Book-O-Beards: A Wearable Book

by Donald Lemke, Bob Lentz (Illustrator)

Overview

Enjoy colorful illustrations, catchy rhymes, and interactive dialogue in this completely wearable board book of six BEARD masks! Using the die-cut mask holes, kids and adults alike can try on the different beards including lumberjack, pirate, cowboy, sailor, Santa Claus and police officer. Great for snapshot moments and imaginary play.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623701833
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Series:	Wearable Books
Pages:	12
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.94(d)
Age Range:	2 - 6 Years

About the Author

Donald Lemke works as a children’s book editor and writer. He has written dozens of books for young readers—from board books to middle-grade novels—that often include today’s most popular characters, such as Batman, Superman, Scooby-Doo, and more. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with his beloved family, which includes his wife, Amy, and their three growing-up-way-too-fast daughters.

Editorial Reviews

02/09/2015
For children who can’t wait until adulthood to grow mustaches and beards worthy of lumberjacks and pirates, this board book might be the next best thing. Opening each spread wide reveals the lower half of six cartoon faces with colorful facial hair, from a cowboy’s “yellow as straw” mustache” to Santa’s snowy beard. Readers can try each of them on for size by holding the book up to their own faces. The meter of Lemke’s rhymes isn’t always precise (“This gray beard/ is salty all day./ Salute and say,/ ‘Anchors aweigh!’ ”), but most readers will be too caught up in the silly fun to care. Simultaneously available: Book-O-Hats, Book-O-Masks, and Book-O-Teeth. Ages 1–6. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

This is one fun, funny board book. Kids and parents get a huge kick out of its wordplay and big, bold illustrations and especially enjoy sticking their face in its pages. . . .Throwing in a bit of facial expression - furrowed brow, raised eyebrow, narrowed or smiling eyes - enhances the comical effect, evoking waves of laughter and silliness.

Tillywig Toy & Media Awards

Young children love to play make-believe. The Wearable Books series lets kids try on teeth, hats, masks, and beards, all the while producing giggles.

Kid Lit Reviews

Here’s a board book that is all about laughs. . . .A notch on one corner of the book leaves the perfect nose-sized gap when open, and kiddos (and likely adults) won’t be able to resist holding the book up to their own chins for facial-hair experiments. Giggle-fueling fun.

Booklist

This book is both beard-acious and fan-stache-tic. Mustache Baby and Beard Baby would approve, and my real life baby thought it was funny, too!

author of the best-selling Mustache Baby series Bridget Heos

2014-12-10
This "wearable book" presents a series of different beards for kids to try on by holding the pages up just under their noses. What do a lumberjack, a pirate, a cowboy, a sailor, Santa Claus, and a police officer all have in common? Beards! And kids can try them all on with this novelty offering. In addition to a brief bit of verse, each double-page spread features a bearded face from the nose down so that when kids, or adults, hold the book up to their faces, they are magically and hilariously transformed. The skin tone, mustache and beard shape and color, mouth, and teeth are different for each face, ranging from a pale-skinned, open-mouthed lumberjack with a curly red beard to a lantern-jawed African-American police officer with a mustache and stern expression. Although the verses seem perfunctory and occasionally awkward ("This black beard / is braided and large. / Squint one eye and / let out an ‘ARRRG!' "), they won't get in the way of the interactive fun sparked by the vibrant and funny illustrations. Supplies needed to accompany this novelty offering: a mirror and some friends. Laughs and much silliness sure to follow. (Board book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews