Nita's First Signs

by Kathy MacMillan, Sara Brezzi (Illustrator)

Overview

Baby sign language makes it easy to communicate with your child, and Nita makes it fun! Nita's First Signs teaches ten essential signs for every parent and child to know, including eat, more, hungry, milk, all done, ball, play, love, please, and thank you. A simple story about Nita and her parents teaches each sign in context, and repetition throughout each story makes them easy to practice. Even better, each page slides open to reveal accurate instructions on how to make each sign, plus tabs on the side of each page make it simple to locate every sign for later reference. Baby sign language collections aren't complete without Nita!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945547676
Publisher:	Familius
Publication date:	06/15/2018
Series:	Little Hands Signing , #1
Pages:	12
Sales rank:	655,878
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Kathy MacMillan is a nationally certified American Sign Language interpreter, writer, teacher, librarian, and storyteller. She is the author of the board books Nita's First Signs and Nita's Day (Familius), children's nonfiction book She Spoke: 14 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World (Familius), the young adult novels Sword and Verse and Dagger and Coin (HarperTeen), and nine books for parents, librarians, and educators, including Little Hands and Big Hands: Children and Adults Signing Together (Huron Street Press).

What People are Saying About This

Marlee Matlin

“Nita’s First Signs” is a wonderful introduction to the world of American Sign Language for children. The book is not only entertaining and creative with it’s depiction of signs, it encourages the reader to go to a video source as a means to reinforce the signs learned -through real time instruction. In the end, Nita’s First Signs demonstrates the value and fun of learning sign language for ALL infants, toddlers children AND adults, regardless of whether they are Deaf or hearing or hard of hearing.

From the Publisher

“Nita’s First Signs” is a wonderful introduction to the world of American Sign Language for children. The book is not only entertaining and creative with it’s depiction of signs, it encourages the reader to go to a video source as a means to reinforce the signs learned -through real time instruction. In the end, Nita’s First Signs demonstrates the value and fun of learning sign language for ALL infants, toddlers children AND adults, regardless of whether they are Deaf or hearing or hard of hearing.

 

This unique and fabulous book teaches ten popular ASL signs to enable basic communication between babies who are not yet talking and their parents. Ten commonly used words (such as more, thank you, all done, please, eat, and hungry) are highlighted. Slide out panels contain simple instructions along with pictures that name and illustrate each sign. Color-coded tabs will help parents easily find the signs they are looking for. In addition to being beautifully illustrated, the construction of this book is amazing. This book will appeal to children and adults of all ages for the simple story, the lovely illustrations, and the access to American Sign Language that it provides. 
-Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen, Executive Director, Mother Goose on the Loose, LLC

Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen

This unique and fabulous book teaches ten popular ASL signs to enable basic communication between babies who are not yet talking and their parents. Ten commonly used words (such asmore,thank you,all done,please,eat, andhungry) are highlighted. Slide out panels contain simple instructions along with pictures that name and illustrate each sign.Color-coded tabs will help parents easily find the signs they are looking for. In addition to being beautifully illustrated, the construction of this book is amazing. This book will appeal to children and adults ofallages for the simple story, the lovely illustrations, and the access to American Sign Language that it provides.

-Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen, Executive Director, Mother Goose on the Loose, LLC

Editorial Reviews

Nita’s First Signs is a wonderful introduction to the world of American Sign Language for children. The book is not only entertaining and creative with its depiction of signs, it encourages the reader to go to a video source as a means to reinforce the signs learned -through real-time instruction. In the end, Nita’s First Signs demonstrates the value and fun of learning sign language for ALL infants, toddlers children AND adults, regardless of whether they are Deaf or hearing or hard of hearing."
-Marlee Matlin, actress, author, and activist

"This unique and fabulous book teaches ten popular ASL signs to enable basic communication between babies who are not yet talking and their parents. Ten commonly used words (such as more, thank you, all done, please, eat, and hungry) are highlighted. Slide-out panels contain simple instructions along with pictures that name and illustrate each sign. Color-coded tabs will help parents easily find the signs they are looking for. In addition to being beautifully illustrated, the construction of this book is amazing. This book will appeal to children and adults of all ages for the simple story, the lovely illustrations, and the access to American Sign Language that it provides." 
-Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen, Executive Director, Mother Goose on the Loose, LLC


"Choosing to teach your baby sign language can open the door to meaningful communication earlier than expected and help defray frustration in the future. Nita's First Signs is a wonderful way to start that journey with your child."
—Alison H. Scott, MD, FAAP, founder/CEO of Baby Doc Box

 

“Nita’s First Signs” is a wonderful introduction to the world of American Sign Language for children. The book is not only entertaining and creative with it’s depiction of signs, it encourages the reader to go to a video source as a means to reinforce the signs learned -through real time instruction. In the end, Nita’s First Signs demonstrates the value and fun of learning sign language for ALL infants, toddlers children AND adults, regardless of whether they are Deaf or hearing or hard of hearing.

 

This unique and fabulous book teaches ten popular ASL signs to enable basic communication between babies who are not yet talking and their parents. Ten commonly used words (such as more, thank you, all done, please, eat, and hungry) are highlighted. Slide out panels contain simple instructions along with pictures that name and illustrate each sign. Color-coded tabs will help parents easily find the signs they are looking for. In addition to being beautifully illustrated, the construction of this book is amazing. This book will appeal to children and adults of all ages for the simple story, the lovely illustrations, and the access to American Sign Language that it provides. 
-Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen, Executive Director, Mother Goose on the Loose, LLC

From the Publisher