These recommended books feature bright, colorful pictures to engage your little one and simple text to build vocabulary.
Recommended Books for 12 to 17 Months
- Concept
- Nonfiction
- Poetry/Song
- Predictable Text
- Storybooks
Alphaprints 1 2 3
Toddlers will delight in the rhyming text, while colors come alive through wonderful fingerprint creatures.
Baby Beluga
This book was inspired by Raffi, a popular children’s entertainer who wrote the song Baby Beluga.
Baby Loves Fall!
Bright pictures and simple text in this book offer fun opportunities to identify fall colors, count objects and build your child’s vocabulary.
Bingo
This colorful board book helps teach the words of a favorite childhood song.
Chicka Chicka ABC
Teaching children the alphabet is fun with this book’s colorful pages and infectious rhyme.
Clifford’s Bedtime
This story is perfect to get your little one ready for nap or bedtime.
Freight Train
The text in this book is limited to a color and the name of the train car, but when put together, it’s like a moving rainbow.
Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon is a classic bedtime story with illustrations by Clement Hurd.
Mommy Hugs
This adorable counting book uses hugs to teach numbers.
No Biting!
This interactive book is a great introduction to what is acceptable behavior for toddlers.
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?
This interactive board book helps teach about animals, words and sounds.
Quiet LOUD
Funny illustrations, true-to-life situations and the word list pages at the end are great for vocabulary building.
The Pigeon Loves Things That Go!
Introduce your child to the concept of “things that go” as you read about an ambitious pigeon who dreams of driving and flying.
White Rabbit’s Color Book
A fun story to teach your toddler about primary and secondary colors.