Peek-a-Boo

This book is great to start teaching your child the old game of peek-a-boo. The book is about what a little baby sees through the day. The baby can see through the circular cut holes through to the next page. Each page is a different scene in the day in the life of the family. To me it is amusing to see just how cluttered the family in the story is.All three of my children have liked this book. It is worth the purchase!

My 23-month old daughter LOVES this book! We read it several times each day. She especially loves the pictures...they are very intricate with a lot going on in each. I highly recommend the hardcover version...would stand up to the many reads!

We first picked this book up almost by accident at the library. My three boys (ages 20 mos. to 4 yrs) already knew and loved Each Peach Pear Plum by the Ahlbergs, and after renewing Peek-A-Boo three times we decided we needed our own copy!My youngest son (20 mos.) loves to chime in on the "one two three" and "peek-a-boo's" and the older boys are fascinated with the detailed illustrations. It's altogether an outstanding book for the toddler/preschool bunch.

This is a book I often send as a gift for new babies. My son is two and a half and has loved to have this book read to him since he was a few months old. The concept is what a baby can see. The story is told in a catchy rhyme which is fun to read (a plus for the parent who reads a lot of books to their child!) and easy to listen to. The board book has the added attraction of cut out round holes to give us the baby's view of the world - 'Peepo!'. For the baby or toddler listening to the story this is a bonus as they can put their hands through the hole and add a new sensation to the experience. The illustrations themselves give a nostalgic view of working class family life in post-war Britain. They are crammed with detail and give the child plenty to look at and for while listening to the story. The best kind of story reading experience for the very young child.

This is a delightful book for young children, like others of the Ahlbergs. What distinguishes this one is that it is set in World War II England, in a crowded working-class home. It was fun for me, when reading this to my child, to look at the way people lived in that place and time. Each picture is full of details that children like to find.