Baby Preschool Books

This is an excellent book for toddlers to enjoy. Mrs. Wishy-Washy and her animals are fun characters that little ones will find humorous. This is one in a series of Mrs. Wishy-Washy books. Once you have one, you have to have them all. My daughter thinks Mrs. Wishy-Washy is hilarious, not to mention some of the other characters that are introduced in Joy Cowley's books.
Not only does my 2 year old like this book, it is a great emergent reader for children in my first grade classroom. What a great way to start reading with this repetitive style of writing.

We originally borrowed this book from the library and I decided to purchase it after my daughter wanted to reborrow the book several times. She loves to read the story and sing the words over and over. It is a cute book my children love.

This story is cute - My daugher at age 4 at the time was in preschool and daily and I mean daily the boys would get this book prior to the girls getting it so it was a game every day to see who could obtain this book first...they never fought over any book but this one and the library had lots of books to choose from....anyways the girls and boys were fighting and pulling on the book one day that the book got ripped and the teachers had - really had enough of that book at that point and threw it away to teach the children a hard lesson in life.....meanwhile I had no idea as to what the teachers had done except for the fact that my daughter and her best friend came home crying that the book with the elephant and the peanuts got thrown out and why? the full explanation was there by them and they were devastasted..thinking that my child ripped a book so badly I immediatly went to Amazon and ordered it and sent it in with the two girls one day - the teachers look on their faces were priceless....every year both preschool classes always fought over the book and they were happy to finally get rid of a book that was always fought over ....and here we were bringing a new copy back....it was priceless an another year childrens will still be able to fight over it...tee-hee....I bought one for home and my daughters best friend....so now it is not a big deal if the boys get it right? We have our own copy....must have book really cute and the graphics are adorable.

I had to buy this book because my five year old daughter keeps checking it out of the library. When I told her she had to check out another book this week she said, "Why, Mom? This is a GREAT book!" That is definitely one to have on our shelf. The pictures are delightful and the repetitive phrasing makes it easy to read yet there are some tough words which she has mastered because she knows the phrasing. I wish every book I purchased would pay off so well. She also said, "Mom, if you look at the pictures you just have to giggle."

My 2 1/2 year old daughter LOVES this book. Every night before we go to bed, she asks to read "Peanut butter, Peanut butter". She's already learned the rhymes, I say a part, and she knows when she needs to chime in! I also love Nadine Bernard Westcott's illustrations -- I've begun to search for and buy all of her books! Truly enjoyable for both the child and the adult!!

The black and white and white and black concept is always great. This black and white book is especially good for that collection. This one is also good later on as infants because it has words too! A little variety goes a long way with this book in comparison to other black and white board books. I couldn't choose so I got three. This is a definite must if you cannot decide.

I purchased this book for a baby shower gift - it has everything you'd want for newborns: high contrast, large images, and just the right length for those short attention spans. I wish I had had it when my son was tiny.

My 11 week old daughter loves this book. She stares and/or coos at the pictures. It even calms her when she is fussy.

My baby couldn't put it down! Literally! I've bought a lot of picture books for my 5-month-old, such as "White on Black" and "Black on White." He likes them all, but his favorite was always "Look! Look!" by Peter Linenthal. Whenever I would get that book out, my boy would kick frantically with anticipation and stare raptly at each picture. Of course, when I found out there was a new Linenthal book, I had to get it. As soon as he first saw the cover of the book, my normally self-contained baby became nearly hysterical with excitement. I could barely read it because he was grabbing at the pages, kicking, and squealing. I hastily concluded my storytime when my son forcefully wrenched the book away from me and jammed the spine into his mouth for a more all-encompassing literary experience.

Linenthal's images are high-contrast black and white, with bold graphic lines, many circles and spirals, and frequent mirror images. My baby finds his art eye-poppingly enthralling and worth returning to again and again. Or, as my son puts it, "aaaaiiiiEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" (Translation: "5 stars! A treat for the eye *and* the palate!")

i borrowed this book from the library and my 8 month old loved it. i felt we had to buy it. i do different animal sounds for each picture and he is now anticipating the action. he is now 10 months old and this is his favorite book. i just have to hold it up and he comes right over to look.

I'm flying to Europe alone with my 18 mo old daughter next month and I found this book to be a great help in preparing for the trip. It contains a lot of useful information, tips, and things I would've completely overlooked had I not read this book.

If you have kids, and like to travel... you need this book. There were so many ideas there that I would have never thought of. It has made our lives easier when traveling and I've learned some really helpful things. It's hard to travel with small kids, especially if you're a new parent and just have no idea what to expect. So for me this has really been a great find!

Ok I know the title of the book is Travels with Baby, but it also says toddlers, and children. And truly did not tell me anything I didn't already know. Now if you are a first time mom, who has never traveled with a baby up to age 2, then sure its probably very helpful, especially if you have never had any advice from anyone else. Though it was how ever informational on, how to obtain passports, now that we (the) parents are no longer together, what you need to do. It also had lists of contact info on where to rent baby/ child items, like strollers, carseats, for traveling where you dont want to bring all that stuff, which can be rather helpful, so I give it 3 stars, for being semi-helpful!

