Tummy Time!: A high-contrast fold-out book with mirror for babies

by Mama Makes Books (Created by)

Overview

A Bank Street College of Education Best Book of 2023
The perfect gift for newborn babies!

"Tummy time - placing a baby on his or her stomach only while awake and supervised - can help your baby develop strong neck and shoulder muscles, and promote motor skills." - Mayo Clinic. And this book will keep babies' brains busy, too, while their muscles are hard at work. The high-contrast images on one side are mesmerizing because, although young babies' vision is blurry, they can see bold patterns with sharp light-dark contrast and saturated color. Babies are also hard-wired to recognize faces, so there are baby photos on the other side to delight your baby, and an embedded mirror - because babies love looking at themselves! The book can be spread out in front of them, or read like a book so you can enjoy reading time together.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781636550138
Publisher:	Red Comet Press
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Series:	TUMMY TIME! BOOKS
Pages:	16
Sales rank:	116,089
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	1 Year

About the Author

Mama Makes Books is a small, creative company producing children's books with love, for children, for books, and for the planet. The aim is to create books that children and adults enjoy sharing together - books that develop early-learning skills, an understanding of the world, and feed curiosity.

Editorial Reviews

A Bank Street College of Education Best Board Book of 2023

"Red Comet Press isn't playing around. Oh, you can have your simple accordion books all you want. This one's cranking up the volume to 11. Basically, it going all all ALL in on baby brain development. And it isn't just content to give you stuff for babies either. Right at the start you get this kick-ass statement to parents specifying PRECISELY how much babies can or cannot see developmentally. After that it shows thumbnails of all the images inside and asks, "Which image will excite your baby the most?" A worthy question since not only are we talking about high-contrast illustrations but also baby faces and even a mirror. Some of the pictures even give the babies little instruction that parents can do with them. "Happy Baby Touch your nose, " reads one. Boop! I'm always shocked we don't see more books like this one on the market. A must for any new parent." –Betsy Bird, School Library Journal/Fuse#8

"Designed for the very, very young, this accordion-fold offering is truly the Swiss Army Knife of board books. One side features diverse baby-face photos, a mirrored page, and a simple, baby-friendly text. The other side is wordless, with simple graphic images in black, white and bold primary colors. The whole project folds up neatly with a tabbed closer."–The Horn Book

"This interactive board book makes an excellent choice for early reading with baby. . .The book folds back up easily and tucks into a nice little pocket which makes this great for tucking in the diaper bag and pulling out while waiting at the doctor’s office, while in church, or waiting in the grocery check out.” –Sincerely Stacie

"This is such a great book to gift to new parents!" –BooksAndBitesRoc

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