hwacollections.blogg.se

Each photograph is set against a bright, single-color background and usually features the child in traditional dress. The photographs are sure to be engaging to babies and toddlers who like to look at baby faces. The geographic identifiers on each photo could also be used to introduce a preschooler to geography, matching photos to places on a map. It could also work for a slightly older child who wants to look through the book alone. The text is somewhat predictable, but in a way that is soothingly repetitive and suited to babies who couldn't understand the text. The accompanying text describes how babies everywhere are special and loved. I'm giving it two stars because while I like it, the most important person does not.Įach page of this board book features a photograph of a baby, each labeled with its country. This leads me to uncomfortable conclusions about what kind of baby we are raising, and perhaps we need to get out and about more beyond family gatherings and library story times.

Try to offer it to him and you'll get a disdainful "no." Try to offer it to him when he is asking for American Babies, and he will take this book away from you. Better text, better pictures, two languages, and you have a winner in my book. The babies are as diverse as their clothing, with the Thailand baby in some kind of ceremonial headdress, while the Fiji baby is just in a tshirt. The edition I checked out is bilingual with Spanish/English on each page describing the babies from all over the world. Bonus points for not featuring babies with boogers. The text is your run of the mill I-want-to-poke-my-head-with-a-fork type of board book, rather than the I-want-to-embed-this-fork-in-my-brain-NO-WAIT-in-the-author's-brain kind of board book that American Babies was.

I fear we are going to have to buy a copy.Īnyway, I much prefer Global Babies. Unfortunately, we still have American Babies checked out because he asks for it by name. I checked this book out because my son adores the other book in the series, American Babies ( reviewed here).