Reading AloudReading aloud is a beautiful manner for adults and toddlers to play. Think of books as toy; and image that you are a special playmate who is able to make these toys come alive for your child. You open the book to a page with colorful pictures and you start to read aloud. When you do so, you trigger your child's sense of hearing, sight, and touch as you explore the book. For example, when you read the first line in The Runaway Bunny, your child listens intently. She or he notices that your voice is different now than it was a few minutes ago at the dinner table, and this is interesting. She or he tries out the colorful pictures on the page as the musical rhythm of your voice carries on. A few minutes later, when you name the word" carrot." She or he uses her fingers to point when you ask,"Where's the bunny?" 
All of these moment and ways of active listening, looking, and touching help make reading books together a playful experience. But the magic doesn't end there. Your child is getting comfortable seeing letters and words in print and turning pages of the book. These early experiences set stage for learning letters, recognizing words,and eventually learning to read. Reading picture books together during the toddler years is truly a very important way for your child to grow through play! You might have your favorites to read to your child. Here are some of my picks to add to your list as suggestion for reading aloud. Bear in mind that the age classification system for books is flexible. Your one-year-old child may still enjoy the books you read when he or she was an infant. As he/she gets closer to three years old, the books in the preschool section may become favorites too. " When you are playing with a toddler with a book, the important thing is the interaction between the parent and child. So if your toddler is more interested in pointing to the pictures and naming them, or making the animal sounds, or flipping the pages, then that's what you should be doing." ---- Betty Bardige,Ph.D Developmental psychologist and coauthor of Poems to Learn to Read By Suggested Toddler Reading Aloud BooksAre You My Mother?  by P.D Eastman
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by Sandra Boynton
by P.D Eastman Tony Eastman
by Bill Martin Jr., illustrations by Eric Carle
by Janet Ahlberg,illustrations by Allan ahlberg
by Sue Williams,illustrations by Julie Vivas
by Sam McBratney, illustrations by Anita Jeram
by Nancy Tafuri
by Iza Trapani
by Donald Crews
by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrations by Clement Hurd
by Ruth Lercher Bornstein
by Rosemary Wells
by Irene O'Book, illustrations by Paula Hibe
by Sandra Boynton
by Iona Opie, illustrations by Rosemary Wells
by Pam Adams
by Martin Waddell, illustrations by Patrick Benson
by Dorothy Kunhardt
by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrations by Clement Hurd
by Nancy Shaw, illustrations by Margot Apple
by Nancy Tafuri
by Martin Waddell, Illustrations by Barbara Firth
by Ezra Jack Keats
by Jimmy Kennedy, illustrations by Alexandra Day
by Paul Galdone
by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrations by Karen Katz
by Stephanie Calmenson, illustrations by Melissa Sweet
by Robert Kraus and Jose Aruego