This oversized board book features a variety of facial expressions through 12 works of contemporary art from world artists. Each page contains a single diverse face, using lines, patterns and bold colors that will attract your baby’s attention.

Suitable for bath time as well as playtime, Busy Zoo is a wordless book with bright colors, cute animals and interesting textures for your baby to explore.

At this stage, infant eyes will focus on simple images. This wordless board book has an easily recognizable illustration on each page, such as apple and duck. The white shapes contrasted on the black background will help grab your baby’s attention.

Babies love to look at faces. This award-winning book features real photographs of infants with more than just hats on their heads.

By around the fifth month, infants are learning to voluntarily grasp and release objects. Give your baby lots of opportunities to practice improving the fine motor and eye-hand coordination she will need later for drawing and writing.

A fine motor skill milestone for a baby at this age includes working on and developing better muscle strength and control. You can help with this developmental milestone by promoting reaching for and releasing objects.

Reaching, grasping, shaking and dropping a toy aids your child in learning to grasp with all of her fingers at the same time an important fine motor skill needed for eye-hand coordination and eventually for controlling and holding writing tools.

Babies love the sound of their mother’s voice. It is soothing and comforting and is their favorite sound. Why not use the voice your baby loves to play games that involve tracking movement from left to right?

Within the first few months, your baby will develop the ability to focus on an object and track the motion of the object from left to right. As your baby grows, this awareness to details will help your baby focus on pictures, letters and words in books.

Infants enjoy looking at faces. Very young babies see faces best when they are about 8 to 12 inches away. Use your facial expressions to help your baby begin to notice changes in the things he sees.