A Baby Book for You (Boston Museum of Fine Arts)
by Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Author: Boston Museum of Fine ArtsEdition: Spiral-bound
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-04-01
ISBN: 0821222821
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: Bulfinch
Book Reviews of A Baby Book for You (Boston Museum of Fine Arts)
Book Review: W....TH.
Summary: 3 Stars
This baby book is so weird! As far as categories and writing prompts, it was fantastic. I loved how thoughtful and diverse the spaces for personal tidbits were and I really wanted to use it as a baby book. The problem was that I couldn't get over how haphazard and awkward the illustration selections were. While all of the illustrations were attractive and well done, they made no sense sometimes. Some of them look like producers of this book got together with a few bottles of wine and flipped through clip art books, getting drunker and gigglier as the night went on, and called the resulting hot mess a total success. Sometimes it's just that there's one style or theme of illustrations on one page and the page opposing it is a totally different theme or style and it clashes. Other times they've actually 'shopped together totally different illustrations in totally different artistic styles to make one complete illustration. Because the book is fairly stark and white, it really relies on the illustrations to brighten the content. So why they chose such odd pictures is beyond me. It was so distracting that I spent more time showing the book to my family and laughing at the "What were they thinking??" kinds of combinations than I did actually filling the book out until I gave up and decided to go find a different book to use. I mean, it's not hideous or anything... it's just confusing. Like... Swedish simplicity on one page and Victorian clutter on the next.
I decided to jot my answers to their prompts into the book as a sort of rough draft to keep track of the information as my pregnancy progressed and then planned to transfer them into a journal or transpose them with new fonts and illustrations into scrapbook pages that are better suited to my personal taste. There's a good chance plenty of other people will like it and not find it as odd as I did though, and with the price what it is, it's hardly a bad gamble. If you love it, there you go. And if you don't, it works as a great journal topic prompter.
Summary of A Baby Book for You (Boston Museum of Fine Arts)
This handsome keepsake volume not only provides ample space to record baby's progress from birth to age three, it also showcases marvelous color artworks by Ralph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane, and others from the "golden age of children's book illustration". Itallows plenty of room for snapshots and locks of hair--and the wonderful illustrations and nursery rhymes throughout are a continuing source of delight. Concealed wire-o binding.Arts & Photography Books
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