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Baby's First Words

by Barefoot Books

First words through everyday discovery

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Awards & Recognition

  • Editorial selection

    ALA Rainbow Book List Top Ten Pick (2018)

    Named a Top Ten Pick for 2018 on the ALA Rainbow Book List.

  • Critical praise

    Praise for Christiane Engel's illustrations from Books My Toddler Loves

    Attributed praise for Christiane Engel's illustrations, describing their colors and layered detail as engaging t...

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First words through everyday discovery

More than 100 early vocabulary words are presented across nouns, verbs, prepositions, adjectives, and interjections. A toddler and her two dads provide the book’s recurring family context, while each page includes a woolly mammoth for children to spot. The illustrations use acrylic and digital collage, giving the pages visual details to explore alongside the words. The book is also available in bilingual editions, including Spanish-English and several other language pairings.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Babies and toddlers beginning to encounter early vocabulary
  • Caregivers seeking a picture book for exploring words together
  • Families interested in bilingual editions; availability varies by language

Themes

Early vocabularyFamilyLanguage learningVisual discovery

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Book overview

Also available in bilingual English and Arabic, Bengali, Simplified Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Navajo, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese!"Christiane Engel's illustrations are fabulous...with a kaleidoscope of colours matched to easy on the eye layers of detail that make for lots of talking points" - Books My Toddler Loves

An ALA Rainbow Book List Top Ten Pick for 2018! Learn over 100 early vocabulary words with a toothy toddler and her two dads! Cheerful acrylic illustrations and digital collage artwork will keep little eyes glued to the pages, searching for the silly woolly mammoth on each one. Designed to support babies' natural pattern of language development, this first word book for the modern world reflects the earliest nouns, verbs, prepositions, adjectives and interjections that children learn to say. This new edition features a smaller trim size, just right for little hands--and a lower price, just right for savvy caregivers. Also available in bilingual Spanish-English.
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