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Good books for 7-8 months old?
« on: August 18, 2006, 00:32:42 am »
I just got a $25 certificate from Amazon and would like to get my LO a few more books! Would love to hear what YOUR LOs like.  I have a little boy, by the way who is 7.5 months old.

His favorites right now are:

Peek-a-boo Zoo
Counting Kisses
The Going to Bed Book
Fuzzy, Fuzzy, Fuzzy
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Re: Good books for 7-8 months old?
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2006, 01:21:28 am »
Ooooh - we love Counting Kisses!  So sweet.  This is such a great age too, they really start to get into the books.

My DD adores "Goodnight Sweet Butterflies".  It's great, has awesome textures (the little butterflies), beautifully illustrated and a wonderful bedtime book.  We have read that to her every night since she was 5 weeks old.  :D
She also loves:
Mother Goose Bedtimes Rhymes (Musical Lullaby Treasury) - gets a couple of the rhymes before every nap.
Mostly anything from Dr. Seuss, but especially Mr. Brown Can Moo!  Can you?  and Hop on Pop-Up! (Great for DHs)
Also - Hugs and Kisses - it's a "petting" book where a little puppy (Hugs) samples kisses from all different animals, and you "feel" their kisses - very cute.  Especially since the ending says "But a Mother's Kiss is Best of All!". 

Ok, she has tons more, but these are her favorites off the top of my head.

Happy book shopping!  I'll be checking in on this thread too, always looking for new books for DD.

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Re: Good books for 7-8 months old?
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2006, 02:12:38 am »
There is NO BOOK on this earth better than "Where is the Green Sheep" by Mem Fox!   I took it out of the library one day and DD LOVED it.  DH was even mesmerized by the rhythm of the words and the rhyme.   DD will sit perfectly still for the WHOLE book - and so will my neice.    She loved it around 6m and loves it to this day - it is SOOOOO worn already as it is not a board book.    Simply the bsest book ever and will be a gift I gove for every baby!!!

The book is so good, that when we are driving, I can "read" her parts of the book and I can even make up additional rhymes and the rhythm and rhyme quiets her right down.   

Here is the red sheep, and here is the blue sheep....

you'll LOVE it!!!!
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Re: Good books for 7-8 months old?
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2006, 02:17:44 am »
Mem Fox is a great author - haven't thought about her in awhile.

Katie loves her touchy feely books -- we have
Touch and Feel Farm (I think, will have to check the title) - there's  a whole series
That's Not My Kitten (also a whole series, stuff to look at and feel)

We also have Where is Baby's Belly Button? which is a lift the flap book that she LOVES, plus I think it's helping her learn body parts

There's also a whole Raffi series of ones you can either read or sing which Katie likes too.

Oh and I second anything by Dr. Seuss, they make some great board books from his books.
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Re: Good books for 7-8 months old?
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2006, 09:12:22 am »
Caspar LOVES That's not my Dragon and That's not my Robot.
He will lean over other toys to drag the books to him, its helping with his transition to crawling!
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Re: Good books for 7-8 months old?
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2006, 14:24:21 pm »
One series I can reccommend is the Maisy Mouse books by Lucy Cousins, they are extremely coulourful, but have a black outline , so it makes it much easier for baby to follow the story.
Another fav at that age was a large board edition of the hungry caterpillar as Harry could crawl over it and he loved the pictures.
We also read Guess how much I love you each night  :-*
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Re: Good books for 7-8 months old?
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2006, 16:51:41 pm »
You've probably spent the money by now but i thought i would share anyway! My dd LOVES the Amazing baby series, she especally likes Baby Boo, there are lots of black and white photos of real babies and lots of eye catching colors and designs. Now she is mobile she is always brining these books to me and demanding i read them again, and again, and again, and again......

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=br_ss_hs/103-4601099-0623855?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Dblended&keywords=amazing+baby&Go.x=12&Go.y=7&Go=Go

Sorry about the long link but there are some Amazing baby books here...

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Re: Good books for 7-8 months old?
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2006, 18:02:00 pm »
Anything by Sandra Boynton (the author of your Going to Bed Book), except Doggies (that's a bit lame). But anything else is great!!! :D
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Re: Good books for 7-8 months old?
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2006, 19:07:28 pm »
Hey! We like doggies!!  ;)
"But not the hippotamus" is better though.

We also love/ loved

Wibbly Pig books by Mick Inkpen - especially 'Everyone Hide from Wibbly Pig' and 'Wibbly Pig can dance/ likes bananas/ is happy'. Oooh and 'Is it Bedtime Wibbly Pig?'

Definitely love Maisy and that big version of Hungry Caterpillar

Also Anything by Claire Beaton - lovely sewn illustrations - especially 'One Moose, twenty mice'.

Also the Busy books : 'Busy Garage', 'Busy Garden' etc.

Other favourites include 'Big Red Bath', 'Ketchup on your cornflakes', 'Elmer', 'Slinky Malinki', (all read and enjoyed before 1st birthday).

Cloth books - there's a series: 'Fuzzy Bee and friends', 'Squishy turtle and friends' - great!

For a bit older: 'Handa's surprise', 'I took the moon for a walk', 'Papa, please get the moon for me', 'Smelly Bill'...


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Re: Good books for 7-8 months old?
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2006, 20:48:59 pm »
Quote from: Samuel's mum on September 01, 2006, 19:07:28 pm

Also Anything by Claire Beaton - lovely sewn illustrations - especially 'One Moose, twenty mice'
We love that one too! I think it is by The bare foot board book company, We have one called Cleo and Casper, which is great.
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Re: Good books for 7-8 months old?
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2006, 23:28:35 pm »
Emma,

Sorry about calling Doggies lame!!! It's just a little hard to come up with 10 different sounding barks and then try to remember them for the entire book! ;D
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Re: Good books for 7-8 months old?
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2006, 20:37:01 pm »
Helen Oxenbury does a fab set of books there are 4 in the set and they are called Dressing, Friends, Playing and Working.  They love these at this age, not too much to take in.  Also try a set called Happy Baby, by Campbell books, they are little books with real photographs of babies doing all sorts off different things like playing, moving, sleeping (WWW.redhouse.co.uk) is a website on the back of the book, don't know if these are supliers, I got mine through bookstart.
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