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Product Description

A beautifully illustrated journal to record special moments and memories in a baby’s first three years.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4769 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 100 pages

About the Author
Amy Meyer Allen has been drawing since she was old enough to hold a crayon. She has always been attracted to color and design. As a child she would line up her markers in the order of a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. She lives in Maryland with her husband, Tim, and is the author and illustrator of What is It? and Are There Ants In Your Pants?”, as well as the creator of the Humble Bumbles line of products.

Customer Reviews

Fun, Comprehensive, and Adorable Baby Book
I purchased one baby book for my son, and this one for his twin sister – between the two, this is definitely my favorite, and I have yet to see any other book that I like better. As previous reviewers have suggested, this book is cute, without being cheesy. It is bright and whimsical and has a nice layout.

I love the pre-cut photo frames, which really add a “finished” touch to the album – great for those of us who want a neat book but don’t have the time or skill to do a real scrapbook.

Some of the pages that this book includes are: Family Trees, Baby Shower, All About Baby, All About Mommy, All About Daddy, A Few Thoughts About Before you Were Born, Hand and Foot Prints (you have to buy the ink pads), The World Around You, Thoughts On the Day of Your Birth, Announcing Your Birth, Celebrating Your Birth (for Christening/Bris memories), Thoughts on the First Few Weeks of Your Life, 2 pages of “Firsts,” special pages (including space for pictures) for First Tooth, First Steps, First Outing, First Holiday Celebrations, First Pet, and First Haircut. There are about 4 pages dedicated to Years 2 and 3.

Book includes a velum envelope at the front that can hold cards and photos, an envelope for the hospital bracelet, and an envelope for a clip from the first haircut.

The space for entries is adequate, without being overwhelming, and there is a nice layout for pictures next to most written memories. I love this album, and think it will be a delight for my daughter to read when she is older!

it was only a so so baby book
I have this book fully filled out for my almost 6 year old. Overall it is a good book. I found the picture frames to be almost worthless, finding it much better to just cut and paste the pictures in so I could fit more. There was very limited space for writing things, so the page of firsts is filled in and then I added lots of other important firsts that I felt needed recording. The family tree is weak, they don’t have spots for all the great grandparents so we ended up putting the maternal’s paternal great grandparents on the great grandpa line, etc. My daughter wanted to know why great grandpa was Josephine.

I did like the spiral bound aspect of it because after I pasted in all the keepsakes and filled the very nice envelope with stuff it all fits. I wouldn’t buy this book again, but it worked okay for my first daughter, and at this point I am too sentimental to get another book and transfer the information.

Oh yeah and it is a Christian book, which annoys me a bit but I know many wouldn’t have a problem with it.

Great Baby Book
This is a very good journal. It’s not as big as other baby journals, but the images, passages, and layout really make this book very eyecatching. It might throw off some people because a lot of the passages in the book are biblical/religious, but it is perfect for Catholics/Christians. Added bonuses are the built in paper envelopes (though flimsy) that could hold small mementos like first haircut, hospital tags, etc; and also the paper picture frames that you could use to mount your photos onto the book’s pages. I highly recommend this baby book to all parents.