Duck & Goose Hardcover Book

My toddler asks for this one at bedtime almost every night now — the whole "learning to get along" thing between the two of them cracks her up. The hardcover's held up fine through a few months of not-so-gentle page turning, which counts for a lot.

The pages are sturdy enough to survive my two-year-old's constant grabbing, which I appreciate. The story itself is sweet but a little slow in the middle, so it works better as a bedtime read than a daytime one.

My toddler asks for this one almost every night now, mostly because of how the two birds slowly learn to share that little egg. The story runs a touch long for a board-book crowd, so we sometimes skip a page, but the ending still lands every time.