Baby, See the Colors! (Indestructibles Series)

by Ekaterina Trukhan (Illustrator), Amy Pixton (From an Idea by)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Colors are a fantastic way to engage young minds, and this book has colors in abundance, along with easy, accompanying words to start building the recognition of eager young readers.

The sky is blue—and so are blueberries! Tomatoes are red, just like ladybugs and stop signs! Flowers and giraffes are yellow—school buses, too!
 
See all the colors in a book that’s indestructible!
 
Indestructibles is the trusted series for easing little ones into story time. Beloved by babies and their parents, Indestructibles are built for the way babies “read” (i.e., with their hands and mouths) and are:

• Rip Proof—made of ultra-durable tight-woven material
• Waterproof—can be chewed on, drooled on, and washed!
• Emergent Literacy Tool—bright pictures and few or no words encourage dialogic reading
• Portable—lightweight books can go anywhere, perfect for the diaper bag and for travel
• Safe for Baby—meets ASTM safety standards

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781523506231
Publisher:	Workman Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/03/2019
Series:	Indestructibles
Pages:	12
Sales rank:	5,641
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 2 Years

About the Author

Amy Pixton, a mother of triplets, created Indestructibles after bits of traditional board books found their way into her babies' mouths.  Amy lives in Kansas City with her husband and their three children.

Ekaterina Trukhan has illustrated many children's books for international publishers, drawing inspiration from everyday life, midcentury illustration, and the books from her childhood. She lives in Russia.

Editorial Reviews

2019-10-09
Identify and learn about colors in this soft but durable book.

Designed by someone familiar with the particular kinds of, erm, love and attention that babies give books, this offering stands up to being chewed, moistened, and tugged upon. Less successfully, it's insubstantially thin, meaning it may quickly vanish into a diaper bag's detritus. However, if one can find it, it's a treat to share with a little one. Graphically simple domestic and neighborhood scenes in lively primary colors are populated with cheery, doll-like characters. The pages are organically filled with circle-cheeked people of various skin tones and ethnicities as well as a person using a wheelchair. Simple text lyrically discusses the color featured on each double-page spread, engaging kids through a patterned text that presents specific questions followed by open-ended ones: "Feel the cool green grass? What else is green?" There's plenty to find amid the flat art, such as green frogs and turtles or yellow bananas or giraffes, setting the stage for meaningful interaction and vocabulary building. It all wraps up on a sunny playground, with all of the colors surrounding the children in a "colorful world." Companion books about shapes and numbers are almost as successful; the art's clean lines work especially well in Baby, Find the Shapes. Baby Let's Count stars ever popular farm animals, but having the numbers one to four sharing a double-page spread is confusingly busy.

Colorful fun for the littlest listeners. (Board book. 6 mos.-2)

Kirkus Reviews