My Big Animal Book

Priddy Books Big Ideas for Little People

by Roger Priddy

The stunning large format brings the images of the animals to life in My Big Animal Book . This book is ideal for babies and toddlers, and helps to build your child's vocabulary.

Genres: Childrens, Animals, Picture Books, Nonfiction

12 pages, Board Book

First published May 10, 2002

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

[Kate M. Colby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jack received this book as a hand me down. He is still a bit young to answer the questions about the animals, but he enjoyed looking at the photos. It’s clear he recognizes the animals he’s interacted with before, like cats, dogs, and goats. He points at them and smiles.

[Maria Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Picked this up at a used book sale to read with the twin boys I babysit. I long ago lost count on how many times the boys choose to read it first. They love listening to the sound the animals make (too bad I can't do all the animals) while looking at the picture. They have to kiss every kitty. And they usually want to read it repeatedly. Once is never enough. Big hit at our house.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

This has long been a favorite book for my children when they have been young. The photos are great and the variety of animals is pretty good. It’s fun to help my children learn the animal sounds and recognition.

[SBC · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of our family favourites, read many, many times! Lots of vibrant photographs of animals, lots of background colour, and a lovely use of white space in between. Easy to read and recognise these animals.

[McKenzie McIlrath · Rating 2 out of 5]

A starter book for young children the book has the right idea and good pictures. Although I feel the pictures are all too crowded and pushed together

[Ana Tejada · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great for toddler and baby to expose them to animals and their sounds. Also has real pictures that will help them make connection latter on to real live animals

[Ana Tejada · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the animal book because it has brightened pictures and little wording.Making the book good for children to make animal sound and add things to the book.

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great book

[Adriana Silva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bought this book for my niece and I loved reading it. The book is made of cardboard and has large pictures with the names of the animals in bold print. It’s a great book for small children!

[Maeve · Rating 4 out of 5]

A large board book with pictures of a large assortment of animals.

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

The genre of this book is a picture book, and is intended for children (N) birth to age five. This book has hard pages, and bright, colorful real-life photos of all types of animals. Each page has a category such as, Baby Animals, Pets, On the Farm, and so on. Under each photo is the name of what type of animal is in the picture. This is a great book to use to teach young children their animals. If your child is old enough where they can identify each animal, then you can move up to the more challenging part. On the bottom of each page there is a question to test their knowledge of animals. For example, a child has to identify what a baby horse is called. Using this book is a great way to broaden your child's vocabulary. Almost every child loves animals, and seeing colorful real-life pictures will make this fun.

[Erika Stauch]

The appropriate age group for this book is PreK-1. This book has many large photos of animals. They are big enough to recognize for a child. They are also familiar animals. This book is also very helpful for children just starting out. Pictures are great because children are able to identify the many different animals that the recognize. Even though there were some words, a child is able to pick out the familiar animals. I would use this in my class when first learning about the alphabet, the children could link the photos with the letter of the alphabet. I would also have the children utilize this in their free time when they need extra help when it comes to learn their alphabet.

[Milo · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like the book, but it doesn't keep my attention for too long. I am not really that interested in the animals. Mama asks me what the animals say, I tell her. But, I would rather look at a different book when Mama pulls this one out. Papa borrowed it from Aunt Annika hoping I would like the big pictures. Maybe if I were more into animals. But, right now I love backhoes, tractors, blinking lights and wooden pull dogs. I am not that into looking at pictures of animals.

[Mallory · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yep. It's a big book of animals.

Categories are: baby animals, pets, on the farm, birds, at the zoo.

Only qualm is with the pets section, instead of just bird he writes parakeet why? All others on the two pages are specific. And personally I would have gone ferret or hamster over chinchilla.

Overall a solid board book. Simple bright pictures, and clear text. Little guy reaches for this one often.

[Alice & Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is our favorite book right now. We read it over and over, with or without Mommy, and Andrew cries when Mommy says it's time to put it away. It is so fun to make all of the animal noises for the animals we know, and to point them out when mommy asks where they are. We're also learning about some new animals.

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of those books Fritz loves. Each page has numerous photographs of animals. The text asks a question of the reader to identify one of the animals on the page. Of course, when we read this book, lots of other questions are asked as Fritz likes to identify all the animals on each page over and over again.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great g t board book for reading time with my 7 month old. The book is large and so are the pictures. She loves the bright colors. Since there are not lots of words on each page wI just name off the animals and make animal noises and talk about each animal a little. Each animal is on a bright color square so we spend so e time on colors too. Fun book for little ones.

[Ash · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is not as good as I imagined it would be. Many common animals are missing like squirrel or crow which we see daily in our life. Instead of including many common animals, the book has animals like Panda which a baby will see in a zoo and not everyday. Number of animals and pages is very less and not worth paying so many $$.

[Kristen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brooklyn has read this so many times I can't even count. She will just pick it up and look at the pictures. It's a great book for babies because it has pictures and it's name. It includes pictures of the following: baby animals, pets, farm animals, birds, and zoo animals. This book was a reason that Brooklyn learned her animal sounds so early.

Highly recommend.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great for teaching animals and animal sounds

[Robbie Bashore · Rating 5 out of 5]

My daughters absolute favorite when she was one. This was the first thing she looked for when she woke up in the morning.

[Kai · Rating 5 out of 5]

i really like the barn owl in this bok. i give him kisses.

[Alicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the bold colorful pictures that help make this book a good language builder for young children.

[Mindy · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 10 month old LOVES gazing at all the pictures of animals. It's a short book, but that doesn't seem to bother him. He'll read it over and over and over with or without me.

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great for babies, it introduces new (and non-normal) animals to your little one in big bright pictures!

[Kathryn Cooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Many animals in different categories.

[Gail · Rating 3 out of 5]

Big bright photos. Good for ages 0-1.5.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

My one-year-old loves this book because the pictures of the animals are big and I can make all the animal noises.

[Gretchen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kate is obsessed with this at 18 months old.

[Sandybear76]

Lots of pictures per page and one question to go with it. cute toddler book.