Eyes, Nose, Fingers and Toes

by D Hindley

Aimed at toddlers, this illustrated, rhyming book covers all parts of the body and what they can do - from eyes and nose to fingers and toes.

Genres: Picture Books, Storytime, Childrens, Bodies, Science, Health, Counting

Paperback

First published June 2, 1999

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great illustrations accompany text describing different things our bodies can do. "A nose is to blow. A nose is to sniff ... Arms go up, arms go down. Arms go reaching way out wide." This is a great interactive book to use with our youngest story time kids.

[Alunafowler · Rating 5 out of 5]

A First Book All About You: Eyes, Nose, fingers, and Toes by Judy Hindley is a wonderful book to introduce to toddlers about their body characteristics. Children are developed and taught the language to say words but they dont get the concept of what things are and what they do. This book allows a child to understand the multiple characteristics of the eyes, fingers, nose, mouth,a back, and etc... and how we uses these body parts everyday. The illustration done by Brita Granstorm give the art to relate to babies and toodlers in a diverse affect with beatiful sturated water colors. I believe all chilren would love this book at the age of ond and two. All children will feel included as the illustrations incorperate different genders and races. This book is great for a host of day care children as they tend to learn themselves and recall their body parts.

[Paul Candeias · Rating 5 out of 5]

Using this book about different ways to move your body partnered with some movement will be a great story/movement circle time. Children will be able to do different things with their body. The illustrations were great and it's definitely a versatile story.

Lesson: I would use the simple game of simon says with the children and have them do funny things with their bodies to expand their movement.

[FM Family · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a great book for young kids who are learning about their body and it feels fun and fresh and easy to read as opposed to the plodding of some books about the body. I love the way it takes on each body part with a silly but informative rhyming page and my one year old was hooked on it, I feel like she learned all the parts of her body from this great book.

[Jennifer Hadley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a simple book about body parts for young children. It highlights the similarities and differences that we all have. It would be a good book for a read aloud in a pre-k classroom. It also has some counting and some repetition for the children to join in the reading.

[Kelsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was awesome! It really teaches kids about the different parts of the body and their functions in a way that is easy for them to understand.

My only criticism is that sometimes the body parts don’t go in order (like descending or ascending order, which would make more sense to kids than jumping around from part to part). For example, they mention toes, then legs, then feet, then knees for some reason—I found this very strange. I also found it confusing that they mentioned mouth separately from lips (according to this book, the mouth makes noise and has teeth and a tongue in it, but lips are for kissing, whistling, and smiling). I think lips vs. mouth is a very specific distinction that’s a little too confusing for kids of this age.

[Sierra Jenkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is about what each part of your body does (that it mentions). It talks about the different ways we can use each body part. The book is intended to help young children explore the ways their body moves, and, as well, learn how to move. This book encourages the reader to get their body moving.

I like the book, and I think it is a good way to get children to move around. I like the easy illustrations, and the formatting of the text, which make it easy to understand and to follow. The book is easy to read.

As a clinician, the book can be used in clinics to target pragmatics and following directions.

[Sterlande Altidor · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really love this this book, it a great book to do movement activites with children, because they could point to the part of the body that you name. If you say nose, they could touch their nose.
This book is a beautiful journey for young children and all the body parts that they love to name like their ears, nose, fingers and toes. The illustrations are large and inviting. The best part of this book is that the children in the book are all different races, they all have noses, ears, and eyes, but they don't all look alike. The children look like all of us, different and beautiful.

[Brandice Harrison · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a book that talks about the different parts of your body and what they are used for. This book is more geared for children under the age of 4. I had this book in my two-year-old class and they liked to do what the kids were doing in the book. It is also a good way to get the kids moving and doing the things the children are doing in the book. It teaches what our body parts are and what we can use them for. I like this book but did only give it a 2 star because I think there are other books out there teaching the same thing.

[Morgan Renouf · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story teaches children about their body parts and what they are used for. It is interactive and engaging as children can touch their eyes, ears, nose, etc. during the story. The illustrations show many different looking children, which shows that all of us have the same body parts. This is a perfect way to introduce movement to the children as well because the author encourages things like counting our toes, using our lips to whistle, and stretching our backs.

[Tamara GTC · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good read. Nice cute words and simple and colorful pictures. The book displayed children of different ethnicities. I love books that show images of things that are different but also allow us to see how much we are all alike. It covered the topic on many different body parts and how they are used.

