First Stories For Baby: Snuggle Up: (0–3 months)

Name: First Stories For Baby: Snuggle Up
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Author-illustrator Emma Dodd

Interest age: 0 to 2
Reading age: 5+

Published by Templar Books, 2026

Board books

About this book

Get cosy with your baby as you read four short stories about sweet baby animals. You can snuggle up with little bear, dive with baby dolphin, play peekaboo with owl and fall asleep with tiger after playing in the jungle. Each of the mini stories focuses on connection and the loving bonds between a baby and their caregiver – a comforting and reassuring theme for this period of development.

This is a gentle introduction to sharing stories with the very youngest babies that is shaped by expert advice from early years professionals and written and illustrated by the magnificent Emma Dodd. The stories are short, reassuring and have lovely rhythm and rhyme that supports engagement with and enjoyment of reading even at this earliest stage. The black and white images are friendly and clear to enable babies to focus on the patterns and contrasts as they share in the reading experience.

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About the author

Emma Dodd was brought up in Guildford, Surrey, in a family of artists. As a child she loved the work of Peter Firmin, John Burningham and Gerald Rose and from as far back as she can remember she wanted to be an illustrator.

Emma studied graphic design and Illustration at Central Saint Martin's School of Art and has worked in advertising, editorial and book illustration. She has illustrated bestselling Noisy Noisy series for Ladybird Books and, with author Giles Andreae, won a Book Trust Early Years Award in 2010 for I Love My Mummy.