Let's Go Home, Baby Shark - (Board Book)

About the Book

Help the baby animals find their way home while practicing fine motor skills in this beautiful book with sliders! Meet shark, crab, octopus and puffin - four adorable baby animals who are lost at sea, and spot the animals they meet on the way. Scan the Stories Aloud QR code on the back cover the read along with the story!

Book Synopsis

Help the baby animals find their way home in this fun new sliding counter series! Meet shark, crab, octopus, and puffin- four adorable baby animals who are lost at sea! With easy-to-use moving parts and four unique tracks to develop hand-eye coordination and concentration, babies and toddlers will enjoy taking the baby animals home in this robust, satisfying board book. Scan the Stories Aloud QR code on the back cover to read along with the story! Other titles in the series include: Let's Go Home, Baby Tiger.

Review Quotes

Toddler-PreS-"Let's go home, baby shark" is the book's opening line. The left side of the spread shows all the things baby shark might see, from a jellyfish to a turtle to some seaweed, while the right side has baby shark itself on an S-shaped simple sliding mechanism that toddlers can use a finger or two to move toward home and family. The next spread features a baby crab and the same structure; what follows is a baby octopus and a baby puffin. The variety of flora, fauna, clouds, or rocks that children can locate will keep them captivated.
VERDICT A gentle game of seek-and-find, a few motor skill exercises, but mostly the reward that at the end of a path, home awaits. A very sweet book.

--Kimberly Olson Fakih, SLJ

Ace predators guide their babies through pernicious landscapes. Can you get baby tiger or baby shark home? You can, while learning about different landscapes, terrains, plants, and animals along the way. We've seen this particular style of board book before in the past. They're the kinds where you've a little round cardboard circle that you guide through grooves on the page. The fact of the matter is that these kinds of board books really stand up to repeated use better than lift-the-flap titles or anything else with easily rippable parts. You want to get the baby tiger or shark out of this book? Good luck with ALL that! Best of all, these books are particular perfect at inspiring a love of nature since clever Ms. Búzio made sure to put labeled plants and animals the left-hand side for kids to learn about and find on the right-hand side. So basically you have a seek-and-find, tactile, interactive, nature-loving board book that's pretty to look at to boot. A winner all around!--Betsy Bird, A Fuse #8 Production

"So basically you have a seek-and-find, tactile, interactive, nature-loving board book that's pretty to look at to boot. A winner all around!"

--Betsy Bird, A Fuse 8 Production

"A gentle game of seek-and-find, a few motor skill exercises, but mostly the reward that at the end of a path, home awaits. A very sweet book."--Kimberly Olson Fakih, SLJ

About the Author

Carolina Búzio is an illustrator and occasional animator drawn to quirky characters and exciting color combinations. She was born in the lovely seaside town of Porto, Portugal, and is currently living in artsy Berlin, Germany, with her partner (who is unfortunately allergic to cats or else she'd finally be the crazy cat lady her child-self always assumed she would one day be).

With a great memory for faces (but terrible for names, she apologizes in advance) and objects with a personality, it makes sense that she illustrates children's books for a living. The toughest but also her favorite part of the illustration process is the coloring stage: whenever she puts two odd colors together that go unexpectedly well, she gets butterflies in her stomach.