Customer Reviews

Baby Signs for Animals

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Checked out this book for my 1 year old son and he loved the real pictures of kids and animals. However, I was disappointed because the signs are NOT American Sign Language signs. We ended up looking at the pictures in this book, while doing the ASL we already knew. I would recommend the baby sign books by Kim Votry and Curt Waller instead as they use real ASL.

I got this book out of the library when I first started looking into signing with my son. The book's pictures are very engaging and fun and my son really enjoyed looking at this book which is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 3.

I was really dissapointed though when I found out that many of the "signs" used in this book aren't the actual American Sign Language signs. I wanted to use ASL signs with my son so he could communicate not only with me, but others outside of my family, but this book has made up gestures for many of the pictures in it. Luckily I had only been showing my son the "signs" in this book for a short while so I quickly replaced them with the actual ASL ones, but I was upset that this book didn't clearly indicate anywhere that the signs in it were made up gestures and not ASL. For children's board books with ASL I would recommend the Garlic Press "First Signs" and others in the series. If you are looking for a cute and engaging board book for your baby though this one fits the bill, just if ASL is important to you show the ASL signs to your baby instead of the made up gestures in the book.

My favorite of the series is the "My first signs" book, as it gave our baby her start on signing. This one is a close second. Our daughter's always been enchanted by animals, and she loves to look at the pictures of the animals in the book. Some of the signs are a little confusing to her (she won't do horse, cow, mouse, or butterfly (she thinks butterflies are flowers no matter how much we sign "butterfly" to her))

But she loves to look at the pictures and do the signs for the rest of the pages. She does like to look at the pictures of the signs she doesn't do yet. Once she started to get the idea of signing animals, I've had to invent new signs for zoo animals and other animals not in the books! (camel, which she loves to sign, is pretending to spit, btw).

We got this book at the library and my 16 month old loves it so much I'm going to buy it for her. She learned how to make the signs in just a few days and loves the book so much she is contantly bringing it to me. She always want to look at the pictures and gets a fantastic smile on her face. Then she kisses the the photos. Very cute.

I bought all of the Baby Signs books and they are great. It didn't take my 14 month old grandson long to learn several of these signs and boy does it make life a lot easier for everybody.

Can use for counting too as the number of animals on each page is slightly different. We never did get the hang of signing but this is a favorite of our son's for about 6 months (12-18 months) so far.

The layout of the book is really good - pages of the animal with a child doing the sign and the word on the opposing page, followed with all the pictures only on the back page. Animals seem to work especially well, and my son love's this book.

My children have had a blast looking at these books! They are great, with real life babies to relate to. Fun reading for anytime!!

Every night we would read and practice our signs. By the time she was one year old, she could sign the signs from this book. Ok, her signs were not perfect but I knew what she was talking about. Learning signs has really helped with her communicating with us. I am so glad she learned the signs. Now, at 2 years old, she talks and uses the signs to help us understand.

My daughter is now 12 months old and she has been enjoying her Baby Signs books from the very beginning. When she was young she just enjoyed looking at the faces but now she selects them for story time and looks at them on her own - even making the signs as she reads the book to herself. These books definitely helped her pick up the signs and the pictures help her to link both the work and the object. Fabulous!