Baby Einstein: Baby Galileo the World Around Me - Sky

by Julie Aigner-Clark

The perfect next course in the New York Times --bestselling series--plus dozens of recipes from Abbotsville's best cooks Autumn's crisp bite is in the air, but Miss Julia soon discovers that, alas,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786809418
• ISBN13: 9780786809417
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Disney Press
• Length: 22 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.0" x 12.0"
• Age Range: 2 to 5 years

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Book for my 2-year old

This is a very good book to introduce sea creatures to my 2-year old son. He learnt the names of all these creatures in a short period of time. The book has short phrases that he is also begining to pick up as I point and read to him regularly. The book could be unfolded and set up into a small round barricade for him to look around the "ocean" in a 360 view. There are real photos of the various creatures on the other side of the book for him to learn and associate the nicely illustrated cartoon creatures to the real ones. A must have for stimulating baby learning and engaging yourself in the process!

Entertaining

My 18 month old twins LOVE this book! It is very unique in format. The pages are very high quality and the pictures are very colorful. ANother hit from the Baby Einstein Company!!! Highly recommend.

Love our "baby corral"

We received as a gift for our 5 month old baby. I saw an opportunity to "corral" our little fella by connecting the ends in a circle around him, and the bright pictures really captivated his attention. I could lay him in it and he would be occupied for about 30 minutes (!), which was great for getting things done (mommy is always in view, of course). He loves to sit in it with Mommy, and twirl around and read it - it's a fun way to read a book in an unconventional way. He's not as interested yet in the more realistic pictures on the other side - it's a book to grow with him! We LOVE this book!

My 18-month-old son's current favorite

I initially purchased this book thinking it would be a good thing to bring along on plane trips with my toddler son. I really just bought it because my son loves the Baby Galileo character- I didn't even notice the listed dimensions or the fact that it was an unfolding book. At 12 by 11 inches (collapsed), the book is far too large to use on the plane (oops!) but my son loves it nonetheless. It can be read as a traditional book; each page has some text briefly describing the images in the picture above. [Note: A couple of the reviews posted here mention sea life and sea creatures... there is no sea life at all in this book. The book is about things in the sky: stars, planets, clouds, birds, bees, etc. They must have been reviewing a different title.] There are tons of creatures and things scattered across the pages, in relevant settings. My son has already learned a few new words from it. One thing that's nice is that there is often more than just one image of a particular item, say a leaf or a bee. It's fun to ask my son "where's a bee?" And see him look around and identify all the bees he can find. When completely unfolded, you can arrange the book so that it stands in a big circle around your child. (My son prefers it to be more of a rectangular pen than a circle.) The unfolded book has two sides- one with Baby-Einstein-styled illustrations and narrative text, the other with photographs of celestial objects and their names. My son enjoys looking at both sides. I recommend that you keep the book in a safe place and only let your child use it when supervised. This is more than just a book- it's an experience; a toy. My son loves to re-arrange it, and frequently attempts to climb over and under it in order to see the other side and to retrieve toys to bring with him into the enclosure. Although the book is much more durable than, say, a Pat the Bunny title, we have already had to tape two of the pages back together, and anticipate having to perform more such repairs in the near future.

My favorite Baby Einstein book

My son (22 months) loved this book from the moment he saw it for the first time. It is beautifully made and it's a terrific learning tool. Wonderful job!