Baby Faces

by DK

Overview

Look at all the baby faces with Baby Faces. Make a happy face with a smiling baby or make a sad face with a crying baby. Baby Faces is the ideal first board book for your baby. Read along with your little one to introduce common expressions on sweet baby faces for your baby to look at! With crystal-clear photos, read-aloud text, and an extra-special twinkle on every page, Baby Faces engages young babies with singsong rhymes and bright, colorful pages.

The Baby Sparkle series features appealing early-learning themes — bedtime, baby faces, animals, and more. Each title has six sparkly, double-page spreads, designed to attract babies in the youngest age group (0 – 6 months). With lots to encourage playful interaction between parent and child, including singsongy rhymes and animal noises, these stimulating first books are a joy to share, and filled with high-quality real-world baby learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781465444660
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	02/02/2016
Series:	Baby Sparkle
Pages:	14
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 5.38(h) x 0.84(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 2 Years

About the Author

We believe in the power of discovery. That's why we create books for everyone that explore ideas and nurture curiosity about the world we live in.
 
From first words to the Big Bang, from the wonders of nature to city adventures, you will find expert knowledge, hours of fun and endless inspiration in the pages of our books. 

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Editorial Reviews

01/01/2017
Baby-Toddler—Sturdy construction and an easy-to-grasp size make these board books perfect for little hands. Each spread features glittery texture and text instructing readers to express a different type of emotion. Real-life babies are shown on the recto page, which depicts the emotion. Babies love looking at other infants, and Baby Faces offers ample opportunities to do just that. In Baby Night-Night, a typical bedtime routine is portrayed. Children will enjoy the glittery elements on each spread and will be interested to see their own lives reflected on the pages. Both titles are recommended for purchase.

School Library Journal

2016-02-17
A sturdy, serviceable board book features babies doing what babies do best—look cute. The text takes the form of prompts, as if from a photographer in a studio. "Make a smiley, happy face. / Hee! Hee! Hee!" The first, smiling baby has curly brown hair and light-brown skin, but the other five in this brief album are light-skinned, albeit charming. The text is wordy to accommodate the awkwardly forced rhymes that stretch over two double-page spreads. "Be really grumpy with me!" concludes the rhyme begun on the previous spread with "Hee! Hee! Hee!" Moreover, that "Be really grumpy with me!" paired with a picture of a distraught, crying child seems rather mean-spirited. Saying simply, "Make a smiley, happy face," "Make a sad and gloomy face," and so on would have avoided this problem while keeping the text age appropriate, giving it a genuine feel, and avoiding the singsong tone. The rhymes in Baby Night-night, published simultaneously, work somewhat better, though rhyming "ting-a-ling" with "begin" is a stretch. Foil stripes on the covers and sparkly textures inside seem designed to make this Baby Sparkle series stand out on the shelf, but these decorative features have no relationship to the content of each title. The claim on the back cover that "sparkly patterns stimulate baby's vision" may sell books to eager young parents but is not backed up by scientific research. The sturdy binding and exceptionally thick pages make this and its companion acceptable choices where board books get heavy use. (Board book. 6 mos.-1)

Kirkus Reviews