Let’s play music,
make a beat.
Clap your hands
and stamp your feet.
Beautiful babies scamper through the pages of this delightful offering, making music with their hands, feet and voices as well as with musical instruments. They are surprised when they realise their cat can join in, too. They spend the day sharing their music before sleeping soundly and happily.
Baby Beats is a joyful celebration of music, friendship and babies. The toddler characters sing and play together, revelling in the music and each other’s company. The mix of ethnic appearance and gender is a really pleasing aspect of the illustrations, and the simple, rhyming text, makes this a lovely read aloud title for young children.
A companion title to Baby Animal Farm, Baby Beats is gorgeous.
Baby Beats, by Karen Blair
Walker Books, 2014
ISBN 9781922179074
Available from good bookstores or online.