Making Faces: A First Book of Emotions

A repeating, baby-directed text introduces five emotions—happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, and silliness—as demonstrated by facial photos of ethnically diverse children. Large photographs of a single child’s head appear on left-hand pages (“Look at the happy baby. Can you make a happy face?”), and on the facing pages, young ones are asked to find the same face among photos showing other emotions (“Find the happy baby!”). White backgrounds provide maximum contrast for the photos, which readily telegraph each emotion, and an embedded mirror lets children see their own happy, silly, and other emotive expressions. Up to age 3. (Mar.)