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10 best interactive books for your baby

There are so many wonderful and interesting styles of books to get your baby hooked on books from an early age. The books below give you an idea of 10 interactive style reads for babies.

Lift it (hopefully not rip it), slide it, feel it, fold it, bath with it, crinkle it, poke it, gum it and love it!

 

1. Bath books  
Hippity, Hoppity, Splash!

Babies can read, learn and have fun whilst splashing in the bath. Bath books are lightweight, squishy and waterproof and baby spit proof too! Make reading a bath book part of your baby's bath routine and get her to love books from an early age.

An examples is the Usborne range of bath books. View Hippity, Hoppity, Splash!

   
2. Buggy books  
Buggy Babies Animals Twin Pack

Mom, doesn't have to go to far when baby turfs the book out her buggy for a game of fetch, mom. These useful books can be clipped onto your baby's buggy so she can read on the go without losing her book.

The Priddy range (view Buggy Babies Animals Twin Pack) has an extendable strap and the book is small but chunky and therefore easy for little hands to hold.

   
3. Cloth books  
Taggies I Love You book

Crinkle, cuddle and snuggle with these soft, but durable books.

This Taggies I Love You book features the Taggies fleece blanket and 8 colourful tags for babies to pull and rub. Great for making a bedtime story party of babies sleeptime routine.

   
4. Fold out floor books  
Fold out floor book numbers

A very useful book to encourage your baby to have tummy time to strengthen her shoulder girdle in preparation for crawling. Fun to fold out and roll on.

The Priddy range of fold out floor books feature one long, concertina page, printed on both sides. Lie on the floor with your baby and help her to learn numbers 1 to 12 with the Numbers issue.

   
5. Find the object books
Find The Teddy

Children will love to find the teddy in every picture and then look for the other objects hidden throughout the story.

Usborne's Find the Teddy

   
6. Lift the flap books  
Busy Farm Lift the flap book

Peek-a-boo style books. Babies love to lift up and see who or what is hiding under the flaps.

Talking about what is happening in the pages to your baby will help her to develop observation and early language skills.

View Ladybird's Busy Farm lift the flap book

   
7. Noisy books  
Baby's very first noisy book

The old cause and effect game. Mom, stick in your ear plugs this is going to get repetitive but your baby will love pressing the buttons and lerning to associate sounds with pictures.

View Usborne's Baby's Very First Noisy Book

   
8. Slide and find  
Priddy Slide and Find Animals

These are board books with sliding doors that baby will enjoy sliding open to see who is hiding behind them. They encourage hand-eye coordination.

An example is the Priddy range of Slide and find books. View Slide and find Animals.

   
9. Teethers  
Baby Teethers Animals

Books that babies are officially allowed to gum and salivate all over!

Baby Teethers Animals

   
10. Touch 'n feel books
DK Baby Touch and Feel Farm Animals

Your baby can feel and explore different tactile patches. These books encourage her to make the vital connection between words and pictures. Encourages tiny fingers and minds to explore and develop sensory skills.

DK Baby Touch and Feel Farm Animals helps you introduce your baby to farm animals with touch and feel textures.

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