Baby Fingers: Teaching Your Baby to Sign FROM THE PUBLISHER
Using sign language, babies everywhere are successfully communicating their needs and desires even before they can talk. They are jump-starting their communications and language skills while deepening parent-child bonds. With this adorable board book of simple signs, created by a leading expert in the field who runs her own school in Manhattan, parents can take advantage of a major new trend-one that's become so popular it was profiled by The New York Times. On every page, cute babies demonstrate the gestures that mean Mommy, Daddy, love, dog, cat, home, sleep, tired, hungry, music, milk, and banana. And because babies very much like looking at photos of other babies, they'll have fun even as they learn.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
With an opening note that "children who understand sign language tend to have a stronger command of verbal skills," Teaching Your Baby to Sign by Lora Heller invites youngsters to learn 21 everyday words, from "baby" to "mommy" and "daddy" and "love." Each word appears above a photograph of a child demonstrating how to sign the word, along with a one-sentence description of the movement. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot
Most parents are focusing on helping babies and toddlers learn to talk so there is not a lot of emphasis on learning to sign. The idea here is that babies can get a jump-start on communicating before they start talking by using signs. The pages of this board book show kids making signs for the items that are described in the text. For example, love is shown by crossing the arms across the chest and giving yourself a hug or stretching the arms up over the head to mean reach up or lift me up. It is an interesting idea, but one wonders why this approach would be encouraged over learning to speak out loud. 2004, Sterling, Ages 6 mo. to 2.
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