Reach: A board book about curiosity

by Elizabeth Verdick, Marjorie Lisovskis

Overview

Wiggly baby on the floor. What is baby reaching for? Celebrate the many ways that babies reach out to discover and learn about the world around them. With lively rhyming text and vivid black-and-white photos of babies in action, this book is sure to engage babies and grown-ups alike. A great baby board book for floortime or anytime!

Happy Healthy Baby Series
What can baby do today? Reach . . . and move, play, eat, cuddle, and rest. The books in the Happy Healthy Baby series include appealing black-and-white photographs of babies and whimsical full-color illustrations that capture the moments and moods of baby’s day. Little ones will love the photos of baby faces, and the rhythm and rhyme will hold baby’s attention. Giggle, wiggle, head to toe. Tap and clap and rock and roll! Busy babies grow healthy and strong as they move about, discovering the many things they can do!

As the books are shared with them, babies absorb concepts of love, safety, and confidence. At times lively, at times gentle, these sturdy-format baby board books reflect what every parent wants: a happy, healthy baby. Includes tips for parents and care providers. A perfect gift for baby showers, newborns, and birthdays.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575424248
Publisher:	Free Spirit Publishing
Publication date:	07/24/2013
Series:	Happy Healthy Baby® Board Books
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	135,301
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

Marjorie Lisovskis has been writing and editing books for children, teachers, and parents for more than thirty years and has a special interest in creating books that help young children see themselves as confident, capable, and loved. Along with the Happy Healthy Baby® series, she is the coauthor (with Elizabeth Verdick) of How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger. Marjorie has two grown children and three grandchildren. She lives with her husband in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Editorial Reviews

In this addition to the Happy Healthy Baby series, Verdick and Lisovskis home in on an early developmental milestone—the use of hands to reach, grasp, and explore. B&w photos of babies smiling and reaching are paired with bright yellow pages with cartoon images of little ones smiling, crawling, and playing, as well as a simple verse: “Hungry baby wants some more./ Reaching is what hands are for!” Seven tips for adults offer useful suggestions for interacting with babies (“Your hands can be a ‘baby toy.’ Demonstrate waving, clapping, and reaching”) and encouraging motor skills. Simultaneously available: Eat. Up to age 2. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

In this addition to the Happy Healthy Baby series, Verdick and Lisovskis home in on an early developmental milestone—the use of hands to reach, grasp, and explore. B&w photos of babies smiling and reaching are paired with bright yellow pages with cartoon images of little ones smiling, crawling, and playing, as well as a simple verse: “Hungry baby wants some more./ Reaching is what hands are for!” Seven tips for adults offer useful suggestions for interacting with babies (“Your hands can be a ‘baby toy.’ Demonstrate waving, clapping, and reaching”) and encouraging motor skills. Simultaneously available: Eat. Up to age 2. — Publishers Weekly

“The photos are bright-eyed and buoyant . . . Both books provide easily digestible tips for parents and caregivers on healthy eating and ways to encourage reaching, grabbing, and interaction. This and its companion are pleasant additions to the Happy Healthy Baby series.”—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2013-10-20
Expressive black-and-white photography features babies reaching and interacting with their world. Each right-hand page offers gentle images of racially diverse infants reaching for a toy, a mirror, a bottle or a grown-up. The left-hand page provides one sentence of the light verse: "Wiggly baby on the floor. / What is baby reaching for? / Loving baby, sweet as can be. / Are you reaching out to me?" Floating near the text are line-drawn cartoons in pastel colors depicting babies engaged in play among doodles of stars, hearts, flowers and toys. Between the pale colors and the diminutive figures, these details may be lost on little ones, but babies will be drawn to the photos. This title parallels closely the companion book, Eat (978-1-57542-425-5), which shows infants eating, drinking from a bottle and nursing (there is a very demure breast-feeding photo and a cartoon drawing of the same on one spread). Color photography would have provided more visual appeal in a book on eating, but, again, the photos are bright-eyed and buoyant. The last two pages of both books provide easily digestible tips for parents and caregivers on healthy eating and ways to encourage reaching, grabbing and interaction. This and its companion are pleasant additions to the Happy Healthy Baby series. (Board book. 6-18 mos.)

Kirkus Reviews