Baby Loves Summer! (Karen Katz Lift-the-Flap Book Series)

by Karen Katz, Karen Katz (Illustrator)

Overview

Soak up summer with this sunny lift-the-flap board book from Karen Katz!

Little ones will love lifting the flaps in this new Karen Katz book to reveal a big yellow sun, flip-flops, an ice cream cone, and everything else that Baby loves about summer! The sturdy format and easy-to-lift flaps make this a perfect summertime treat for parents and children to share.
Featuring new Karen Katz branding that reflects her vibrant colors and patterns, this holiday favorite is sure to delight little ones!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442427464
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	05/01/2012
Series:	Karen Katz Lift-the-Flap Book Series
Pages:	14
Sales rank:	167,761
Product dimensions:	6.52(w) x 7.20(h) x 0.38(d)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Karen Katz has written and illustrated more than fifty picture books and novelty books including the bestselling Where Is Baby’s Belly Button? After graduating from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, she attended the Yale Graduate School of Art and Architecture where she became interested in folk art, Indian miniatures, Shaker art, and Mexican art. Her book, Counting Kisses, was named one of the 100 Greatest Books for Kids by Scholastic Parent & Child and was a Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. Karen, her husband Gary Richards, and their daughter, Lena, divide their time between New York City and Saugerties, New York. Learn more about Karen Katz at KarenKatz.com.

Karen Katz has written and illustrated more than fifty picture books and novelty books including the bestselling Where Is Baby’s Belly Button? After graduating from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, she attended the Yale Graduate School of Art and Architecture where she became interested in folk art, Indian miniatures, Shaker art, and Mexican art. Her book, Counting Kisses, was named one of the 100 Greatest Books for Kids by Scholastic Parent & Child and was a Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. Karen, her husband Gary Richards, and their daughter, Lena, divide their time between New York City and Saugerties, New York. Learn more about Karen Katz at KarenKatz.com.

Editorial Reviews

This companion to Baby Loves Spring! uses large flaps to reveal some of the best things summer has to offer. One of Katz’s typically pudgy and cherubic babies peeks behind a curtain to see the rising sun; into a beach bag to find her flip-flops, sunglasses, and hat; and under her towel to uncover “My shiny swimming tube!” Reader-directed questions (“Who is hiding behind the tree?”) and the interactivity of the flaps make for an engaging and buoyant summertime adventure. Ages 1–4. (May)

Publishers Weekly

Baby Loves Summer!

Karen Katz. Little Simon, $6.99 (14p) ISBN 978-1-4424-2746-4
This companion to Baby Loves Spring! uses large flaps to reveal some of the best things summer has to offer. One of Katz’s typically pudgy and cherubic babies peeks behind a curtain to see the rising sun; into a beach bag to find her flip-flops, sunglasses, and hat; and under her towel to uncover “My shiny swimming tube!” Reader-directed questions (“Who is hiding behind the tree?”) and the interactivity of the flaps make for an engaging and buoyant summertime adventure. Ages 1–4. (May)

—Publishers Weekly, April 16, 2012

From the Publisher

In another of Karen Katz's bright, lift-the-flap board books, a toddler explores the sights and sounds of summer. A little red-haired girl wearing a hot pink bathing suit spies the sun behind a curtain, her swimming tube under the towel and, finally, Mommy behind a tree with a garden hose ready for some water play. The Q-and-A format is presented with the question outside the flap and the answer printed on the verso inside. "What could be in the beach bag? / These are my flip-flops, sunglasses, and green hat!" The polka-dot ice cream is a little peculiar, and a couple of the flaps don't fully line up with the illustrations. Despite these minor flaws, this book has everything Katz fans know and love: an exuberant, cartoon toddler, art featuring familiar objects and scenes in bold patterns and happy colors, and large, sturdy flaps with mostly rounded corners. With Katz board books about spring, summer and fall already in the bag, let's hope winter is on the way to round out baby's year. (Board book. 6 mos.-2)

Kirkus Reviews