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Must read for toddlers


When you're talking about a kid under two, the "just-right book" mainly means something that can't be instantly shredded.

1. Peek a Boo . . . Who?

2. Hippos Go Berserk (Check out the Babble interview with Sandra Boynton!)

3. Bright Baby: Trucks, First Words, Colors

4. Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb

5. The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites

6. ABC by Matthew Porter

7. Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs

8. Goodnight, Gorilla (Also Colin Meloy's favorite kids' book!)

9. Are You My Mother?

10. Anything by Richard Scarry, but especially Cars and Trucks and Things That Go

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