Tana Hoban

Before babies can see color clearly, they respond to the high contrast between black and white. This accordion-style foldout board book is sturdy enough to stand on its own, is ideal for little hands, and features Tana Hoban's bold and iconic black-and-white images of familiar objects along with full-color photographs of adorable babies interacting with those objects.

Introduces signs and symbols frequently seen along the street.

Photographs show dots, spots, speckles, and stripes as found on clothing, flowers, faces, animals, and other places.

Black and white photos illustrate fifteen pairs of opposites such as front-back, first-last, push-pull.

The geometric concepts of circles and squares are shown in photographs of wheels, signs, pots, and other familiar objects.

White illustrations against a black background depict such objects as a horse, baby bottle, and sailboat.

White silhouettes against a black background depict such objects as a pacifier, stroller, balloon, and chair. On board pages.

A mother visiting Paris brings back to her daughter all her best memories, of the beautiful fountains, the sparkling Seine, parks like paintings, and paintings like parks.