My Little Animal Book

My 8 month old loves animals. This book offers bright, big pictures that group similar animals together in a size that is eye-catching to little ones. The last pages have nice matching and counting activities for kiddos as they get older.

I bought this book when my son was one year old. It became a book of interest for him. It fell apart through mishandling, but I thought it would be wise to buy another copy of it. My son is three now and the book still fascinates him. Together we enjoy opening the book to comment about the lives of the animals. You can see the goodness in all of this. The book is well-made and the fotos of the animals are splendid.

This book was a gift for my son from a family friend. It contains vivid and attractive pictures of animals, and their names, from many places around the world. It kept him occupied at restaurants when he was a toddler. As a preschooler now, its one of several favorite books he brings to bed to sleep and wake up with.

My son loves picture books that he can hold himself. In looking for books that he could use I found "My Little Animal Book". It is large enough for little fingers to turn the pages. What I like best about this book is that it has the actual pictures of the animals and not cartoons. My son is 22 months old and can point and announce most of the animals in this book. It is also a great book to help teach your child the animals sounds as well. We have to read this book EVERY night! But since he's learning so well from it...I don't mind!

This book is great for toddlers and young children. My son was 13 months old and already able to say the names of some of the animals, including cat, dog, gecko, turtle, butterfly, cow, gazelle, and cockatoo. It is amazing what a child can learn if an adult will take the time to be a teacher, and this book can facilitate that learning! The pictures in My Little Animal Book are vivid and include a variety of animals, including categorized sections of animals: on the farm, in the jungle, in the savannah, in the water, in the snow, and in the woods. Also included are reptiles, amphibians, birds, marsupials, fish, and insects. The youngest of readers will easily recognize the animals in the "Pets" section and on the "kittens and puppies" page. At this stage of learning, the adult reader can encourage the toddler to make the sounds that the animals make (which are not included in the book). As the child can recognize the shapes of certian animals, such as birds, the learner can soon be taught that there are unique names for the different types of birds. Older readers will benefit from the section asking the child to "match the patterns to the animals," where small sections of the animal are blown up and the child must match the pattern on the animals' bodies to the complete pictures of the animals. Similarly, there is a "match the moms to the babies" page. For those children that like the "I Spy" series of books, the last page of this book has an animal search, asking the child to find a certain number of each animal. One of the best features of this book is that the name of each animal is written below the picture--this means no guessing for the actual reader of the book!