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Toes, Ears, & Nose!
Play peekaboo with Baby in this bestselling lift-the-flap concept book from Marion Dane Bauer and Karen Katz!
Inside my mittens I’ve got...
fingers!
Baby is bundled in a mountain of clothes! As little ones lift the large, sturdy flaps to find out what’s underneath each piece of clothing, they’ll love playing and learning with this fun peekaboo book again and again!
Inside my mittens I’ve got...
fingers!
Baby is bundled in a mountain of clothes! As little ones lift the large, sturdy flaps to find out what’s underneath each piece of clothing, they’ll love playing and learning with this fun peekaboo book again and again!
16 pages, Board Book
First published January 1, 2003
16 people are currently reading
844 people want to read
About the author
Marion Dane Bauer
170 books187 followersMarion Dane Bauer is the author of more than one hundred books for young people, ranging from novelty and picture books through early readers, both fiction and nonfiction, books on writing, and middle-grade and young-adult novels. She has won numerous awards, including several Minnesota Book Awards, a Jane Addams Peace Association Award for RAIN OF FIRE, an American Library Association Newbery Honor Award for ON MY HONOR, a number of state children's choice awards and the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for the body of her work.
She is also the editor of and a contributor to the ground-breaking collection of gay and lesbian short stories, Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence.
Marion was one of the founding faculty and the first Faculty Chair for the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her writing guide, the American Library Association Notable WHAT'S YOUR STORY? A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO WRITING FICTION, is used by writers of all ages. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen different languages.
She has six grandchildren and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her partner and a cavalier King Charles spaniel, Dawn.
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INTERVIEW WITH MARION DANE BAUER
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Q. What brought you to a career as a writer?
A. I seem to have been born with my head full of stories. For almost as far back as I can remember, I used most of my unoccupied moments--even in school when I was supposed to be doing other "more important" things--to make up stories in my head. I sometimes got a notation on my report card that said, "Marion dreams." It was not a compliment. But while the stories I wove occupied my mind in a very satisfying way, they were so complex that I never thought of trying to write them down. I wouldn't have known where to begin. So though I did all kinds of writing through my teen and early adult years--letters, journals, essays, poetry--I didn't begin to gather the craft I needed to write stories until I was in my early thirties. That was also when my last excuse for not taking the time to sit down to do the writing I'd so long wanted to do started first grade.
Q. And why write for young people?
A. Because I get my creative energy in examining young lives, young issues. Most people, when they enter adulthood, leave childhood behind, by which I mean that they forget most of what they know about themselves as children. Of course, the ghosts of childhood still inhabit them, but they deal with them in other forms--problems with parental authority turn into problems with bosses, for instance--and don't keep reaching back to the original source to try to fix it, to make everything come out differently than it did the first time. Most children's writers, I suspect, are fixers. We return, again and again, usually under the cover of made-up characters, to work things through. I don't know that our childhoods are necessarily more painful than most. Every childhood has pain it, because life has pain in it at every stage. The difference is that we are compelled to keep returning to the source.
Q. You write for a wide range of ages. Do you write from a different place in writing for preschoolers than for young adolescents?
A. In a picture book or board book, I'm always writing from the womb of the family, a place that--while it might be intruded upon by fears, for instance--is still, ultimately, safe and nurturing. That's what my own early childhood was like, so it's easy for me to return to those feelings and to recreate them.
When I write for older readers, I'm writing from a very different experience. My early adolescence, especially, was a time of deep alienation, mostly from my peers but in some ways from my family as well. And so I write my older stories out of that pain, that longing for connection. A story has to have a problem at its core. No struggle
She is also the editor of and a contributor to the ground-breaking collection of gay and lesbian short stories, Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence.
Marion was one of the founding faculty and the first Faculty Chair for the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her writing guide, the American Library Association Notable WHAT'S YOUR STORY? A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO WRITING FICTION, is used by writers of all ages. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen different languages.
She has six grandchildren and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her partner and a cavalier King Charles spaniel, Dawn.
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INTERVIEW WITH MARION DANE BAUER
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Q. What brought you to a career as a writer?
A. I seem to have been born with my head full of stories. For almost as far back as I can remember, I used most of my unoccupied moments--even in school when I was supposed to be doing other "more important" things--to make up stories in my head. I sometimes got a notation on my report card that said, "Marion dreams." It was not a compliment. But while the stories I wove occupied my mind in a very satisfying way, they were so complex that I never thought of trying to write them down. I wouldn't have known where to begin. So though I did all kinds of writing through my teen and early adult years--letters, journals, essays, poetry--I didn't begin to gather the craft I needed to write stories until I was in my early thirties. That was also when my last excuse for not taking the time to sit down to do the writing I'd so long wanted to do started first grade.
Q. And why write for young people?
A. Because I get my creative energy in examining young lives, young issues. Most people, when they enter adulthood, leave childhood behind, by which I mean that they forget most of what they know about themselves as children. Of course, the ghosts of childhood still inhabit them, but they deal with them in other forms--problems with parental authority turn into problems with bosses, for instance--and don't keep reaching back to the original source to try to fix it, to make everything come out differently than it did the first time. Most children's writers, I suspect, are fixers. We return, again and again, usually under the cover of made-up characters, to work things through. I don't know that our childhoods are necessarily more painful than most. Every childhood has pain it, because life has pain in it at every stage. The difference is that we are compelled to keep returning to the source.
Q. You write for a wide range of ages. Do you write from a different place in writing for preschoolers than for young adolescents?
