Ten Little Fingers (Board Books for Babies)

It's simple and there aren't that many pages. I also can't read music so I have no idea how the melody sounds but for some reason my 14-month-old daughter loves the book. I think she likes looking at the images of other babies.

First baby book and my girl has liked it since she was two months old!

I bought this book based on all the positive reviews I read here. I've never been so misled by reviews on Amazon.com before. My 13-month-old daughter will typically sit on my lap for 20-30 minutes at a time while we read board book after board book. She has zero interest in this book. In fact, it was on the coffee table the other day and she passed it over to sit and look at the pictures in National Geographic. The rhythm is not interesting, the hand gestures are boring and difficult to demonstrate while reading and looking at the pictures -- and speaking of pictures, the illustrations are horrible. My daughter is usually delighted with any book having to do with babies. Well, the babies illustrated in this book are obese (not cutely plump, but acutally lumpy), with huge heads and freakishly small hands and feet. There are so many great board books out there (Dr. Seauss's Foot Book was a hit with both my kids); don't waste your money on this one.

My son was about 12 months old when we bought this book and he loved it. The pages are big and thick with nice colors. Reading it out a loud and acting out the story was thoroughly enjoyable. The only complaint I would have is that it's a really short story, so we tend to re-read it several times before moving on to the next book.

I start reading this book to my baby boy when he is 4 months old. He likes this book lot better than two other books that we got for free through a reading program. I guess the lyrics and the rhythm do work well to attract my baby!