Best Children Books for babies, toddlers and preschoolers (2-6 years) | Books we moms love and recommend

Most of the time when buying books we are not sure which books to buy for kids. Here I would be consolidating all children’s books for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers which we moms love and recommend. 

To be honest the books I got when my son was a baby are still being read when he is almost 6 so do not worry when buying. You can read them again and again.

This is going to be a running list that I will keep on updating as we read more. Also as you know here on sharing our experiences site, we have multiple authors who are moms. So this list also contains books they have read, reviewed, and recommended.

Books are something that are age independent from a perspective. As there are books which we bought when my son was 6 months old and we still read that so in general below are the pointers to buy books based on age

How to choose books for babies and toddlers

As and when we are getting the time we are reviewing these books, so you can always read  – Book lists for kids based on kids age, authors, and Holidays

So this is your mini amazon store of books we love for kids. You can also check

Best Books for babies, toddlers and preschoolers from Amazon India

• Touch and Feel Playbook (The Very Hungry Caterpillar)
• Or you can get the finger puppet version of The very Hungry Caterpillar
• Baby Touch: Peekaboo Board book
• Baby Touch: Happy Families
• Where is Baby’s belly Button
• Good night moon
• First 100 words
• Dear Zoo (Lift the Flap Picture Book)
• Spot’s Noisy Farm Board book
• Peek a who – Lift the flap book
• Baby Touch and Feel Animals board book
• Head shoulder knees and toes
• First 100 animals book
• Baby Touch: Snuggle Cloth Book
• Press Here (Baby Board Book)
• I Love You Through and Through 
• Potty – Leslie Patricelli board books
• The going to bed (Boynton book)
• The Jungle Book (First Stories) Board book
• Picture Books Collection for Early Learning (Set of 12)
• Peppa Pig: Little Library
• Through the Animal Kingdom: Discover Amazing Animals and Their Remarkable Homes
• Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site (Board Book for Toddlers, Children’s Board Book)
• The Three Little Pigs (First Stories)
• The Very Busy Spider
• The tiny seed
• If animals kissed good night
• The Wonderful Things You Will Be 
• Counting Kisses: Counting Kisses
• Tales From Acorn Wood: Hide & Seek Pig and Postman bear
• Dinosaur Dig! (Penny Dale’s Dinosaurs)
• Jack and the Beanstalk (First Stories)
• Guess How Much I Love You
• Zoom, Rocket, Zoom! (Awesome Engines)
• Masha and The Bear (Folk Tales)
• Lost and Found
• How to catch a star
• The way back home
• Where Is Baby’s Mommy?: A Karen Katz Lift-the-Flap Book
• Peek-a-Baby: A Lift-the-Flap Book
• Roar, Roar, Baby!: A Karen Katz Lift-the-Flap Book
• Cutout Board Books: ( Animals and Birds)
• Julia Donaldson Collection (10 Book Set)
• The Gruffalo 20th Anniversary Edition
• One Ted Falls Out of Bed: A Counting Story
• Monkey Puzzle
• Bog Baby
• What the Ladybird Heard
• What the ladybird heard next
• The paper dolls
• Sharing a shell
• Room on the Broom
• One mole digging a hole
• The Elephant’s Child (Just So Stories)
• The Tiger Who Came to Tea
• But not the hippopotamus
• The book with no pictures
• The day the crayons quit
• The day the crayons came home
• We are going on a bear hunt
• Corduroy Board book 
• The Giving Tree 
• Harold and the purple crayon
• Llama Llama Red Pajama
• Animal Stories: Contains 30 classic tales (Bumper Short Story Collections)
• Ladybird Book Of Little Stories For Funtime (Little Stories Collection)
• The Singing Mermaid
• My Magical Dragon
• Owl Babies
• I like it when
• You, Me and Empathy: Teaching Children about Empathy, Feelings, Kindness, Compassion, Tolerance and Recognising Bullying Behaviours
• Have You Filled A Bucket Today?: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids: 10th Anniversary Edition (Bucketfilling Books)
• Pink and Blue
• No Means No: Teaching personal boundaries, consent; empowering children by respecting their choices and right to say ‘no!
• Ruby’s Worry: A Big Bright Feelings Book
• Hands are Not for Hitting (Best Behavior) 
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
• Corduroy
• Ravi’s roar

