- Good Night, Moon

- The Runaway Bunny

- Harold and the Purple Crayon

- Grandfather Twilight (for slightly older children)

- Sandra Boynton books

- Max's Breakfast (and other books)

- I Read Signs (Tana Hoban; other books by her also quite good)

- Go! Go! Go! Stop! (Cherise Mericle Harper)

- Little Pea (Amy Krouse Rosenthal)

- Trucks, My Car (and other Byron Barton books)

- The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle; some other books by this author are also good)

- Roadwork (Sally Sutton; also in the same vein by the illustrator Brian Lovelock: Demolition, Flight of the Honey Bee, The Rain Train).

Many others come to mind, but these are well-loved.