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
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- 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.
Baby Dance
Your little one will enjoy this trip to the zoo and being able to touch and feel some of the animals while building vocabulary.
Busy Penguins
This nonfiction board book can help strengthen pre-reading skills like oral language, letter knowledge and print awareness.
Chicky Chicky Chook Chook
Your little one will enjoy this trip to the zoo and being able to touch and feel some of the animals while building vocabulary.
Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo
Your little one will enjoy this trip to the zoo and being able to touch and feel some of the animals while building vocabulary.
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.
Pat the Zoo
Your little one will enjoy this trip to the zoo and being able to touch and feel some of the animals while building vocabulary.
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
Your little one will enjoy this trip to the zoo and being able to touch and feel some of the animals while building vocabulary.
Whose Toes are Those?
Your little one will enjoy this trip to the zoo and being able to touch and feel some of the animals while building vocabulary.
Baby Beluga
This book was inspired by Raffi, a popular children’s entertainer who wrote the song Baby Beluga.
The Babies on the Bus
Join the cute little driver and a diverse group of passengers on a bus ride all over town.
The Pudgy Pat-a-Cake Book
This colorful board book will soon have your toddler singing and playing along.
Binky
This book features endearing illustrations and a relatable problem.
Chicka Chicka ABC
Teaching children the alphabet is fun with this book’s colorful pages and infectious rhyme.
Curious George What Do You See?
Meet Curious George and some of his friends as they bring attention to parts of their faces and heads in this fun, interactive book.
Little Owl Lost
This book's predictable text and colorful artwork will help your toddler develop beginning writing and early reading skills.
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.
Peek-A-Boo Morning
Join this tiny toddler to see morning from his point of view and find out who he sees as he starts his day.
Quiet LOUD
Funny illustrations, true-to-life situations and the word list pages at the end are great for vocabulary building.
Uh-Oh! Oh-No!
This book includes great pictures for vocabulary building.
Where Is Maisy?
This board book builds fine motor coordination and teaches shapes.
Who Says Woof?
Large, lovable illustrations in this picture book will introduce your toddler to baby animals.