Seriously, this is a travel bible for new parents. What a huge help this book has been from selecting a good stroller (wished we would have found this BEFORE we had our baby for car seat info too!) to calling ahead to find out if a hotel has a crib saving our trunk space from a pack and play or other. Prepping the diaper bag and carry ons have never been simpler and I have memorized the shopping list for baby must haves while traveling. Never would have thought of some of that stuff! The blog is excellent too. Please give this gift to new mommies and daddies with your baby shower gift...I am so grateful for the different age sections and different types of travel reviews. Thank you Ms. Rivoli!

I am about to travel to Europe for 2 weeks (cruise for part of the time) with my 7 month old and I found this book to be very useful. It had ideas that I would not have considered and I am now much less stressed about the trip. It seems very realistic about what to expect and what to pack and she also does not ignore the fact that no matter how prepared you are going to be, things will still not go as planned and you must be flexible. She gives great tips for these types of situations. Would recommend to anyone about to travel with baby and/or toddlers. Very easy read and easy to reference when necessary.

My 2 year old daughter LOVES this book, she can't get enough! The manipulatives inside make her feel very confident, she likes to do exactly as the book says and feels very pleased with herself. Warning: You will be reading this more than once at a time=) I highly recommend it.

This is a cute story and my 2 year old daughter really enjoys it, however, it contains quite a few extra parts that are easily destroyed by toddler hands.

1. There's a paper "pencil" attached to the book with a string that you can use to pretend to write Mommy's grocery list... easy to rip out when a child gets excited!
2. And a cardboard $5 bill to take out of the ATM machine on one page and then put into Daddy's wallet on the next - my little one wants to hold the money and I've found it laying in various places around the house.
3. Finally, you're to rock the kids on the see-saw -- this apparatus isn't attached very well and easily comes out of the book to be mashed up in a wad by tiny toddler hands.

But, like I said, my daughter loves it, loves to "pat the cat" and make the teddy bear squeak at the end so you can't really go wrong.

I have to admit that I had as much fun as my daughter did flipping through this book. The story is cute and engaging, and the touch and feel features are wonderful. A winner in our opinion.

My 12 month old daughter loved "Pat the Bunny" so I was excited to get this book for her, but it's not as good as the original. There is too much text in this one... it doesn't hold her interest as much and the activites inside the book are more difficult and not as toddler-friendly. She started destroying the book's activities in a day or two. Maybe for older kids it's better, but whereas the original book was fine for her level, this was a disappointment.

Okay, *I* may think it's boring and *you* may think it's boring, but my child ... loves this little book. It is frequently the one he chooses to have read to him, perhaps because each page is interactive.

One, of course, must pat the cat. Then you can extract money from the ATM and later put it into daddy's wallet. You can imitate mommy making a list, scratch and sniff the gingersnaps, help Neddy and Martha see-saw and play peek-a-boo, and squeeze the little bear before going to bed.

It is a fun, quiet little book that your child will enjoy. And you will too -- not because it's exciting, but because the time you and your child spend looking through it will be happy and peaceful.

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Our 19 month twin boys LOVED this series and were so enamored with them that the books were under their pillows when the were bedded for the night

ISBN 059004706x - All of the I Spy books are fantastic and this one, featuring vehicles of all kinds, is particularly nice for boys who normally don't care about books. They'll start looking for cars and suddenly... they're involved in a book!

Simple rhyming text on the left-hand pages accompanies clear images of individual items that are hidden in the photos on the right-hand pages. Lots of trucks, cars, planes and more - and when you're done, you can create your own "can you find..." games!

Where's Waldo type books have amused me for my entire adult life, so finding books that introduce children to the idea so young made me very happy. Little children, who usually have the attention span of gnats, will suddenly be deep in concentration and entirely focused as they search for the hidden things. Some are surprisingly well-hidden, especially in those photos where a single color dominates or the item you're searching for is well-hidden by lack of light. Wick and Marzollo - what a team!

- AnnaLovesBooks

My 21-month-old son loves trains, cars, buses, tractors, diggers, motorbikes... anything he can roll along on their little wheels. I brought him to the library one day and he picked up this book and thus began our fascination with the I-Spy series. This clever book has green cars, police cars, zooming airplanes, a long choo-choo train etc hidden in places that challenges a toddler to seek out. It actually isn't all that easy! (I missed the kitty cat face for a while...) A wonderful book to read with eye-catching illustrations and catchy rhymes.

i am enthralled with jean marzollo's i spy books. who cares where waldo is.... i gave marzollo's books to people aged 2-77 ...... each gift was thoroughly enjoyed

This is a "I spy" book for beginners. My 2 1/2 old was mesmerized by it the first time he saw it and immediately asked me to "read it again". However, he found all but one of the objects relatively quickly the first time around and now it won't take him more than one minute to go through the whole book. I encourage him to look for objects that are not featured on the left pages to make it more challanging.

