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My First Brain Quest First Words: Around the Home: A Question-and-Answer Book
Introduce foundational vocabulary into your child's life for items found all around your home using bright and colorful pictures in Brain Quest's signature question and answer format.
My First Brain First Around the Home introduces babies and toddlers to more than 100 foundational vocabulary words from scenes in and around a cozy, colorful family home—from the kitchen to the bathroom to the garden. In addition to labeled illustrated objects, each scene has questions that help reader and child talk about what they see on the page. There’s counting, colors, comparison and more!
My First Brain First Around the Home introduces babies and toddlers to more than 100 foundational vocabulary words from scenes in and around a cozy, colorful family home—from the kitchen to the bathroom to the garden. In addition to labeled illustrated objects, each scene has questions that help reader and child talk about what they see on the page. There’s counting, colors, comparison and more!
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20 pages, Board Book
Published January 10, 2023
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December 21, 2022See my full review here: https://www.yabookscentral.com/my-fir...
MY FIRST BRAIN QUEST FIRST WORDS AROUND THE HOME is an educational book that allows young children to interact and explore with a family home. The book begins outside of the home, exploring the exterior and the garage, before heading inside to look at the kitchen, living room, hallway, bedroom, and bathroom. It then heads back outside to the garden, shed, and family who lives there. Each page features short sentences, labeled objects, and questions to allow children to explore the scene.
What I loved: The images are full of colors and details, giving children much to look at on each page. The labeled objects and things are helpful for early word recognition, which is always great to see. The questions will need to be asked and answered alongside caregivers, to help solve them together. Some questions relate to searching for specific things, counting, identifying colors, recognizing sounds, and other thoughtful things on each scene. This guided exploration works well for early learning alongside caregivers and will make this work well for toddlers and preschoolers.
What left me wanting more: As a small thing, it would be helpful to have the answers to the questions. This would help for preschoolers to explore on their own with an answer guide for caregivers to help them determine if the answers are correct or to confirm what caregivers believe. While most questions are obvious, some are a bit trickier, such as what starts with a /k/ sound in the living room, as caregivers may not be as familiar with phonetics, and this seems to be curtain, couch, and clock (though I guess maybe cushion, unlabeled, may work too?), but there are no k-words.
Final verdict: An educational exploration of home, MY FIRST BRAIN QUEST FIRST WORDS: AROUND THE HOME is a colorful book that encourages caregivers and little ones to learn together.
MY FIRST BRAIN QUEST FIRST WORDS AROUND THE HOME is an educational book that allows young children to interact and explore with a family home. The book begins outside of the home, exploring the exterior and the garage, before heading inside to look at the kitchen, living room, hallway, bedroom, and bathroom. It then heads back outside to the garden, shed, and family who lives there. Each page features short sentences, labeled objects, and questions to allow children to explore the scene.
What I loved: The images are full of colors and details, giving children much to look at on each page. The labeled objects and things are helpful for early word recognition, which is always great to see. The questions will need to be asked and answered alongside caregivers, to help solve them together. Some questions relate to searching for specific things, counting, identifying colors, recognizing sounds, and other thoughtful things on each scene. This guided exploration works well for early learning alongside caregivers and will make this work well for toddlers and preschoolers.
What left me wanting more: As a small thing, it would be helpful to have the answers to the questions. This would help for preschoolers to explore on their own with an answer guide for caregivers to help them determine if the answers are correct or to confirm what caregivers believe. While most questions are obvious, some are a bit trickier, such as what starts with a /k/ sound in the living room, as caregivers may not be as familiar with phonetics, and this seems to be curtain, couch, and clock (though I guess maybe cushion, unlabeled, may work too?), but there are no k-words.
Final verdict: An educational exploration of home, MY FIRST BRAIN QUEST FIRST WORDS: AROUND THE HOME is a colorful book that encourages caregivers and little ones to learn together.
January 4, 2025
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A small but cheerful white house is the setting for this compendium of domestic items and words to read to the youngest readers. Starting outside, most of the objects on the page are named, and alongside the illustration are questions about colors, numbers, the weather, and what the cat says. Continuing on, we get a glimpse inside the garage, living room, kitchen, bath, and even the garden shed. At the end, we meet the family who lives in the house as well.
The pictures are simply depicted in bright colors, and there are a lot of detail. I appreciated that not everything was named, and would have great fun looking for these objects with a young readers; the laundry hanging outside could lead to a good five minutes of conversation with a three year old. What I liked best about the book was the fact that it could be read to the very youngest reader, but has a lot of value for older preschool children as well.
It would have been nice to see other sorts of homes, since some children live in apartments, duplexes, etc., but different types of homes would be another book entirely! This Brain Quest series is such a good one that maybe one will be forthcoming. They have a wide range of books as well as workbooks.
This slightly larger format board book states right on the cover that it has "100+ words to get baby ready to read". Considering that my daughter still won't part with a similar book about the first 1,000 words in Spanish that is extremely battered, there is a lot of appeal to this type of book across age groups! For a board book, it is packed with lots of learning opportunities for pointing and naming every day objects, and is right at home with Cousin's Maisy's Day Out, Underwood's 100 First Words, and Priddy's First 100 Words.
A small but cheerful white house is the setting for this compendium of domestic items and words to read to the youngest readers. Starting outside, most of the objects on the page are named, and alongside the illustration are questions about colors, numbers, the weather, and what the cat says. Continuing on, we get a glimpse inside the garage, living room, kitchen, bath, and even the garden shed. At the end, we meet the family who lives in the house as well.
The pictures are simply depicted in bright colors, and there are a lot of detail. I appreciated that not everything was named, and would have great fun looking for these objects with a young readers; the laundry hanging outside could lead to a good five minutes of conversation with a three year old. What I liked best about the book was the fact that it could be read to the very youngest reader, but has a lot of value for older preschool children as well.
It would have been nice to see other sorts of homes, since some children live in apartments, duplexes, etc., but different types of homes would be another book entirely! This Brain Quest series is such a good one that maybe one will be forthcoming. They have a wide range of books as well as workbooks.
This slightly larger format board book states right on the cover that it has "100+ words to get baby ready to read". Considering that my daughter still won't part with a similar book about the first 1,000 words in Spanish that is extremely battered, there is a lot of appeal to this type of book across age groups! For a board book, it is packed with lots of learning opportunities for pointing and naming every day objects, and is right at home with Cousin's Maisy's Day Out, Underwood's 100 First Words, and Priddy's First 100 Words.
April 12, 2025
There are so many dimensions to this book and ways to learn colors, numbers, phonics, spatial awareness, items, activities. Items are labeled in this book similar to a Richard Scarry book, and the questions on the side of the page serve as a guide for adults to help a little reader use their observation and critical thinking skills to process the rich visual content. The images of the house are very pleasant to look at. Not everyone's home is so grand, but the large spaces to give us more types of items and spaces to consider.
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