Children's Book Review and Giveaway

Babies and toddlers love to learn about themselves and parents love to tell them all about them-including each ticklish, soft part of the baby's body.  Here's a book that encourages play while learning!

Eebee's Adventures All About Me and You! is a great board book for babies and toddlers to learn body parts and, more importantly, interact with parents.  Eebee is the cute baby featured on each page helping to teach about the body.  Author Every Baby Company, Inc made each page like a game board with commands, questions, and statements in colorful circles.  Some of the circles are quite clever and all are related to the different parts of the body.

• stick out your tongue!  say 'bah-bah-bah-bah!' 
• close your eyes!..are you sleeping?
• let's tickle your tummy!

The last page of eebee's Adventures All About Me and You! is my favorite part of the book...and most children's too, I suspect.  It is a fold out mirror to be used throughout the pages of the book.   

I think this would be an excellent gift to give a baby!  Though it is my first eebee book, it is part of a whole eebee series.

What I Like:

I think the illustrations of eebee keep the focus on body parts.  They are cute and bold!  This book plays out perfectly for exploration and interaction.  Language and motor skills develop alongside the social skills for the child!  Another feature I like is that you do not need to start at the beginning of the book.  You can start in the middle and enjoy it just fine, which I think young page turners would like.

Mirrors are especially helpful for young children's language development.  It helps them to see what they are doing instead of only feeling it.  Some children think they are imitating others correctly, but the mirror can show them otherwise.  Of course, mirrors are really a great incentive for a child to pull out a book and be silly!  Young children love mirrors to see their beautiful faces!

What I dislike:

Overall, this is a great book, but eebee's name does not begin with a capital letter.  Also, each "game board" circle has an idea written in it to instruct the child in some way.  As seen in the bullets above, they do not begin with a capital letter, though they do end with punctuation and are usually a complete sentence.  Children won't mind this and may even enjoy all lower-case letters, but the teacher in me cringes at this.  I still think it's a fun book and a great way to reinforce body parts and play with your child.

Sterling Publishing is offering a copy of eebee's Adventures All About Me and You to one reader!

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Giveaway ends Tuesday, October 26th at 7 pm EST.

Thank you, Sterling Publishers, for providing this book for review purposes.