📚 Soft Book – Gentle First Books for Baby Learning
Introduce your little one to the joy of reading with our soft book collection. Made for tiny hands and growing minds, these baby-friendly cloth books encourage touch, sound, and visual discovery.
Our range includes crinkle books, interactive fabric books, and washable cloth books, all designed to support sensory development, tummy time engagement, and parent-child bonding. Safe from birth and made with non-toxic materials, these books are perfect for babies 0–12 months and beyond.
Whether you’re building a baby’s first library or gifting a newborn, our soft books offer a fun, gentle start to early literacy.
Reading starts early
Soft books make it easy and safe. With their crinkly pages, bold images, and baby-safe fabrics, cloth books offer an engaging way to stimulate your baby’s senses while laying the foundation for language development.
Soft books are perfect for:
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Tummy time: Place the book upright to encourage head lifting and visual tracking.
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Bonding time: Use the book’s images and textures to interact, name objects, and make sounds.
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Independent play: Babies can grab, squish, and mouth the books without risk, building fine motor skills and curiosity.
Most soft books include high-contrast illustrations, peekaboo flaps, and safe stitched textures. Some even have teething corners or mirrors for added discovery. They’re lightweight and portable—ideal for car rides, pram walks, or travel. Referrence: Wikipedia: Infant Learning
At BabyCoo, we prioritise non-toxic materials and machine-washable designs, so your baby's book stays clean and safe. These books support early milestones like:
Soft books also foster early literacy. When you name images and read aloud, babies begin learning the rhythm of language and basic communication cues. These first story moments can build a lifelong love of books. Cloth books make thoughtful gifts for newborns, baby showers, or first birthdays. Pair them with a plush toy or tummy time mat for a complete early learning set.
5 Ways to Use Soft Book During Tummy Time
Tummy time is a key part of your baby’s early development. It strengthens the neck, shoulders, and upper body—laying the foundation for rolling, sitting, and crawling. Adding soft book to tummy time makes it more engaging, interactive, and fun. These books are baby-safe, lightweight, and filled with textures and images that hold a little one’s attention.
Here are five simple ways to use soft books during tummy time sessions:
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Stand the book up for visual tracking: Encourage your baby to lift their head and follow colourful, high-contrast images. This builds visual focus and helps strengthen eye and neck muscles.
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Add texture and sound for sensory play: Choose books with crinkle sounds, tags, mirrors, or different fabrics to promote sensory exploration. Touching and mouthing these features supports tactile development and hand-eye coordination.
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Place it within reach to encourage movement: Position the book just out of reach to motivate your baby to stretch, scoot, or wiggle toward it. This helps build upper body and core strength, which are essential for crawling.
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Use the book for language exposure: Point and name pictures aloud—“That’s a monkey!” or “Here’s a flower!”—to help your baby connect words with objects. This introduces rhythm and vocabulary in a natural, engaging way.
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Turn pages together to model interaction: Gently flip through the book while your baby watches. This helps them understand cause and effect and begins to teach how books work, laying a foundation for early literacy.