Mythological books for kids

• The Gita: For Children
• The Vedas and Upanishads for Children
• Ramayana for Children
• Amma tell me about Series

Festival books for kids

• Festivals of India book for kids
• Let’s Celebrate Holi! (Maya & Neel’s India Adventure Series, Book 3)
• Let’s Celebrate 5 Days of Diwali! 
• We the Children of India

Learning books for kids

• Manners (Kiddy Board Book)
• Seek And Find – Animals : Early Learning Board Books With Tabs
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Chicka Chicka Book, A)
• See Inside Your Body (Usborne Flap Books)
• Here we are – Notes for living on planet earth
• Space – My Knowledge Book
• My First Library: Boxset of 10 Board Books for Kids
• Book of Knowledge (Usborne Internet-Linked Reference)
• Lift-the-Flap General Knowledge
• My First Encyclopedia (DKYR): A Wealth of Knowledge at Your Fingertips

Activity books for kids

In case if you are looking for activities in pdf format. Do check out these pdf worksheets and free worksheets for kids

• First Alphabet writing activity book
• My Activity- Find the Difference Activity Book
• My Activity- Dot to Dot Activity Book
• Early learning book for 2 to 3 years old
• Brain Games Age 3+
• Brain Boosting Activity Book: Match the Pair, Find the Difference, Maze, Crossword, Dot-to-Dot (3+ Yrs)
• My Activity- Maze Activity Book
• Brain Games Age 4+
• Brain Quest Preschool, Revised 4th Edition
• Brain Quest Kindergarten, Revised 4th Edition
• Set of 20 Preschool & Reading Books
• Set of 6 Ready to Write Practice Workbooks for Kids (Capital Letters, Small Letters, Numbers 1-20, Numbers 1-100, Pattern Writing and Colouring Activi
• My First Learning Colouring Bag – Set of 10 Exciting Colouring Books
• Mental Maths – 1
• Brilliant Brain Activity Book 3+
• 1001 Activities Book
• My First 123 Sticker Book
• Pencil Control Super Activity Book
• Multiple Intelligence Worksheets for PRESCHOOL I (Pre-Nursery/ Ages 3-4) 2nd Edition

Reusable wipe clean activity books for kids

• Simple Maths – Wipe & Clean Workbook with free Pen
• Reusable Wipe And Clean Book – Small Letters : Write And Practice Small Letters
• Reusable Wipe And Clean Book – Capital Letters : Write And Practice Capital Letters
• Peppa Pig: Practise with Peppa Wipe-Clean First Numbers
• Peppa and George’s Wipe-Clean Activity Book
• Wipe clean early learning activity book – brain development, Alphabet, Numbers and much more
• Wipe Clean: Starting Pen Control: Includes a Wipe-Clean Pen (Wipe Clean Learning Books)

Flashcards for kids

• My First Flash Cards Alphabet : 30 Early Learning Flash Cards For Kids
• My First Flash Cards Colors And Shapes : 30 Early Learning Flash Cards For Kids
• My First Flash Cards Numbers : 30 Early Learning Flash Cards For Kids

Phonics book for kids

• Finger Phonics Set of Book (for letter sounds)
• Bob books set 1 – Beginning readers (for starting blending)
• Key Words Collection (36 Copy Box Set) – Jane and Peter (For sight words)
• Usborne phonics readers (for stories using CVC and sight words)
• Funny phonics book set for kids

I personally loved Peter and Jane series of books

Phonics Activity book or Flashcards for kids

• Gold Stars Big Workbook Phonics
• Jolly Phonics Pupil Book 1 (Jolly Learning)
• Jolly Phonics Pupil Book 2 (Jolly Learning)
• Jolly Phonics Pupil Book 3 (Pupil Book Colour)
• Flash Cards: Sight Words
• Very First Sight Words Sentences Level – 1
• Very First Sight Words Sentences Level – 2

Did you find this article on mom recommended books for babies, toddler and preschoolers useful ? Do you want to add anything to this list of books for building your kids library. Do let us know using comments below. We would love to hear from you.