My First Body Board Book

My First Board Books

by Iris Rosoff

Babies learn to identify parts of the body and their uses with adorable pictures of little ones like themselves in this best-selling first word and picture book.

DK proudly reintroduces 10 favorite board books from the beloved My First series, all with beautifully redesigned covers for a fresh new look. Filled with full-color photographs and large, easy-to-read text, My First Board Books provide children with an excellent platform for early learning. A variety of first concepts, such as colors, numbers, letters, and more are introduced in a fun, informative way to help children build the vocabulary and basic language skills that form the foundation of learning.

Genres: Childrens

36 pages, Board book

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Jena Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

My daughter found this at a little free library. She loves it. We can spend 20 minutes reading and talking about it. I do wish it had more diversity in it. It came out in 2000! The baggy overalls pulled me in so strongly that I bought some for her at a thrift store.

[Shelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably more for an older crowd. My daughter seemed too young to truly enjoy how much good information this book went through.

[M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a good read.

[Mama Bibliosoph · Rating 4 out of 5]

What we love about this series:

-Photos or realistic illustrations in a field of 3-5 discrete items against a white background per page; ideal for tacting
-Titles that cater to children with specific interests in: dinosaurs, trucks, vehicles, animals, farm animals.
-Titles that assist with key learning areas: numbers, colors, first words, first words in Spanish, ABCs.
-Taxonomic approach may appeal to the organizational instincts of kids with ASD
-"My First Body Book" has a two-page spread with a field of 8 faces expressing different emotions. This may be a good starting place for teaching how to recognize emotions from facial expressions.
-Useful for teaching pointing to show interest
-Feeding a child's interest in books with a specific interest helps children generalize an overall interest in books
-Great size for little hands and light for travel
-Each book has a few pages of suggested activities or interactive moments that make the book a more social experience

Challenges:

-The spine is a little weak. Our copy of "My First Truck Book" now has a duct-tape reinforced spine
-Not a book to "read" to your children because there is no story, just many pictures with labels
-Both "My First Dinosaur Book" and "My First Truck Book" bring such specificity to their topic that the information presented may be beyond the knowledge base or even pronunciation skills of the parent

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I review books for children from the perspective of a parent of kids with ASD. The review above is the last part (my summary) of a longer blog post about this book and two other My First Board Books by DK Publishing: http://www.lineupthebooks.com/my-firs...

[Libby]

As a concept book, My First Spanish Body Board Book = Mi Primer Libro del Cuerpo, includes photos which are appealing to children between 0-12 months. The child’s knowledge, vocabulary and narrative skills are promoted with the labeled photographs throughout this book. This book, not only supports the development of language development through practices as of reading , talking, and playing but it also enables child to discover the world through tactile exploration (reaching and grabbing objects or playing with hands and toes), and to develop fine motor and gross motor skills.

[Kristina Silverbears · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although the pictures featured a nice variety of babies, some of the pages didn't seem to fit within a 'body' book. I can't agree with the direction of some of the language, either. One page tells me to "feel some soft sand". But there is no sand to feel. With much of the rest of the book I could point with my children to the body part. We don't have sand lying around. But, problems aside, this is a great next step to "Heads, Shoulders, knees and toes".

[jacky · Rating 2 out of 5]

We read this at the library. It is one of the last books in this series that we hadn't seen yet. I was a little let down by this one. Instead of really focusing on the different body parts, it went through them very quickly and then covered actions and clothes and stuff. I didn't like that. I was expecting maybe several pictures of eyes or a whole two page spread to cover the arm and hand.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

My 4 month old daughter isn't really interested in it yet, but I am sure as she is several months older she will start to like it. It's a great book for teaching your children about our different names for facial features, also teaches baby senses, faces, and types of clothes.

[Shay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gus gives it 4 stars.

[Rochelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

we seem to have a different edition. Not our favorite of this type of book, but it still gets read.

[Bridget]

On the hardcover shelf.

[Joshua's Mom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun pictures of babies and some of the things they do. It would have been nice if there was a front and back 'my body' page.

[Angie Harrold · Rating 4 out of 5]

Josh learned where his tummy, hair, nose & eyes are with this one :)

[Sas-sy · Rating 4 out of 5]

SAS really likes parts of this book more than others. It's definitely grown on her. In the beginning she didn't care about it, but then just a few parts, then most of it now keeps her interest.

[Anselm · Rating 3 out of 5]

not bad, but driving me crazy.

[Anne Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first and last kindle children's book.

I don't want to review this book. Why am I being forced to review it before I can read it?

[Beckett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beckett likes to look at all the other babies. Some of them have on really weird outfits.