First Words

Bright Baby

by Roger Priddy

From ‘boat' and ‘car' to ‘apple' and ‘banana' Roger Priddy's Bright Baby First Words provides the youngest readers with the fundamental first words that will form the foundation of their vocabulary.

Babies and toddlers will love the brightly colored images on every page, and the board book format is the perfect size for little hands to hold.

The Bright Baby books are perfect to read aloud and make an excellent gift to any baby's first library.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Kids, Spanish Literature

26 pages, Board Book

First published August 1, 2004

About the author

Roger Priddy (b. 1960) is the creator of Priddy Books, which publishes books for babies and young children. Priddy Books is a division of Macmillan Publishers and books published by the imprint have won several Practical Pre-School Awards.

Reviews

[Josh Forbes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brilliant piece of modern avant garde prose! There's no story. Just disjointed words and pictures. Poetry at its core. The passage about "fish" chilled me. The one about "chair" gave me gooseflesh. I don't want to spoil the ending, but it has a Shyamalanian twist that can't be shaken.

Well done!

[Ky-Ky Shakira's Cousin · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[Jacob · Rating 5 out of 5]

i read this 445,634,200 times on the way to france.

[Nichole]

Fish!

Ok, flower cat. No way, potty dog.

[Maddi Holmes · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would recommend this book for the early primary grades, kindergarten through first grade. I would categorize the book as informational nonfiction.

Although the title reads “baby,” I still think this would be a great book for kindergarten. The students could read the book by looking at the pictures. This would help teach them to read. It would also be a great book for English Language Learners. I wouldn’t use it any higher than kindergarten to prevent students from feeling like they are reading a baby book.

[Shara Boykins · Rating 4 out of 5]

This a picture book for babies and toddlers. I would recommend this book for children ages 1-3 years old. This book is about about a baby's first words and has images to match as a visual for babies learning to speak. I rated this book a 4 star because I think its appropriate for younger kids specifically kids learning to talk and learning about things around them. It provides most common first words that babies say and has a picture to go along with the word.

[Makenzie VanderHorst · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so good for children who are having a difficult time with their words or speaking. It is a book for building up the language skills toddlers need. The book is filled with easy words connected by colorful pictures.

[Charlee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this book a lot. I especially like the picture the cat. It took me a while to warm up to this book. It would take to long to get to the cat picture but now I wiggle when I wait for the cat picture to show up.

[Sarah Herman · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't like this book at all I can name all the things it says in it that's how short it is, I definitely think this is for 1-2-year-olds.

[Amanda · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not a fan. First pages define gender by images.

[Kelly Chester · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super great book

[Hendrix · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read with mommy, I loved turning the pages on this one!

[Shannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another recommendation from my speech pathology friend, who said that kids love this one. As an adult, it's hard to find the appeal, but that doesn't make it a dud. I'm just not the intended audience.

The book is very basic and consists of simple vocabulary paired with a photo of the noun - not illustrations, but photos. Girl, boy, coat, socks, car, dog, teddy and so on. It does have the US spelling of "aeroplane" though, but that's okay. It's a good vocab book and I'll be curious to see what my own kid thinks of it when he's old enough.

[Destiny Dawn Long · Rating 2 out of 5]

The photos are bright, colorful, and very appealing to the eyes of toddlers. However, as another reviewer observed, sometimes they seemed too special and unique to be applied universally by children. There was also the problem where I just didn't see some of the words as essential "firsts" for babies. I have decided that I prefer thematic concept books to the more general first words style books.

She has the English-Spanish Colors book from the same series and I like that one better.

[Alicia · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like that this book has real photographs, but the author chose pictures that sometimes can be called different things, like bear or teddy or teddy bear. I wish it had less ambiguous words. Also, sometimes the pictures were a little unique. I wish they had been more universal. With these changes it would be a better vocabulary builder for young children.

[Rob · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is more profound than I thought. Neleah is learning a bunch of words from this book and I didn't realize it at first, but they have chosen words that are usually around the house so we can reinforce them. She still thinks everything is a telephone though. Oh well.

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

didnt like it as much as bright baby animals. with the animal book you can make sound effects, so althoug it's good, i didnt have as much fun making sound effects and i think that was part of the reason the 4 month old twins liked it

[Brynja · Rating 3 out of 5]

When Brynja was born the hospital gave us this book and I thought it was so dumb I almost gave it to the thrift store. But I'm glad I didn't! Each page has a picture and one word, and Brynja likes it because she can "read" this entire book all by herself (age 18 months).

[Kate Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great series. Bright photographs on contrasting backgrounds.

[Lorri · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of Xander's favorites. We can't go a day in our house without reading this book.

[Tommy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This isn't as much a favorite as the animal book, but the kids like the brightly colored pages.

[Danny · Rating 3 out of 5]

This isn't as much a favorite as the animal book, but the kids like the brightly colored pages.

[Danny · Rating 4 out of 5]

The boys like to spell these words.

[Sharon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Danny loved the bright illustrations in this book.

[Danny · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was my 4th favorite book of the day. It was a simple book good for babies. Thank you

[Tommy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The boys like to spell these words.

[Barbara Law · Rating 4 out of 5]

The main thing I like about this book is that it features photographs instead of drawings. Something about the first pages featuring the Boy and Girl make my son laugh every time, so that's good I guess. I also like that the majority of the words are ones that we might actually use, unlike some other first words books I've seen. We flip through this just about every day, and he has started saying some of the words inside.