[Amita Singh · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a great book to do movement activities with children. It has a great use of language and can really get children active during story time. There are rhyming words and lots of actions that kids between the ages of 3-5 will enjoy doing. This story would be great to introduce toddlers to learning about the human body and what individual parts of our body do.

[Sinthia Burgos · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is fun to read. Rhyming about our body part and explaining what they do. The illustrations are cute and funny, babies and children discovering there body and senses. I like this book because its one you can read to a baby and explain the pictures. For the older children, you can get them to follow the movements in the book.

[Moore, Maureen · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book “Eyes, Nose, Fingers and Toes” by Judy Hindley is classified as juvenile fiction; the targeted age group is 0-5. It’s appropriate for early readers; the story is written in a way to guide young children to identify their body parts and ways to use those parts; good pick for an “All About Me” theme. The images/illustrations are very colorful and pleasing to children.

[Kaleb Beaulieu · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is awesome for talking about physical characteristics with children and how we are are all similar in our capabilities. It directly relates to children and gives multiple different types of features and their uses. It has illustrations of many different children acting out these functions and students can perform these movements as well or provide alternative uses.

[Josefina Bustos · Rating 2 out of 5]

Body awareness is important and this book describes basic anatomy. It gives examples of how we use eyes, ears, and other body parts. For example, mouths are for singing. It does not say mouths are not for saying mean things. Instead, it talks about what is okay to do with body parts such as "hands for clapping."

[Jada · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book talks about body parts and what they are used for. Someone could use this book to talk about the 5 senses and being familiar with their bodies. The illustrations are big and colorful so it's appealing for young children. The children can also use this book when they are "reading" to learn storytelling because they can assume what is going on within each page.

[Marisa Severin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I knew about this book when my daughter was a toddler. This is a great book to have in a preschool classroom. There are rhyming words and lots of actions that kids between the ages of 3-5 will enjoy doing. Splendid book.

[Tameka Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked the illustrations but the story didn't flow very well at times and at some points just fell flat. I will read the book to my kids and hopefully have fun with my kids pointing to our body parts and acting out the motions in the book,its just not as good as I thought.

[Betul Kilinc · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a wonderful colorful story about senses and body parts. It's a great story to discuss all the appropriate uses of our body parts. The pictures are colorful and have children from diverse ethnicities.

[Manal Cheikh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book and the illustrations are very cute, which appeals to children. Has an adorable rhyme teacher can easily read and "act out" the actions with toddlers, is helpful for teaching children different parts of the body.I like the multicultural element with children of all colors.

[Chelsea · Rating 3 out of 5]

It has a great use of language and can really get children active during story time. The pictures go along with the story really well and does a great job of teaching new body parts. This book would be really good to use during a bodies unit.

[Ten_zillions · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book for babies and young toddlers. I love its racial/multicultural inclusiveness through its illustrations. It can be used teach or reinforce to young children their different body parts, where they are located, and what they can do. It also introduces rhyming words.

[Anita Marlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

The illustrations are big, colorful and cute. It is a simple story, but tells and explains our body parts (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, back, knee, and toes, etc) and how to we use them. Children can follow the direction to do the movement while a teacher reads the book.

[Maddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This teaches children about their body parts. What I really liked about it is that it gave reasons for each body part. After you read the story you can go through the body parts and children can point at them and tell you what they do.

[Mariah Wright · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eyes, Nose, Fingers, and Toes is a good book to read to toddlers. This book teaches them how our different body parts do something. Such as eyes, nose, fingers, toes, ears, mouth, lips, neck, back, arms, hands, legs, knees, kisses, and hugs. The book is developmentally age appropriate.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A group of curious toddlers explore their senses and body. Perfect for that age range to learn what their mouth, nose, fingers, toes and more can do. Colorful illustrations and a text that flows with a rhythm show off many of the wondrous things your body can do.

[Jade · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great to introduce to pre-K students who are learning about their bodies. It illustrates examples of what a nose, toes, and eyes do. This is a great book to use that has illustrations to guide them through their body and make it fun as well!

[Heidi-Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Feb 2019 - got this for V. to read to her and give us yet another resource of learning parts of the body. She enjoyed the reading as I pointed out the parts for both of us, and she did really well with kicking and bending knees!

[Avante' Ransom]

this is a good book, because its toddlers exploring the parts of their little bodies and the use of them. teachers could definitely use this book if they are having lessons on learning about the different body parts.