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It’s never too early to introduce babies and toddlers to books, in fact, the earlier you do the better. Reading books to your baby provides perfect one-to-one time, the sound of your voice and the warmth from your body reinforces that reading is a pleasurable activity. Books are also amazing developmental tools for your baby too, they encourage hand-eye coordination, offer tactile and sensory opportunities and build cognitive skills to name a few.
Words & Pictures have a new range of beautiful, colourful board books published by Quarto, designed especially for preschoolers to discover and explore the world around them. We were sent a lovely bundle of books to review and we also have a set to giveaway to our readers.
Words & Pictures Preschool Board Books
Tales From Nature
Brand new to the Tales From Nature series is Bee and Ladybird. The bright and colourful illustrations perfectly introduce little ones to nature.
Ladybird by Magali Attiogbe
This colourful tale follows the journey of Ladybird through the garden. Simple text introduces us to the ladybird, what they like to eat, and why gardeners love them and even asks you the reader where you think they should lay their eggs. I love that this book is teaching children snippets of nature facts in a fun and imaginative way.
Through windows and flaps, little ones can guess what is going to happen next in the story. The thick pages are also perfect for little hands to turn.
Bee by Magali Attiogbe
In this book, we follow the Bee as it goes about its day looking for flowers to collect nectar from. We learn all about the beehive, how it’s protected and where the queen bee lays her eggs. I love the illustrations in this book, the colours are beautiful and the characters are fun, I especially love the illustrators’ use of different facial expressions on the bees in the hive.
Peep Through First Concepts
First Word by Jane Ormes
First Words is the ideal book to introduce early learning, it encourages vocabulary using objects and animals from everyday life. The illustrations are bold and colourful and are accompanied by simple text. There’s a little peep-through hole on each page which adds an extra dimension. The pages are sturdy and thick which is an essential feature of board books in my opinion.
Count 1 2 3 by Jane Ormes
Count 1 2 3 introduces little ones to numbers and counting using animals and the natural world. I think the illustrations in the book are just adorable, I especially loved the animal characters. This is a great interactive book, perfect for sharing together.
First Concept Bath Books
Shapes and Colours by Ana Seixas
With bold graphics and bright colours, these fun bath books are a brilliant way to introduce first concepts to your little ones. I love the fun graphics in these books and how tactile, super soft and squishy they are.
What We Loved About Words & Pictures Books
- The benefits of learning indicated on the back of the books
- The bright colourful illustrations
- The quality and durability of the books
- Fun characters and images
- The flaps and peep-through holes
- The sensory aspects of the pages
We love The Tiger Who Came To Tea!
Each peach pear plum
We have a PERSONALISED bedtime book –
The Gruffalo.
Pip and Posy and the scooter
the gruffalo
my daughter loves snow white book
The Tiger who came to tea is our favourite
The three little pigs xx
We like I Love You This Much
That’s Not My…. series by Usbourne.
Peter Rabbit
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton is great for the 4 year old. Great competition thanks for the chance to win these books for the new baby due in August.
my daughter loves Alice in Wonderland
The Little Prince
Any Thomas Tank books with grandson
3 little pigs. These books look great, lovely and bright and colourful.
My daughter loves the Pip and Posy books.
My three year sold son loves The Ugly Duckling, we read it together at least once a week!
Peter Rabbit
I have a limited edition collection of Peter Rabbit books which I received a s a gift in 93 as a baby myself aged 2 and I read those with my stepdaughters and soon will red them to my own daughter when she is born… this set would be fantastic for helping her to develop her knowledge and vocabulary as she grows
The Gruffalo and The Stick Man
My daughter loves the Julia Donaldson books at the moment so we are reading Good Witch, Bad Witch and The Skipping Rope Snake amongst others
the gruffalo
Mog the forgetful cat
at the moment little one loves the BFG
my baby grandson likes the pepper pig books
Rabbits Don’t Lay Eggs by Paula Metcalf is the book my grandson doesn’t tire of and is definitely the most requested!
We’re all going on a bear hunt
room on a broom there is one in each grandparents house all the grand kids have gone made for it each of my kids have there own copy
The very hungry caterpillar is always a favourite along with the that’s not my series.
The very hungry caterpillar- a timeless classic!
Stickman! My girls love it.
The dinosaur that pooped a planet
The very hungry caterpillar
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory .
The tiger who came to tea
The very hungry caterpillar is fave in our house at the moment
My boy loves ‘Mad about Minibeast’
The boys are currently loving Zog!
I love so many children’s books but a firm favourite here has been Dear Zoo.
No! No! Charlie Rascal by Lorna Kent
The gruffalo is one of my children’s favourite books
A Squash and A Squeeze