Baby Talk

by Dawn Sirett

The perfect board book for babies who are just learning how to make sounds. With the help of colorful illustrations, your baby will be speaking their first words in no time! 

With expressive baby phrases and entertaining noises that are fun to read and stimulate talking, Fun Flaps   are tuned into baby's developmental milestones, encouraging early conversation between the parent and child, and helping to develop language skills.

Genres: Picture Books

14 pages, Board Book

First published February 21, 2005

Reviews

[Sasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't personally like this book as much as Baby Faces. It contains huge, colorful flaps that show baby talk, and I'm not really a "Can you say ma-ma?" type of parent. Kid can learn a sentence if he wants to talk to me. But Nathan definitely likes it way better than Baby Faces, because he likes the flaps. So this is really a question of whose opinion do you value more, mine or a baby's.

Speaking of multiculturalism in baby books, though, there's only one African-American baby in this book and here he is:

Flap: "Boo-hoo!"

Here is a white baby:

Flap: "I understand white privilege but I'm still keeping the toy"

I mean, I get it and all, I've read Ta-Nehisi Coates too, it just seems like a pretty bleak metaphor to be foisting on a baby.

[Molly · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute board book about the sounds babies make.

[jacky · Rating 3 out of 5]

At Natalie's 6 month doctor's appointment, we got a pleasant surprise: a second book present! This book is published by the same people who made Smile!. This book also has photos of real babies, but this one has both close ups of faces and full body pictures. This book is a lift the flap book and the flaps are the size of the page. On the left will be the full picture of the baby and the right describes in a sentence. When the flap is lifted, you see a close up of the baby's face and a baby talk word that corresponds. For example, you see a baby playing, the sentence describes the baby as being happy, and the word shown under the flap is "hee hee." It is a cute book, with good pictures, nice colors, and easy flaps for a baby to manipulate.

12/2010:
It took a while, but this book has become a favorite of Natalie's. She came to know all the flaps and pictures well. This book has shown us a lot about Natalie. For a while, when Mumma was the big word, she would say Mumma at the mama page. Now, she usually still says Mmmm at the yum page. Her latest interaction with this book is to kiss the crying baby. She started doing it without any prompting, but I'm sure she keeps it up partly because of our reaction. Sometimes the sleeping baby gets a kiss, too.

At the book store I came across a big version of this book (ISBN 97806756668945), but I can't find it here. It was the same book except for two pictures and cover. The size made the baby close ups a little larger than life.

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A cute read. My thirteen-month-old son loved the big pictures and repeated some of the words ("peekaboo!") as we read it together. When we finished reading, he said, "All done," and crawled away, to look for his mother.

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was one of my baby shower gifts.
My 9 month old loves this book. I'm sure its all the close ups if other babies.
As soon as we open the book, she's laughing and giggling.
A keeper!

[June · Rating 4 out of 5]

A small board book, so I'm not sure this would work with my lap time since it has grown. However, it has flaps and is a simple book with pictures of babies. Unfortunately, ours has been damaged.

[Danny · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was my almost favorite for today. I gave it a 4 stars because I love it 99%. Thank youuuuu

[Butternugget Boy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I especially like to smile at the unhappy baby.