If you're in the thick of the toddler years and looking for books that do more than just sit there, this is a winner. It's rare to find a book that manages to be both a legitimate speech therapy tool and genuinely funny to a two-year-old.

Holly Rosensweig has used her background as a speech-language pathologist to build a 'predictable' book—which sounds boring to adults but is basically crack for developing brains. It’s a low-stress, high-reward way to work on the language comprehension strands of the reading rope before your kid even knows what a letter is.