Customer Reviews

First Signs (Early Sign Language)

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Babies love to look at the actual photos of other babies. Durable 6 x 6" board book. The photos are clean and simple and have an adjoining cartoon illustration with arrows showing hand movements and a short narrative phrase explaining the movement. Signs include Mom/ Mother, Dad/ Father, please, thank you, drink, eat, done, more, banana, apple, cookie, milk, help, hurt/pain, go, stop, ball, book, cat, dog, car, airplane, toilet/potty, bath, bed/sleep, play, and I love you. It makes me want to check out the other books in this Garlic Press series.

We received this book as a gift when our first daughter was born. By reading it to her and using signs when we spoke to her, she was able to pick up several signs before she could speak. In particular, I really liked that this book had pictures of children doing the signs (instead of just drawings). My daughter seemed to related better to the pictures. She didn't learn all the words in the book, but she definately learned enough to help us communicate. This would make a great baby shower gift!

We used this book in teaching my son sign language and he was able to see the picture and mimic the signs all on his own. We used it as a guide and then realized he was teaching it to himself just as effectively as we were just in "reading" this book with him. Highly recommend this book and teaching/using sign language starting at about 9 months old. It helped with communicating during difficult baby stages. Our son had many less temper tantrums than other kids his age and we believe it was due to teaching sign language. The sign we highly recommend is teaching the "help" sign. Whenever he would get frustrated he would sign for help and he would know we would do the best to figure out what he needed.

This book is very basic. We gave it to our daycare provider when my twins were babies, so she could learn the signs that they knew from home. Kids and parents both will be relieved to communicate hunger and other needs, without crying!

Fit perfectly in diaperbag or purse
Kept his attention
Signs were very clear
Colorful

I looked at a number of different sign language board books before choosing this one. I couldn't be more pleased with my choice. I like that this book had photographs, rather than just drawings. Research supports the importance of showing children photographs, rather than just illustrations. I also like the book explains to parents how to form the signs!

My toddler and I took a baby sign language class and I use baby signs with him consistently. He "reads" this book to himself all the time! I plan to buy the others in the series.

I already owned this book for my son, who has a hearing loss, when he was a baby and decided to buy it as a 1st birthday gift for a friend's child. Book is perfect for looking at with your babies of any age to teach them basic American Sign Language. The pictures are colorful and include a child or person demonstrating the sign, as well as the written word and description of the motion. Great book for children! All of the books in this series are wonderful.

I started using this book with my daughter at 12 months. She was adopted from a foreign country at 10 months and didn't understand a word we said to her for many weeks. I used this book series together with Baby Signing Times DVDs for excellent results. These books are among my daughter's favorites. She brings them to me to 'read' to her all the time. She really loves to look at the pictures of the babies and I think she even understands some of the diagrams showing how to make the signs. At 18 months I have seen her sign 52 signs. It is amazing and heartwarming to experience her successfully communicating with my husband and me at only 1.5 years old. I highly recommend this series. Great product.

My son loved this book and it helped to pratice and get better at signing.

My daughter quickly learned many of the signs in this book by about 18 months.