Get your kids into books early with these 15 interactive toddler’s board books that are perfect for toddlers and babies!
Babies and toddlers learn not just through reading but also experiencing items. Interactive books allow young children to explore their world and experience it through their sense of touch as well as their sense of sight and hearing when being read to. These fun interactive books will allow your child to explore books and connect on a completely different level to them!
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15 Interactive Toddlers Board Books
Where Is Baby’s Belly Button? A Lift-the-Flap Book
Press Here: Press the yellow dot on the cover of this book, follow the instructions within, and embark upon a magical journey! Each page of this surprising book instructs the reader to press the dots, shake the pages, tilt the book, and who knows what will happen next! Children and adults alike will giggle with delight as the dots multiply, change direction, and grow in size! Especially remarkable because the adventure occurs on the flat surface of the simple, printed page, this unique picture book about the power of imagination and interactivity will provide read-aloud fun for all ages!
Dear Zoo (Lift-the-Flap): Rod Campbell’s bestselling and much loved classic picture book, Dear Zoo. What kind of pet would you like from the zoo? An elephant, a lion, a snake – or something a bit smaller, and cuddlier and playful? Lift the flaps and see what has been sent – it’s bound to be a surprise! And just when you think they’ll never get it right, they send the very best, most perfect pet of all…A bestselling lift-the-flap book for more than twenty-five years, Dear Zoo is a perennial favourite and is regarded as a classic.
The Monster at the End of This Book: By all accounts, this book is a favorite among toddlers and adults alike. Generations will recall their first time reading along as lovable, furry old Grover begs the reader not to turn the page . . . for a monster is at the end of the book! But, of course, the monster is none other than Grover himself.
Pat the Bunny (Touch and Feel Book): The original classic touch and feel book that has been entertaining babies for over 6
Peek-A Who?: Colorful pictures and simple rhyming texts help children guess what’s peeking through the die-cut windows in these two fun board books. The anticipation of what’s hiding on the next page and the bright, engaging illustrations will keep youngsters guessing and giggling all the way to the suprise endings.
Bright Baby Touch & Feel Baby Animals (Bright Baby Touch and Feel): Colorful pictures of baby animals, rhyming text to read aloud, and touch & feel textures make this book perfect for you and your bright baby.
Dog: In Matthew Van Fleet’s captivating new multiconcept book, twenty breeds of capering canines demonstrate action words, opposites, synonyms, and more. Cleverly designed pull tabs and flaps plus ten pettable textures provide interactive treats that will have toddlers arfing along from start to surprising finish. Bow-WOW!
Open the Barn Door (A Chunky Book(R)): Open the barn door and take a tour around the barnyard to find out just who’s making all those wonderful animal sounds.
From Head to Toe: What does an elephant do? It stomps its foot. Can you? From the creator of such beloved classics asThe Grouchy Ladybug and The Mixed-Up Chameleon comes this interactive story that invites kids to imitate animal movements. Watching giraffes bend their necks or monkeys wave their arms is fun, but nothing could be better than joining in. From their heads down to their toes, kids will be wriggling, jiggling, and giggling as they try to keep up with these animals!
Have You Seen My Cat?: A Slide-and-Peek Board Book (The World of Eric Carle): In this charming board book adaptation of Eric Carle’s popular story, Have You Seen My Cat?, little boy worries about his missing cat and travels to different places in search of his pet. The sturdy pages of this board book slide out to reveal the numerous feline counterparts–including lions, leopards, and tigers–the boy encounters along the way. It isn’t until the last page that he finds his missing pet—and receives a wonderful surprise!
Elmo’s Big Lift-And-look Book (Sesame Street): With illustrations in full color, turn playtime into learning time with lovable Sesame Street Muppet Elmo and the biggest flap book ever! Toddlers can lift alphabet blocks to find a word beginning with each letter, open doors and windows on Sesame Street to count objects from one to ten, lift flaps that reveal opposites, and help Elmo find his teddy! More than 60 sturdy flaps–10 to 26 per spread–are part of the page and are made to stand up to the repeated wear and tear toddlers are sure to inflict with lots of lifting, looking, seeking, finding, and fun!
Inside Freight Train: Here comes the freight train! In this new sturdy sliding board book, Caldecott Award winner Donald Crew takes children right on board as they slide open the doors to see what’s inside each train car.
Airplane Flight!: A Lift-the-Flap Adventure: Susanna Leonard Hill’s rhythmic text and Ana Martin Larranaga’s simple but enticing art will take young readers on an exciting airplane ride! Kids can lift the10 flaps throughout the book to make their flying and reading experience more fun! Fasten your seatbelt and fly above the sky with this interactive book that’s shaped like an airplane. This format is perfect for young children who are going on a plane for the first to one-hundredth time!
Little Horse: Finger Puppet Book (Little Finger Puppet Board Books): A new title in the bestselling finger puppet series! Watch Little Horse prance in the sun in this simple, comforting story. The book features a permanently attached plush finger puppet and peek-a-boo holes in every page, giving parents and children a fun, interactive way to play and read together.
I need to get Where’s My Cat for my youngest. She loves Eric Carle and cats, so it’s a perfect fit. Love this list!
Oh my goodness. Then Kori, this book would be perfect! We love all of Eric Carle’s books, but this is really cute for cat lovers 🙂
What a great collection – The Monster at the End of the Book was one of my favourites growing up – and many on your list were/still are favourites at our house with my kids now (Head to Toe and Where is Baby’s Bellybutton are two much loved ones!)
I’ll certainly check out some of the other ones on the list.
We’ve read The Monster at the End of the Book a hundred times! Press Here is also a new discovery that my boys absolutely love.
This is a great list. We love Dear Zoo and Press Here 🙂
Dear Zoo is my personal favorite! Happy reading 🙂
From Head to Toes is one of my absolute favorites! I read it regularly at my Signing Story Time program ; ) Kids that follow along have big smiles on their faces. Eric Carle is a genius when it comes to making reading fun for kids.
That one is such a classic! And we love the whole Eric Carle library!