Beach Babies Wear Shades (An Urban Babies Wear Black Book) [Board book]

Michelle Sinclair Colman (Author), Nathalie Dion (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 2 and up | Series: An Urban Babies Wear Black Book

The babies are back, and this time, they're slathered with sunscreen and headed for the beach. They'll hang ten, boogie down, and keep it cool--all in their sweetly incomparable urban baby way.

 The "hottest" title yet in the best-selling Urban Baby series finds the stylish tots basking at the seaside, lakeshore, and riverbank. Over 30,000 copies sold of the Urban Baby series. Publishers Weekly named Urban Babies Wear Black "Board Book That Provides the Best Role Models for Tony Tots." Coming Fall 2007--Winter Babies Wear Layers

 

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From the Publisher

* The "hottest" title yet in the best-selling Urban Baby series finds the stylish tots basking at the seaside, lakeshore, and riverbank. * Publishers Weekly named Urban Babies Wear Black "Board Book That Provides the Best Role Models for Tony Tots." * Coming Fall 2007--Winter Babies Wear Layers

About the Author

NATHALIE DION studied design at Concordia University. She lives in Montreal, Canada.


MICHELLE SINCLAIR COLMAN is the creator of the popular Urban Babies Wear Black series. She lives in Waccabuc, New York, with her family.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Board book: 18 pages
• Publisher: Tricycle Press (May 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582462046
• ISBN-13: 978-1582462042
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.4 x 5.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #212,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #92 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > People & Places > Family Life > New Baby

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pretty to look at but..., March 9, 2010

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This review is from: Beach Babies Wear Shades (An Urban Babies Wear Black Book) (Board book)

...but the text just didn't do it for me or the kids ("Beach babies wear shades"; "Beach babies wave bye-bye"). It almost would have been better without any words at all.

The earlier Urban Babies Wear Black (An Urban Babies Wear Black Book) was popular at least with a certain demographic, but Beach Babies seems like a weak effort to capitalize on follow-up sales.

P.S. Is it possible to show Dads in a worse light? In the two panels showing fathers, they are either 1) reading the newspaper instead of playing with their baby, or 2) can't get back to the car fast enough while baby is still saying goodbye to the beach. Very bad examples of us Dads who actually get involved.

P.P.S. Women with poor self-esteem may not want to read this book. All the women portrayed appear to be six feet tall and weigh approximately ninety pounds. (And that's *after* giving birth! LOL)

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A little disappointing, July 12, 2009

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Irish Madre (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beach Babies Wear Shades (An Urban Babies Wear Black Book) (Board book)

I love Urban Babies Wear Black and Winter Babies Wear Layers, but I was a little disappointed by this book. The text and the play on words seem a little forced. I'm hoping they will come out with another book about summer babies.

4.0 out of 5 stars cute and quick read, April 16, 2011

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C.O. (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Beach Babies Wear Shades (An Urban Babies Wear Black Book) (Board book)

Nice book for the beach. It is better than some in this series, but Winter Babies Wear Layers is still my favorite. Better than Country Babies. Not too many words to distract baby and easy to read over and over and over again.