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Baby's First Moments
So Sleepy: Baby's High-Contrast Board Book
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Expected 25 Aug 2622 pages, Board Book
Expected publication August 25, 2026
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There is a growing shelf of these books – volumes you have way before you can read, and probably before you can really grip a book and turn the pages with much accuracy. These are for a pre-boardbook audience, with the distinct black-and-white design for eyes not even trained in full colour book use. The three out in Aug 2026 are :-
So Happy (9798330923366), full of celebratory music and smiles and balloons, albeit monochrome ones.
So Busy (9798330923359) portrays a lively day of going to the park, play, bathtime and more.
And So Sleepy (9798330923373) is probably best kept till last, as it's clearly time for bed – even the local owl is telling us so.
Now I've read that these have a purpose – as I say black and white contrast comes to the baby eye earlier than colour clout – but I still think with the bulk of these they would be fine as coloured versions. A party room full of balloons, puppy in the park – they kind of demand colourfulness, even if the bedtime one is suitably nocturnal (having said that, that bedding pattern is going to wake anyone up…). I don't know how much of a head-start using these instead of coloured variants would give you, and the time-frame must be so short I don't see that all six of these would be needed. The intended audience is going to grow to the coloured stage pretty quickly, I'd have thought.
Anyway, if taken as intended these are successes – four stars for two of them, and a smidge more for Sleepy. They have distinctive pages, energetic design, and they encourage you to share the experience of them to reinforce bonding over books, which is always going to be a helpful start.
And the youngest of the family might one day get to colour them in for themselves...
So Happy (9798330923366), full of celebratory music and smiles and balloons, albeit monochrome ones.
So Busy (9798330923359) portrays a lively day of going to the park, play, bathtime and more.
And So Sleepy (9798330923373) is probably best kept till last, as it's clearly time for bed – even the local owl is telling us so.
Now I've read that these have a purpose – as I say black and white contrast comes to the baby eye earlier than colour clout – but I still think with the bulk of these they would be fine as coloured versions. A party room full of balloons, puppy in the park – they kind of demand colourfulness, even if the bedtime one is suitably nocturnal (having said that, that bedding pattern is going to wake anyone up…). I don't know how much of a head-start using these instead of coloured variants would give you, and the time-frame must be so short I don't see that all six of these would be needed. The intended audience is going to grow to the coloured stage pretty quickly, I'd have thought.
Anyway, if taken as intended these are successes – four stars for two of them, and a smidge more for Sleepy. They have distinctive pages, energetic design, and they encourage you to share the experience of them to reinforce bonding over books, which is always going to be a helpful start.
And the youngest of the family might one day get to colour them in for themselves...
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