Product Description

For a parent, a baby book is near the top of the list of "must haves" for a new baby. It is one of those essential items packed for the trip to the hospital weeks before the baby arrives. All the special moments-the first smiles, the first words, the first steps-are lovingly recorded in its pages for posterity. In My First Five Years-Nursery Room Edition, those pages feature heartwarming photos of babies from Anne Geddes's new Nursery Room Collection of baby clothes. Adorable tots, decked out in pink, yellow, blue or white soft cotton, smile winningly, sleep soundly, and convey a love of children on every page.My First Five Years includes special details, like a tiny envelope to keep a lock of hair, height and weight charts to track growth through the years, and plenty of room to add your child's own photos and mementos. Completing a baby book is one of the great privileges of parenthood. A pleasure to look at even before it is filled, My First Five Years-Nursery Room Edition will become a treasured keepsake of a time that passes all too quickly.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #894641 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 88 pages

Amazon.com Review
The children's photographer, Anne Geddes, may be best known as "the one who does those cute pictures of the babies in the flowers." This build-your-own scrapbook features flower pictures, babies dressed as bumble bees, babies on pumpkins, babies, babies, and more babies. Geddes's babies are adorable without being too "cute" and the scrapbook itself is great fun to look at, whether or not you manage to get the photos pasted in, the locks of hair snipped, and the details (weight at six months, first tooth lost) entered.

Review
Brilliantly and beautifully illustrated by Anne Geddes superb photographs, My First Five Years is a wonderful record book to store a parents memories of all the firsts and milestones of a baby's progress for the first five years beginning with the birth and moving on through Christmas holidays, vacations, birthdays, the Tooth Fairy, handprints, footprints, star signs, birth stones, flowers, clothes and much, much more. Cedco, principally known as an outstanding publisher of calendars, have applied their expertise to produce a book that will become as treasured as the family Bible and the photo album. -- Midwest Book Review

About the Author
Anne Geddes's uniquely beautiful images of babies and children have made her the best-selling photographer in the world. They convey reverence for life and hope for the future. They adorn greeting cards, calendars, books, stationery, and photo albums, and are currently published in more than 50 countries spanning five continents. Anne's books have sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 15 languages. Her popular website, annegeddes.com, has attracted more than 10 million unique visitors in two years. She and her husband, Kel, live in New Zealand with their two daughters.

Customer Reviews

The First Artful Baby Book
Unlike Ms. Geddes's other works, this one is designed to create the history of your child's first five years. It is not a book of baby photography although it certainly contains some.

I usually don't enjoy looking at baby books because they are so poorly designed and produced. But I look at them anyway because they contain the first lock of hair, the first little footprint, photographs lying on a rug, and other precious momentos that are so rewarding. Ms. Geddes has overcome the traditional baby book weaknesses by combining her trademark "organic" photographs of babies (in animal, insect, and flower costumes) with a nice design to create a truly beautiful book to record a young person's first five years. The book does have a major drawback in that too few pages are allowed in many sections to capture all of the momentos (such as photographs) that you will want to keep.

Most of the images in the book seem to be taken from Down in the Garden, her best book, so you should fall in love with the illustrations. These images are small and secondary to the book's function so I will omit my usual list of favorites.

The sections in the book include:

My Birth; Momentos; Newspaper Clippings; Comments; Visitors and Gifts; Signs; Names; Family Tree; 3, 6, and 9 Month Highlights; Milestones; Food; 1st Christmas; 1st Vacation; First through Fifth Birthdays; Clothes; Best Friends; Pre-School; Kindergarten; Drawings; Writing; Health; Height; Weight; Teeth; Tooth Fairy; Hands and Feet Prints; Birth Month Flowers and Stones.

I think the way to evaluate this book is to imagine that you are now about to start living on your own. What would you think of the parents who bought and lovingly filled in such a delightful book for you?

Since you cannot hope to put enough photographs into this book, I suggest that you make a separate scrap book for special photographs of your child.

This book would be a great gift to expecting parents.

I suggest that you consider making a similar book for your parents (at any age) that captures your recollections and momentos of them in a way that they would enjoy.

Make life more beautiful for everyone!

Stunningly beautiful and creative photographs!
I received three baby record books and this was the most beautiful! The photographs are so colorful and creative. I think my little one will be able to enjoy the book as he grows. The record part of the book is also interesting and thorough in terms of leaving space for the things you most want to remember about your child's growth.

the best baby book around
I really recomend this book for your newborn child. I had bought this one cause the book I wanted by Anne Geddes was no longer available. But I am sure glad that I did. It is the most beautiful Baby book that I have ever seen. Then to get the corrosponding brother/sister book by Anne Geddes really keeps it great. The pictures are beautiful and really fit for the ages as they grow up. I really recomend this book for your own child or as a gift for that mother to be. I know I would have loved it at my baby shower.