Category: Toddler Spotlight
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The Kleiner Jakob series is an excellent series for very young toddlers. Each board book consists of about five scenes with one flap per scene. Each narrative has a clear beginning, middle, and end, and includes gentle humor that connects with the youngest readers. The series builds on the expansive world of Liane Schneider’s famous…
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Sandra Grimm is one of the best German authors for babies and toddlers and she’s also very prolific. In fact, you could outfit a very satisfactory toddler library with only her books. Her books follow the standard German pedagogical approach to focus on daily life of toddlers in the earliest years. As Grimm has been…
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Markus Osterwalder’s Bobo Siebenschläfer series is a very successful series for very young children. With the first books published in the 1980s, it’s a long running classic. The oldest books have charmingly amateur illustrations, in my opinion, but also seem very authentic — as if someone followed a real young child around and saw the…
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Katharina Bußhoff’s Mika series is a must for 18-36 months. The stories are about a young toddler boy named Mika and his everyday life. They are truly funny and very simple, perfect for toddlers just starting to engage with books. The series is available in two formats, a large board book with multiple images on…
