Making Faces: A First Book of Emotions (Baby Loves Books)

It’s such a great book for helping little ones identify their emotions and see emotions depicted on other faces. In Denmark children are taught to identify and recognize emotions of others and display empathy through looking at books like these and identifying the different expressions. So I highly recommend this book. You can use it in all sort of ways and it can grow with your child. 1. Start off identifying with the expression seen on the picture and and identify the feeling associated with it. 2. As you LO grows as them what could they say to the person feeling ”X”? 2a. What can the person do to feel better? 2b. What can you say to the person to help/encourage/support them? 3. What do you like to do when you feel “X”? 3a. What you need in those moments? So for example when my LO is upset, I ask them to tell me what they’re feels (ie identify the emotion or point to one of the pictures). Then I ask “what do you need? How can mama help you? Do you want a hug? Hold my hand? Sit quietly? Or cuddles?

My 20 month daughter is becoming very aware of emotions and feelings. This book is short, simple and to the point. It has great facial expressions of toddlers that my daughter can easily identify. The last page in the book has a mirror so they can see their own facial expressions. Some reviewers stated that the mirror was hazy but our mirror was easily visible and my daughter got a kick out of it. It is not a high quality mirror by any means and most likely can be scratched but for the concept, I think it works perfectly. My daughter liked the book so much we read it twice right off the bat! I've seen her pick this book up on her own several times so I know that she enjoys it. I highly recommend this book I also wanted to touch base regarding the reviewers that stated they were appalled by the racist message of the book. I'm mixed and I did NOT find this book racist in any way. There are three mixed babies and three Caucasian so I feel it is very balanced and as far as facial expressions each page you turn the babies have different expressions. Both the mixed babies and Caucasian babies have a variety of facial expressions. I honestly find it disheartening that people are even trying to make this well done book about racism. Children aren't born racist, it is learned. I feel that parents that feel this strongly about a children's book are ultimately passing on those feelings to their children. Like I said, I'm mixed and I feel no racist tendencies in this book. I'm not trying to start a debate just let you know as someone who is mixed, I don't feel like this book is sending my child any racist messages.

My daughter loves this book! Not only do they learn emotions by seeing the emotion on a toddlers face, that they can relate to, but also by acting out the emotions they see! It helps toddlers also differentiate emotions by looking at different faces provided and picking the one that matches. It also comes with a little “mirror” so that toddlers can look at themselves and practice/ mimic the emotions or faces they see. I think this is a good introduction to emotions and great educational book to have and would make a great gift!

Nice book to start talking about emotions

Cute book. My baby likes it. But I think the content can be better.

My baby loves this, and I’ve given it to a bunch of friends’ babies for their first birthday, and they love it too! My toddler especially loves making the “surprised” face, and it has helped her distinguish when she’s surprised versus scared, and I think that’s actually helped her be less scared by startling things, so she doesn’t cry about being startled as often, now that she understands the idea of being “surprised”. (Granted, that’s more how we talked about it with her, than just because of the book as it is, but it opened good conversations, which is really what books for this age range are for!) She likes the mirror at the back, too. And it’s helpful to play games making these different faces in our family, discussing what we’re each feeling — she’s very facially expressive now, which is super helpful since she’s not really talking yet at 20 months. Highly recommend!

I bought this board book for my 15 month old to help teach her about emotions but mostly because she loves to see other babies. This book has been a huge hit! And now that she’s closer to 18 months, she’s starting to understand how to use the book and copy the faces when we read it. The mirror on the last page is really helpful because she can see what her faces look like when she makes them.

Perfect gift for for baby

This book is a great introduction to emotions for little children. They use real baby faces and lots of different looking children - great diversity!! The book is simple but clear which I like. There is also a mirror on the back page which is fun for doing our own emotions.

كل اطفالي الثلاثة أحبوا هذا الكتاب بشكل غريب اشتريت نسخة وجلست عندنا ٥ سنوات حتى تمزق الكتاب بعد القراءة اليومية. واشتريت نسخة ثانية لطفلي الثالث (٨شهور) ويحبه جدًا ويسميه داداه انصح به وبشدة.

Lindo é importante para o autorreconhecimento dos bebês. Minha filha adora!

This book is must for a baby. My baby loves doing the faces and also the mirror

Only complaint is that the "angry baby" looks sad (crying) and my kids are confused because they can see the baby is sad more so than angry