Where Is Baby's Beach Ball?: A Lift-the-Flap Book

by Karen Katz

It's summertime, and Baby is looking for the beach ball--but where can it be? Little ones can lift the large, sturdy flaps in this board book to reveal pretty seashells, crawly crabs, and more! Babies will love this interactive adventure!

Genres: Picture Books, Summer, Childrens, Storytime

14 pages, Board Book

First published May 5, 2009

About the author

Karen Katz has written and illustrated many books for children, including The Colors of Us, Can You Say Peace, My First Ramadan, Counting Kisses and Where is Baby's Belly Button. Long inspired by folk art from around the world, she was inspired to write her first book, Over the Moon, when she and her husband adopted their daughter from Guatemala, and she wanted to tell the story of welcoming Lena into their lives. Katz loves to paint and experiment with texture, color, collage and pattern. Besides an author and illustrator, she has been a costume designer, quilt maker, fabric artist and graphic designer. Katz and her family divide their time between New York City and Saugerties, New York.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/karenkatz

Reviews

[Asho]

Every time we go to the library lately I grab one of these Karen Katz lift-the-flap books for F (almost 2) because she's all about the flap books. They're all pretty much the same, just different settings. But F enjoys them, no matter what the theme.

[Hilary · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book made my little kiddos smile. The flaps are large, but the paper is on the thin side, so they aren't particularly sturdy flaps.

[Laurie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like this series (with supervision).

[Danielle T · Rating 4 out of 5]

flaps! also a number of things to count besides looking underneath flaps.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Le gustó mucho a mi hijo. Sencillo, pero con ilustraciones bonitas y fáciles de entender.

[Ting Zhang · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is appropriate for ages 2 to 4 in early childhood classrooms. The book “Where Is Baby's Beach Ball” which was written by Karen Katz. It talks about a baby is playing at the beach. She is looking for her beach ball. It is not behind the umbrella. It is not in her mommy’s beach bag. It is not behind the boat and castle. She keeps looking for her beach ball. I like this story because it is cute and funny. It provides nice illustrations and simple texts. The story inspires children’s curiosity and imagination. When they listen to this story, they would imagine about where the beach ball is. This book provides many objects’ names such as ball, umbrella, bag, boat, and castle. It helps children learn some vocabulary from it. I believe that many children would probably like it.

[jacky · Rating 3 out of 5]

There seems to be one of these books for every occasion or season. It makes the books a bit repetitive, but also gives you options about which one to read when. This one introduces some things you will see at the beach. I also liked that some of the items discovered instead of the beach ball could be counted.

[Richelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is well done. I love the different children in the books. However, in this book there is an octopus and it has 9 tentacles instead of 8. This is not good for teaching our children that octo means 8.

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a simple Karen Katz lift the flap board book. Nothing new or shocking it is just what you would expect. Ages Birth and up

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

My one complaint is that it is a bit difficult to tell that this is a pop up book.

[Amy Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lift-the-flap board book about baby and things you find on the beach. Typical Karen Katz.

[Jacqueline Quinn · Rating 1 out of 5]

I can't hang with an octopus that has nine arms. Serious mistake on the part of the illustrator, editors, and publisher.

[Dobby Girl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun!