Category: Board Books

We love this adorable board book, Look!: Babies Head to Toe by Robie H. Harris, illustrated by Anoosha Syed. It is a perfect book for your little ones to discover their body and senses! As we were reading my little guy kept touching his body parts while making the accompanying noises and gestures that the babies in the book were doing!

In LOOK!, Robie created an introduction to parts of the body and senses for the youngest readers:

• Captivates babies and toddlers with repetitive sounds and a melodic voice
• Follow-up to her first board book, WHO?: A Celebration of Babies, which New York Magazine named one of the best board books
• Helps infants make sense of their world and gives them opportunities to respond with their own sounds and eventually words; fosters infants’ language skills and conversations with others
• Bonus material: developed note cards (front and back) that include 5 tips for parents and caregivers to share LOOK!

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About the Author:

Robie H. Harris has written award-winning and internationally acclaimed children’s books and is known for writing about serious issues with honesty, understanding, and humor. Harris has written over 20 books for everyone from toddlers to older kids, including the definitive Family Library about sexuality: IT’S PERFECTLY NORMAL, IT’S SO AMAZING!, and IT’S NOT THE STORK!. Harris travels around the country speaking about how picture books address the genuine feelings and concerns of young children.

Little Books of Opposites, Actions, and Feelings

We were generously given copies of the newest board book series by Compendium.  Hide Seek Stinky Sweet, Happy Grumpy Loved, and Wiggle Jump Tickle have bright, vivid illustrations and the simple, vocabulary rich text engaged and enticed our youngest readers.

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Hide Seek Stinky Sweet

Hide Seek Stinky Sweet is filled with opposites.  After reading this book, we played a fun game of thinking of different opposites and finding examples of them around the house.  It was a fun way to think about some opposites that weren’t in the book.  My 5 year old enjoyed the scavenger hunt around the house, and while the younger one had no idea what was going on, it sure did keep him entertained!

Wiggle Jump Tickle

Wiggle Jump Tickle is a fun book to practice getting you acquainted with various verbs, but also and getting your kids to move! The book features a boy and as the pages move along he ends up with a loving friend. We’ve read the book several times and have tried to act out the different movements mentioned on the pages. We think it’s wonderful that some of the words are unexpected and make us think. For example, we love the spread with play and stomp. This book has entertained my one year old, as well as my almost 4 year old!

I’d like to say I have a picture to show you how silly my older son got, but I was in the moment and couldn’t capture it on my phone, so instead here’s a picture of my younger son enjoying the book for the first time at breakfast!

Happy Grumpy Loved

Happy Grumpy Loved is the perfect book companion to teaching your little one about feelings and making connections with others. We loved that the book goes beyond the typical board books about feelings which usually only touch on happy, sad, silly, etc. Instead Happy Grumpy Loved includes brave, scared, jealous, friendly, shy, etc. With my four and two year old we had great conversations about times when we were feeling those big emotions. We shared how we felt during a time when we were shy (worried) or friendly (happy). When I asked the boys to show me their surprised and sad faces they were able to mimic the characters in the book. We also used our feeling eggs from Hape to connect a manipulative and hands-on approach to our reading!