Recommended for children 6 to 18 Months
Author
Henderson, Kathy
Publisher
Candlewick Press (ISBN: 9780763639198)
Description
Presents babies' early actions, sensations, and emotions as they express happiness at their newfound abilities and explore the world around them.
Why raising readers Has Selected This Book
12 months is such an exciting age. Babies are aware of both themselves and the world around them. This book perfectly depicts all the everyday things in your child's life, from high-chair eating to diaper-changing to moods changing to exhausted sleeping. We could not find a better book to show babies themselves and their ever-expanding world.
Activities
Books become important to children when they recognize something in them. Your child will find many things to recognize on these pages. You can interact with this book by pointing out the things in the book that your child also does. You can further make the book important by talking about the book when you are doing your day's activities. For example, when you are cleaning your child's face after a meal, you could say, "you have a messy face just like the girl in your book." Your child may remember that comment next time you open the book and feel a stronger connection to the book. A strong connection to books is a great help for all the learning that lies ahead of your child.
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From the 2011 Early Literacy Calendar:
Look At You! A Baby Body Book takes everyday baby experiences and adds lots of rich vocabulary. It moves beyond nouns—names and labels so often the content of infant books—and adds verbs, adjectives and adverbs such as wiggle, squirm, wobble, sway, squelchy, glide, etc., not necessarily heard in everyday speech. It adds emotional words of bold, shy and lonely. This exposure to vocabulary is critical to later literacy development. At twelve months the infant is ready for the expansion of the typical baby routines of eating, sleeping and playing. Everyday routines in the home, in child care, and in the neighborhood afford many opportunities to use rich vocabulary. Long before children will ever express these words, they will understand them with repeated use.
Other books to share with this age group:
That’s Not My Puppy by Fiona Watt
My Little Word Book by
Roger Priddy
My First ABC Board Book
by Dorling Kindersley
Look At You! A Baby Body Book takes everyday baby experiences and adds lots of rich vocabulary. It moves beyond nouns—names and labels so often the content of infant books—and adds verbs, adjectives and adverbs such as wiggle, squirm, wobble, sway, squelchy, glide, etc., not necessarily heard in everyday speech. It adds emotional words of bold, shy and lonely. This exposure to vocabulary is critical to later literacy development. At twelve months the infant is ready for the expansion of the typical baby routines of eating, sleeping and playing. Everyday routines in the home, in child care, and in the neighborhood afford many opportunities to use rich vocabulary. Long before children will ever express these words, they will understand them with repeated use.
Other books to share with this age group:
That’s Not My Puppy by Fiona Watt
My Little Word Book by
Roger Priddy
My First ABC Board Book
by Dorling Kindersley
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