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Title: Baby Happy Baby Sad (Leslie Patricelli board books)
ISBN: 0763632457
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Publicate Date: 2008-02-26
Publish: 2008-02-26
List Price: $6.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Board book
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Amazon Lowest New Price: $3.42
Amazon Lowest Used Price: $3.37
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1: ok...but there are better
I bought this book and also other by same author. Just buy yummy yucky and then stop. This book is a 3x reader. Boring after that.
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2: great book, but skip this part!
I agree with the other reviewer- I love this book but I always skip the pages about 'baby sad' as being put to bed and baby happy about Daddy coming to get him out of bed. We have bedtime issues anyway, so I say the baby is sad that playtime is over and happy that it's time to play again.
I love how this book is simple for my baby, but my preschooler loves it even more! She likes to talk about the pictures and it leads to great conversations.
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3: Bright and Colorful
I bought this book for my niece. She loves this book! I think she enjoys the bright colors, and the extra explanations that I give to her when reading the story.
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4: Excellent addition to collection
We love this Patricelli book almost as much as the others. As usual, my toddler loved it initially because the baby in the book has nipples, a welcome detail that other books (infuriatingly) leave out.
My two-year-old is fascinated by emotions, and loves the pendulum sway of baby happy, baby sad...baby happy, baby sad. Of course you have to fill in the details and describe what's happening with your own words--that's the point of reading to children, isn't it?
I love this book, in particular, because it makes my child squeal with glee because he empathizes with the baby--like the baby in the book, mud makes him happy and shampoo makes him sad. Playing with the cat makes him happy; a fleeing cat (whose tail has been pulled) makes him sad, too. This baby, my child thinks, knows a thing or two about real baby emotions.
My only problem with the book is that it portrays nighttime as a scary abandonment--dark room, baby crying and reaching for daddy who is leaving baby alone in the crib = baby sad; morning with dad re-entering room makes baby happy. We read it with a different emphasis--when baby is sad in bed, daddy comes to help. When baby is happy in the morning, daddy comes to join him!
Even with this need for an editorial change that quiets, rather than heightens, nighttime anxiety, we all love this book. I rank it third to No no yes yes and quiet loud.
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5: Another great book by Leslie Patricelli
My two-year-old loves this book along with all the other books by this author. She chooses it for her bedtime book almost every night. At first I needed to explain why the baby was happy or sad, but now my daughter does that part.
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