Product Description

Young children will delight in being surrounded by the beauty and magic of the day and night sky with Baby Galileo World Around Me: Sky. Rhythmic verse accompanied by delightful illustrations is featured on one side, while stunning real-life photos and simple facts about stars, planets, and clouds appear on the reverse. This unique and versatile format can be used as a lap book or extended to create a visual corral that surrounds Baby with stunning imagery certain to spark his or her curiosity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #756309 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-31
• Released on: 2004-05-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Board book
• 12 pages

Customer Reviews

1 year old loves this book!
This is so great! It doesn't take up much space, so you can pack it on vacation, yet it unfolds to become a nice size book/toy. My son loves it, my only complaint is that the book is now held together by tape, as he has torn apart nearly every page. It would be great if the pages were held together with a tougher material, I'm sure he isn't the only kid who is tough on his books.

A Wonderful Book for my 2-year old
This is a very good book to introduce sea creatures to my 2-year old son. He learnt the names of all these creatures in a short period of time. The book has short phrases that he is also begining to pick up as I point and read to him regularly.

The book could be unfolded and set up into a small round barricade for him to look around the "ocean" in a 360 view. There are real photos of the various creatures on the other side of the book for him to learn and associate the nicely illustrated cartoon creatures to the real ones.

A must have for stimulating baby learning and engaging yourself in the process!

My 18-month-old son's current favorite
I initially purchased this book thinking it would be a good thing to bring along on plane trips with my toddler son. I really just bought it because my son loves the Baby Galileo character- I didn't even notice the listed dimensions or the fact that it was an unfolding book.

At 12 by 11 inches (collapsed), the book is far too large to use on the plane (oops!) but my son loves it nonetheless. It can be read as a traditional book; each page has some text briefly describing the images in the picture above. [Note: A couple of the reviews posted here mention sea life and sea creatures... there is no sea life at all in this book. The book is about things in the sky: stars, planets, clouds, birds, bees, etc. They must have been reviewing a different title.] There are tons of creatures and things scattered across the pages, in relevant settings. My son has already learned a few new words from it. One thing that's nice is that there is often more than just one image of a particular item, say a leaf or a bee. It's fun to ask my son "where's a bee?" And see him look around and identify all the bees he can find.

When completely unfolded, you can arrange the book so that it stands in a big circle around your child. (My son prefers it to be more of a rectangular pen than a circle.) The unfolded book has two sides- one with Baby-Einstein-styled illustrations and narrative text, the other with photographs of celestial objects and their names. My son enjoys looking at both sides.

I recommend that you keep the book in a safe place and only let your child use it when supervised. This is more than just a book- it's an experience; a toy. My son loves to re-arrange it, and frequently attempts to climb over and under it in order to see the other side and to retrieve toys to bring with him into the enclosure. Although the book is much more durable than, say, a Pat the Bunny title, we have already had to tape two of the pages back together, and anticipate having to perform more such repairs in the near future.