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Spend the day with a busy baby and her two dads, and learn the words for things you do and see along the way! This innovative first-words book features labels for objects, actions and sound effects, as well as a fun seek-and-find element.
Author Notes
Award-winning author Stella Blackstone has written many of Barefoot's best-selling titles, including the Bear series, the Cleo the Cat series and My Granny Went to Market. Sunny Scribens is a picture book editor and author. She has also written Space Song Rocket Ride for Barefoot Books. She lives with her husband and young daughter, who provided much inspiration for Baby's First Words. Christiane Engel, award-winning artist, also illustrated the popular Barefoot Books singalong Knick Knack Paddy Whack. She lives in southeast England with her family.
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
Toddler-PreS-Readers are invited to spend a typical day with a child and her two dads-one black, one white. Different topics are covered: getting up, getting dressed, going to the playground, taking a bath, and going to bed, as well as vehicles, food, moods, home, and animals. The colorful mixed-media illustrations, rendered in a cartoon style, have an upbeat tone. Young children and their adult readers will enjoy examining the images and identifying the clearly labeled objects on each page. And if they want to turn to a certain topic, there are helpful tabs on the side to guide them. The companion volume, Mis primeras palabras, is visually identical to its English counterpart. Unfortunately, there are problems with the Spanish text. Though there is only one word that is incorrect (graznar for the sound an owl makes-the correct word is ulular), the feel of the language is wrong. In an attempt to imitate the English format, which is rich in onomatopoeic words, some very awkward equivalents have been invented, such as "¡Platch platch!" for "Splish Splash!" Also, it would not be natural for a Spanish-speaking child to learn the infinitive form of the verb first. VERDICT Though this title covers the same ground as most baby first word books, its true strength is its representation of a gay family. The Spanish version is not recommended.-Lucia Acosta, Children's Literature Specialist, NJ © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
A little girl explores her surroundings in this board book. Each turn of the page offers a different scene with objects labeled in bold, black text. The brown-haired, peach-skinned toddler spends time with her interracial dads (one's black, and the other has olive skin and black hair) playing in the park, eating lunch, taking a bath, and eventually going to bed. Each double-page spread focuses on one setting, activity, or theme, as in one of various types of locomotion, another set in a kitchen at lunchtime, and another that focuses on emotions. Labels are printed in boldface type, sometimes with an extra descriptor: "loud fire engine"; "excited wiggle." A Spanish-language version of the book, Mis Primeras Palabras, is concurrently published, with identical illustrations but swapping Spanish descriptors in for English ones. The illustrations employ a dark color palette that leans heavily on purples, greens, oranges, and browns to render the chunky and curved objects. The compositions are a little cluttered, with each scene depicting about 10 new words. Little ones will learn about clothes, food, emotions, animals, and more in this fairly extensive but still compact resource. A solid, attractive vocabulary builder. (Board book. 1-2) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
