Our first book for Aahna was Happy Baby 123 (board book), by Roger Priddy in Dec 2010 (when Aahna was 5 months old).This is a part of a series of "Happy Baby" books, by Priddy Books.
We started Aahna on semi-solid food when she was 6 months. She ate all her food on a high chair until she was 2 years. Happy Baby 123 was a much-loved book, especially during meal time. We used it so much that most of the pages have come loose (I intend to get it re-bound and preserve the book for all the memories it brings back and would bring back of our early days with Aahna). It is a rather simple book (probably the reason for its success), with a growing number of different things as we move from 1 through 10 - "1 cute tiger cub", "2 wet faces" (of children), etc. The last time we read it was when Aahna was probably about 2 years.
Your first books for children should undoubtedly be board books, as tearing pages out of the book is one of their favourite activities. I have had to patch up numerous books with wide transparent tape in later months when we moved to paperbacks / hard covers. At the same time as Happy Baby 123, we also bought a cloth book, Peter Rabbit Snuggle. But this didn't go far, probably because it didn't have the appearance of a book. Peter Rabbit stories were to be a major hit in later years, though.
Because our knowledge of Children's books picked up when Aahna was well into her second year, my knowledge of books for infants is rather poor. But Happy Baby 123 and its companion book, Happy Baby ABC (which we later bought), were well used and much loved by Aahna.
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