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Board Books
The average infant or toddler would destroy the pages of a regular, paper-paged book so fast that they might as well make it out of toilet paper. But developing reading skills early is becoming downright vital in today's society.
What's a concerned parent to do? Give 'em plenty of board books!
You know, those thick books where each page is a stiff, thick, cardboard-pressed 'board' that will not easily be destroyed, even when thrown across the room or ran over with your tyke's big wheel.
Because board books have a cuteness factor off the charts, we love to review them here and so below you'll constantly find new listings of board books that we review for you.
Other categories on this website may have board books inside of them that also fit in their category, but this is the only listing of every board book we've reviewed.
So if you're looking for a story book for your kid that is 4 and under, you've found the right place to start sifting through reviews.
Baby Einstein: See And Spy Shapes
Baby Einstein: See and Spy Shapes (Board book)
Baby Einstein: See and Spy Shapes board book is great for babies to preschoollers. This board book for infants measures 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches and has 16 pages. The poems in this book are by Julie Aigner-Clark and illustrations are by Nadeem Zaidi. Playful rhyming verse invites young children to "see and spy" shapes.
Babies will love looking at the illustrations and listening to the poems. Toddlers beginning to recognize shapes will be able to use the book to reinforce what they have learned and what they see everyday. Geometrical shapes are everywhere if you are looking out for them. Notice all the rectangular shaped objects in the bathroom and more. This book is fun for children to learn about shapes from.
Shapes invites babies and young children to identify different shapes in bold, graphic illustrations featuring the Baby Einstein characters. Playful poems will inspire children to seek out shapes in the world around them.
Disney The Holiday Tree Pooh Book
This is a Winnie the Pooh board book by Disney. You can read with Winnie the Pooh all year through since Disney has so many books published by A Disney Enterprises and Reader's Digest Young Families Book. This board book for toddlers is based on the Winnie the Pooh works by A.A. Milne an E.H. Shepard. The book is written by Catherine Lukas and illustrated by Atelier Philippe Harchy. The book measures 5.9x5.9x0.25 inches. The book has 14 pages of Pooh fun.
In this book, Pooh and Piglet set out to decorate for Christmas in the Hundred-Acre Wood. Piglet found a perfect tree to decorate and they began to decorate. Piglet and Pooh bear could not reach the top of the tree so Tigger helped them but Tigger was not tall enough either. Then Rabbit, Eeyore and Roo passed by and everyone stacked up trying to reach the top but they still could not reach the top. But soon two turtle doves helped them and their tree became fully decorated with a star at the top.
This is great little Christmas story especially if you like the Disney's Winnie the Pooh series. Everyone was being themselves in this Pooh board book.

Disney The Holiday Tree Pooh Book
P. Bear’s New Years Party
P. Bear's New Years Party by Paul Owen Lewis is a counting book. It is a board book by Tricycle Press, an imprint of Ten Speed Press in California. This little has 30 pages and measures 6x6x0.6 inches. This book tells the story of Mr. P. Bear at New Year's time. Mr. P. Bear is having a New Year's Party and he invited many animals to join him. His friends started to arrive at the party at one o'clock. The animals kept on arriving. By midnight, everyone had arrived to celebrate New Year with Mr. P. Bear. The illustration in this board book is mostly black and white with some red color here and there.
P. Bear's New Year's Party: A Counting Book

P. Bear's New Years Party Counting Book
The Snowchild
This is a cute little board book that is curvy on the right hand side and at the top for the snowman-like effect. It is a book about Christmas magic. This board book only has 16 pages but it is full of pretty pictures telling a fun and heart warming story about a couple without a child wishing that they could have a child. At first, they had a child made of snow. It was wintertime and it was almost Christmas. Christmas is a time for happiness and making wishes come true. My girls all loved this story. It is a great Christmas story for toddlers.

The Snowchild
Other titles in this series are:
- Chicken Little
- The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
- The Elves and the Shoemaker
- The Frog Prince
- The Gingerbread Boy
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Hey Diddle Diddle
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- The Little Red Hen
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Noah's Ark
- The Nutcracker
- Old MacDonald Had a Farm
- The Old Woman in a Shoe
- Santa Mouse
- The Snowchild
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- The Teeny Tiny Woman
- The Three Little Kittens
- The Three Little Pigs
- Thumbelina
- The Ugly Duckling
The Snowchild was published in 1995 by Grosset & Dunlap Inc and illustrated by Deborah Krogan Ray.

The Snowchild Book
Merry Christmas, Teddy!
This is a cute board book, especially is you like teddy bears, by Mary Hogan and illustrated by Gerry Oliveira. The book measures 6X7x0.25 inches and has a picture of a big teddy bear on the cover. This is a very short book with only 8 pages, lots of pictures and very few words so it is great for babies and toddlers. The story is about a lonely teddy bear that is a gift for Christmas. He is lonely but soon Christmas came and his loneliness was over. The book was published in 1997 by GT Publishing Corporation. This book is currently out of print.

Merry Christmas Teddy!
