Eats Board book – Picture Book, February 9, 2010

This book has simple but entertaining illustrations - great for kids to age 2. My toddler likes picking out the words he knows, like apple and monkey, but I think an older child would be bored by the simplistic pictures and lack of words.

This book is beautiful.We just love it!Great gift for kids.We will be buying another copy forthe next baby in the family!

This book has some great things going for it. Nice use of primary colors, single word usage so great for toddlers, and images that are captivating but leave a good amount of negative space on the page for a child's imagination to participate. The book shows various animals and what they are known for eating. Monkeys eat bananas, frogs eat flies, etc. The bad news is that for whatever reason the book ends with an image of a giant ice cream cone with text that reads, "and who eats ice cream?" Really? Is the human race so identified with ice cream that this is the one food associated with our species? It's disappointing that the book ends this way, on a note of sugar. Not the message I'm trying to give to my 2 year old. I wish the authors could have been a little more imaginative at the end, given there are about a thousand other things people eat that aren't dessert.

This is a beautiful, full-color picture book that teaches association - in this case, the concept of 'what animal eats which food'. The paper cut illustrations are bold with simple text to convey the association, e.g. worm - apple, giraffe- leaves. This is not just great for babies and toddlers in teaching basic concepts, but also for younger preschoolers who can be asked to identify the letters forming the words, and spelling them out. A simple, yet beautiful picture book which can also be great for art appreciation.