Where Is Baby's Belly Button?
A teacher’s look at why this book belongs in the Page Grabbers stage.
Why it fits Page Grabbers (for young toddlers who treat books as things to do)
Lift the flaps to find baby's hands, feet, and belly button. Body-part naming plus peekaboo - two toddler obsessions in one. Chunky flaps built for unskilled little fingers.
What makes it special
Katz turned body-part naming into peekaboo, with flaps standing in for hands over eyes. Her rosy, patterned babies have a paper-doll charm that toddlers find both funny and tender. Self-knowledge starts literally here — eyes, toes, belly button — one satisfying flap at a time.
About Karen Katz
Karen Katz has made over fifty bright, patterned lift-the-flap books for babies, with a specialty in the toddler body, family love, and peekaboo mechanics. Her flaps are famously sized for unskilled fingers.
Katz began her first book, Over the Moon, to tell the story of adopting her daughter from Guatemala — and the joyful, patterned style she developed for it became her signature.
Also by this author: Where Is Baby’s Mommy? · Counting Kisses · Toes, Ears, & Nose!
More from “Books That Do Things”
This book is part of The Best Books for Toddlers: 30 Teacher Picks (Page Grabbers) 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 →
Nobody paid for this review — not the author, not the publisher — and the store link above earns us nothing. Our only interest is the reader this book fits.