Signing Smart: What Do You See?

With years of experience teaching parents and babies across the country to sign, Dr. Michelle Anthony and Dr. Reyna Lindert bring their expertise to these interactive board books.

Each spread introduces two vocabulary words with a sentence to read aloud, and an enhanced illustration to touch. In addition to this unique strategy of interactivity, only Signing Smart shows two photos for each signed word-adult and baby. This enables parents to see both the "correct" adult version of the sign, as well as the way that babies or toddlers would replicate it.

Authors Michelle Anthony and Reyna Lindert, both Ph.D.s in Developmental Pyschology, are skilled in American Sign Language and have extensive professional experience working with hearing preschoolers and families with young children. Both are actively involved in research in the baby sign language field and keep current on research in the fields of language development, cognition, and literacy. Together, they co-founded Signing Smart, an international program of parent-child play classes and materials.

Illustrator Michelle Berg is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a senior designer for Hallmark Cards and lives in Roeland Park, Kansas.