Books for Babies  

If he is only 8 months old right now, I think any books that have lots of color will be interesting to him. At this stage it's more about getting into the habit of reading than what the book is actually about as he is not really old enough yet to understand the stories.
When he gets older though, I definitely recommend the Robert Munch books. They are fabulous books written from a child's aspect. Definitely great reading!!

I have taken several classes to educate myself about promoting literacy in children. These experts always recommend nursery rhymes. Anything by Dr. Seuss is always good too. I also love the Berenstein bears books or the Little Critter books. Really, it does not matter what you read to the baby, just that you read. It is the tone of your voice and the fact that you are showing him that books are interesting that matters. It is also good to let him see you reading a book of your own. He will want to copy you!

You should get your baby a book with good illustration and story. Among the top 5 books for babies accoring to some reviews are:

1. The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister - it has calming calming colors and an excellent bed-time story book.

2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle - it's a best seller classic book in bright colors and simple pictures.

3. Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

4. Pat the Bunny - Dorothy Kunhardt

5. Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth - It's a 3D illustration which is a very good book for infants.

i really feel that books are very important while growing up , even when the child is very young visual books should be used cause it really increases the childs imaginative power a lot , and should also read the story to the kid and nowadays parents ar giving young kids inhand use to computers cause they want their kids to be uptodate

The most important thing is to talk to him as if he were just another person (perhaps an adult? Some people talk to their cats and dogs that way, too). It makes sense. You want him, eventually, to interact as an adult so why not start behaving to him as if he is one? He won't understand the words but he will understand the tone of voice and learn the proper inflexions.

The same with reading. Of course he needs to look at the pictures and associate them with the words (yes, even at 8 months he can - but only for maybe 10 minutes).

Therefore, go to your bookstore, browse through the books. Choose ones with pictures and words that you know you can read out loud. Choose ones that make YOU laugh! The importance of a story is that it can be told over and over again, like something which you love handling every time you pick it up.

Books I know work (and that's just a few off the top of my head!) are "The Hungry Caterpillar", "The Tiger who came to tea", "Ant and Bee" (really a very early introduction to reading, so a little early yet, but never mind!), the "Little Bear" books by Anglund. I don't know if you can find those but if you do, they will become firm favorites!

The other thing to do is to sit with him looking at a magazine and pictures and just commenting to him on the pictures. You will be very surprised, I think, if after a while you say something like 'Can you see the red coat?' or 'Can you show me the bananas?' how easily he can learn to point and show that he understands even before he can use the words himself. Don't overdo it, however. 5 or 10 minutes quality time like this is quite enough at first!

From what age do you start reading to a child. I thought 8 months is too young for that, but you can start buying the pictures book and read out the names of fruits vegetables animals etc with good pictures or Just alphabets also will do i think for that age

well u can start with some good visual books..that ll make ur child feel interetsed in studying books!!!!!!!

I have a baby that is 8 months and he loves books with lots of colors. I bought some of those first word books and animals books. I take care of children in my home and I read them books too and he will just sit there and watch me read to them.

your son is 8 months old.....and babies usually like bright coloured things tht can capture their attention...id say start with a big colourful book full of pictures and few words....he'l love it...

Dr. Suess was my kids favorites. I think it's because of the sing songy way the are written and the crazy colorful characters. One fish two fish red fish blue fish, and hand hand fingers thumb. I think I can still say those two books from memory. My son wanted those two everynight for a really long time.