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.
Award-winning author Stella Blackstone has written many of Barefoot's best-selling titles, including the Bear series and the Cleo the Cat series. She has been writing for children for over twenty years. Stella lives in Somerset, UK.
Sunny Scribens was born and raised outside Nashville, TN, and holds an M.A. in Classics from the University of Texas. She has written numerous titles for Barefoot Books, including several under the name Kate DePalma.
Christiane Engel is an award-winning artist from northern Germany. She currently lives and works in England with her family and has illustrated several children’s books.
- Top 10 Pick, ALA Rainbow Book List, 2018
- CCBC’s Best-of-the-Year List, 2018
- 50 Must-Read Board Books for Babies, BookRiot, 2018
- 2017 Bilingual Children’s Books
"Offers engagement, affirmation, and delight, showing a mixed-race, gay-parented family" – CCBlogC
"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
"A solid, attractive vocabulary builder" — Kirkus Reviews
