Customer Reviews

Baby Happy Baby Sad (Leslie Patricelli board books)

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We love this Patricelli book almost as much as the others. As usual, my toddler loved it initially because the baby in the book has nipples, a welcome detail that other books (infuriatingly) leave out.

My two-year-old is fascinated by emotions, and loves the pendulum sway of baby happy, baby sad...baby happy, baby sad. Of course you have to fill in the details and describe what's happening with your own words--that's the point of reading to children, isn't it?

I love this book, in particular, because it makes my child squeal with glee because he empathizes with the baby--like the baby in the book, mud makes him happy and shampoo makes him sad. Playing with the cat makes him happy; a fleeing cat (whose tail has been pulled) makes him sad, too. This baby, my child thinks, knows a thing or two about real baby emotions.

My only problem with the book is that it portrays nighttime as a scary abandonment--dark room, baby crying and reaching for daddy who is leaving baby alone in the crib = baby sad; morning with dad re-entering room makes baby happy. We read it with a different emphasis--when baby is sad in bed, daddy comes to help. When baby is happy in the morning, daddy comes to join him!

Even with this need for an editorial change that quiets, rather than heightens, nighttime anxiety, we all love this book. I rank it third to No no yes yes and quiet loud.

We love all of the other Leslie Patricelli books, but this one does not have good examples. They have the daddy leaving the room when baby goes to bed, "sad baby." My child does not get sad when we leave the room so she doesnt understand the example and I dont want her to get sad when he leave her at night in her bed. Another examples shows baby with no clothes on happy, baby with clothes on sad. Last there is a happy baby in the mud and a sad baby in the bath. Again depending on your child's age a little one under 3 might not understand why those things create happiness and sadness so I don't recommend this book. We LOVE No No Yes Yes, BIG Little, Quite LOUD and Yummy Yucky though.

i'm a big fan of leslie particelli's other books (Quiet Loud, Yummy Yucky, Binkie), and was excited to order this one. however, my overall first impression was not a good one. the illustrations are great, as usual, but the only text in the book is "baby happy baby sad", and it left me wanting more, and i find myself adding words, descriptions etc when i read this to my daughter. perhaps this book is best for older children.

My child loves this book because it helps her understand emotions and facial expressions. It helps develop empathy in young children.

I agree with the other reviewer- I love this book but I always skip the pages about 'baby sad' as being put to bed and baby happy about Daddy coming to get him out of bed. We have bedtime issues anyway, so I say the baby is sad that playtime is over and happy that it's time to play again.

I love how this book is simple for my baby, but my preschooler loves it even more! She likes to talk about the pictures and it leads to great conversations.

My toddler baby girl loves all of Leslie Patricelli books.

They are right on target with a 20 month old

Interests and personality. We love them too! They are fun to read!

My two-year-old and I adore this book. What a wonderful glimpse into a baby's day! It's funny and cute without being cloying. Highly recommended.

I usually read longer stories to our infant boy because he cannot yet hold his head up.

However, we lay him down so he can look at the book from the side and he loves this one.

The colors, cute and simple drawings in the book is the key i guess.

And the story is really cute with simple words and our son is really looking at each drawings with great concentrations.

Me and my wife decided to buy all the series.

I bought this book for my 4 year old to "read" to his little brother, and it couldn't be more perfect. The darling illustrations make us laugh and it's one of the cutest books I've come across.

I thought this book was really cute. I would have proabably really like it as a kid. I like reading it to my 8 month old!