Special Reading Lists

How can such a joyous time also be so stressful? The addition of a new child to a family can be both wonderful AND horrible- it just depends on who you ask! The books listed here can help you prepare both the younger and older sibling for the changes coming their way, and allow them to regard the new addition as positive and not the end of their known world. Just reading the book titles is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face! As with any sensitive subject matter, please preview the books first to assure they are consistent with your family philosophy and values.

Picture books for the younger child:

Alexander	*Nobody Asked Me if I Wanted a Baby Sister*
Alexander	*When the New Baby Comes, I’m Moving Out*
Anglund	*Baby Brother*
Anholt	*Aren’t You Lucky!*
Anholt	*Here Come the Babies*
Anholt	*When I Was a Baby*
Anno	*Anno’s Peekaboo*
Armstrong	*That Terrible Baby*
Auch	*Monster Brother*
Barrett	*Kiki’s New Sister*
Birdseye	*Waiting for Baby*
Brown	*Arthur’s Baby*
Byars	*Go & Hush the Baby*
Byers	*Mycca’s Baby*
Carlson	*Poor Carl*
Caseley	*Mama, Coming & Going*
Caseley	*Silly Baby*
Cazet	*Dancing*
Clifton	*Everett Anderson’s Nine Months Long*
Collins	*Waiting for Baby Jane*
Corey	*Will There be a Lap for Me?*
Culter	*Darcy & Gran Don’t Like Babies*
Denton	*Would They Love a Lion?*
DePaola	*The Baby Sister*
Driscoll	*Baby Comes Home*
Falwell	*We Have a Baby*
Foreman	*Ben Is Baby*
Franklin	*Don’t Wake the Baby*
Galbraith	*Waiting for Jennifer*
Garland	*Billy & Belle*
Gauch	*Christina Katerina & the Great Bear Train*
Gliori	*New Big Sister*
Greenfield	*She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl*
Haarhoff	*Desert December*
Halloran	*Oh, Brother! Oh, Sister!*
Harper	*It’s Not Fair!*
Hassett	*We Got My Brother At the Zoo*
Hedderwick	*Katie Morag & the Tiresome Ted*
Henkes	*Julius, the Baby of the World*
Hines	*Big Like Me*
Hoban	*A Baby Sister for Frances*
Hoffman	*Henry’s Baby*
Hoffman	*Sister Sweet Ella*
Holabird	*Angelina’s Baby Brother*
Horowitz	*Mommy’s Lap*
Isadora	*Babies*
Jonas	*When You Were a Baby*
Keller	*Geraldine’s Baby Brother*
Keller	*Too Big*
Keller	*What Alvin Wanted*
Knight	*Opal in the Closet*
Knotts	*Great-Grandfather, the Baby, & Me*
Lakin	*Don’t Touch My Room*
Leroy	*Lucky Stiff!*
Levinson	*Me Baby!*
Mayer	*The New Baby*
McClelland	*This Baby*
McCully	*New Baby*
Mennen	*One Round Moon & a Star for Me*
Moers	*Hugo’s Baby Brother*
Moncure	*My Baby Brother Needs Me*
Mueller	*Monster & the Baby*
Murdocca	*Baby Wants the Moon*
Naylor	*The Baby, the Bed, and the Rose*
Ormerod	*101 Things to Do With a Baby*
Polushkin	*Baby Brother Blues*
Rheingrover	*Veronica’s First Year*
Ross	*Baby Hugs*
Shute	*How I Named the Baby*
Smith	*Jenny’s Baby Brother*
Snyder	*One Up, One Down*
Steptoe	*Baby Says*
Stevenson	*Rolling Rose*
Stevenson	*Worse Than Willy!*
Tierney	*Where’s Your Baby Brother, Becky Bunting?*
Titherington	*A Place for Ben*
Vulliamy	*Ellen & Penguin & the New Baby*
Waddell	*When the Teddy Bears Came*
Wahl	*Peter & the Troll Baby*
Walter	*My Mama Needs Me*
Walton	*Books Are For Eating*
Weiss	*Chuckle*
West	*Little Pig’s Special Day*
Williams	*Poppy’s First Year*
Winter	*A Baby Just Like Me*
Winthrop	*Bear & Roly-Poly*
Wishinsky	*Oonga Boonga*
Zelver	*Don Octavio & the New Creature*

Fiction for the young reader:

Byars	*Bingo Brown, Gypsy Leader*
Caseley	*Harry & Arney*
Delton	*Angel’s Mother’s Baby*
Ellis	*A Family Project*
Froelich	*Hide Crawford Quick*
Galbraith	*Roommates & Rachel*
Greenwald	*Alvin Webster’s Surefire Plan for Success*
Heide	*Time Flies!*
Hest	*Nannies for Hire*
Hurwitz	*Elisa in the Middle*
Lively	*Fanny’s Sister*
Mills	*Dynamite Dinah*
Park	*Junie B. Jones & a Little Monkey Business*
Pevsner	*Sister of the Quints*
Rocklin	*Dear Baby*
Sachs	*The Boy Who Ate Dog Biscuits*
Saunders	*Twin Trouble*
Shreve	*Lily & the Runaway Baby*

For the Parent:

Brown	*Baby Time: A Grownups Handbook to Use With Baby*
Butler	*Babies Need Books*
Cole	*How You Were Born*
Cole	*The New Baby at Your House*
Foord	*The Book of Babies*
Haas	*Look At Me: Creative Learning Activities for Babies & Toddlers*
Hendrickson	*Getting Along Together: Baby & I Can Play*
Jessel	*The Joy of Birth: A Book for Parents & Children*
Kitzinger	*Being Born*
Lansky	*A New Baby at Koko Bear’s House*
Lansky	*Welcoming Your Second Baby*
Manning	*The World is Full of Babies*
Patent	*Babies!*
Petrie	*Baby Play: Activities & Development During the First Year of Life*
Rogers	*The New Baby*
Royston	*Where Do Babies Come From?*
Samson	*Watching the New Baby*
Stein	*Oh, Baby!*
Stein	*That New Baby: An Open Family Book for Parents & Children Together*
Ziefert	*Getting Ready for a New Baby*

Expect the best from your kids … and you’ll get it!

Special Reading Lists A New Baby?