Our annual Best Books for Babies list is created to encourage parents and caregivers to read aloud to their babies. It’s also meant to motivate authors, illustrators, and publishers to produce even more quality materials for babies ages birth to 18 months.

This year we looked at a lot of books, as usual, and wound up including 15 titles on our list of the ten Best Books for Babies. We know how to do math—we just found three sets of books that met our criteria—and we didn’t want to have to choose between them.

This year, seven publishers are represented on our list of 15 titles. Child’s Play International published two sets of engaging books in Spanish and English, accounting for six titles. Candlewick Press is featured with Little Chick by Petr Horáček. Harbour Publishing’s A Flock of Gulls, A Chorus of Frogs, provides high-contrast beauty and rich vocabulary from an Indigenous artist.

Titles from Barefoot Books, Callisto, Chronicle Kids, Greenwillow  and Nosy Crow round out the list.

Click to see the complete list of this year’s Best Books for Babies and don’t forget to check out our previous lists to see a stellar line-up of great books for babies from publishers large and small.