My First 100 Nature Words: An Early Learning STEM Board Book for Babies and Toddlers about Environments, Animals, Plants and More! From the #1 Science ... (Gifts for Toddlers)

My First STEAM Words

by Chris Ferrie, Chris Ferrie

The perfect primer of essential nature words for your little genius from the #1 bestselling science author for kids, Chris Ferrie!

Babies and toddlers are curious and ready to learn! Introduce your little one to nature words beyond the basics.

From oceans to rainforest, from islands to wetlands, from plants to animals to fungi and more, this is the bright and simple introduction to the smart words every budding scholar needs!

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Nature

24 pages, Board book

First published November 3, 2020

About the author

I am Chris Ferrie, father of four and happy husband. My day job is academic research where I follow my curiosity through the word of quantum physics. My passion for communicating science has led from the most esoteric topics of mathematical physics to more recently writing children’s books.

Reviews

[Kristen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book impressed me! I was expecting words like grass, bug, ant, cat, cloud, tree. Instead we have brackish, biodiversity, anemone, deforestation, nocturnal, and atoll. Wow! Now there were simpler words in there, but I do appreciate a rare book that allows me to teach bigger words to my young daughter.

[Ronan Crutchfield]

The pictures are bright and colorful, and I guess it’s never too soon for me to start learning words like “photosynthesis” and “vertebrate”

[Ollie Skyba · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve never seen a board book with tons of words I’ve never heard “laughing”.
Germinate, terrestrial, arthropod, deciduous… I bet your 2yo has already knew all these words, that’s just me, ESL student forever “giggling”.

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thanks to Sourcebooks Early Reads, I read this little book. I was drawn to order it for the pictures and the fact that I am a nature lover. Let me start by saying, I expected something different due to the title and pictures and the book has won me over.

The pictures are colorful and bright to appeal to babies and toddlers. At first blush I thought this book would have narrow/niche appeal but I've opened it now a few times and it is growing on me. Still in all, I had to look up the word 'epiphyte'. If the more senior or adult reader is inclined to like words and the child is patient and inclined to like words and words that can be made fun like sloth, fungi and cactus, then this book is a winner. Many of the pictures host a smile which I didn't notice immediately. This book gives on a number of levels.

The author believes it is never too soon to introduce small children to big ideas and I agree with the concept.

Recommend.

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recently I read a title in this series about oceanography and I thought it was a bit much for the toddler set for which board books are aimed. This one is much more accessible and covers numerous aspects of nature in a broad way. Double page boards on everything from animals, deserts, wetlands to rivers and lakes. There was one example in rivers and lakes that was a bit “deep” for the young learner. With the illustration stratified which is a cross section of a river are the three labels in parentheses epilimnion, metaliminion, and hypolimnion which refer to three zones of a river. This river lover was definitely intrigued by the terms, but still a bit much for the board book set.
I am looking forward to reading the author’s title on art.

[Tammy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chunky, padded board book with beautiful illustrations and not-your-typical nature words to introduce to your baby or toddler. Each two page spread introduces your child to a different climate and the types of plants and animals found in each environment. I received a free copy from Sourcebooks Early Reads program.

[Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some really cool and unusual words in here and lovely colorful art. Baby was not interested in the least. But we'll try again another night.

[Madison · Rating 5 out of 5]

There were lots of new and big words in this book! I can’t wait for Momma and Daddy to teach them all to me.