babies storytime

Asch, Frank.
Baby in the box.
New York: Holiday House, c1989.
Baby, a fox, and an ox play with blocks and a box.

Burningham, John.
Avocado baby.
New York: Crowell, c1982.
A baby who gains enormous strength from avocados defends his weakling family.

Cowell, Cressida
What shall we do with the boo-hoo baby? Illustrated by Ingrid Godon.
New York: Scholastic Press, c2000.
A dog, a cat, a duck, and a cow try to think of things to do to soothe a crying baby.

Cummings, Pat.
Angel baby.
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c2000.
In her mother's eyes, Amanda Lynne's baby brother is a perfect angel, but to Amanda the baby doesn't always seem so angelic.

Curtis, Jamie Lee,
Tell me again about the night I was born. Illustrated by Laura Cornell.
New York, NY: HarperCollins, c1996.
A young girl asks her parents to tell her again the cherished family story of her birth and adoption.

Fleming, Sibley.
How to rock your baby. Pictures by John Amoss.
Atlanta: Peachtree, c1997.
A new mother and father faithfully follow the instructions they get for taking care of their new baby, but they get carried away when they try to rock the baby to sleep.

Hest, Amy.
The babies are coming! Illustrated by Chloë Cheese.
New York: Crown Publishers, c1997.
Inside tall buildings and houses neat and grand, one dozen crawling, singing, busy babies are stuffed into pajamas, coats, and hats in preparation for their journey to story hour at the library.

Hubbell, Patricia.
Bouncing time. Pictures by Melissa Sweet.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, c2000.
An exuberant infant bounces through the day's activities, including a trip to the zoo.

Hutchins, Pat.
Where's the baby?
New York: Greenwillow Books, c1988.
When Grandma, Ma, and Hazel Monster want to find Baby Monster, they follow the messy trail he has left.

Jonas, Ann.
When you were a baby.
New York: Greenwillow Books, c1982.
Reminds the child of all the things he or she couldn't do as a baby.

Keats, Ezra Jack.
Peter's chair.
New York, Harper & Row, c1967
When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.

Lewis, Rose A.
I love you like crazy cakes. Illustrated by Jane Dyer.
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, c2000.
A woman describes how she went to China to adopt a special baby girl. Based on the author's own experiences.

Petersham, Maud Fuller and Miska.
The box with red wheels, a picture book.
New York, Macmillan Co. [1949]
All the farm animals wonder about what is in that strange box with the red wheels, that Mother has left in the garden.

Schwartz, Amy.
A teeny, tiny baby.
New York: Orchard Books, c1994.
A two-week-old baby describes the many activities he enjoys, both at home and out in the busy city.

Stoeke, Janet Morgan.
A friend for Minerva Louise.
New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1997.
When Minerva Louise, a curious chicken, mistakes a baby crib for a rabbit hutch, she searches for the rabbit and in the process discovers new additions around the house.

Suen, Anastasia
Baby born. Illustrated by Chih-wei Chang.
New York: Lee & Low Books, c1998.
Babies grow as the seasons of the year pass.

Van Laan, Nancy.
Little baby Bobby. Illustrated by Laura Cornell.
New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, c1997.
When a bouncy baby's buggy goes whooshing down a hill, he is in for quite a ride as an assortment of people give chase.

Waddell, Martin.
Rosie's babies. Illustrated by Penny Dale.
As her mother gets her baby brother ready for bed, a young girl describes how she takes care of her own babies--stuffed animals--doing the same things that her mother does.

Williams, Vera B.
"More more more" said the baby: 3 love stories.
New York: Greenwillow Books, c1990.
Three babies are caught up in the air and given loving attention by a father, grandmother, and mother.

Ziefert, Harriet.
Pushkin meets the bundle. Illustrated by Donald Saaf.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1998.
Pushkin the dog, once the apple of his owners' eyes, tries to cope with the arrival of a new baby to the house.

Ziefert, Harriet.
Pushkin minds the bundle. Paintings by Donald Saaf.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000.
Pushkin the dog is initially jealous of the new baby in the household, but eventually they reconcile their differences.

Poetry:

Baby Ways...

His legs can't walk, so he must crawl
He drinks from a bottle
(place a baby bottle on the board)
And naps in a crib
(place a crib on the board).
He dribbles his food, so he wears a bib.
(place bib on the board)
When his pants are wet, he starts to cry.
(place a diaper on the board)
His mom will change them, so he'll be dry.

Puppet: Baby Puppet (Click here for picture)

Five Little Babies

Five little babies were playing together one day.
One saw a ball, and so he crawled away.

Four little babies were playing together one day.
One saw a rattle, and she crawled away.

Three little babies were playing together one day.
One saw a kitty cat, and he crawled away.

Two little babies were playing together one day.
One saw a teddy bear, and she crawled away.

One little baby was playing by himself one day.
He cried and his mommy came and took him away.

Pat a cake; pat a cake	Clap hands to words
Baker's man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can	Clap faster
Pat it and roll it	Roll hands around each other
And mark it with a "B"	Clap hands to words
And put it in the oven for baby and me!

Little fingers,
Little toes,
Little mouth,
Little nose.
Little ears,
With which to hear,
Little baby,
So precious and dear.

Rock- A- Bye baby on the tree top.
When the wind blows the cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall.
And down will come baby cradle and all.

Baby's Nap
(I always change the words in this one for daddy's lap, as well as mama's lap)

Here is a baby, ready for his nap	Hold up pointer finger of one hand
Lay him down in his mama's lap	Put finger in palm of other hand
Now cover him up so he won't peep	Close fingers around your "baby" finger
and rock your baby 'til he's fast asleep!	Rock fingers back and forth.

WHAT'S IN THE BOX GAME...
In a feelie box, place items such as a baby brush, a bar of baby soap, a cotton ball, a pacifier, a rubber teether and a rattle, etc. Have the children take turns feeling an item in the box and guessing what it is by its feel.

BABY BORN picture. Click here for a picture of the cover. Give each child a long oval on which to color the blanket, and a small circle with a baby face to color in. Glue the baby face near the top of the oval, and you have a baby in a blanket. If you have wallpaper scraps, cut these out in the oval shape, to make the baby blankets.