Baby's First Words

by Barefoot Books, Christiane Engel (Illustrator)

Overview

"Christiane Engel’s illustrations are fabulous...with a kaleidoscope of colours matched to easy on the eye layers of detail that make for lots of talking points" – Books My Toddler Loves

An ALA Rainbow Book List Top Ten Pick for 2018! Learn over 100 early vocabulary words with a toothy toddler and her two dads! Cheerful acrylic illustrations and digital collage artwork will keep little eyes glued to the pages, searching for the silly woolly mammoth on each one. Designed to support babies' natural pattern of language development, this first word book for the modern world reflects the earliest nouns, verbs, prepositions, adjectives and interjections that children learn to say. This new edition features a smaller trim size, just right for little hands—and a lower price, just right for savvy caregivers. Also available in bilingual Spanish-English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782858720
Publisher:	Barefoot Books
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Award-winning author Stella Blackstone has written many of Barefoot's best-selling titles, including the Bear series and the Cleo the Cat series. She has been writing for children for over twenty years. Stella lives in Somerset, UK.

Sunny Scribens was born and raised outside Nashville, TN, and holds an M.A. in Classics from the University of Texas. She has written numerous titles for Barefoot Books, including several under the name Kate DePalma.

Christiane Engel is an award-winning artist from northern Germany. She currently lives and works in England with her family and has illustrated several children’s books.

Editorial Reviews

"A solid, attractive vocabulary builder" — Kirkus Reviews

"Offers engagement, affirmation, and delight, showing a mixed-race, gay-parented family" – CCBlogC

"Christiane Engel’s illustrations are fabulous...with a kaleidoscope of colours matched to easy on the eye layers of detail that make for lots of talking points" – Books My Toddler Loves

"Baby’s First Words foi criado por um especialista em desenvolvimento infantil para apoiar o modo como os bebês aprendem naturalmente a língua – e para iniciar conversas e compreender o seu filho. [Baby’s First Words was created by a child development specialist to support the way babies naturally learn a language – and to start conversations and understand your child.]" – Gaby No Canadá

From the Publisher

2017-05-10
A little girl explores her surroundings in this board book. Each turn of the page offers a different scene with objects labeled in bold, black text. The brown-haired, peach-skinned toddler spends time with her interracial dads (one's black, and the other has olive skin and black hair) playing in the park, eating lunch, taking a bath, and eventually going to bed. Each double-page spread focuses on one setting, activity, or theme, as in one of various types of locomotion, another set in a kitchen at lunchtime, and another that focuses on emotions. Labels are printed in boldface type, sometimes with an extra descriptor: "loud fire engine"; "excited wiggle." A Spanish-language version of the book, Mis Primeras Palabras, is concurrently published, with identical illustrations but swapping Spanish descriptors in for English ones. The illustrations employ a dark color palette that leans heavily on purples, greens, oranges, and browns to render the chunky and curved objects. The compositions are a little cluttered, with each scene depicting about 10 new words. Little ones will learn about clothes, food, emotions, animals, and more in this fairly extensive but still compact resource. A solid, attractive vocabulary builder. (Board book. 1-2)

Kirkus Reviews