Fun Books for Families
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.
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EIC Resources
Infants and toddlers learn so much from being read to. Make it a routine to read to your child every day, if you can.
Books
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.
Under the Cleo the Cat series, this book will help toddlers with sharing space and attention.
Under Cleo the Cat series, this book focuses on exploring the outdoor.
Learn about your feet. The Hello books feature text with rhythm, rhyme, and repetition to help engage little ears and minds.
This book is about a father and a son experiencing and talking about different emotions.

Routines to help kids to sleep
An interactive book of movement with shaped and layered pages, specially developed to encourage independent page turning and allow easy handling.
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.
This book offers an introduction to the various parts of the human body and how they work together.
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.
This book uses real photographs that model correct mouth positions for little ones to replicate when learning to talk.
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.
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.
This interactive book instructs the reader on how to interact with the illustrations to create imaginative images.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Videos and Media
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Articles
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Web Resources
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