My First Learn-to-Talk Book: Things That Go: Created by an Early Speech Expert!

by Stephanie Cohen, Lindsay Dale-Scott (Illustrator)

Help little ones learn to talk with fun-to-read rhymes written by an early speech expert!

Teaching speech can be as simple as beep-beep! Created by a speech-language pathologist, My First Learn-to-Talk Book: Things That Go pairs favorite vehicles with a proven approach designed to help youngsters learn to talk.

Each page offers:

• Simple, exciting sounds that are easy for little ones to imitate, and can be used to build bigger words
• Rhythm and rhyme to encourage repetition and help keep babies engaged, even before they understand the text
• Real photographs that model correct mouth positions and support socio-emotional learning
• Colorful illustrations of cars, trucks, trains, and other favorite things that go!

Genres: Picture Books, Transport

20 pages, Board Book

Published December 6, 2022

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book to share with babies and toddlers! Not only is it about an engaging topic for many children, but it also utilizes many aspects that support early literacy: rhyming, big pictures of babies’ faces, color matching the text between what the action or vehicle is and the thing the child says. This book is both fun an excellent resource for helping children start to speak or build up their vocabulary and background knowledge.

[Liz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book pairs favorite vehicles with simple, exciting sounds for young children to imitate with photos that model the mouth positions for those words. A fun book that also helps with language development.

[Hannah Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

It doesn't get much better than this book. The language is clear, easy to read, and fun to say aloud. The illustrations are of real, adorable toddlers. And, included in the back are two pages about how this book works.

[Ami Polonsky · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an adorable book for little people! Stephanie Cohen clearly knows how the minds of babies and toddlers operate. Highly recommended for the little ones in your lives!

[Marcie · Rating 4 out of 5]

glad to find this from2024 CLEL list

[Rozi Cooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

My little guy loved this book! He was mesmerized by the pictures and coupled with the sounds I was making as I was reading it to him. So happy to add this to our reading collection!

[Jan · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was not what I was expecting. Each page is a composition of photos and illustrations with related words on each page the same color. I do like the photos of kids on each page. But beyond that I'm not quite sure what to make of the book. I don't see how this books facilitates kids learning to talk, even though I read the "How this book works" at the end. And the whole "...my mouth says..." is also strange to me. I looked through the digital copy with my 20 month old and they were not interested at all.

[Alexis · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm sad about this book. I thought my daughter would like it but she didn't. Mostly because this book was really werid and I found it extremely rude. I wasn't a fan of how it was written because it kinda came off like the child is stupid but all I thought was this book might be helpful and sadly it wasn't. I can't really recommend this book. I couldn't get pass the first 2 pages with my daughter. She kept stopping me and saying no to each page. :(

[Amy L · Rating 5 out of 5]

So glad to have this follow-up in the series for the young kids I work with as a speech-language pathologist! The kids' faces and expressions are interesting, and they are making good connections with the vehicles, actions, and related sounds on all the pages.

[SamSamSam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it, I MUST have it for baby storytime!!!!!!! Phonological awareness, print motivation, print awareness, vocabulary

[Michelle Halber]

Cute book with the opportunity to make a lot of noises for little ones to join in.