Can you stick out your tongue like Frog? Puff up your cheeks like Cow? Scrunch up your nose like Jane the Monkey? Look in the mirror and try! This busy book with a mirror on every spread (and a peekaboo finale!) teaches babies and young children parts of the face in a playful way.
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Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.
Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.
The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.
My 9 month old absolutely loves this book! She loves watching herself when I reverse the camera on my phone, so I decided to pull this book out of storage and it was a huge hit. She watches her reflection in the mirror as I read each page and then kisses it before I turn the page.
This book is great for toddlers too! As my little one gets older we will use it to learn body body parts and make silly faces to mimic the characters in the book.
The simple text and simple illustrations are perfect for little readers. This will definitely be a book that we read over and over!
I think this book is great for infants to be read by their parents because they are exploring parts of their face. This is very important for young children to learn because it is the start of understanding functions of the body and the names for their facial features! The language used in this book will also foster sounds and words that babies and young children will use for the rest of their lives, and familiarize themselves with common words in the English language.
With mirrors on every page and instructions on what to do (make a silly face! Puff out your cheeks!), this book is cute but geared for a child slightly older then my 11 month old. That being said, she enjoyed seeing her reflection, and the mirrors are just large enough that she could see my face too, and would giggle at the funny faces I was making.
the very first book I read to my foster son, read again tonight. he continues to be more interested in fighting the cartoon animals than in looking at his reflection
This is a book to help teach children the parts of the face. It has a different animal on each page doing an action like sticking out their tongue or scrunching their nose. The child observes the action and then sees if they can mimic it by using the mirror that is in the book. This book can be used in the classroom to assist in learning about different parts of the body. It could be used in either a body parts thematic unit, or an animal thematic unit. I really liked this book because it allows children to see themselves doing actions and it helps get them involved in the story.
Cute board book with cartoon animals and mirrors on each page so the baby can look at himself and make faces. I was holding a baby, reading it to him, and the book made him cry. Oh well, nice idea...
This is my nephew's book that I read to Natalie while visiting. It was cute, but she didn't seem interested in the mirror and was to young to do the actions described. I liked how there were multiple mirrors and the simple illustrations.
My son got this as a gift for his first birthday, it wasn't until he turned 2yo that he actually took an interest in it. He loves to have it read to him and then read it to himself several times afterwards.
My child received this book in the hospital after he was born and we read it everyday. At just a few month's old, his face lights up as soon as I start to read it to him. He loves it! Would definitely recommend it for young children of all ages, especially those under the age of one.