Our baby preferred chewing on books instead of looking at the pictures and listening to the stories, until we bought this book (along with the body and animal versions). My friend had the same experience with her baby.

I bought the whole series, and both my daughter and I love them all.
Her favorite.

My First Number Board Book (My First Board Books)
I bought this for my grand son and he loves it. It's very educational.

This series of board books are fantastic.

I started collecting these for my daughter after she was given one at 6 months and this is what we started to read to her every night. She woud sit and demand it to be read over and over and over again. The board pages and are easy for baby and toddler to turn and the pictures (real photography not illustrations) are wonderful.

The numbers one uses everyday objects that your baby will recognise. If your looking for a great picture book to share with your baby this is the one (and the series of books) to buy. You can never have too many books to read with your children.

I bought this book for my baby, who is 14 months old. He likes the pictures in the book. I like the fact that it's very easy to read. He doesn't sit still for a long story! The farm animal book is better for his age, but this book is good, too.

I love the sing-song verse of Helen Oxenbury. This book, as well as the other three in the series, are perfect board books for babies and young children just getting into storytime, and they make wonderful gifts, too.

Our sixteen-going-on-seventeen month old is in love with Helen Oxenbury's books. These are the ones she brings to us when she wants a quick reading fix. She knows and enjoys them, and it seems to me she even recognizes herself in the images of toddlers (even though they all seem to be boys).

I purchased this to add to my son's sleepytime book collection. I thought it would be filled with babies sleeping, looking sleepy or getting ready for bed. WRONG. The only page ( and image) of sleepy babies is on the cover and the last page.

There is nothing sweet,charming, endearing or amusing about this book. Illustrations are nice and large. It's just dry and boring. Yes it is written for tiny ones and one cannot expect too much in such a short book written for a baby. Completely lacking in imagination, in my opinion, this book is blah. There is so much better out there. Don't waste your money.

You cannot experience the full impact of "Say Goodnight" without also reading the companion works, "Clap Hands," "All Fall Down," and "Tickle, Tickle". Ms Oxenbury weaves a world which first lulls you into comfort with what appears to be non-violent multicultural values. Upon repeated readings (and you must read all four, with "Say Goodnight" as the last) you finally realize this was not her goal all along.

The first signs that her world is not one of peaceful babies is the inconsistencies: in no two consective pages are the clothes of the babies ever the same. In "All Fall Down," for instance, the same babies "bounce" and "fall down" but have different attire entirely. Then the question comes up: who are the real parents? There are at least four adults being shown; what are the relationships of all these people? The children are living, eating, bathing and sleeping together. The adults are only around for a few key illustations.

Lastly, the same pudgy Caucasion is the one being tormented at "Open wide" (mealtime) and at "Tickle, tickle." It then becomes clear that Ms. Oxenbury is really telling a post-multicultural tale over the course of her four books: the swell of influences of around the world will subdue modern society, forcing a uniform experience upon us all.

This is done with about 50 words in total. Bravo!

I totally LOVE this product. They are time consuming to make up BUT well worth it.Once the centers are made up, they are easy to maintain. I would highly suggest laminating the pieces. I did and they have held up very well. My students loved doing them. I would recommend for any teachers. Many times I used these as a reward for getting work done in class early. Students were able to pick what they wanted to do after completing their assignments.

This book is my first purchase in the "Take it to your Seat" series, and I'm delighted with it!
These full color activities are of high quality and very appealing to my young learner.
They're easy to use, and offer a nice change of pace to reinforce literacy skills in a manner that is both fun and effective.

I will definitely be purchasing more books from this series, and hope all are as useful and creatively designed as this one.

There are so many wonderful activities for your children to do during Literacy Centers in this book. I highly recommend it for a classroom, or for a parent with a child in grades 1-3.

This book is excellent. It has tonds of ideas and information for centers. If you don't have space for the centers, creating the suggested take to your seats centers is the solution. Great book!

I saw this book in a workshop and had to have it! It was so easy to make the centers... I just cut out the full color peices, laminated them, and put them in the box, folder, or hanger. The games even come with a recording sheet for the students. This is a must have for independent reading centers!

This is a great book for toddlers - and their art loving mummies and daddies!
My 15 month old girl absolutely loves this book. I bought this for her first birthday and we've read it every day since. And she still gets excited about it every time!
The quirky illustrations are fantastic and the text flows very nicely.
A must read!

I was very excited to find this book for my child. I love Andy Warhol myself so I figured I'd enjoy it too. My kid LOVES it. The pics are great, with just a little bit of writing. It's also made with hard pages so it's difficult to distroy. We've read it over and over and it's still a big hit.

I love this book for it's obviously quirky illustrations of colors. Really cute, small book, perfect for my toddler who adores it. A nice change from the usual color board books on the market.