Categories include the best book for babies under one, the best picture book for pre-school children, and the best emerging illustrator.
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at BAFTA in London on 23 September. The winner of each category will receive a cheque for £2,000.
Broadcaster and TV presenter Edith Bowman, one of this year's judges, said, 'I've been able to read so many books to my little boy and it's only made me enjoy reading to him even more. The high standard on offer is incredible.'
The books on the shortlist are:
Baby Book Award:
Chick by Ed Vere (Puffin); The Big Night-Night Book by Georgie Birkett (Red Fox); Baby Loves: Tiger by Claire Dowe (Scholastic); Five Little Ducks by Francesca Stich & Jemima Lumley, illus. Jason Chapman (Simon & Schuster); Baby's Very First Outdoors Book by Stella Baggott (Usborne); That's Not My Frog by Fiona Watt, illus. Rachel Wells (Usborne).
Pre-School Award:
If I Were You by Richard Hamilton, illus. Babette Cole (Bloomsbury); Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide by Mara Bergman, illus. Nick Maland (Hodder Children's Books); Sylvia and Bird by Catherine Rayner (Little Tiger Press); Wow! Said the Owl by Tim Hopgood (Macmillan); The Tail of the Whale by Ellie Patterson, illus. Christine Pym (Meadowside); Miaow Said the Cow by Emma Dodd (Templar Publishing)
Best Emerging Illustrator:
The Grump by Sarah Garson (Andersen Press); Toot Toot Beep Beep by Emma Garcia (Boxer Books); Box of Tricks by Katie Cleminson (Jonathan Cape); Small Mouse Big City by Simon Prescott (Little Tiger Press); The Haunted House by Kazuno Kohara (Macmillan); Peas! by Andy Cullen, illus. Simon Rickerty (Puffin Books).