Baby's Book of the Body - Hardcover

DK Publishing; Priddy, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789401983 ISBN 13: 9780789401984

Publisher: DK Children, 2001

Synopsis

Can you count your fingers? Can you touch your nose? Can you wriggle your eyebrows, or point to your toes? Baby's Book of the Body is a delightful introduction to the human body for young children. In it they can discover the names of their different body parts, explore their senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight, and find out about all the wonderful things their bodies can do. Clear photographs provide plenty to talk about, word labels identify each picture, and lots of activities make learning about the body fun and easy.

About this title

From School Library Journal

PreS?Toddlers love to look at pictures of babies, and the excellent, full-color photographs of adorable, multiethnic group of infants and toddlers are the saving grace of this book that is overloaded with concepts. Body parts and their functions; faces reflecting emotions; things to be counted, identified, noticed; sounds; actions; foods; and objects to be paired present a lot of information. The connection of all of these things to the human body is sometimes tenuous, but always present. The items and situations are readily recognizable, and young children will have fun pointing them out. The format is busy, sometimes cluttered, but the pictures are so clear, bright, and lively that they are absorbing and appealing. The text is generally simple, consisting mostly of captions and questions. However, the occasional flowery adjectives seem inappropriate for the intended audience.?Patricia Pearl Dole, formerly at First Presbyterian School, Martinsville, VA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews

In a trademark format--crisp photographic images set against a milky white backdrop--Priddy's exploration of the baby's body, with its dozens of separate full-color photos to be pored over and mused upon, is easy for children to linger over. There are pages on body parts (genitalia given a wide berth), their names and functions; facial variety and expression; things the body can do, from hiding to thumb-sucking to clapping. There is a counting page devoted to body parts, and a mix-and-match spread where eyes are coupled with sunglasses and the match for a baby's bottom is a potty. The principal text is comprised of labels, with a few short descriptive captions (``high mountains covered with snow'' and ``a street at night with twinkling lights'' among them), allowing readers or preliterate observers to plumb the images on their own. (Picture book. 1-4) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: DK Children
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0789401983
• ISBN 13: 9780789401984
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 24