Books to Love

Share these Valentine’s treats with your child.

LOVE, from The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle (Penguin Random House, $8.99; ages 3-5)
Read this simple book to your child and perhaps he will understand how deeply you love him.

Pete the Cat’s Groovy Guide to Love
by Kimberly and James Dean (Harper-Collins Children’s Books, $15.99, ages 4-8)
Pete the Cat illustrates his favorite quotes about love – from the Beatles to Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Plant a Kiss
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Peter H. Reynolds (Harper Festival, $7.99, ages 0-4)
Little Miss planted a kiss and spread love everywhere in this sweet board book.

Love is My Favorite Thing
by Emma Chicheser Clark (Nancy Paulsen Books, $16.99, ages 3-5)
For Plum the dog, “love is my very favorite thing,” and that makes him easy to love, too, in this beautifully illustrated book.

I Love You Already
by Jory John and Benji Davies (Harper-Collins Children’s Books, $17.99, ages 4-8)
Bear just wants a day to relax but his persistent friend Duck wants to hang out, and hilarity ensues.