Baby books make grand educational claims. Lift-the-flap books promise
co-ordination. Babies just lift the flaps right off, then suck them. Most
books claim they teach babies words. They do. My daughter is 15 months old,
the words she’s learnt are “der” (“dog”) “eeaaoow” (“miaow”) and “mmmm” (the
basic cow impression). She asks of a book one thing and one thing only: it
should have photos of animals. Her favourite is Can You Find Me? by Robert
Tainsh, which offers more animals per page than any other volume on the
market. She’s read it 88 times.
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