Playtime *Hardboard*

by Ronald Heuninck

This board book with colourful pictures shows young children playing with dolls and toys, painting and drawing and playing in the bath. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0863151248
• ISBN13: 9780863151248
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Floris Books
• Length: 12 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 2 to 4 years
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

word-less board book with adorable playtime scenes

A wordless board book with beautiful illustrations of children playing. Toys and activities are those commonly played with at Waldorf Schools and are all made from natural materials or metal. Children are multicultural. Scenes include: boy laying with wood train with a doll riding it, girl playing with dolls, wood tricycle, play scarves, old-fashioned doll carriage, gnome dolls, real tree blocks, old-fashioned wood toys such as a marble run, wooden playstands, tea party with cloth doll and stuffed animal, children making music with wooden and metal instruments, drawing with block crayons and wet on wet watercolor painting, playing house with chestnuts, wooden kitchen appliance toys, boy and girl taking a bath together and playing with non-plastic bath toys. There is enough detail in the pictures to make up stories to tell your child. The uniqueness of this book is that all the playthings are Waldorf-inspired and there is no plastic in sight. Seeing children having fun without watching television or playing videogames is depicted. My one negative comment is that there is a large baby bottle in one scene (it looks to be for the baby). I disagree with the depiction of baby bottles in children's books as I feel it perpetuates bottle feeding as normal and natural. Everything else in the book is "natural" in nature-so this inclusion of a tool which is a breast substitute is disappointing to me. Why not stick to the natural theme and not show anti-breastfeeding images? Thus, the four star-rating rather than a five-star rating.