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Hello, Animals!
A charming introduction to ten of baby's best-loved animals, featuring high contrast black-and-white illustrations. A glittering burst of colored foil brings a vivid splash of color to every page. With first words to join in with, this stunning book will captivate sparkly little babies everywhere!
Babies and toddlers will love to meet the adorable animals in this engaging book! Little hands can turn the sturdy board pages to meet a host of cute characters, including a panda, a cow, a tiger, a zebra, a giraffe, a penguin, and more. Simple text introduces readers to a handful of first words, while the bold artwork features each animal in its natural environment. Rounded corners, high-contrast black-and-white illustrations, and a glittering burst of colored foil on every page make this an ideal choice for the youngest learners.
Babies and toddlers will love to meet the adorable animals in this engaging book! Little hands can turn the sturdy board pages to meet a host of cute characters, including a panda, a cow, a tiger, a zebra, a giraffe, a penguin, and more. Simple text introduces readers to a handful of first words, while the bold artwork features each animal in its natural environment. Rounded corners, high-contrast black-and-white illustrations, and a glittering burst of colored foil on every page make this an ideal choice for the youngest learners.
10 pages, Board Book
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Smriti Prasadam-Halls
167 books77 followersSmriti Prasadam-Halls is an award-winning, internationally best-selling children’s author whose books have been published in more than thirty languages. Her titles include the Publishers Weekly #1 bestseller I Love You Night and Day, illustrated by Alison Brown. Smriti Prasadam-Halls previously worked at the BBC and in children’s publishing and television as a writer and editor for twelve years. She lives in London with her husband and three sons.
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May 15, 2016
Perfect for one of baby's first books--darling black and white images with a little foil glimmer. My grandson still enjoys it at age one.
Note: His first copy was ruined when a bottle of milk spilled in a diaper bag. Upon checking Amazon for another copy, we learned it is only available used but
is still available. He loves bugs, too! Bzzzzz....
Note: His first copy was ruined when a bottle of milk spilled in a diaper bag. Upon checking Amazon for another copy, we learned it is only available used but
is still available. He loves bugs, too! Bzzzzz....
March 17, 2021
We really enjoyed the giraffe and the slurping sound he (me) made.
November 15, 2021
Adorable book
February 1, 2018
The bold black and white images in this book are perfect for infants and young toddlers. The bright accents of color on each page invite children to touch the book and will keep their attention as you read. The simple, repetitive text encourages children to help you tell the story.
February 23, 2017
The two-year-old likes this one as much as he liked Hello, Bugs!.
December 2, 2021
Our child likes it!
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June 26, 2021My child smiled and enjoyed the high contrast illustrations since he was 6 months old. There is hardly any text but the playful illustrations are so engaging. Even for me the adult reader, I have enjoyed exploring the subtlety needed to make effective and captivating thick lined illustrations with only three colors per image - black, white, and one metallic color. I love this book most of all because it made my son smile before I could ever figure out why he was so moved.
January 9, 2019
Cute book with high contrast images. Bought for my Nephew (5mos.) Would make up a new story every night since there are only about 3-4 words per page inthis. The foil accents really caught his attention - especially the red foil fish.
March 30, 2019
Pretty good art, which most black & white board books lack. Similar to God's Animals & God's Families black & white board books with the animals & colored metallic.
My 3 month old did enjoy, even though she has moved on a bit from the " whoa black and white" wide-eyed phase.
My 3 month old did enjoy, even though she has moved on a bit from the " whoa black and white" wide-eyed phase.
May 23, 2017
Love the high contrast! My toddler loves this book!
October 30, 2017
Perfect baby gift
March 11, 2018
I can’t stop staring at the pages of this book! Helps me survive time in the car.
May 26, 2018
“mind blowing stuff,” - Malcolm, aged 7 weeks
July 18, 2019
A black and white favorite here. Good book to prop up during tummy time. I also read it in French to my daughter, but half of the words are cognates so it's all the same to her!
January 10, 2020
This book combines animals and high contrast illustrations. Great combination.
November 29, 2020
Great for infants starting to see the world. They can see contrast books before truly getting their sight.
February 5, 2021
The contrast is excellent and caught my baby's attention. Plus... Who doesn't love animals?
