(Where Is Babys Belly Button?) By Katz, Karen (Author) Hardcover on 01-Sep-2000

This book has been a favorite of my sons for over a year. Its a wonderful book to read together. The illustrations are cute and colorful. There are lots of things to point out and discuss. The flaps are great for motor skills. And the entire novel is about naming body parts which is excellent for development. One of my favorite things is teaching and learning and making it fun and Where Is Babys Belly Button hits a home run! This is a must for every babys library.

He loves lift the flap books, and this is a great way to start teaching them their own body parts.

Im a newborn specialist and lives reading for my babies so I always recommend these books for mums

Where is Babys Belly Button is a literary powerhouse, and a masterwork of the visual arts. In Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov blurred the boundaries between art, audience, editor, and critic, weaving a supernatural web of between the lines storytelling that revealed a puzzle of horror, murder, and insanity between the lines of a mediocre long-form modern poem. Karen Katz achieves a similar effect with her milestone Where Is Babys Belly Button? As with Pale Fire, the reader is left in a state of uncertainty about what is real, what is the authors artistry, and what is the delusion/interpretation of a brilliant but mentally defective editor. As with Pale Fire, the narrative starts out mundane, almost boring. Where are babys eyes? Under her hat. Where is babys mouth? Behind the cup. Much like the fictional poet John Shade (one oozy footstep behind Frost...) in the shadow of the waxwing slain, so is baby an elusive, ephemeral, and ultimately unknowable avatar of the readers ultimate quest for a connection with reality. Katz, the author, takes on the role of Kinbote, asking obvious questions but coming to sometimes outlandish answers, spinning a delusional world where nothing matters except the location of babys body parts. Like a euphoric opium nightmare, Where is Babys Belly Button is a vision from a nihilistic future where nothing matters except the immediacy of bodily experience. Five stars.

Great book for babys and toddlers, it’s great to teach body parts.

Baby loves this book a lot

My 10 month old son absolutely LOVES this book. It is his favorite. I wish the flaps were a little more sturdy. It is hard to turn the pages with him so he does not crease them terribly. Dont buy this book used. The length of the book is perfect and the colors are vibrant. The illustrations are relevant to a baby and cute.

What an adorable little flap book! The pictures are vibrant and colorful, the text is big and the length brief enough to hold the attention of my antsy toddler, and my little one just loves lifting (and putting back...repeatedly) the flaps on each page. My little one grabs it from the shelf every day and I have even caught her reading it by herself! The best part? Its only a few dollars! It would make a good gift for a baby shower and is small enough to be used as a busy book for car and airline travel. I highly recommend.

My 20 month son loves this books. Its great for helping to teach body parts and lift-the-flap books are always a hit. My only issues with the book are: 1. I wish it included more basic facial features (nose and ears); and 2. the large flaps go across the whole page and some open at the top, some at the bottom, which makes it harder for my young son to be able to open the flaps himself since its hard to tell which end to open.

Oh, how my baby loves this book! She squeals with delight as soon as I pick it up because she knows whats coming. I read Katzs Counting Kisses to her every night and we also have Daddy Hugs. The illustrations in those two are also engaging. But nothing delights her as much as the lift the flap aspect of this book. Its especially intriguing how she reads the last lift a flap. I point out the bear, ball, and wagon and I say but wheres baby, where could he be? Then I lift the flap to reveal the baby, my daughter squeals, claps and smiles big and then thoughtfully looks back over at the bear, ball and wagon and then back at the revealed baby. Its like she knows the entire scene has changed by the revealing of the baby. How can a parent not love a book that elicits such engaged thoughtful behavior? Id recommend it highly for babies from the peekaboo stage to the learning body parts stage.