Elias' favorite books, birth to 20 months

Elias LOVES books! When he was less than one year old, he loved to carry his books around between his room and the living room, and chew the pages and spines. We gave him access to board books only because he was too rough with the pages of other books. You can tell which books were his favorites based on the wear of the pages and spine.

At around age 1, he was interested in reading only his favorite books:

• Pom Pom Panda Get the Grumps (he is still obsessed with this book a year later! He loves the page that says "GO AWAY!")
• Pout Pout Fish
• Dear Zoo
• Five Little Monkeys
• B is for Bear
• Touch and Feel Pets
• Touch and Feel Farm

Since he started daycare at age 13 months, his focus on books improved, and he was more willing to branch out to new books. Credit to story time at daycare! Then at around 18 months he started to LOVE listening to stories, especially at bedtime. It was around this time that we allowed him to read/play with some non-board books too. He still loves to play with his books, pretend read them upside down, and carry them between his room and the living room. The living room always winds up with a huge pile of books that I bring back to his room. He now begs for us to read him more books (probably because he doesn't want to go to bed). There are few books he doesn't like. His favorites include:

• all the above
• Good Night Moon (he was obsessed with this book for a while and it became a nightly staple)
• Touch and Feel Halloween (he loves the "sticky" page)
• Where is Baby's Belly Button 
• Baby Faces
• Growl Growl
• Good Morning, Good Night
• Bedtime Peekaboo
• Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings (he LOVES ducks and animals in general)
• The Little Engine that Could
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear
• The Hungry Caterpillar
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom 
• Hello World! Weather
• Doggies 
• Moo Baa Lalala 
• The Busy Spider
• Animal Tales

Elias at 17 months with his favorite book