I Can Blink Like an Owl [Board book]

Frank Asch (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 1 and up

A picture book for children

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 1 and up
  
• Board book: 12 pages
• Publisher: Kids Can Press (1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1550743805
• ISBN-13: 978-1550743807
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,596,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars All of my children love this book., July 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: I Can Blink Like an Owl (Board book)

This book is one of the few that are geared perfectly for infants. Each page is a mask for you and your child to make believe you are an animal with. My youngest could make a noise for each animal in the book by the time she was 9 months old.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, September 15, 2001

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Anne Hilliard (dixon, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Can Blink Like an Owl (Board book)

"I Can Blink" has an animal pictured on each page. Each animal has a hole cut out where the face should be. The idea is to use the hole to display your own (or the child's) face to make the animal faces as the book is read. The original was a stroke of genius in its design and simplicity. It was a wonderful, interactive way to read a book with a small child but, this version of the book falls short. The hole for your face is two inches in diameter. There is a mirror on the last page so that your face will show for the child (if you see the child's face) and if you hold the book a little distance from your face. Only half of the pages can use the mirror. I have read this book with several children between two and three years old (one child at a time, of course). I have not had a child attend to the fun of making animal faces with this version of the book. The only book that I know to compare it to is the original "I Can Blink" which measures 12"x8" and the 4" hole goes through the entire book, no mirror. The idea was to hold the book up to the face of the reader (or the listener) and do what the book describes the animal doing (I can sniff like a dog. I can shake my head like a horse. etc). The book could be read in front of a mirror so that the child could watch the fun while making the faces. The original was my son's favorite book (he's 17 years old and I still have it, held together with clear tape). I had so looked foreward to reading this book with other children. I was disappointed when the focal point of the book (the hole through which the mirror shows your face) was too small to hold the attention of the children that this book was meant for. This book lacks to ability to provide interaction as the original did. It would probably do for a child to play with alone or with toy animals. The original "I Can Blink" is a Five Star publication that encourages interaction between adult and child, but this version gets thumbs down from me.