My First Phonics Board Book

My First Board Books

by D.K. Publishing

The new titles in Dorling Kindersley's best-selling "My First" series focus on early language development-with full-color photos and clear, simple text. A perfect introduction to basic literacy in the distinctive "My First" format, My First Phonics Board Book introduces children two to seven to the forty-four separate sounds that make up the English language. Bright full-color images plus color-coded word labels accompany each entry for easy recognition.

36 pages, Board Book

First published March 15, 2000

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

[Connie]

With the younger set, it's just your basic one-word book. You point to pictures and say the word. (Or you shake it up a bit and point to pictures and name something totally different, like "elephant" for "flower". This is apparently hilarious.)

Then, with older kids, you can leave them alone with the book to try to work out some phonemic awareness from the letters in red.

It's exactly what you'd expect from this sort of book, and does its job well.