My First Body Board Book

by D.K. Publishing

From fingers to toes to eyes and nose, this book sorts the body. Containing bright pictures and large, simple text, it stimulates recognition and encourages talking and naming.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

36 pages, Board Book

First published February 2, 2016

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Eswar]

I enjoy the diversity of races and ages of babies, so all children will feel comfortable. Starts with body, eyes, hair, hand types and then goes into movements (verb + noun), emotions (normalizes all types of emotions as natural), the reader can ask the child what can they do? (blow windmill, play, crawl, shake rattles). From general, it goes to specific/individual (I can.. I see... I smell... I eat... )
Different types of clothes for climates and key milestones of the day (get dressed, bath, story, lunch, bedtime). Counting to 5 and then stages of growth from 6 weeks to 3 years.
Covers all the foundation of an early book for a child. Somewhat distracting inside cover first page on disclaimers, legal, production, etc, which I would have thought better suited to last page inside cover, but I think they wanted to end with a double fold on stages of a child's growth. Back cover clearly labels what a parent can get out of this book.
GBP4.99 and $11.50.
The title word "body" is slightly embossed and glitters, which is attractive.

[Ruth Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfect for babies, this book goes through a baby's day, a year, how a baby changes as he/she grows. Lots of pictures of babies!

[Kate]

title is so weird

[Maeve · Rating 3 out of 5]

An introduction to a baby's body!

[TJE · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved mimicking what the kids were doing in the book and labeling some body parts

[Jesse · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was lucky enough to get two copies of this book as they were supplied through a program called The Little Big Book Club which encourages reading and book use with children. Out of all the books received in their bags my children were instantly attached to this book from about the age of 8 months – 23 months.

My children loved pointing to different body parts in the photograph and then pointing to the same body part on themselves. It really did help to bring along the vocabulary development in both my children and they were identifying body parts as spoken by an adult well before 12 months and naming them on their own by about 14 months.