Customer Reviews

Baby Animals (CubeBook)

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

The book is small but heavy - it's a high quality print, contaning hundreds of pictures of baby animals by themselves or being cared for by their mothers. The selection is very good, and makes for a great reading with my little kids.

I saw this book for sale when I went to the World Famous San Diego Zoo to photograph animals. It is an amazing book - I look at it to lift my mood, which it never fails to do. Baby humans and baby animals always bring out that nurturing, sensitive, capable-of-awe part of me that can only be described as spiritual. The book is a nice, compact size. The pictures are bright and glossy. It is stunning to see baby animals negotiate all of the developmental tasks they need to master to become adults and survive on their own. When I look at this book, I can only breathe a prayer of thanks and adoration to the Creator for the vast variety of colors, textures, individual personalities, functions, and LIFE He created and splashed across the canvas of this Earth for His (and our) enjoyment. For this reason alone, conservation efforts to preserve species and habitats are well worth it. In these pictures the drama of birth, death, humor, attachment, danger, play, loss, finding food, and survival are depicted in living color. Indeed, "a picture is worth a thousand words."

Technically, this is my fault. I didn't check the product's dimensions before purchasing. However, how many people think to check the dimensions of a book? The title does reference MiniCube, but that's fairly easy to overlook, especially since this book does come in a larger format, which is also called a cube book. I assumed I was getting a small book, maybe 4-6 inches for height and width rather than a tiny book, 2 or so inches in height and width (though it is quite thick). Aside from my self-induced disappointment, the book is fine. The pictures are decent enough, though I can't say I was particularly blown away by them. I don't know if that's due solely to the small size of the images, which certainly does lessen their impact, or if it's because the photos themselves aren't all that special as far as this kind of nature photography goes. Certainly there are some really nice photos, but overall I'm left underwhelmed. I plan on giving this book to my 3-year-old son for Christmas as he loves animal photos. If he likes it, I might add a star.

This book is fantastic. I saw it at a friends house and had to have it for my grand kids. They look at for hours. It is heavey though so is a look with an adult book. A book to be cherished for years. Will give as a baby gift to many of my friends.

I bought this book for my daughter who loves animals. She was not disappointed. This cute hand sized but large (700+ pages) book is chock full of wonderful pictures of all kinds of baby animals. It's a great gift for an animal lover.

I usually have been very happy with my orders from Amazon, but this time I was very disappointed. The reason was because I thought I was buying a cube book and I ended up with a tiny mini cube book. I think the order was very confusing and I ended up with something I didn't want and now it is too late to order again for Christmas, and anyway I would have to spend about the same to send it back. By the way, the postage was about the same as if I had bought the regular cube book, which I thought I had ordered in the first place.

Ok so bad me for not appreciating this book is only about 1.5 inches square... very small! Cute, but tough to handle. More importantly, my toddler ripped the cover off on day two - and she is generally gentle with books. Cute but very tiny and fragile. It's also hard to know what captions go with what, so challenging to associate the text with the appropriate animal.

I bought this for my nice. SHe loves it and takes it with her everywhere. It is a great book!!

I got this as a gift. The recipient absolutely loves it and has been raving about what an awesome gift it is.