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Ideal for the still-developing eyes of a newborn (0-6 months)
High Contrast
From Manhattan Toy’s award winning Wimmer-Ferguson infant collection - the original innovator of black and white developmental toys. Each page of this 10 page board book features a simple, one word text to encourage back and forth between adult and baby. Each page features high-contrast graphics with both black and white and bold color images to stimulate baby's visual development.
Pages are easy for little fingers to turn, the last page features a baby-safe mirror for self-discovery. Measures 6" x 6", sturdy board book construction, easy to tuck into a travel bag or purse.
Wimmer-Ferguson
High Contrast, Ocean
Hello, fish. Howdy, seahorse! What's up, turtle? Hello, Ocean Friends...
Making connections between images on a page and the real world is an important building block for your baby's communication skills―and this charming introduction to ocean creatures, paired with friendly text and bold, basic patterns, provides an important high-contrast experience for young developing eyes.
Using simple greetings like "Hi there, starfish" and "Hola, jellyfish" alongside black-and-white art by Julissa Mora, Hello, Ocean Friends is the perfect building block for babies just beginning to look around and learn about their world.
Violet Lemay
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Hello, sun. Good to see you, puppy. What's going on, butterfly? Hello, My World…
When babies are first born, they can't distinguish between colors the same way that older babies can. But studies show that babies can see high-contrast black-and-white shapes and patterns from the very first days of life, and this charming introduction to simple objects found around a baby's world, paired with friendly text and bold, basic patterns, provides an important high-contrast experience for young developing eyes.
Using simple greetings like "What's up, clouds?," "Bonjour, flowers," and "Hola, baby" alongside lovely black-and-white art by Jannie Ho (illustrator of TummyTime: Animal Parade), Hello, My World is the perfect board book for babies just beginning to look around and learn about their world.
Duopress Labs
Jannie Ho
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Designed for babies 6 weeks to 6 months, these books use high-contrast images to provide visual stimulation as babies begin to make visual connections with the world around them. These wordless picture books for the youngest of readers are sure to capture the interest and attention of babies everywhere. The use of black and white shapes with bold colors creates stimulating patterns that babies love. Sturdy board books with rounded corners.
Chez Picthall
Rip Proof, High Contrast, Newborn Touch
Young babies will love snuggling up with this soft, padded cloth book!
With simple images, black-and-white illustrations and a touch-and-feel on every double page, this beautiful cloth book is designed to develop babies' eyesight while helping to focus their attention and concentration from birth upwards.
A fun, multi-sensory experience for parents and little ones to enjoy together, making this the perfect first book for children.
Visual stimulation
Sensory development
Recommended for children aged 0+
Ladybird
High Contrast
This sweet and playful board book features bold, high-contrast black-and-white illustrations that babies can actually see!
In simple, beautiful verse, bestselling Feminist Baby creator and two-time Emmy Award winner Loryn Brantz narrates the journey that parents take to have their perfect little one.
New York magazine's The Strategist chose It Had to Be You as one of the "Best (Nonobvious) Baby Books to Bring to a Shower." As The Strategist stated: "Because of its high-contrast color scheme (with red accents), it’s easy for babies to see the illustrations. Plus, the lyrical text is a love poem to the child that’s as soothing and sweet as a lullaby."
With lyrical text from parent to baby, It Had to Be You is perfect for fans of I’ve Loved You Since Forever and Guess How Much I Love You. A must-have addition to every baby’s nursery and a perfect gift for baby showers, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day.
For every one of our wishes, for every bump along the way, now that you’re here, we’ve known all along...it had to be YOU!
Loryn Brantz
Sports, High Contrast
A golfer swings her club. Look at the ball fly! A player gears up to kick a soccer ball soaring toward him. A basketball player's open - here comes the ball!
Making connections between images on a page and the real world is an important building block for your baby's communication skills―and this charming introduction to sports in bold, basic patterns, provides a great high-contrast experience for young developing eyes. As newborns' vision is not developed enough to recognize colors, the sharp contrast of high-contrast patterns and illustration allows their eyes to differentiate between the images on a page. Sure to grab little ones' attention!
