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Baby faces

Dawn Sirett - Author

Photographs of babies show expressions including happiness and sadness. Rhyming read-aloud text and playful prompts invite you and your child to look closely and copy a face.

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Look at all the baby faces with Baby Faces. Make a happy face with a smiling baby or make a sad face with a crying baby.Baby Faces is the ideal first board book for your baby. Read along with your little one to introduce common expressions on sweet baby faces for your baby to look at! With crystal-clear photos, read-aloud text, and an extra-special twinkle on every page,Baby Faces engages young babies with singsong rhymes and bright, colorful pages.The Baby Sparkle series features appealing early-learning themes bedtime, baby faces, animals, and more. Each title has six sparkly, double-page spreads, designed to attract babies in the youngest age group (0 6 months). With lots to encourage playful interaction between parent and child, including singsongy rhymes and animal noises, these stimulating first books are a joy to share, and filled with high-quality real-world baby learning.

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Book Analysis

At a Glance

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Facial expressions· ExplainedHappiness· ExplainedSadness· Explained

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Emotional intensity

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Beyond the Cover

facial expressionshappinesssadness

Non-fictionPicture book

Themes in Context

Reading faces

Photographs of babies showing expressions, including smiling and crying, are paired with read-aloud rhymes and invitations to copy a face.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: The book uses familiar expressions as a starting point for looking and joining in, rather than setting out a detailed account of emotions.

Talk about: What features help you decide what expression a baby is making?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

Its short, interactive format makes looking and joining in central to the experience, rather than offering an extended explanation of feelings.

What Deserves Attention

The examples include a crying baby as well as a smiling one, so sadness is part of the facial-expression material.

A Conversation Worth Having

What clues in the baby’s face make you think it is happy or sad, and can a face show more than one feeling?

Reading Approach

Pause at each face, take turns copying the expression, and let your child point out what they notice before reading the rhyme aloud.

Confidence & Basis

Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.

What remains unconfirmed

Reading faces: The examples named do not establish how many expressions appear or how the book explains them.

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Checked: 1 October 2026.

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