Favorite Interactive Toddlers Board Books
Get your kids into books early with these favorite interactive toddlers board books that are perfect for toddlers and babies!
Babies and toddlers learn not just through reading but also experiencing items. Interactive board 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.
You can find these interactive toddlers board books at your local library or purchase through the links provided for your convenience.
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These fun interactive books will allow your child to explore books and connect on a completely different level to them!
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What Are Interactive Books for Babies
Interactive books for babies are specially crafted to engage the youngest readers in a multisensory and participatory reading experience.
These books often feature elements designed for tactile exploration, such as touch-and-feel pages with different textures that invite babies to touch and explore. Flap books with hidden surprises under each flap stimulate curiosity as little hands lift and reveal hidden images.
Some interactive baby books also incorporate simple sound elements, allowing babies to press buttons for gentle melodies or sounds.
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These books aim to captivate infants, encouraging sensory development, promoting bonding during shared reading experiences and laying the foundation for a lifelong love of books.

The interactive features are carefully designed with the developmental stages and safety of babies in mind, providing a delightful introduction to the world of literature.
15 Interactive Toddlers Board Books
Reading doesn't just have to be passive. Get your kids engaged with reading with these fun interactive toddlers board books!
Karen Katz’s adorable babies play peekaboo in this delightful interactive book.
The sturdy format and easy-to-lift flaps are perfect for parents and children to share.
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!
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 favorite and is regarded as a classic.
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.
The timeless children's classic full of interactive fun — a perfect gift for new babies and first birthdays.Â
For generations, Pat the Bunny has been creating special first-time moments between parents and their children.
One of the best-selling children’s books of all time, this classic touch-and-feel book offers babies a playful and engaging experience, all the while creating cherished memories that will last a lifetime.
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 surprise endings.
In Roger Priddy’s Bright Baby Touch & Feel Baby Animals board book, little learners meet all different sorts of furry and feathery creatures, big and small.
With colorful pictures of baby animals, rhyming text to read aloud, and touch and feel textures, this interactive book is perfect for your bright baby to build their reading skills and vocabulary.
Spend a day on the farm and explore all the animal sights and sounds!
Featuring 10 lift-the-flaps and a variety of barnyard favorites, including horses, chickens, cows, and pigs, this board book is a fun-filled introduction to life on the farm.
What does an elephant do? It stomps its foot. Can you?
From the creator of such beloved classics as The 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!
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!
With illustrations in full color, turn playtime into learning time with lovable Sesame Street Muppet Elmo and the biggest flap book ever! Â
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! Â
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!
In this special version of the Caldecott Honor classic, little hands can slide the doors to reveal the contents of each car, from apples, peaches, and pears in the refrigerated car all the way to caboose — which opens to show the train crew!
In simple, powerful words and vibrant illustrations, Donald Crews evokes the rolling wheels of that childhood favorite: a train.
Donald Crews used childhood memories of trains seen during his travels to his grandparents' farm in the American South as the inspiration for this timeless favorite.
Red caboose at the back, orange tank car, green cattle car, purple box car, black tender and a black steam engine... freight train.
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!
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!