It's no secret: babies love looking at pictures of other babies. This book offers them plenty of opportunity--beginning with the cover, which features a larger-than-life picture of a beautiful baby's face. Inside, children are treated to photographs of a multicultural roundup of babies, clad only in big, colorful bloomies doing what babies love to do. Where are baby's toes? is the question on the first page, which faces a page with pictures of seven grinning, fat-cheeked babies holding on to or sucking their toes. How big is baby? comes next, with seven babies, arms held high, showing so big! Adorable babies with appropriate facial expressions play patty-cake, uh-oh, and peekaboo. Very young children will enjoy repeating the phrases as well as poring over the pictures. The front endpapers are adorned with photos of toys and familiar objects; the back ones show a baby, with body parts named, waving bye-bye. Sure to be off the shelf in no time. (Reviewed April 15, 1999)

Color photographs of babies, appealingly arranged against white or pastel-tinted backgrounds, illustrate activities most infants are familiar with, such as finding their toes and playing peek-a-boo. The simple text is also familiar (e.g., "How big is baby? So big!"), and it works with the pictures in encouraging young children to mimic the behavior shown.

Gentieu creates an engaging set of photographs for very young eyes. Every spread pairs a large full-color close-up of an infant and a phrase that has clearly recognizable echoes for adults: "Where are baby's toes?" and "How big is baby?" On the facing page, superimposed against soft pastel backgrounds, are several smaller photographs of infants engaged in a relevant activity, e.g., "Clap hands baby!" appears with babies engaged in enthusiastic attempts at patty-cake. Clad in colorful diapers, these cherubs smile, frown, laugh, and frolic through the book, candidly expressing a wide range of emotions. The direct correlation between text and photos provide children with visual clues that reinforce their comprehension of basic words and phrases. (Picture book. 1-3)

PreSA simple yet focused concept book that captures the small yet vital ways a young child interacts with his or her surroundings. Each double-page spread presents one activity or concept, be it Peek-a-boo!, or Uh-oh! Each verso boasts a single close-up photograph of a youngster performing an activity (e.g., so big!) while on the right, a bevy of babies is shown following suit. Each child is depicted with great clarity and immediacy. Facial and body expressions are perfect representations of the ideas at hand. One baby plays peek-a-boo with a hat over his face; another has dumped a bowl of spaghetti in his lap, All gone! The ethnically diverse youngsters are wearing colorfully patterned diaper covers and nothing else, adding to the simplicity and to the attractiveness of the pages. A title completely in tune with a babys world.Martha Topol, Traverse Area District Library, Traverse City, MI Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.