Duopress labs
Rip Proof, High Contrast
Black And White Toys Are Perfect For Newborns: This high-contrast black & white baby toy is a great choice for Newborns' eyesight seeing things in Black and White and help the optic nerve to grow! Lift-the-flap and play peek-a-boo, Search for hidden surprises, Touch and feel textures book, gaining self-awareness through large baby safe mirror and enjoy crinkle pages! Smart Owl fabric book (high contrast infant toys) encourages adventure and discovery and can watch her/his little eye’s dance!
Tummy Time Toy, Mirror & Teether Toy: Our soft educational crinkle book with dazzling & bright colors not only gives you the opportunity to play “who do you see?” game to invite interaction and broaden baby’s vocabulary but also help stimulate important key skills, such as language & reading, communication, imagination and sensory skills. Additionally, the flaps on each page will give your child a hand to practice turning the page and move to the next one, helpful to develop fine motor skill!
Non-Toxic & Safe Material: Toddlers love to explore and sometimes chew books with vivid pictures and bright colors. Our baby books are made of Non-toxic, safe and premium quality materials with extra durability, strong stitching. The color wont be faded and the baby book wont be torn by washing. To make it easier to carry your baby’s lovely friend wherever you go, the flexible teether ring on the side allows the teething book to be relocated & fitted to car seats, pushchairs,strollers, playpen
Bebe Mondo
High Contrast
Based on decades of research and refinement, the art in this high-contrast board book will help babies focus and begin to discern shapes and colors. Written by popular children’s book author Akio Kashiwara, BABY SEES COLORS has simple, uplifting images and rhymes.
Babies soak in everything they hear, and eventually learn to associate particular sounds with familiar people and things. Hundreds of thousands of parents in Japan have already discovered the power of this little book, and now American parents can too!
Akio Kashiwara
High Contrast
It's so exciting! News of the baby is buzzing from animal to animal, with each one -- fish, bird, squirrel, insect, frog -- boasting of seeing, feeding, singing to, tickling, and kissing the tiny little thing. With bold, graphic black-and-white illustrations, Mary Murphy's simple, singsong story captures the giddy commotion that only a baby can bring.
Mary Murphy
Rip Proof, Food, High Contrast
Drool over yellow bananas, red strawberries, and purple grapes in this delicious book that is indestructible. Teach little readers about colors in this high-color high-contrast book with black and white patterns and bold colors that help babies focus in their early stages.
Indestructibles is the trusted series for easing little ones into story time. Beloved by babies and their parents, Indestructibles are built for the way babies “read” (i.e., with their hands and mouths) and are:
Rip Proof—made of ultra-durable tight-woven material
Waterproof—can be chewed on, drooled on, and washed!
Emergent Literacy Tool—bright pictures and few or no words encourage dialogic reading
Portable—lightweight books can go anywhere, perfect for the diaper bag and for travel
Safe for Baby—meets ASTM safety standards
Amy Pixton
Lizzy Doyle
Rip Proof, High Contrast
Indestructibles is the trusted series for easing little ones into story time. Beloved by babies and their parents, Indestructibles are built for the way babies “read” (i.e., with their hands and mouths) and are:
-Rip Proof—made of ultra-durable tight-woven material
-Waterproof—can be chewed on, drooled on, and washed!
-Emergent Literacy Tool—bright pictures and few or no words encourage dialogic reading
-Portable—lightweight books can go anywhere, perfect for the diaper bag and for travel
-Safe for Baby—meets ASTM safety standards
Amy Pixton
Lizzy Doyle
High Contrast, Vocabulary
From a bright yellow sun to a juicy red strawberry, the high-contrast pictures in the Hello Baby board book from Roger Priddy will captivate babies.
The alternating black and white backgrounds allow babies to focus on both the clearly defined pictures and the contrasting colors, as they look at and learn their very first words.
Roger Priddy
High Contrast
Every new parent purchases at least one high-contrast board book, and this one, with its bold, more abstract art, stands out from the crowd.
Featuring graphic images that are perfect for infants, parents and babies will love exploring this book together.
Infants can distinguish the colors black and white because of their high contrast. But what is the next color infants see? Red! The images in this book have been created based on decades of research and refinement and are accompanied by bouncy, rhyming text.
Akio Kashiwara
Ocean, High Contrast
The perfect first book for baby!
