Baby Faces

This has been the favorite board book of all five of my grandchildren and I have purchased multiple copies because they have all wanted to take one home. The pictures are large and clear and it’s easy for babies to imitate the expressions. The peek-a-boo picture doesn’t quite fit in with the baby feelings/expressions concept, but it’s one of the favorite pages for the kids. It can be a very interactive book - my grandson kisses the sad baby, “washes” the face of the dirty baby, laughs with the laughing baby - and we talk a lot about why the babies might be feeling the way they are feeling. It was pointed out in a review for a different, but similar, book that different races were portrayed in an unfair way. That is not the case at all with this book. All races are represented and all the pictured babies are adorable. It’s especially popular with one to two year olds, but even tiny infants are interested in and enjoy this book,

This is such a special, simple little book. Our baby (12 months) loves it so much. She is fascinated looking at the real images of babies. She loves going to the happy face and saying “happy!” I am pretty sure this book taught her how to say and play peek-a-boo as well. The book itself is soft and small, and short enough that I don’t mind reading it multiple times a day. Our daughter loves it when we imitate the emotions and expressions on each page for her. I feel like we are really helping her social and emotional development. I’ve even used it when she is having a tantrum, showing her the picture of tired, angry, etc. and asking her which one she is feeling. Amazingly, she usually picks the correct one and it distracts and deescalates her. She flips though it all the time on her own and carries it all over the house. I appreciate that many races of children are positively represented in this book.

Would give 100 stars if I could. I honestly wouldn't know what we would do without it. After a brief scare one afternoon where we couldn't find it, we actually bought a second one (we later discovered that our 10 month old daughter started throwing toys in the trash that is outside of her playyard out of her reach - daddy is so proud of his little basketballer ;-) This book has a baby face on each page with a simple word underneath each face. When we first received it, I never thought that this would become such an essential item. Our daughter first got obsessed with it around 3 months and since roughly age 6 months requests to have it read again and again and again and again... Even at 10 months it can still distract her, cheer her up, fascinate her, occupy her, keep her busy. My husband curses this book for having to read it so often but at the same time adores it for being such a life safer. If we could only have 3 toys with us while being stuck somewhere with our daughter, this would be one of our choices to bring. So we highly recommend it - in our eyes, it is a baby essential, a must have.

My son loves this book. He’s two years old and has developmental delays that results in a lot of frustration. I’ve been trying to use this book to show him what angry and other emotions are to be able to better communicate his feelings. He can now look at the photos and sign/act out/ or say what the emotions are. He wants to read this book every time at bed time. He loves the peek a boo section of the book. It’s fun to see him act out each emotion. It’s a very stimulating book for little children. I also love that it’s children expressing each emotion in the book. A lot of the kids emotions books out there have animals or dragons displaying the emotions. I wanted something more realistic for him to grasp and he really has. This is a great book and I highly recommend this facial expressions book. My son loves to turn the pages of this great board book. Buy it!

I bought this book for my son when he was 12 months old and at 20 months old he still returns to it and enjoys it. In fact, he enjoys it so much that I've mended it with so much clear packaging tape that it could probably withstand a nuclear blast. I might have to order another copy. From an adult's perspective, looking at the book you might find the pictures silly, but maybe your kid will like them as mine does. As for concerns by some as to whether the book teaches a better range of facial expressions... Well, isn't that where the parent steps-in and interacts with the child and teaches him or her about a broad range of emotions and expressions? We can't leave it all to books and television. What it does do is teach my child about books and that there are things to be enjoyed about them, as well as learned from them. Here's a run-down of the book and its content. The overall size of the book is ideal for small hands to handle and the pictures are essentially pictures of a toddler, head and shoulders. The ethnic appearances of the children (if ethnic relevance is a concern for you) are mostly Caucasian (brown hair and blond), and if you include the photos on the covers of the book as well as inside there are a few that appear to be Asian, and a few that appear to be of African or of Indian descent. The topics covered are: happy, sad, puzzled, surprised, peek-a-boo (preceded by a picture of a baby happily semi-hiding under a basket), angry, worried, crying, laughing, hungry, kissing (shows one child kissing the cheek of another), dirty, clean, tired, and "fast asleep". It would be nice if the book was a little more sturdy, but it's no different from any other board book in that area. Afterall, the publisher probably wants us to buy more books. Right?

My daughter loves looking at other kids, she stares at the pages and reaches for the babies.

This book (and those like it) is a gateway book. It is perhaps the most important book to give children a start in reading. Babies LOVE looking at faces, especially of their peers. This, along with avoiding screens as long as possible, is very helpful in giving children the foundation for reading.

I first purchased this book for my first baby in 2008 and I've purchased almost several more copies to give away as gifts and 2 more for my second child, one for the car and one for home. Starting at around 6 months I would read it to her but now at 15 months she loves to read it herself and I find her smiling and laughing to herself. The babies' expressions in this book are really well done. I browsed the other similar books but the expressions seemed dull or the colors weren't very bright. This photos in this book are great quality and nice and bright. Very cute book....highly recommend!