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Summary: Excellent! we love DK books!
Review: Again, we love this book! It's almost as much fun as the Animal Book that DK published. The photos are so wonderful and they are all of things that a toddler recognizes.Being a board book, too, helps! Our son loves to look at and occasionally gnaw on his books. Luckily, these are tough enough to take both his reading and chewing. I'm glad that we discovered DK Publishing and want to buy all of their board books for our son.
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Summary: 1 Year Old's Favorite
Review: As a former teacher and new mom, I've been trying to expose my son to many books including the classic's (Guess How Much I Love You...) as well as ones with funny rhymes and cartoons(Seuss). However, these DK books are his FAVORITES. He enjoys trying to find the objects and rejoices in saying their names. It is wonderful to see his eyes scan the pages at all the new objects he is seeing. If you are limited in how many books you can purchase, I recommend these as a staple. This one "My First Word Book" is my son's favorite (that we own) of the series since it is filled with all the words he's learning.
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Summary: Love this book
Review: I bought this book for my daughter when she was about 13 months old. I wish I'd gotten it sooner! Her interest in the book grows and grows as she learns more and more what things are. Her favorite pages by far are the front cover, the food page, and the animal pages. She even learned about the letter O from the front cover (she thought they were balls, and so we taught her about O's). She even uses the foods page as a menu. Before she learned the signs for some of her food, she'd bring the book over to me and point at what she wanted to eat. It was very cute. She is 17 months old now, and the book is still one of her favorites. As she learns more and more what things are, she likes to point at all of them and tell me as we turn the pages. I think this book will give us even a lot more use out of it because there's still a lot of things she doesn't know. My only complaints are:
1. How in the world is a baby going to figure out what a "combine tractor" and some of the really off-the-wall things are. We always skip things like that. Even the tools page has very little interest in it. 2. Some of the pictures are difficult to discern to a young child what they are. The bag of flour, the coffee, and the ice cream, to name a few. 3. I would have liked to see more animals. How about a mouse or a bunny? Aside from those, I think this book is a must-have in any baby's board book collection.
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Summary: Love this book
Review: I bought this book for my daughter when she was about 13 months old. I wish I'd gotten it sooner! Her interest in the book grows and grows as she learns more and more what things are. Her favorite pages by far are the front cover, the food page, and the animal pages. She even learned about the letter O from the front cover (she thought they were balls, and so we taught her about O's). She even uses the foods page as a menu. Before she learned the signs for some of her food, she'd bring the book over to me and point at what she wanted to eat. It was very cute. She is 17 months old now, and the book is still one of her favorites. As she learns more and more what things are, she likes to point at all of them and tell me as we turn the pages. I think this book will give us even a lot more use out of it because there's still a lot of things she doesn't know. My only complaints are:
1. How in the world is a baby going to figure out what a "combine tractor" and some of the really off-the-wall things are. We always skip things like that. Even the tools page has very little interest in it. 2. Some of the pictures are difficult to discern to a young child what they are. The bag of flour, the coffee, and the ice cream, to name a few. 3. I would have liked to see more animals. How about a mouse or a bunny? Aside from those, I think this book is a must-have in any baby's board book collection.
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Summary: Excellent First Book!
Review: My 15 month old son loves this book and the others in the series (My first ABC and My First Animals). He will not sit still for any other picture book. Living near a farm, it was important to us that he see "real" animals in his books that he could easily associate with the ones he visits. He recognizes these pictures and is beginning to use the appropriate words for each. We love it and have given it as a gift to other parents of young children.
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Summary: Excellent book for building vocabulary!
Review: My 4 year old had a bigger version of this book when he was 1 and I recently bought this version for my twin 1 year old daughters and as a gift for an 18 month old. The pictures are clear, bright, and simple and really hold your child's attention. The thing I like best about this book is that it arranges items in categories rather than by letter. A 1 year old doesn't care that apple starts with "A" as shown in many books, s/he needs to know that an apple is food or that a sock is clothing. I would highly recommend this book to anyone. You will reap many times your investment from it. I think it is a must have for your little one's library.
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Summary: My First Word Board Book (My First Word Books)
Review: My son loves this book. He loves to turn each page & see which category is next & go through each thing on the page (of animals, foods, clothing, automobiles, etc).
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Summary: Children Learn Faster With Images
Review: Our 2 1/2 year old son increaed his vocabulary quite quickly with this book. My wife's mother tounge is French, so during the day he is usually accustomed to speaking French. His ability to express himself in English was lacking far behind of his French. After the first two or three times of reading the book together, he now picks up the book, points to items and says what they are. Of course there are certain items that he has troubles with and that is where the parental help comes in. It is also a great book for parents to see how fast children learn.
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Summary: A Great Book!
Review: This book was given to my one year old as a gift & she LOVES it! She looks at it all the time & has learned a great deal from it. She is currently 18mos. old & continues to enjoy the book. I have purchased multiple copies to give as gifts to friends. My only complaint is that the pages are paper rather than cardboard so the pages rip easily.
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Summary: A great starter dictionary
Review: This series of board books are fantastic. I started collecting these for my daughter after she was given one at 6 months and this is what we started to read to her every night. She woud sit and demand it to be read over and over and over again. The board pages and are easy for baby and toddler to turn and the pictures (real photography not illustrations) are wonderful. The word book has a little bit of everything - like a mini dictionary - of things that baby will come accross in their daily life - clothes, food, utensils. My toddler can now read and say the names of each thing herself while pointing to them. It has helped her give names (and learn to say things by us reading the book over and over) to things in her world. If your looking for a great picture book to share with your baby this is the one (and the series of books) to buy. You can never have too many books to read with your children.
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