Customer Reviews

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This book is absolutely indispensable. My son loved it so much as a newborn that now I include it in every baby shower gift that I buy. Waitresses and sales clerks used to marvel at how my son would gaze raptly at each page.

While there are many black and white books for newborns, this one is special. Linenthal's creative and complex images really captivate babies, and even tell a story. One of my friends keeps the book open at her changing table and entertains her baby with the pictures while she changes her diapers.

This book got us through many peaceful meals in restaurants! If only there was a book this magical now that my son is a toddler!

My baby's only a week old and he already enjoys looking at this book - we stand it up in his crib and he really seems to study the images, sometimes for 10-15 minutes at a time; he's very calm and alert while looking at it. If we lay him flat on his back, he even turns his head toward the book to look at it. The clean, simple black and white images are graphically appealing to adults as well - as a designer, I love being able to give my baby a book that not only reaches him on his level, but that I consider to have good design.

My little one LOVES this book right now. He picks this book before any of the ones we have for me to read to him. We talk about the pictures and I give him the names of the images in both English, Spanish or another language. I agree with one of the reviewers that the images are kinds weird to adults (for me the sun one was freaky looking at first). But its amazing how much babies love the smiling black and white faces and smile back at them. I liked the Tana Hoban books just as much, but for some reason the little one loves this one more.

My 15 month old daughter loves this book so much, that I have it memorized! She just giggles and giggles when we read it to her. I'm actually here now buying a backup copy in case our "original" ever gets lost. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to any mom or dad who has an infant or toddler.

As a new mom to a 7 1/2mth old, this was a great investment. She loves the book!! It is simple, colorful and easy for her to manipulate. I would recommend this one to everyone from a parent of a newborn and up!!! Enjoy!

It's good for your own kid, and it makes a great present. Not only is this book beautiful and adorable, it totally appeals to babies because of the black, white, and red colors, which are the first baby can see. I've given this book to a number of people and am so relieved that it's still in print, because I need to get some more. I LOVE this book. And so will Baby.

This book was wonderful to have when my children were first born. They both loved to look at the pictures and were fascinated with it. It would help calm them down when they were fussy and kept play time on the floor interesting. I highly recommend to any new mom.

I was hesitant to buy this book because the words are so incredibly lame and boring. (Oh and believe me, they ARE!)But I caved when I noticed my 5 week old wasn't really looking at the pages of the great books I was reading him. I bought this one and let me tell you. He LOOOVES it! He is completely fascinated and can spend long stretches just staring wide eyed at every page. The words are still lame, but when his little eyes bug out in enraptured attention at the pictures we no longer care. I will definitely be purchasing this for the new babies in my life. Great GREAT book for very young babies!

For me, nothing is harder than keeping my 4 month old content while I'm preparing dinner. I can have my 2 year old color or do a puzzle, it is not that easy with the little one.

This book has been great to keep him busy for 15+ minute stretches. He loves the black/white contrast and spends a lot of time looking at each page before "asking" to turn the page. He has now started to turn pages by himself and finds that it is an easily chew-able book. The book itself is well made with solid, firm pages and has stood up to much time in my 4 months old mouth.

If you don't overuse the book, it can be a great tool for giving yourself a few minutes with minimal interruption.

My 2-month-old baby LOVES this book. She just stares and smiles at it. So glad I bought it, and I plan to buy it as a gift for others.