Customer Reviews

Shake It Up, Baby!

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We have almost every Karen Katz book - for some reason my daughter loves her books above all others. The illustrations of giant-headed babies make her laugh.

She loves to shake this book - it has a built-in rattle in the spine of the book. Clear plastic with several colored beads inside. The pages are thicker and sturdier than some of her other board books. The pages have rounded corners.

The words are fine... here's an example... "Shake your body, bounce and giggle! Shake your rattle, spin and wiggle."

We haven't really figured out how to smoothly follow the activities in this book - it's a little awkward to read and shake the book at the same time, or read and pause to shake the book. My daughter usually just ends up losing interest, closing the book midway through and playing with the rattle spine again.

All in all, she seems to like it more for the noise it makes as a rattle rather than a good read like Where is Baby's Mommy, or Princess Baby. Or any of the other Karen Katz books for that matter. I don't love this book, but she does, and I guess that's good enough for me.

My two daughters are in love with these books. The bright colors, the wording, and the fact that these books are strong enough to hold up to my children eating them, 'reading' them, playing with them etc. We bought 2 18 months ago, and just bought two more because they love them SO much!

I checked this book out from the library for my 9-month-old daughter and now I'm buying it because she can't get enough of it. I have to read it to her 5-10 times a day (she'll cry if I stop reading it to her!)

The book has a rattle built into its spine (with colorful beads visible through clear plastic), very thick sturdy pages, and Karn Katz's fun baby illustrations. My daughter seems to love Katz's illustrations and seems more engaged with Katz's books than any other books. She's always touching the babies in the illustrations.

Other reviewers have said it's hard to use the book as a rattle to play along with the activities in the book (e.g., "whish and swirl up and down, shake that rattle all around.") But I always use the book as a rattle. I just read the page first, then shake the book each time it says "shake that rattle". My daughter anticipates each of the activities on each page ("touch your nose", "bang your drum", etc.) and gets so excited.

This is a wonderful interactive book for babies and really gets my daughter excited about reading even at her young age.

I love the Shake It Up Baby! book by Karen Katz! I read it to my 15 mo. old granddaughter and give her a rattle to shake and I shake the beads in the binding of the book. She has more fun! She wants to read it everyday. It has helped her learn parts of the body and to respond to written words. It is so interactive that it keeps her attention. I would recommend it to parents and teachers alike. Liz

I ordered this book for my lapsit (0-3yrs) class. We are doing a set on different musical instruments and this book is a great way to show the little ones how to use the instruments before I bring them out. The pictures are colorful and exciting. Obviously, while reading the book it's almost impossible to shake the rattle at the same time, but just give baby a different rattle or instrument to play with while reading and it's great! The book doubles as a toy after you are done withe the story, so even better. My own little girl, who is 18 months, is drawn to Karen Katz's artwork, possibly because of the large heads and exaggerated expressions. We have several and she loves to read them over and over.