Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes: A glorious celebration of the differences and similarities between babies the world over, told in gentle rhyme ... board book format for very young children

The media could not be loaded. This is one of my favourite books from my daughter’s babyhood. Not least because of the illustrations. The sketches of the babies in different landscapes are truly lovely, they are an absolute pleasure to look at. There’s lovely detail too, my daughter and I love searching for different objects together.There’s diversity in both the representation of the ethnicities of the babies and the different areas the children come from. It carries a lovely message (in an accessible way): that all babies are just as special as each other.The story is simple, repetitive and engages a perfectly paced rhyming sequence. It’s a joy to read and my daughter has loved listening to it, again, and again. And again.It has a sweetly interactive ending; I’m sure many parents all over have counted their sweet little baby’s ten little fingers, ten little toes and planted three little kisses on the tip of their nose - a real highlight of the book for my daughter and always accompanied by lots of giggles.It is a true classic and I don’t say this lightly - I feel any baby’s book collection would be lacking without it!

Excellent book for a little one who just discovered his/her little fingers and toes. The best page is where a baby can place their fingers and toes on pages and compare them. I am not keen on drawing of these myself as they look like they were drawn from photograph without considering anatomy, but overall if baby learns it is more important than being anatomically correct body part at this stage. Photo of the page attached. Text is good although using the following phrase 'wrapped in an eiderdown' is quite unfortunate and 'eiderdown' word in the book for babies seems to be too specific. On a humourus side you would not like to use this page as a guide on how to wrap your baby if you wish to prevent SIDS (suden infant death syndrome).All babies in the book are painted lively with sense of individual character, they look full of life and have sense of movement.Text has nice repetitive rythme with added variety and nice finale with your own baby who has ten little fingers and ten little toes of course. Tested on 5 months old.

Great illustrations. I love reading it to my baby. I think my baby likes it.

What a beautiful little book.

We have given every new parent we know, this wonderful book. The story is simple with a easy use of repeated words a baby can easily enjoy. It features babies of all nationalities too.

Top class book for baby.

A lovely rhyme with lots of repetition. Clear illustrations which enhance the text. I bought this as a board book so that my grandson, 10 months, can help to turn the pages. When I received it I felt that it was a bit twee and cutsie so almost didn't gift it but his parents are delighted with it and I think that it just shows that the classic baby books are still very relevant. As he gets older there'll be opportunity to talk more about the pictures and count the babies on each page so there's good value in this book.

Lovely story. My toddler's favourite book which we read approx 2,000 times a day 🙃