Baby Kitten: Finger Puppet Book: (Board Book with Plush Baby Cat, Best Baby Book for Newborns)

by Chronicle Books, Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illustrator)

Overview

Bursting with color and charm, this finger puppet book lets babies and inquisitive toddlers touch, feel, and explore their growing world.

Newborns will love snuggling up with Baby Kitten! Baby Kitten wakes up, purrs with mama, plays, climbs, meets a butterfly, and drifts off to bedtime with his brother and sister. Featuring a plush finger puppet that peeks into each lovingly illustrated page, Baby Kitten will delight infants and parents alike.

• Baby Kitten's bright and colorful cloth finger puppet is ideal for little hands to grow and engage their motor skills.
• A sweet and simple new baby gift—just the thing for baby showers and birthdays
• Easy sentences and charming illustrations make Baby Kitten a perfect bedtime story.

Recommended for fans of Kitten and friends and Baby Touch and Feel: Kittens.

• Family Read Aloud Books
• Newborn and Toddler Board Books Ages 0–3
• Baby Animal Books

Yu-Hsuan Huang, also known as Smallx2, is an illustrator and artist from Taichung City, Taiwan, where she lives with her family and cats.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452181721
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	02/11/2020
Series:	Baby Animal Finger Puppets Series , #20
Pages:	12
Sales rank:	150,849
Product dimensions:	4.30(w) x 4.30(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	9 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Yu-Hsuan Huang, also known as Smallx2, is an illustrator and artist from Taichung City, Taiwan, where she lives with her family and cats

Editorial Reviews

"A cute novelty element encourages caregiver-child interaction. . . . [Baby Kitten: Finger Puppet Book] get[s] caregivers to pause and play with words and sounds as they read to their very young children."-Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-02-26
A cute novelty element encourages caregiver-child interaction.

A finger poked through the opening at the back of the book makes an orange kitten puppet’s head emerge from a die-cut circle on each page. The built-in finger puppet is securely anchored on the back page. All the pages are extra thick to withstand the rough handling this toy disguised as a book may inspire. The ears of the kitten don’t automatically fit through the opening, so if multiple pages are turned by accident, it’s difficult to fit the kitten’s head back through to correct the mistake. This problem is even more pronounced in companion title Baby Goat because of the goat’s long ears. With each page turn the kitten’s lengthening neck becomes increasingly out of proportion with the rest of his body. The slight storyline follows the kitten through a busy day, beginning with waking up and ending with “Sweet dreams.” The text suggests an action for the finger puppet, as in “When Baby Kitten is happy, he makes a low purring sound.” Unfortunately, the next behavior—licking his fur “clean with his tongue”—is impossible to execute. Still, the finger puppet serves it purpose: to get caregivers to pause and play with words and sounds as they read to their very young children.

Readers are unlikely to want all 19 titles in the set, but one or two are fun for the moment. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews