Baby Faces

This book (and those like it) is a gateway book. It is perhaps the most important book to give children a start in reading. Babies LOVE looking at faces, especially of their peers. This, along with avoiding screens as long as possible, is very helpful in giving children the foundation for reading.

This is such a special, simple little book. Our baby (12 months) loves it so much. She is fascinated looking at the real images of babies. She loves going to the happy face and saying “happy!” I am pretty sure this book taught her how to say and play peek-a-boo as well. The book itself is soft and small, and short enough that I don’t mind reading it multiple times a day. Our daughter loves it when we imitate the emotions and expressions on each page for her. I feel like we are really helping her social and emotional development. I’ve even used it when she is having a tantrum, showing her the picture of tired, angry, etc. and asking her which one she is feeling. Amazingly, she usually picks the correct one and it distracts and deescalates her. She flips though it all the time on her own and carries it all over the house. I appreciate that many races of children are positively represented in this book.

This has been the favorite board book of all five of my grandchildren and I have purchased multiple copies because they have all wanted to take one home. The pictures are large and clear and it’s easy for babies to imitate the expressions. The peek-a-boo picture doesn’t quite fit in with the baby feelings/expressions concept, but it’s one of the favorite pages for the kids. It can be a very interactive book - my grandson kisses the sad baby, “washes” the face of the dirty baby, laughs with the laughing baby - and we talk a lot about why the babies might be feeling the way they are feeling. It was pointed out in a review for a different, but similar, book that different races were portrayed in an unfair way. That is not the case at all with this book. All races are represented and all the pictured babies are adorable. It’s especially popular with one to two year olds, but even tiny infants are interested in and enjoy this book,

Would give 100 stars if I could. I honestly wouldn't know what we would do without it. After a brief scare one afternoon where we couldn't find it, we actually bought a second one (we later discovered that our 10 month old daughter started throwing toys in the trash that is outside of her playyard out of her reach - daddy is so proud of his little basketballer ;-) This book has a baby face on each page with a simple word underneath each face. When we first received it, I never thought that this would become such an essential item. Our daughter first got obsessed with it around 3 months and since roughly age 6 months requests to have it read again and again and again and again... Even at 10 months it can still distract her, cheer her up, fascinate her, occupy her, keep her busy. My husband curses this book for having to read it so often but at the same time adores it for being such a life safer. If we could only have 3 toys with us while being stuck somewhere with our daughter, this would be one of our choices to bring. So we highly recommend it - in our eyes, it is a baby essential, a must have.

Big Edit: baby absolutely loves this book. We have at least a dozen books of just baby faces and next to lovevery books, this one is his hands down favorite. It’s the simplicity of face on white background and nothing else. Why do other books over complicate it with busy backgrounds etc? Anyway, still taking a star off for outdated quality of images. But this book does the job. This book is on all the must have lists for babies and the concept is great. But it’s copyrighted in the late 90s and I don’t think they updated these photos at all since that time. All the faces are in soft focus with horrible orange blurry skin and barely discernible detail. It’s really dismaying that in this age of optics technology nobody bothered to replace the book of only IMAGES with, well, better quality images.

My son loves this book. He’s two years old and has developmental delays that results in a lot of frustration. I’ve been trying to use this book to show him what angry and other emotions are to be able to better communicate his feelings. He can now look at the photos and sign/act out/ or say what the emotions are. He wants to read this book every time at bed time. He loves the peek a boo section of the book. It’s fun to see him act out each emotion. It’s a very stimulating book for little children. I also love that it’s children expressing each emotion in the book. A lot of the kids emotions books out there have animals or dragons displaying the emotions. I wanted something more realistic for him to grasp and he really has. This is a great book and I highly recommend this facial expressions book. My son loves to turn the pages of this great board book. Buy it!

This is one of my favorite books to gift as part of a baby shower gift. Babies and toddlers love the faces. The book is a good size, the pages are solid, and the images clear.

My daughter loves looking at other kids, she stares at the pages and reaches for the babies.

Cela amuse mon fils

Beautiful book

Oh so lovely clear picture small book ✨my niece really enjoyed this 👌🏻✨

My 9 month old baby LOVES this book for some reason. I think he just like seeing other babyfaces. For sure one of his top favourites. Great facial expressions for learning!

Honestamente cuando llegó pensé: ¿realmente gasté mi dinero en esto? En cuanto mi hija lo descubrió a los 7 meses me di cuenta que yo no era el público al que va dirigido. Lo ama. Sonríe cada vez que lo leemos.