Product Type: Books
Age: Infants
Categories: Cloth, vinyl, and board books
2010 Awards
(by Karen Katz, Little Simon $9.99 Score:
) Karen Katz's award-winning classic is re-issued in an oversized 10th anniversary edition and it's even better than the original. The lift-the-flaps book has a cast of multicultural babies doing what babies do. One hides under a hat until you lift the hat flap and see baby's eyes. Another's mouth is covered till you pull the cup flap. Baby lifts her shirt and there it is--her belly button. This sturdy picture book is printed on sturdy cardboard and will withstand encore readings. It's also short and a lot like games you play to help baby learn the names of body parts. Karen Katz's use of vibrant colors and happy looking babies will make this a favorite book you will need to read again and again! 9 months & up.
Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2010. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2009 Awards
(Dwell Studio, Blue Apple/Chronicle $6.99 Score:
) Infants will be visually attracted to the bold black and white single images that alternate with the slick feeling ones in color. This may eventually become a knowing, naming and touching book, but for the youngest lapsitter, it is a gazing book. Unlike earlier black and white graphic books with targets and faces and other eye catching images, this one has less high contrast patterns. The items chosen for illustration are also less familiar, i.e. a swan, rhino, camel. They are a little on the abstract side for babies. Still they may hold more visual interest and the satin touch of the forms on the page are sure to interest little hands.
Age: Infants. Award Year: 2009. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2009 Award
(Manhattan Toy $18 Score:
) A fabric book with a cottony ball sitting in a wagon that is attached with a ribbon. You can put the ball into, behind, through, and under the many spots provided in this little book. Baby will have fun finding the ball in all the hiding places. Good for peek-a-boo discoveries as you turn the colorful fabric pages. This is safe enough for baby to explore after you have 'read' from front to back.
Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2009. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2009 Award
(Manhattan Toy $18 Score:
) A cute fabric book with interesting textures for touchy-feelie explorations and peek-a-boo discoveries hidden behind a pull down satiny lily pad, green felt grass, grey cotton “rock, green satin leaf, blue shimmery “water” and colorful butterfly wings. There’s lots to talk about, touch and find in this little book for lapsitters.
Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2009. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2009 Award
(by Anne Gutman and Georg Hallensleben, Chronicle $19.99 Score:
) A cute set of board books about babies and their parents. Each book shows animal pairs and ends with baby and Mommy or Daddy. Not much story here, but the art is charming and the concepts are warm and fuzzy. The box is designed so that you can put photos of the little one’s parents on each side of the box…a little extra touch. 1 & up.
Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2009. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2009 Awards
(Emma Dodd, Silver Dolphin Books $12.95 Score:
) Share this big cardboard book with baby while you are both sitting or stretched out on the floor. It’s a wonderful collection of baby photos that will bring smiles of recognition to your own baby. Each two page spread features a few words that describe the action with a big photograph on the facing page to match. Try making some of these faces yourself as you read the words and look at the photos together. This ends with a mirror so baby can see your favorite little face!
Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2009. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2009 Award
(by Rena D. Grossman, Star Bright Books $6.95 Score:
) Babies all over the world are carried about. Told in simple verse this catalogs with handsome color photos parents and babies being carried in blankets, baskets, and backpacks, among others. A glossary shows the countries and photos from the book. Though the geography is well beyond the intended audience this is a beautiful multicultural book that is printed on sturdy cardboard stock that little children can enjoy independently once you have shared it with them. Babies do love looking at other babies and these are exceptionally colorful photographs and lovely to look at!
Age: Infants, Toddlers. Award Year: 2009. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2001 Award
(by Margaret Miller , Simon & Schuster $5.99 Score:
) Miller's inviting yummy photos of babies eating are a good starting point for knowing and naming such things as a banana, spoon, and cracker. 6 mos. & up. Age: Infants,Toddlers. Award Year: 2001.
2001 Awards
(Sassy $5.99 Score:
) There's a single familiar item to discover under each lift-up vinyl page. Sturdy enough for tiny hands and a final peek-a-boo reflects baby's face in a safety mirror. Toy stores. Age: Infants. Award Year: 2001.
Awards
(by Helen Oxenbury, Simon & Schuster $6.99 Score:
) Babies love books about babies doing the things that babies do. That's what has made this a classic. Reissued, as a boardbook, this favorite has a small rhythmic text and adorable babies. Age: Infants,Toddlers. Award Year: .
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