
This topical guide will introduce you to important books, videos, and information resources available from the EI Clearinghouse and other sources. Contact us via online form or by phone (1-877-275-3227) to request a resource listed below (or ask your local public librarian). Note that some videos may be viewed online, and journal titles will take you to the publisher’s homepage.
EIC Resources
EIC Article
- Family Reading Time
Infants and toddlers learn so much from being read to. Make it a routine to read to your child every day, if you can.
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Books for Parents
- Loose Parts 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers by Lisa Daly & Miriam Beloglovsky
- Loose Parts: Inspiring Play in Young Children by Lisa Daly & Miriam Beloglovsky
- Play & Learn Toddler Activities Book: 200+ Fun Activities for Early Learning by Angela Thayer
- The Outdoor Toddler Activity Book: 100+ Fun Early Learning Activities for Outside Play by Krissy Bonning-Gould
- The Rainy Day Toddler Activity Book: 100+ Fun Early Learning Activities for Inside Play by Krissy Bonning-Gould
- You, Me, and the ABCs: 100 Ready-For-Reading Activities for Kids and Their Favorite Grown-Ups by Michael J. Rosen
Books for Children
- 5 Big and Busy Trucks by Scholastic
- Cleo Finds a Friend by Stella Blackstone
- Cleo’s Adventure by Stella Blackstone
- Eating the Rainbow by Rena D. Grossman
- Hello Feet! by Connie Hunt
- I Am Okay to Feel by Karamo Brown
- Jump Around: A Little Book of Movement by Annabel Blackledge
- Little Blue Truck’s Springtime by Alice Schertle
- Llama, Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
- Look Inside Your Body by Louie Stowell
- My First Learn-To-Talk Book by Stephanie Cohen
- My First Learn-To-Talk Book: Things That Go by Stephanie Cohen
- Press Here by Hervé Tullet
- Steam Train, Dream Train by Sherri Duskey Rinker
- That’s Not My Mermaid… Her Hair Is Too Fluffy by Fiona Watt
- The Red Ear Blows Its Nose: Poems for Children and Others by Robert Schechter
Detailed borrowing information for these books can be found below.
EIC Library Items
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Zoom into this busy book, full of things that go! Join the fun by feeling the bumpy vehicles and counting down from five as they disappear, one by one.
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Under the Cleo the Cat series, this book will help toddlers with sharing space and attention.
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Under Cleo the Cat series, this book focuses on exploring the outdoor.
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Learn about your feet. The Hello books feature text with rhythm, rhyme, and repetition to help engage little ears and minds.
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This book is about a father and a son experiencing and talking about different emotions.
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An interactive book of movement with shaped and layered pages, specially developed to encourage independent page turning and allow easy handling.
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Celebrate the beauty of springtime with Little Blue Truck. Young fans will love finding all sorts of baby animals beneath the flaps in this board book.
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“In this infectious rhyming read-aloud, Baby Llama turns bedtime into an all-out llama drama! Tucked into bed by his mama, Baby Llama immediately starts worrying when she goes downstairs, and his soft whimpers turn to hollers when she doesn’t come right back. But just in time, Mama returns to set things right. Children will relate to Baby Llama’s need for comfort, as much as parents will appreciate Mama Llama’s reassuring message.”
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This book offers an introduction to the various parts of the human body and how they work together.
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Infants and toddlers learn through investigating, discovering, and experimenting with their surroundings. This book provides ideas to inspire safe loose parts play with your infants and toddlers.
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Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Alluring and captivating, they capture children’s curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and motivate learning.
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This book uses real photographs that model correct mouth positions for little ones to replicate when learning to talk.
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This book uses real photographs that model correct mouth positions for little ones to replicate when learning to talk. Includes colorful illustrations of cars, trucks, trains, and other favorite things that go.
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These fun, educational activities help to establish key learning skills at each developmental milestone. More than 200 activities are divided by learning category and include materials lists, activity times, prep times, and messiness ratings.
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This interactive book instructs the reader on how to interact with the illustrations to create imaginative images.
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In this book with rhyming text, the dream train pulls into the station and all the different cars are loaded by the animal workers, each with the appropriate cargo.
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This book, full of bright pictures and patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory and language awareness. Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages and touching the feely patches.
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Outdoor play promotes creativity, strengthens muscles, enhances social and emotional development, and makes learning fun. This book includes developmental milestones, skill-building exercises, and activity tips and tricks to help make the most out of outdoor play.
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This book provides more than 100 toddler activities designed to inspire learning and make sure that grey skies never put a damper on having fun.
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This book is an illustrated collection of poems for children and others covering thinking and the brain, identity and what it means to be a person, and nature and the seasons.
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“Using everyday activities and household items, the book helps caregivers create literacy-rich experiences for pre-readers. Written to be shared between an eager new reader and their favorite grown-up, the book emphasizes simple, multi-sensory games, recipes, conversations, and actions to help a child learn to recognize, pronounce, and write the alphabet.”

