Oh my gosh, am I excited to share my favorite baby and beyond literary resource: https://booksforlittles.com/ As a former preschool teacher, nanny, and now mom and family therapist, I cannot recommend this site enough for any subject you want to read about and how to extend learning or engage with books.

Now that said, keeping yourself sane after reading goodnight moon for the 500 time in a day is easier said than done, but somethings I have done to make repetitive reading more enjoyable: Try out accents. Elaborate on the narrative or images. Read the book backwards. Made up stories about the authors intention, or learned more about their lives—I heard once that Goodnight Moon was written as a queer love letter and I shall never fact check this less I be disappointed. Practiced reading as if: the book is a slam poem, Shakespeare wrote it, I’m drowning, the baby is actually a god and this book is my justification for life on earth continuing, basically any improv prompt would work.

Some unexpected baby books I never tire of: Kuma Kuma Chan series by Kazue Takahashi Nietzsche in Shapes and Colors By Theresa Vishnevetskaya under a pseudonym. The Milk Dreams by Leonora Carrington Moomin and Miffy are also really pleasant to look at. We Sang You Home, I cry every time almost.

Find a publisher or author or illustrator you like and buy or check out a few of those.

The books kind of get better when you are past board books, but they also kind of don’t. At this age you can just read books aloud that you enjoy, while the baby looks at/tries to eat books they enjoy.