Baby Faces Written and Illustrated by Harriet Ziefert, William B. Winburn, & Tara Moore

Ziefert, Harriet, William B. Winburn, and Tara Moore. Baby Faces. Maplewood, NJ: Begin Smart Books, 2008. Print. 14 pages.
Age Group:	0 to six months
Book Format:	Board Book
Annotation:	Infants and toddlers recognize the human face from a very young age, this book has photographs of infants and toddlers in both black and white and color
Personal Reaction:	A Board Book designed for babies 0 to six months of age.  The book contains a Parent page that helps instruct the parent to read this and other books daily to stimulate the child in multiple developmental ways. Eleven real pictures of babies in black and white as well as color allow for visual stimulation and object recognition.  The different pictures contain various expressions, allowing the reader to introduce words to build the child’s vocabulary.
Keywords/Tags:	Babies, Faces, Board Book
Early Literacy Skills Enhancements:	Vocabulary Skills ~Promote literacy and the love of language Print Motivation ~Increase interest in and enjoyment of books Visual Literacy Skills ~Pictures have meanings ~Pictures and words are different Reading Readiness, which includes understanding that ~Books have a front, back and right side up ~Stories have structure and development of a sense of story Print Awareness ~Provide a language enrichment environment Narrative Skills ~Young readers will be able to re-tell a story based on the illustrations in Picture Books Phonological Awareness ~Repeating repetitious words