Along with 'My First Words' and 'My First Animal Numbers', this is a great book to share with children from a very early age. Once
babies can sit up, you can turn the pages and let them paw at the chunky boardbook pages and bright colours.
It sounds silly, but it's easy to forget the nursery rhymes you enjoyed as a child so this is a useful prompt. Sharing books at the earliest stage encourages a culture of enjoying books that children will take with them into toddlerdom.
At first your child will just enjoy you reading the nursery rhymes to her, but as she gets older, you can talk about the pictures, ask her to point out the animals or make the animal noises and refer to the images with references to colours: 'Jill's spotty red dress,' or, 'The black and white cow jumping over the yellow moon.'
There are lots of great first board books and soft fabric books out there and this Ladybird series is a strong addition to the selection.
