Baby Einstein: Mirror Me! - Julie Aigner-Clark

This book is made by the Baby Einstein people, sold under the "educate your baby and make him super-intelligent" ethos. But it is lovely, nonetheless! I was given it as a present for baby number 3, at the point when I thought I'd seen all the different types of baby books out there and really didn't need any more. It's a strong board book. Each page has an animal on the left (or the sun, on one page). The drawings are simple and bright. The animal is doing some basic action - sticking out its tongue, making a silly face, playing peekaboo. On the right-hand page, there is the same drawing, but instead of the animal's face there is a ...  Read the complete review

This is one of a series of baby board books from the baby einstein company (lack of capitals is their idea not mine). The main feature of this book is a mirror which is incorporated into every second page. The book is host to an array of colourful caricature animals, each of which performs an action which the reader is then expected to perform for the mirror. The book begins with Bard, a spectacle wearing lizard, who 'can open his eyes wide'. The reader, or child being read to, is then encouraged by the word 'wow' to do the same in the mirror. Other characters include Webster the sunny smile who gets us to say "cheese" in the mirror, the Frog with his ...  Read the complete review

On each page of this book some creature is pulling a face opposite a mirror into which you/your baby are encouraged to pull the same face. For example, on the first page there is a lizard called Bard who can open his eyes wide. Facing is the same picture but with Bards face replaced by a mirror and the word WOW! above it. My daughter likes to laugh at me pulling the faces rather than make them herself, which is why I do find this book a bit of a chore at times. It involves a bit of a facial work out and when you are requested to read it over and over it can cause a bit of face ache. The mirrors are made of card, obviously, which means they are a bit distorted. I wonder ...  Read the complete review