Body Awareness, Clothes, Getting Dressed
0-6 Months:
- Clothes
Great book to help children learn words of the different clothing items. Each page is a colorful picture of a new clothing item.
- Noses are Not for Picking by Elizabeth Verdick This is a great book about all of the different things that noses are able to do, and how they should not be picked. This is a great diverse book that features a lot of different children. This would be a great book to start teaching about different body parts and how they work.
6-12 Months:
- Let’s Get Dressed by Caroline Jayne Church (Not available at Ames Public Library)
This is a cute board book that teaches children how to get dressed, step by step. Also, includes oversized flaps that would be fun for young children to move. This would be a wonderful book for when children are learning what different clothing items are, and how to wear them.
- Eyes, Nose, Fingers, and Toes by Judy Hindley
A great book about different things that eyes, noses, fingers, and toes can do. This diverse book includes many different children, and all that their body parts can do. This is a great rhyming book that would be great to help children learns what different body parts can do, and how they can be used.
- Look at You! A Baby Body Book by Kathy Henderson
In this adorable book, different body parts are described and how they work. This would be a perfect book to teach baby the different body parts, and would be perfect to interact with outside of the book as well
12-24 Months:
- My Big Boy Undies by Karen Katz
Story about young boy transitioning from wearing diapers to wearing “big-boy undies”. Describes where he wears his undies, but that sometimes accidents happen, so he puts on new ones. This would be a great book for children who are beginning potty training.
- I Can Do It Myself by Stephen Krensky
Story about a young girl becoming a little more independent, and being able to dress herself, feed herself, blowing her own nose, etc. This book would be great for children starting to become semi-independent
- Big Girl Panties by Fran Manushkin
Cute book about a young girl transitioning from wearing diapers to big girl panties. This book describe different activities that the girl does in her big girl panties, and how only big girls wear panties. This would be a great book for children transitioning from wearing diapers to real underwear.
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