Titles in this list were recommended by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh staff. Ask your neighborhood librarian for additional suggestions.

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B Is for Baby

B Is for Baby

Atinuke

One morning after breakfast, Baby’s big brother is getting ready to take the basket of bananas all the way to Baba’s bungalow in the next village. He’ll have to go along the bumpy road, past the baobab trees, birds, and butterflies, and all the way over the bridge. But what he doesn’t realize is that his very cute, very curious baby sibling has stowed away on his bicycle. Looks like an alphabet book but focuses exclusively on the letter B.

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Baby Goes to Market

Baby Goes to Market

Atinuke

Baby and his doting mama go to a bustling southwest Nigerian marketplace in this introduction to numbers.

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Clean Up, Up, Up!

Clean Up, Up, Up!

Ellen Mayer

Daddy and his little one are cleaning up before dinner, while having fun with spatial-relationship math words and phrases, like up, down, inside, outside, next to, and under.

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Clive and His Babies

Clive and His Babies

Jessica Spanyol

Clive is an imaginative little boy who loves his dolls. He enjoys playing with them, and sharing them with his friends. A gentle, affectionate book, celebrating diversity and challenging gender stereotypes.

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Love Makes A Family

Love Makes A Family

Sophie Beer

Whether you have one parent, two moms, two dads, a mom and a dad, or another wonderful caregiver, there’s one thing that makes a family a family: love.

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Nest

Nest

Jorey Hurley

A simple depiction of a year in the life of a bird.

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From Libby
See, Touch, Feel

See, Touch, Feel

A First Sensory Book to Share With your Baby

Ellie Boultwood

This book is specially designed for you and your baby to share, with plenty to see, touch, and feel. Each colorful picture activity stimulates baby’s senses and encourages your child to interact with the page.

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Stack the Cats

Stack the Cats

Susie Ghahremani

Cats of all shapes and sizes scamper, yawn, and stretch across the pages of this playful counting book. And every now and then, some of them pile into the purrfect cat stack!

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From Hoopla
Stop! Bot!

Stop! Bot!

James Yang

When a little boy stops to show a building doorman his new “bot,” it floats up out of his hands and the kind doorman runs up to each floor of the building to try and catch it, with help from the building’s residents.

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From Libby
From Hoopla
Vroom Vroom

Vroom Vroom

Garbage Truck

Asia Citro

A garbage truck goes through its daily routine of picking up garbage throughout the city and bringing it to the dump, in a book that explores the sounds a garbage truck makes.

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Will Bear Share?

Will Bear Share?

Hilary Leung

Bear has a lot to give! But will she share? Find out in this surprising book all about sharing.

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You and Me

You and Me

Rebecca Kai Dotlich

You and me encapsulates the balancing act of giving attention to both older and younger siblings, encouraging families to carve out ample “you and me” time for everyone.

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