Baby Faces
A teacher’s look at why this book belongs in the Lap Listeners stage.
Why it fits Lap Listeners (for babies in their first year, when books are about your voice, not the plot)
Close-up photos of babies laughing, crying, and making mischief. Reading emotions off faces is a baby's first curriculum, and this is the textbook. Expect your baby to talk back to it.
What makes it special
Miller discovered the most reliable subject in publishing: babies studying other babies. Her tight photographic close-ups isolate one emotion per page with documentary honesty. It's the first mirror of social life, and it works because nothing on the page is pretend.
From the publisher
Presents color photographs of various facial…
About Margaret Miller
Margaret Miller is a photographer whose big, bright portraits of real babies made her board books a developmental-psychology favorite — infants study her baby faces the way adults study mirrors.
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This book is part of The Best Books for Babies: 30 Teacher Picks (Lap Listeners) in our guide The Best Children’s Books by Age — 120 books chosen by the Montessori-certified teachers at Creative Minds Montessori in Frisco, TX. Come see how we build readers →
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