Baby Faces (Look Baby! Books) [Board book]

Margaret Miller (Author, Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1998 | Age Level: 0 and up | Series: Look Baby! Books

Hey, baby! Look at these faces!

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSAEye-captivating and expressive board books for infants. One or two words are paired with full-color close-up photos of a multiethnic cast of babies. In Baby Faces, emotions are directly linked to facial expressions with such simple terms as "yucky," "yum-yum," and "uh-oh." What's on My Head? presents a variety of colorful itemsAsuch as a red fire hat, a stuffed toy puppy, and a green velvet froggyAplopped squarely on top of each child's head. These first books are sure to entice future readers with interesting sights and sounds.ASelene S. Vasquez, Orange Brook Elementary School, Hollywood, FL
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Margaret Miller is the author and photographer of many books for children. My Five Senses was chosen as an "Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children" in 1995, and was a Booklist "Editor's Choice" selection for 1994. Her Look Baby series has been raved about in Publisher's Weekly and Parenting Magazine.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 0 and up
  
• Board book: 14 pages
• Publisher: Little Simon (April 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689819110
• ISBN-13: 978-0689819117
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #781,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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58 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Slapped Together Without Much Thought, June 25, 2005

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Maciels - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby Faces (Look Baby! Books) (Board book)

I am so glad this we were able to check this book out at the library (along with quite a few other board books by the author) before purchasing any online. My son (16 mos.), like other infants and especially only children who do not have the opportunity to engage in activities with other children often, really enjoys seeing pictures of other babies. However, this book bored him after reading it the first time. He never picked it up again. This book contains some photos of babies haphazardly thrown together without any sort of attempt to teach anything - feelings, body parts, etc. etc., and was put out on the market just as fast as they could. In fact, the whole series of these books by Margaret Miller are not designed with babies in mind at all...she is a photographer/illustrator and not a childcare development researcher, teacher, etc. For example, go out in your yard, take some pictures of your kids and neighbor's kids playing, add an ambiguous, almost meaningless sentence on each page like "We are friends," "Let's have fun" and you have one of Miller's books. I absolutely would not spend any more than .50 cents for Baby Faces at a yard sale-if you happen to run across a copy. The only design advantage of this particular book is that very young infants might enjoy the simple design of each page..but even they need some variation. You could simply show them pictures of babies in Parenting Magazine and it would do the trick. Instead of this book, I recommend "My Body Board Book" (one in a series) and a real hit with infants and toddlers.

56 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars teaches things you'll have to un-teach later, November 16, 2005

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Ugh. You'd do best to pick a different book. Not only is this one a measly 6 pages long, but the expressions don't match the words they've chosen--so you're effectively teaching your child incorrect words for a particular expression (nothing like making them unlearn things later!), and, while the editor clearly was intending to include a "diverse" set of babies, they ended up putting negative words next to both of the two black babies they included! Nothing like showing your little kiddo a darling black girl and saying "yucky!" as you read the text. Puhlease.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My kids so much enjoy looking and laughing at the faces!, November 2, 1999

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Lara Laurence (Long Island, New York) - See all my reviews

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This book, filled with baby faces with wonderful expressions, has kept my children's attention for much longer than any other 6 page board book I own. They read and re-read the book. That should say it all.