Books for Babies and Toddlers

Clap Hands
by Helen Oxbury
$7.99
A sturdy board book, designed to withstand whatever adventures your child may take it on. this is one of several multiracial board books that are interactive and fun for young children.

Pact says: Appealing simple rhyming texts, all the babies are different races. Fun for parents and children alike.
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De Colores And Other Latin-American Folk Songs for Children
By Jose Luis
$7.99
Offers a selection of traditional children's songs, chants, and rhymes from a variety of Latin American countries, with lyrics in Spanish and English translation, and music arranged for piano, voice, and guitar.

Pact says: A fun way to celebrate Latino culture as you and your children enjoy singing and learning the songs together.

Hola, Jalapeno
by Amy Wilson Sanger
$6.95
A board book. Delectable Mexican food along with wonderful pictures and bilingual text make this a fun and lively book to read with your littlest gastronomes.

Pact says: A nice book with a Latino flavor!
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Little Bit of Soul Food, A
by Amy Wilson Sanger
$6.95
A celebration of soul food that is filled with bright colors and cheerful collages that is sure to be a hit with the very young.

Pact says: Enjoy this celebration of African American food traditions.
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Mama, Do You Love Me?
by Hing-Hwa Hu, and Deborah Lattimore
$6.95
A story set in Alaska about unconditional love. An Inuit daughter searches for the limit of her mother's love in board book format. A well-loved favorite.

Pact says: This is an imaginative and reassuring story presenting a model for terrific parenting.
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More, More, More, Said the Baby
by Vera Williams
$7.99
Three wonderful, funny multicultural stories with pictures that show babies in families having fun with their parents and grandparents. Sometimes the child and adult are of the same race; sometimes they're not.

Pact says: A heartwarming imagination-tickler that all kids should experience.
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On Mother's Lap
by Ann Herbert Scott
$6.95
This book explores the issue of whether Mom has room on her lap for both of her children. The answer is, "There's always enough room for us both."

Pact says: A book to cuddle by.

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On The Day You Were Born
by Debra Fraser
$9.95
This beautifully illustrated picture book provides a wonderful springboard to talk about the day your child entered the world. Packets for pictures are included for each page, so the book becomes a personalized reflection of your child's entry into the world.

Pact says: Sometimes children who have been adopted think they have not been born. Designed for children who come to their families as babies, this is a great antidote for that thinking. A bestseller.
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Please, Baby, Please
by Spike Lee and Tonya Lee
$16.95
The clock on the VCR reads 3:01 a.m., and a bedtime video playing on the TV clearly makes no impact whatsoever. A tantrum when it's time to leave the playground, plus a chaotic meal and bath occasion other imploring phrases from the parents, whose presence illustrator Kadir Nelson suggests with just a foot or an arm outstretched to the youngster. But at book's end, the final wordless picture, a loving embrace, leaves no doubt of who loves this baby.

Pact says: A loving book that just happens to have all African American characters. Also available in a board book $7.99.

So Much
by Trish Cooke
$6.99
Mom and baby (who happen to be brown-skinned), are home alone when Auntie and then Uncle and Nannie and Gran-Gran and the cousins come to visit. And they all want to hug and kiss and squeeze and eat the baby right up because everybody loves the baby so much!

Pact says: A wonderful evocation of a moment in a Black family's life. A Pact bestseller.
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Tell Me Again about the Night I Was Born
Born by Jamie Lee Curtis, Illustrator Laura Cornell
$7.99
A heartwarming story with real-life details your child can connect to - about how the phone rang in the middle of the night and the scream you let out when they said I was born; how you couldn't grow a baby in your tummy; how tiny and perfect I was; - and all those lively memories of specificity and love.

Pact says: A real kid pleaser - comes as a board book. Add your child's own arrival to this charming story.
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Whose Knees Are These?
by Asim
$6.99
Playful rhymes answer the title question. The text refers to knees so brown and so strong and toes so brown and sweet.

Pact says: These titles add welcome diversity to board-book collections.
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Will There Be A Lap For Me?
by Dorothy Corey
$5.95
Kyle loves to sit on his mom's lap but now that she is expecting a baby, her lap is getting smaller and smaller. The characters just happen to be African American.

Pact says: This reassuring story about a black family answers big-sibling universal questions.

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Yum, Yum, Dim Sum
by Amy Wilson Sanger
$6.95
This board book is fun, a charming introduction to dim sum, and even a little bit educational for adults. The rhymes are simple and catchy, and the illustrations (with pictures made from scraps of fabric) are intriguing.

Pact says: A winner.
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