My First Book of Sign

It is great my son loves it and we read it everyday and learn more signs everyday.

I read the other reviews and I will clarify. I looked at the book and it is in ASL, no "initialized" signs as seen in signed english. It is one of the best books of it's type. A couple of the signs are hard to read the direction or orientation of the movement, that is the case with ANY of these books. There are always going to be a couple that are hard to put down on two dimentional paper, because it is a 3-D language. I noticed the sign for "Drive" is really "car", common mistake, and a "classifier" was used for "ship". Overall, a very good source.

This book is an excellent source to teach children and even adults sign language. The illustrations are accurate in their represenation of sign. It is coloful and visually attractive which makes it easy to read. The black and white manual alphabet, the fingerspelling, signing and aspects of sign provide excellent directions and pointers to singing correctly. The sign descriptions are a great supplement to the illustrations.I recommend this for parents, teachers and students as an itroduction or foundation to sign language.It would have earned 5 stars if it differentiated between "sign language" and American Sign Language".Being an educator I congratulate Baker for writing such a helpful book.

The thing that impresses me most about this book is it's accessibility for children of very young ages. My daughter, who just turned three, has been using this book for the last year. She has learned almost every sign in the book and uses them on a daily basis. I looked everywhere for a book that had bright, colorful pictures of the objects/concepts being signed along with the illustration of how to do the sign.