Where Is Baby's Belly Button?

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Summary: Wonderful Attention Holding Teaching Tool!
Review: A must book for parents with young children. Delightfully, clearly, and simply illustrated, with minimum words stressing areas of location for body parts, and naming of essential body parts. This book is a helpful, attention-holding tool to teach the young about themselves. It is sturdy. Children can touch its pages, and it is an enduring book that will bring interaction and memory and will encourage language development as well. A highly recommended book!
Evelyn Horan - teacher/author

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I bought this book about 1-1/2 month ago, when my boy was about 8 month. He usually fuzzes alot during meal times. Every time when I read this book to him, he'll stop whinning immediately and becomes very quiet, every time. It's amazing. It's a very simple board book, just 4-5 words on each page, pictures are adorable but not too fancy, I love it. Such a good book, highly recommend.

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Summary: cute book
Review: My son (18 mos) really likes this book. It soon became one of his favorites. The pictures are bright and colorful, and the text simple. I was a little disappointed in the fact that it was so short. Also my little one can't lift the flaps by himself, there is no cut-outs or flanges that stick out enabling little fingers to grab easily. I'm sure in time though as this book gets "broken in" that it will be easier for him to do it by himself. Overall a cute book that little ones like.

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Summary: Perfect for your baby's first library!
Review: Both of my children (now 18 months and 3) learned many body parts from this book, which encourages children to lift the flaps and search for babies' hands (under the bubbles!), toes, and even belly buttons. The illustrations are colorful and simple, which is very engaging for a 12-18 month old. I also love the focus on learning spatial relations (behind, under, etc.), and the great fine-motor skill practice that comes from lifting these oversized flaps. The flaps are as sturdy as most, but they will eventually separate from the book, o keep your wide scotch tape handy!

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Summary: Great Book to Teach the Names of Parts of the Body
Review: "Where Is Baby's Belly Button? A Lift-the-Flap Book" - by Karen Katz.

As an ESL and newcomers classroom teacher (A newcomers classroom is for children who have been in country for less than a year, speak English as a second language and such classrooms use scaffolded methods of teaching in hopes of being able to transition these children to a mainstream classroom), I often have to be innovative in how to teach primary and intermediate children basic language skills that mainstream children of their own grade level would consider "baby" lessons.

Books like this one are a God-send. I can drill this book a few times a week at the beginning of the school year and within a few weeks, all of my students have the parts of the body from this book down pat. My older children (intermediates - 4th to 6th grade) at first objected to the book, but then they started having fun and forgot about the book being a "baby" book.

The book itself is a series of flap pages with big bright easy-to-read text. After one reads the text, they can flip up the flap and reveal the part of the body being taught on the page. It is constructed of cardboard and heavy card stock. The simple language phrases such as "Where is baby's belly button?" are easy for children to memorize and use. The bright colorful illustrations serve to bring out the text and allow easy recognition of the parts of the body.

I highly recommend this book for infants, younger ESL (English as a Second Language) learners, and younger children in general.

Review by: Maximillian Ben Hanan

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Summary: This book left me hollow
Review: Where is baby's belly button? Around the location of the navel.

I read this book. It didnt take me long. I found that it left me empty inside. There was no coherent structure to be found, and it is never really explained where the baby came from or why it should feel the need to locate various anatomical features.

Aside from that, the flaps were fun.

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Summary: Whst child doesn't love their belly button!
Review: This is an adorable and accessible lift and flap book. Very well costructed, (not a tear yet), and done in a peek-a-boo fashion. This book is great for learning basic body parts, (belly button, hands, feet, etc.). My son, (16 months), looks at this book nearly everyday, and has for about 9 months now.

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Summary: wonderful book
Review: My twin boys love this book.They are now 17 months old but have had the book since they were a few months old. Anytime I say where is baby's Bellybutton?they run and get the book. The book is colorful and fun for us to read together..If any fault can be found it is that the pages will get wripped out by the kids..so buy a few copies.

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Summary: Fabulous!
Review: Finally a book my child loves! She cannot seem to get enough of "Where is Baby's Belly Button" (even though I think she knows where her belly button is by now!!!) She loves to lift all the fun and funky flaps to see what's underneath and is constantly giggling with glee at all the great pictures and text!! I love my child, and my child LOVES this book. Many thank yous to Karen Katz, the authoress of this family favorite!!! Or, as the English would write: favourite! ...

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Summary: It's a good book But...
Review: I bought this book for my 16 months boy. The purpose is to teach him the basic body parts which he already knew but he only touches his own and not on books. He has finally pointed the mouth and eyes of the baby in the book and not himself, purpose fulfilled. I think it's a good book and recommended but there's only one flaw, the flap is a bit difficult to lift by a 16 months. My son has no problem maneouvring around small objects, he can even pick up a small bead on the ground but after a few tries, he has sort of giving up lifting the flap, when i ask him where's baby's mouth, he rather flip the page and point on the mouth on another page!