A. In a picture book or board book, I'm always writing from the womb of the family, a place that--while it might be intruded upon by fears, for instance--is still, ultimately, safe and nurturing. That's what my own early childhood was like, so it's easy for me to return to those feelings and to recreate them.
When I write for older readers, I'm writing from a very different experience. My early adolescence, especially, was a time of deep alienation, mostly from my peers but in some ways from my family as well. And so I write my older stories out of that pain, that longing for connection. A story has to have a problem at its core. No struggle
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April 16, 2019
I loved reading this to my children and now to my grandchildren. A wonderful interactive way to teach children about their body parts. Great illustrations.
May 4, 2012
Another favorite. Forget learning my body parts, this book is teaching me all about diversity. There's one girl who looks just like Aunt Jenny and a little black boy who looks just like Uncle Mo.
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July 4, 2014This is a great way to introduce body parts! I love reading this to my daughter. There is a variety of vocabulary and descriptive illustrations.
January 10, 2019
Wonderful book! I used it on both toddlers and a group of younger preschoolers and it kept everyone's attention each time. Great way to talk about the different body parts and infuse some body awareness into the experience.
April 2, 2025
A gift from Dana and Sage - very cute flaps!!
December 5, 2019
Various body parts are revealed under things, from mittens to glasses.
Maybe more of a 3.5, but I am still trying to find books appropriate for my younger story time and this works. 12/12/17
The problem of using flap books and thinking you checked the book and hadn't. Multiple flaps missing. :(
Maybe more of a 3.5, but I am still trying to find books appropriate for my younger story time and this works. 12/12/17
The problem of using flap books and thinking you checked the book and hadn't. Multiple flaps missing. :(
June 25, 2010
Simple book, but Mikayla loved lifting the flaps and looking at all the body parts. After we read it through once she actually flipped the book over so we could read it again (she never does this).
May 24, 2017
Cute book to read to babies and toddlers!
September 19, 2018
Toes, Ears, & Nose is an excellent book to read to children to help them learn body parts. Because the book is interactive with the flaps, kids will enjoy flipping though the book. Also, this book will help teach kids more vocabulary than just body parts. This book will help teach kids different kinds of clothing. In the book we see mittens, boots, hats, scarf, sleeves, coat, glasses, and more. The words the book uses to describe where things also vary. The book uses words like beneath, under, inside, hides, protects, and behind. The art in this book is colorful and eye catching. Each page shows a variety of colors and interesting designs. Also, the kids depicted in the book are very diverse. All of this combined makes for a wonderful book to use to teach children.
September 12, 2019
When it comes to toddlers and books I feel like you can never go wrong with something illustrated by Karen Katz. F liked lifting the flaps in this book to see all the body parts. I couldn't quite get a handle on the rhyme scheme the first time I read this through, though (possibly reader error on my part!)
December 27, 2016
Read several times to a toddler in the nursery on Christmas morning. It would have been better if some previous readers hadn't torn some of the flaps off (which had words written on them). I had to improvise some of the book.
January 22, 2018
The only purpose I can imagine for such juvenile yet fragile books would be for an older sibling to read to a younger sibling. The content is too immature even for most new readers. Younger kids don’t “get” the peekaboo flaps.
September 6, 2018
This is a great interactive book for young children who are learning parts of their body! For example, children are able to lift up mittens to see fingers. It's a very simple read and a great way to get kids excited about reading!
October 21, 2020
I absolutely loved this book. This book is a great one to teach young children their body parts. It also allows children to read along. I especially loved the large print used. This could help teach children not only their body parts but also the terms.
June 30, 2021
One of Heather's all-time baby favorites so far. The flaps make it more fun and interactive for babies, and it has taught her so many parts of her body! It's so fun to watch her get excited about her nose when it comes up in the book.
- Heather's mom, 6/30/2021
- Heather's mom, 6/30/2021
November 17, 2023
We borrowed this from the library and it was a very well loved copy. Most of the flaps had been torn off and clearly replaced with hand cut replacements. My 15 month old daughter still loved it. Read what we could (some of the flaps weren't replaced) of it to her a couple of times. :) Fun and cute.
September 10, 2024
The flaps are just paper and tear off easily. There's no rhyming or wordplay to interest adults, but the flaps are a perennial favorite for kids. The vocabulary includes many common body part and clothing words for 2-year-old toddlers to learn.
August 3, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4814-1954-3
List Price: 11.99
List Price: 11.99
December 30, 2017
Nothing to see here - just padding my 2017 reading list so I can reach 100 books. Shhhhhh, don't tell...uh...God...?
May 30, 2018
This lift the flap board book introduces all kinds of little body parts of the little ones!
July 27, 2018
fun like the other ones
July 27, 2018
not as good as the original, but still cute toddler fun
September 18, 2018
Anything with flaps is a big hit right now.
September 20, 2018
The kids enjoyed this book because of the lift the flap aspect of it. I think it is a little hard to guess what the hidden body part will be, but it works for little ones.
November 4, 2019
Read for Babytime - 11/4/2019
November 6, 2020
Pretty standard lift the flap children’s book. Colorful though.
November 30, 2020
All those body parts hidden under your clothes. Who do you think you are, Jeffrey Dahmer?
December 28, 2020
This board book has flaps, but several were missing or dangling by a strip of glue when we read this library book. That was the most noticeable thing about this book, not the text.
January 25, 2021
Beautiful, simple illustrations, cute yet simple story. Works great for on-the-go translations for bilingual babies too! Baby approved, probably best for the age 4-18 months.
April 11, 2021
The flaps are too small yet for Isla to flip, or even be amused by when what’s underneath is revealed.
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