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Baby's First Colours
Designed to help parents and carers build children's developmental skills, this adorable Baby's First Colours Padded Board Book make early learning fun. Beautifully presented on lightweight pages that are perfect for little hands to hold, the simple words combined with colourful photographs of familiar items will help children identify colours from an early age.
- GenresChildrens
24 pages, Board book
First published May 1, 2015
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December 19, 2019
This book is one of a few board books from the "Hinkler Building Blocks" series and is available in both US and UK versions (for spelling, of course).
The book is developmentally appropriate for very early learners and I would recommend it for children between the ages of 1 and 2 years. Officially, it is stated that it is for children of the ages 0 to 4 years.
The book is sufficiently large for small hands and not too clunky. The hardboard cover is padded and has a nice feel to it. It is sufficiently hardy for normal use, but it can be ripped if stepped on while open. The book is certainly not bite resistant, so if your child is still biting, it is probably not a good idea to leave them alone with the book. The edges of the pages are aligned in a straight line, so it may be challenging to get from one page to the next without missing a page or two. But that is a small inconvenince for a book that is thought out carefully in terms of content.
Pedagogically, the book is very sound. Each two-page spread features one main colour. That helps children focus on just one main colour.
The colours featured are the more common RYB (pigment-mixture) primaries, (green, orange and purple) secondaries, (white, black and gray) neutrals, the pink tint and the brown shade.
Each verso page contains mainly singular, reasonably common, familiar objects against a textured-white-paper background with the name of the colour in lowercase black letters that are sufficiently large enough to be recognised or read and yet not too obtrusive. The sans serif typeface used, something like the Andika typeface, is one that has letterforms beginning early readers should recognise fairly easily. Particulary, it uses the single-storey letter 'a' which is more common in handwritten text.
There is no need to be overly concerned that this is not the typical typeface in most print materials. Whole-word recognition generally overlooks such details and children will be able to read words in common prints as they become more proficient readers. But for beginning reading, the typeface used is indeed better.
Each recto page's background is filled with a lighter tint of the featured colour and in the foreground is mostly, a singular, reasonably common and familiar object in a darker shade.
Each object featured on every page is a centre-weighted photograph with good white-balance and where objects have more than one colour, the identified colour stands out against the rest. Some of the objects have additional illustration with a simple black sketch which either puts the photographs in context or can generate some discussion beyond the pictures.
The clear and bright photographs used are unlike illustrations in most children's books which make them hard for the children to relate to immediately. Cartoonish or so-called artistic impressions are not the best ways to help children acquire vocabulary to real-world objects. The authors or publishers of this book have a clear handle on this important pedagogical idea.
Unfortunately, at the time of writing this review, it appears this book is no longer in print. I, personally, cannot understand why a book of this greatness would ever go out of print. The newer, but similar, smaller books from Hinkler are too small and not easy to use with very young children. They are also not as attention grabbing as the books in this original set. It is my hope that the publishers see this review and reconsider their decision not to print more copies of this book or the other books in this series.
The book is developmentally appropriate for very early learners and I would recommend it for children between the ages of 1 and 2 years. Officially, it is stated that it is for children of the ages 0 to 4 years.
The book is sufficiently large for small hands and not too clunky. The hardboard cover is padded and has a nice feel to it. It is sufficiently hardy for normal use, but it can be ripped if stepped on while open. The book is certainly not bite resistant, so if your child is still biting, it is probably not a good idea to leave them alone with the book. The edges of the pages are aligned in a straight line, so it may be challenging to get from one page to the next without missing a page or two. But that is a small inconvenince for a book that is thought out carefully in terms of content.
Pedagogically, the book is very sound. Each two-page spread features one main colour. That helps children focus on just one main colour.
The colours featured are the more common RYB (pigment-mixture) primaries, (green, orange and purple) secondaries, (white, black and gray) neutrals, the pink tint and the brown shade.
Each verso page contains mainly singular, reasonably common, familiar objects against a textured-white-paper background with the name of the colour in lowercase black letters that are sufficiently large enough to be recognised or read and yet not too obtrusive. The sans serif typeface used, something like the Andika typeface, is one that has letterforms beginning early readers should recognise fairly easily. Particulary, it uses the single-storey letter 'a' which is more common in handwritten text.
There is no need to be overly concerned that this is not the typical typeface in most print materials. Whole-word recognition generally overlooks such details and children will be able to read words in common prints as they become more proficient readers. But for beginning reading, the typeface used is indeed better.
Each recto page's background is filled with a lighter tint of the featured colour and in the foreground is mostly, a singular, reasonably common and familiar object in a darker shade.
Each object featured on every page is a centre-weighted photograph with good white-balance and where objects have more than one colour, the identified colour stands out against the rest. Some of the objects have additional illustration with a simple black sketch which either puts the photographs in context or can generate some discussion beyond the pictures.
The clear and bright photographs used are unlike illustrations in most children's books which make them hard for the children to relate to immediately. Cartoonish or so-called artistic impressions are not the best ways to help children acquire vocabulary to real-world objects. The authors or publishers of this book have a clear handle on this important pedagogical idea.
Unfortunately, at the time of writing this review, it appears this book is no longer in print. I, personally, cannot understand why a book of this greatness would ever go out of print. The newer, but similar, smaller books from Hinkler are too small and not easy to use with very young children. They are also not as attention grabbing as the books in this original set. It is my hope that the publishers see this review and reconsider their decision not to print more copies of this book or the other books in this series.
January 15, 2017
A simple book of colours. I like how it uses real photographs with additional black line illustrations throughout the book. Images are simple and often relevant images to what my sons interests and daily interactions with things, helping further his vocabulary whilst simultaneously helping teach him colours. At 19 months old this is one of his favourite books that he often reaches for.
December 5, 2015
Well thought out and laid out, with a good selection of colours. Yellow is, however, the obvious omission and a chance to introduce the phrase "rainbow colours" is missed at the end.
January 14, 2024
Simple and effective read for young ones. Bright colours and great pictures to associate with words.
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