You're buying for someone else's baby, and the baby cannot read. So the real question isn't which book is loveliest — it's which one the parents will actually read at two in the morning, and which one they'll still have in twenty years. This shelf sorts by that. Pick one and stop. Some of these are for the new baby and the parents. One of them is for the big brother or big sister, which is a different gift entirely, and it says so.
Pick one by what the family needs and you're done. The honest problem with this whole category is that these are among the most-gifted books on earth, so before anything else: 'On the Day You Were Born' and 'Wherever You Are: My Love Will Find You' are near-certain duplicates at a well-attended shower, and 'Welcome' is a common one too. If you want low duplicate risk, 'Made for Me' is the safest bet on this shelf, and 'You Were the First' is nearly always missed because most people don't think to buy for the older child. On the practical questions: only 'On the Day You Were Born' in this edition is a true board book, the one you can hand to a baby who is going to chew it. Everything else is hardback, which survives the shower table and the shelf but not a teething eight-month-old. As for which ones actually get read aloud rather than displayed — 'Welcome' and 'Made for Me' are short, funny or rhyming, and they hold up to the hundredth reading. The Tillman is a bedtime workhorse if the family likes sentiment straight, and a shelf object if they don't. And note that two different occasions live here: five of these welcome the baby, while 'You Were the First' is for the big brother or sister and should be wrapped separately with the older child's name on it.