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Synopsis:
If you've been around babies in the last few years, you've seen these newfangled toys that are abstract in color (or just black, white, and red) and make curious, crunching noises. Studies have shown that these types of toys stimulate newborns, expanding the capacity of their little sponge-like minds. That concept comes to the video age in Baby Einstein.
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This 30-minute tape is called a "video board book" and the creators instruct parents of 1- to 18-month-olds to use it that way: huddle around the TV often pointing out objects and interacting with the child as you would with a book. Bright toys, patterns, blocks, and the like move across the screen accompanied by natural sounds, music, and voices. English, Japanese, Russian, German, and other languages are heard telling nursery rhymes or counting to 20. Now the creators don't expect your baby to recite "Humpty Dumpty" in Spanish by the end of the tape, but, as they state in the introduction, hearing different languages invigorates a baby's mind.
BABY EINSTEIN(R) is a delightful, creative introduction to the sounds of foreign language that will stimulate your baby in uniquely positive ways. Based on recent language-acquisiton research and infant visual preferences, this video represents visually stimulating toys, interesting kinetic art, and photographs set to spoken passages, music, and natural sounds
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Yes
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Synopsis:
Introduce your child to rhyming words and the fun of playing with language and sounds. This book is great for toddlers learning about rhyming words, children love lifting up the flaps. The pictures and wording is perfect to keep their attention, this is a pretty good book.
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Bard loves to rhyme. he sees rhymes everywhere — in his bedroom, his backyard, at the lake, and at the farm. Flaps on every page make learning about rhyming words fun, and will encourage children to find things that rhyme all about them.
Synopsis:
Bard loves to rhyme and sees rhymes everywhere. This lift-the-flap book allows toddlers to join Bard as he finds rhymes in his bedroom, in the backyard, and at the lake. Full-color illustrations.
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Yes
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baby
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Synopsis:
Tune your little one's ears to the magical cadences of rhyming tales. Rhythm and song are intrinsic to all human bodies — babies are no exception. If you're lucky, your baby will reveal a lot about her needs and desires through rhythmic moves and routines. Just a few weeks after birth, rhythmic patterns of sleep and feeding become more apparent to sleep-deprived parents.
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Rhythms are so comforting to babies that they often use rocking to reveal when they are bored or lonesome. Some wee ones will occupy themselves by twisting their hands in front of them and staring at them while lying in a crib. These are signals that your baby needs more variety in intimate back-and-forth play. Crib toys, overhead mobiles, lots of floor time on the tummy, and time together with you will take away your baby's need for stereotyped rhythmic rocking.
On the other hand, rhythmic rocking and rolling to nursery rhymes is something to encourage. The timeless appeal of these rhythmic treasures help infants and toddlers develop language and enjoy movement. As you recite the familiar and strongly emphatic rhythms of "Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow," you may find your youngster bouncing up and down. A high-energy toddler may vigorously and happily "ride" his rocker as you intone the rhythms of the familiar rhyme "Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse."
The Rhythm of Reading
By emphasizing rhyming poems and games with your infant or toddler, you're also helping his emerging literacy. The instinct to rhyme comes somewhat naturally. Researchers have overheard and reported that even young toddlers practice their own made-up rhymes, such as "Oogie, woogie, poogie" over and over. Infants and toddlers tack on the "ee" sound as a diminutive to many words. Toddlers call out "doggie," "kitty," "horsey," as they point and label the animals they see in a picture book.
Toddlers giggle at funny rhymes even when these involve nonsense words, as in many of the Dr. Seuss books. Becoming aware of rhyming sounds boosts brain activity and early literacy ability. Adding singsong rhyming words to requests for your child to listen or to stop an activity is a great way to get her attention. Rhymes and rhythms add zest and humor as well as increasing your child's cooperation.
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baby
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Synopsis:
Take your baby on asensory tour of the world of baby animals in this charming new board book. Babies will be introduced to the animals that are just like them... babies! Through stunning real-life photos that feature touch and feel panels. Babies will love to touch a puppy's soft ears or the slippery skin of a dolphin.
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Baby Einstein Books is an imprint of developmentally appropriate, interactive books designed to introduce children ages 0-3 to classic poetry, art, and foreign languages in a fun and accessible way.
A combination of playful images, beautiful photography, and bold illustrations with multilayered text will captivate and stimulate babies and young children. This humanities for babies program, based on the award-winning video series, taps into the natural learning potential of young children and their parents aspirations for them.
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These charming new Baby Einstein board books take babies on a sensory tour of the worlds of baby animals and farm animals. With touch-and-feel panels and full-color photos of real animals, these books tap into the natural learning potential of young children.
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Baby donald Makes a Snowfriend -- A Book About Shapes
Pros
fun to read, educational
Cons
none
The Bottom Line
This is a nice book about colors and shapes!
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Baby Donald Makes a Snowfriend is a book about shapes. It is one of the “Baby’s First Disney Books” series and was published by Grolier, Inc. No author nor publication date can be found on the copy of the book that I own. A little research of my local library’s website, however, reveals that the book was published in 1987 and was written by Marilyn J Sapienza.
Summary
The book teaches about shapes. The story is really very simple. First you see Baby Donald and he has drawn some pictures of shapes and taped them to his wall. He names each of the shapes for us. Next, Baby Donald goes out to play and he takes some of his toys. The toys he takes are all very definite shapes like square blocks, a round ball, and a triangular spinning top and a triangular carrot.
We then see our friend, Baby Donald with his friend Baby Daisy building a snow friend in the snow. They have circles for the head and body and other shaped toys make up the trimmings such as square block buttons, a triangular carrot nose, etc. But, Baby Donald takes the carrot nose off of the snowman and gives Baby Daisy a very mad look as he tells her that the carrot is supposed to be their snack! He crafts a nose out of snow and sticks it onto the snowman instead.
Text and Illustrations
The text in this book is very simple and easy for an adult to read to a child. The black lettering is placed underneath the pictures on each page and there is one to two lines per page, which equals about 4-10 words per page.
Almost more important than the text in this book are the illustrations. The adult can read the words and then the child can help look at each illustration for more shapes. The words alone would take less than a minute to read to the child. If, however, you look at each picture with the child and let the child help find all the different shapes, it will be more interesting and more educational for the child. There are so many different shapes that the child can find in this book.
The pictures are bright and fun to look at. Each page has many examples of distinct shapes on it. In addition, there are a lot of colors too. On the first page where Baby Donald draws each of the shapes, each one is a different color. And, on the other pages, you can find many more examples of different colors as well. So, even though this book is a book about shapes, there is no reason why you can’t learn about colors too!
My experiences
I got this book from a free offer when my daughter was young. Even if I had had to pay for it, it would have been worth it since it is a book that we have all enjoyed!
My daughter and son both have enjoyed this book. I remember reading this book to my daughter when she was around three years old and she was very fascinated by the fact that there were so many shapes to be found. My son does not yet know shapes but he does like the pictures and he brings me this book to read to him quite frequently. He can point to the characters in the story and I am showing him the different shapes by pointing at them. I am sure that very soon, he will be showing me the shapes instead of vice versa! It is a short book to read but time can be spent on it if you and your children really enjoy the pictures together. And, then there’s my son who will start the book right back at the beginning as soon as we get to the end!
Recommendations
I would recommend this book for children from age one through age four. It is a board book and it has held up well. It is fun to read and it is fun to learn together with this book. This is a great read-together book!
Recommended:
Yes
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