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Amazing Baby: Black and White

by Emma Dodd

Interest age: 0 to 1

Published by Templar Books, 2015

  • Board books
  • Interactive

About this book

Stripes and spots, dark and light, waves and dots, black and white! Turn the cut-out pages in this excellent black-and-white baby book and discover spotty frogs, stripy bees and even a sleepy teddy bear on pages filled with black-and-white patterns, dots and stripes.

Board books featuring high-contrast, black-and-white patterns are brilliant for your baby’s developing eyesight, particularly in the first months of life. This book also features a yellow and white twisty wheel at the end with a starry spaceship flying off into space, which presents an interesting repeating pattern for babies to look at and, as they get older, to reach for and want to play with.

The board book pages are nice and thick, meaning that they’ll be nicely resistant to chewing, dribble or being chucked into a bag or pram when you’re on the go, and the reducing size of the circular cut-outs mean that older babies can grip the book easily if they want to.

A perfect first book with an easy rhyme that also means baby can get used to listening to your voice, and start to get used to rhythm, repetition and word sounds.

About the author

Emma Dodd was brought up in Guildford, Surrey, in a family of artists. As a child she loved the work of Peter Firmin, John Burningham and Gerald Rose and from as far back as she can remember she wanted to be an illustrator.

Emma studied graphic design and Illustration at Central Saint Martin's School of Art and has worked in advertising, editorial and book illustration. She has illustrated bestselling Noisy Noisy series for Ladybird Books and, with author Giles Andreae, won a Book Trust Early Years Award in 2010 for I Love My Mummy.

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