June 26, 2024
Really cute. Love the colorful foil accents. 23 month old really enjoyed this book too.
September 24, 2014
Newborns are born without the ability to see clearly or color. Prior my son being born I read up on the need to have high contrast books for the first few months. So naturally, when he started to be awake more (vs. sleeping all the time due to being in NICU), this was the first books I read to him when I brought him home. You can see how his eyes are tracking the contrast. I also recommend looking at high contrast videos, and he liked that a lot as well.
As he grew a little older and grasping for things more, this book and "Look, Look!" are the books that I hand over to him and he can flip through himself. He learned how to turn the page with these books as it's nice and thick. I thought that was kind of cool to interact with my son by telling about what he's seeing. The words are SUPER short, but if you explain what the he's looking at such as, "The tiger has stripes to hide themselves away from prey", etc, it stretches out the story time. He learned how to turn the page at around 3 months.
The difference between Hello, Animals and Look, Look! is Hello, Animals! is much thicker, and my son can turn the page easier for some reason (even if both books are board books). This one also have some shiny areas on the pages.
As he grew a little older and grasping for things more, this book and "Look, Look!" are the books that I hand over to him and he can flip through himself. He learned how to turn the page with these books as it's nice and thick. I thought that was kind of cool to interact with my son by telling about what he's seeing. The words are SUPER short, but if you explain what the he's looking at such as, "The tiger has stripes to hide themselves away from prey", etc, it stretches out the story time. He learned how to turn the page at around 3 months.
The difference between Hello, Animals and Look, Look! is Hello, Animals! is much thicker, and my son can turn the page easier for some reason (even if both books are board books). This one also have some shiny areas on the pages.
June 5, 2023
The reader says hello to a variety of animals. A high-contrast board book for babies.
January 3, 2015
This one is actually my husband's current favorite board book. The black and white illustrations have the required contrast to attract and hold a baby's gaze (yes, we have actually field tested this with our baby daughter) but the little colored foil bits add a bit of pizzaz that makes it seem a bit more fun than some of the other black and white books. Bolam frequently reverses the black and white foreground/background making the book lively. The gutter transitions are especially nice and show the forethought of continuing the lines that hit the gutter, even as they reverse color and change texture. The story is simple saying hello to each animal and repetitive with very very little arc (just ending with "Night-night, Leopard!") but the onomatopoeia (e.g. "sip, slurp" for the giraffe) is fun, especially with the alliteration.
May 9, 2011
This is a nice black and white book for very babies. Natalie didn't get all that excited about it when we read it at 19 months. The variety of animals was pretty average, but they all looked very nice in the black and white style. Another nice touch to this book is that each page as a color, foil section. It really adds something to how each page looks. Also, each animal has a sound written near its mouth, like its talking. So, I'd recommend it to newborns to enjoy the black and white contrast, and to older babies just learning their animals and sounds. Toddlers might like it if they are particularly into animals at the moment. Also would make an excellent book for a toddler or other early reader to share with a baby, since it doesn't need to be read, but can be.
April 1, 2012
It probably isn't fair that two "baby books" are counting toward my yearly goal...but considering I have read them both more than 200 times, I am going to count them! I LOVE this book! My son LOVES this book! Every baby under 12 months should own this book! A "must buy" for any/every baby shower! I love to give books as gifts...and this is perfect for our littlest readers! :)
January 18, 2014
These are my baby's favorite books so far. He loves the friendly animal faces, the splash of color, and the fun words that accompany the animal. I think the "crunch, munch" make it more exciting and fun for him as opposed to Look at the Animals.
September 11, 2011
This cool black and white board book will introduce your child to some very fun animals. Your little one will even learn all the different sounds they make. Shiny bits of vivid color will leave your child curiously wanting to touch and explore Hello Animals over and over again.
August 21, 2015
Excellent for baby's first book. Completely lacking in plot and I don't know why we say goodnight to the leopard and hello to everything else but my 3 month old son really enjoys the pictures, so FIVE stars!
February 8, 2012
A great first book for brand new babies.
March 5, 2013
This short simple book is cute with black and white images and shiny bright colors. Great for babies, and little kids for a quick read.
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