Stefan Page\u2019s We\u2019re Going to the Farmer\u2019s Market<\/em><\/a>. Titles from the Cook in a Book <\/em>series, like Pizza!: An Interactive Recipe Book<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Lotta Nieminen, are fun to read aloud to infants and also to enjoy later with toddlers, who will like manipulating the cardboard pieces to \u201chelp\u201d prepare a tasty dish.<\/p>\n

9781452118345 We\u2019re Going to the Farmers’ Market<\/i> http:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/we-re-going-to-the-farmers-market.html by Stefan Page 9780714874098 Pizza!: An Interactive Recipe Book<\/i> http:\/\/www.phaidon.com\/store\/childrens-books\/pizza-9780714874098\/ by Lotta Nieminen <\/p>\n

What books do you love to read that reflect your interests? Share them with us in the comments section below!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part of the fun of being a new parent is imagining how you\u2019ll introduce your child to what you love. From art to cooking to music to sports, these books can help you do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,89,112,113,137,241,668],"coauthors":[1053],"class_list":["post-11021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reading-aloud","tag-science","tag-art","tag-cooking","tag-sports","tag-baby-books","tag-music","ages_stages-baby-toddler"],"yoast_head":"\nBooks to Help You Share the Things You Love with Your Baby | Brightly<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Part of the fun of being a new parent is imagining how you\u2019ll introduce your child to what you love. These books can help you do just that.\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Books to Help You Share the Things You Love with Your Baby | Brightly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Part of the fun of being a new parent is imagining how you\u2019ll introduce your child to what you love. From art to cooking to music to sports, these books can help you do just that.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Brightly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-01-23T12:30:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-02-23T14:07:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/assets.readbrightly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books-sharing-love-with-baby-social.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lindsay Barrett\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lindsay Barrett\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Books to Help You Share the Things You Love with Your Baby | Brightly","description":"Part of the fun of being a new parent is imagining how you\u2019ll introduce your child to what you love. These books can help you do just that.","canonical":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Books to Help You Share the Things You Love with Your Baby | Brightly","og_description":"Part of the fun of being a new parent is imagining how you\u2019ll introduce your child to what you love. From art to cooking to music to sports, these books can help you do just that.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/","og_site_name":"Brightly","article_published_time":"2018-01-23T12:30:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-02-23T14:07:08+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/assets.readbrightly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books-sharing-love-with-baby-social.jpg"}],"author":"Lindsay Barrett","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Lindsay Barrett","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/","url":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/","name":"Books to Help You Share the Things You Love with Your Baby | Brightly","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/assets.readbrightly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books-sharing-love-with-baby-feat-v2.jpg","datePublished":"2018-01-23T12:30:03+00:00","dateModified":"2018-02-23T14:07:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d66412ae4edc023f9a009a9c2dc4d3d6"},"description":"Part of the fun of being a new parent is imagining how you\u2019ll introduce your child to what you love. These books can help you do just that.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/assets.readbrightly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books-sharing-love-with-baby-feat-v2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/assets.readbrightly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books-sharing-love-with-baby-feat-v2.jpg","width":850,"height":607,"caption":"books-to-share-things-you-love-with-baby"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/books-to-share-things-you-love-with-your-baby\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Books to Help You Share the Things You Love with Your Baby"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/","name":"Brightly","description":"Reading Is the Just the Beginning","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d66412ae4edc023f9a009a9c2dc4d3d6","name":"Jennifer Clare","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/2348705ca7dfb856355c2ce836eaceef","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/118090b9fc01e77f84ae9dc424fa5d74?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/118090b9fc01e77f84ae9dc424fa5d74?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jennifer Clare"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/penguinrandomhouse.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/contributor\/jclare\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11021"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readbrightly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}