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• Baby's Big Busy Book

  Katz, Karen,

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  A lift-the-flap book with textured pages that follows baby's day from waking up to bedtime. Presents such common words as lamp, clock, cereal, kite, and shoes.

• Wiggles

  Zucchelli-Romer, Claire,

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  Using grooves and other tactile inserts, the book guides a child's fingers through different colors and shapes.

• Play Colors

  Colores Juego

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  With board pieces for kids to place into die-cut spaces, this book is both a wonderful puzzle and a bilingual introduction to colors.This book encourages language development, concept of before and after, parent-child interaction, capacity…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Good Morning Game

  Tullet, Hervé,

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  To play with this book, all you need is your finger. Take a pen, draw two eyes and a mouth, and there you are-- your very own finger worm! Follow finger worm through the day from waking up and having breakfast, to getting dressed and going…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Who Can Jump?

  Braun, Sebastien

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  A lift-the-flap book featuring partially hidden illustrations of animals that can jump. A guessing game providing hours of fun for babies.

• Play! Play! Play!

  Florian, Douglas,

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  Rhyming text and illustrations invite young readers to join a group of friends for a fun-filled day of play, including riding bicycles, running a race, and playing hide-and-seek.

• Play Time

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  This signing guide introduces signs for a variety of everyday activities, from getting up in the morning to going to the park. Make signing a natural part of your everyday communication.

• Can You Turn the Page?

  Behrens, Janice, 1972-

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  Rookie Toddler celebrates a toddler's world of firsts. In this playful book, toddlers get hands-on as they help the silly animals turn the pages.

• Faster! Faster!

  ¡Más Rápido! ¡Más Rápido!

  Patricelli, Leslie

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  Una niña pegueña se monta a caballo sobre la espalda de su papá. ¡Arre, papi! ¡Más rápido! ¡Más rápido! A father and daughter spend a day at the park where daddy becomes an array of fast moving animals on which his daughter rides, from a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Baby Says Peekaboo!

  Sirett, Dawn

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  Babies can lift the big flaps and play peekaboo in this board book title with a mirror at the end.

• Play

  Jugar

  Verdick, Elizabeth,

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  Gives all the different ways in which infants can play and how their parents play with them.

• Dance

  ¡Bailo!

  Thompson, Carol, 1951-

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  ¡Somos sorprendentes! Cantamos, bailamos, nos disfrazamos y tocamos música. ¡Somos únicos y especiales! We're amazing! We can dance, dress up, sing and make music. There's nobody quite like us!

• Hooray for Little Fingers!

  Mory, Tristan,

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  Young readers learn to count and explore just what their little fingers can do--by putting them through the die-cut holes on the cover and each spread. One little finger can be an elephant's trunk, two little fingers can be a crab's claw.

• Harvard University Center on the Developing Child: activities for 6-18 month olds

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  Play is an important part of developing your child's executive function--the ability to learn and self-regulate. This guide provides age appropriate games and activities you can play with your baby.