After speaking with two children’s librarians, researching classic and new bestsellers and leaning into my background as an educator, I pulled together this list of the 40 best baby books.

If you’re looking for more books for the younger crowd, check out our list of the best baby books, or find a book for yourself with our list of the best parenting books.

W. W. Norton and Company Great With Child: Letters to a Young Mother, by Beth Ann Fennelly “Of course there will be Required Reading, the baby books and magazines,” Beth Ann Fennelly ...