My First Colors (My First Board Books) Board book – Picture Book, January 19, 2015

I absolutely love the DK My First board book collection! This is my 4th book in the set and totally worth it. For starters my 16 month old loves these books and finds so much joy in showing me all the words she knows. I have been able to find some of these books at my local library but not this one so I decided to get it in order to teach her colors. As far as the layout goes, the book includes the colors Blue, Yellow, Green, Orange, Purple, Pink, Brown, Black and White, and Rainbow. The first 5 colors have 2 pages full of various items in that color. Followed by a 2 page spread of a photographed scene of something in nature.What I like:- Perfect size for packing in a diaper bag to take to church or to a restaurant to keep the little one’s attention.- I counted and there are roughly 90 words your child can learn from this book and that doesn’t include the words you will use as you talk about the different pictures you see.- The pictures are beautiful and realistic.What I don’t like:- This is not a huge deal but some items are not shown in the color you would expect them to represent. For example, they have a picture of a yellow eraser rather than the typical pink eraser.Overall, I would highly recommend these books to anyone with a child between the ages of 6 months and 3 years! The price is totally worth it considering the hours of reading time you will get to enjoy!Please let me know if you found this helpful :)

We have two young children and we are working on teaching them while having fun. Colors are a definite favorite in our home. They love this book. As a parent, I love that it is a board book that is a bit easier to keep in tact; although I am sure my 2-year-old will challenge that. The pictures are vibrant and it adds a little colorful fun to our day.

My daughter and all my grandchildren have learned their colors by having a My First Colors book read to them from the time of their birth. Every one of them could recognize and say their colors as soon as they could talk -- at 17 months, my oldest granddaughter pointed at the blue jello served to her in a restaurant and said, "boo." And now he she is expecting a daughter who will learn colors the same way. This book is a great, timeless teaching tool that provides an easy bonding time for the child and the person who reads to her. There are a number of pictures depicting each color - we simply ad the name of the color before each picture: red cherries, red car, red flower, etc. So much better than having just one picture of each color! You cannot go wrong with this book.

Great book! It has helped me a lot with teaching my 18-month-old about colors.Almost every color is featured on 2 double page spreads (some on just 2), with a variety of objects in that color. It helps the child understand that what they have in common is the color, which works a lot better than books that try to cram several colors in one page.Highly recommended.

I love this book because it has a page showing different items of a particular color and all the objects are labeled. The book also has an entire two page spread of just one object with that color in order to focus on the color and not necessarily just the objects. Personally I would have done the 2-page spread first to learn the color itself and followed by the object examples. I also would have chosen different images for the 2-page spreads to really focus on the color better - like a pile of red berries instead of a fire engine in front of a building which had more than the red color in the image. Overall, the book looses a star mostly for not doing the 2-page spread with all colors presented - it skips doing it for pink, black, white, and brown. Those colors would not have been hard to also have a 2-page spread, but the publisher purposely chose to skip them - and I do not like inconsistency in books.

Beautiful, bright colors. Every page has something new. After a couple weeks of having it, our daughter still loves it.

I absolutely love this book! There are so many colors and objects, it keeps my toddler engaged. The book is just so beautiful, because it is so colorful!I love that there are a ton of pages as well! Some colors have multiple pages, which is really nice. This book is definitely worth it! You won't regret buying it!

I Purchased this book for my toddler. The book has great pictures and colors which kept this attention. As many times as they have been read they are still in awesome condition.