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A Sustainable Shopping Guide for Climate Week NYC
September 22, 2023

A Sustainable Shopping Guide for Climate Week NYC

A guide to shopping for your little ones with a focus on sustainability in support of Climate Week NYC 2023.

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The Best Holiday Gift Guide For Kids 2022
November 16, 2022

The Best Holiday Gift Guide For Kids 2022

Check out the Smoochie Baby Holiday Gift Guide for the best gifts for all ages, interests, and budgets! 

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Books We Love Right Now!
October 01, 2020

Books We Love Right Now!

With school back in session, we’ve got books on the mind, and since very few things in life give us more joy than reading to young children, we decided to round up our top 5 favorite books right now for toddlers and preschoolers. As parents, we love finding books that not only delight our babies and toddlers but ones we will enjoy reading to them over and over and over again! The best books for young children are entertaining, have engaging pictures, and encourage a life-long love of reading in your budding book lover.  Check out our top 5 favorite new books for young children and see if any of your family favorites made the list.



NY is for New York 


This delightful read is a great children’s book that can double as a tourist guide for New York.  It walks you through the big apple from A to Z. The artwork in the book is colorful and bright as it showcases iconic buildings like The Chrysler building and Rockefeller Center. It highlights landmarks in all 5 boroughs catching the essence and energy of the city! A must have for every New York City kid’s library.





The Story of Rap/ The Story of Rock 


The best time to influence your children’s musical taste is before age 10, according to a recent study by music streaming service Deezer. Get started early with one of these awesome board books. Their colorful illustrations give  a short playful intro to the most iconic artists of each genre sure to delight the youngest of music lovers. This board book will be a great addition to your library and a fun way to teach the history of Rap or Rock!

 
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My Art Book of Sleep


A bedtime story book about sleep? Yes please! This gorgeous, luxurious-feeling book for toddlers and preschoolers contains 35 full-page artworks from a variety of periods that feature sleep in all its forms – from naptime to bedtime, dreaming to waking, sunsets to night skies – accompanied by a brief, tender, read-aloud text. This book definitely makes reading at bedtime a work of art!




Cookies! Cook in a Book


Does your little one love to be in the kitchen with you when you're cooking? Then this is the book for you! Bake cookies from scratch inside this interactive recipe book - sift flour, whisk the sugar, crack the egg, pour the chocolate chips, and more! Simple yet factual recipe text takes young readers through the steps of baking cookies. One hundred percent adult-free, danger-free, and mess-free - baking cookies has never been so independent! 

 







I ♥ Science


Introducing curiosity to your young one can never start too early. I ♥ Science is a great way to celebrate just that. This book has everything your budding scientist could want ranging from flap-lifts, pull tabs and spinning wheels to feed their young and curious minds. It is an easy to read book with amazing illustrations to spark your child's imagination and get them understanding science early! 


 

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Mother's Day Gift Guide
May 01, 2020

A Very Special Mother's Day Gift Guide

“When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

― Mitch Albom

 

Photo by Caroline Hernandez on Unsplash

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