Baby's first ocean animal book all about sea creatures, including an octopus, whale, turtle, seahorse, crab, fish, shrimp, starfish, walrus, shark, and jellyfish
Easy learning introductions to the animals of the sea to help develop baby's association skills
High-contrast designs for baby's developing eyesight to make visual connections in black and white—two colors newborn babies can immediately recognize
Striking artwork is engaging and intriguing to help young readers develop an interest in reading at a pre-literate level
Surprise mirror at the end of the story to delight, entertain, and give babies the chance to begin recognizing their own reflection
Sturdy board book designed for babies as young as 6 months, with wipe clean pages and safe rounded corners
Say "Hello!" to the animals of the ocean with this beautiful board book designed specifically for babies!
Packed with cute sea creatures from whales and turtles to seahorses and starfish, Hello Sea is the perfect first baby book. A great early introduction to ocean animals for your baby, the high-contrast artwork has been scientifically designed to be easier to see with an infant's developing eyesight, to help your child make visual connections with simple shapes in clear black and white. Young brains learn best from these high-contrast black and white illustrations with a pop of color! The easy wipe-clean board book pages with rounded corners for safety are perfect for children as young as six months.
Say hello to big whales, wiggly octopuses, snappy crabs, and so many more amazing sea animals with this beautiful, baby-safe board book! Hello Sea not only helps a baby's developing color vision as they are introduced to each ocean animal, also included is a surprise mirror at the very end of the book to give your baby the opportunity to look at themselves—something babies just love to do!
Carolyn Scrace
Baby Faces, Newborn Touch, High Contrast
Encourage your baby's early motor skills with See, Touch, Feel Tummy Time from Priddy Books.
This casebound board book features two double page fold-outs so the book can stand up and open out. It was designed this way to be used while babies are lying on their fronts, encouraging them to strengthen their back, arm, and neck muscles as part of their daily tummy time routine.
The book features a mix of black-and-white high contrast imagery, appealing photographs of happy babies, and bright colorful handprint artwork which the See Touch Feel series is best known for. The varied art style will engage and entertain babies as they get older.
There is also touch and feel textures to explore and a mirror at the end for babies to look into and enjoy.
Part of the best-selling See, Touch, Feel series which includes See, Touch, Feel; See, Touch, Feel 123; See, Touch, Feel ABC; See, Touch, Feel Colors; See, Touch, Feel Create, and See, Touch, Feel Roar.
Roger Priddy
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From bestselling Feminist Baby and It Had to Be You creator Loryn Brantz comes a fun-filled high-contrast black-and-white board book that celebrates the experiences kids of all abilities may have with their loved ones
Now that you’re here, there’s so much we can do. We’ve been waiting so long for the chance to show you!
From blowing bubbles to exploring in the park, these moments and more are cherished in this sweet poem from caregiver to baby. With playful text perfect for fans of You Are My Happy and Guess How Much I Love You, bestselling Feminist Baby creator, Loryn Brantz, compliments her poem with black and white illustrations that babies can actually see!
Now That You’re Here is a must-have addition to every baby’s nursery and a perfect gift for baby showers, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and Valentine’s Day.
Also available in the LOVE POEMS YOUR BABY CAN SEE series:
It Had to Be You
For Your Smile
Loryn Brantz
Nature Lovers, High Contrast
TUMMY BOOK - The Nature My Tummy Board Book by Mudpuppy is a fold out accordion bound book that can stand upright on a playmat, perfect for engaging baby during tummy time sessions. With a focus on nature artwork, this tummy time is a perfect book to your baby's developing head and vision!
BRIGHT AND BOLD ARTWORK – The Nature Tummy Book is an accordion style book, with one side in bold full color and the other in high contrast black and white, which is eye-catching for a baby's developing vision. The book also includes a baby safe mirror as well, so little ones can delight at their own reflection.
PERFECT FOR GIFTING – This Nature My Tummy Book makes a great gift because it encourages children to explore and appreciate the natural world from a young age. The book is designed to be used during tummy time, which is an important developmental activity for babies. As they explore the pages of the book, they will be exposed to different animals and plants, helping to foster a love of nature and curiosity about the world around them. The book is also a great way to bond with your child and spend quality time together!
Mudpuppy
Michéle Brummer Everett
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