Baby Loves Gravity! (Baby Loves Science)

I loved this book, and so did my 1 and 3-year-old children. Pros: 1 Representation: It is difficult to find books that include characters of color as the main characters. Sometimes, the cover of the book will include a character of color, who will then not be dominant in/throughout the story. This book did not disappoint. Although the main character was a person of color, he was just experiencing normal everyday life. That is important for children of color to know that all of the books about their lives are not about slavery/pain/suffering, and it is good for white children to see that children of color are just like them. 2. Science: Children absorb information like sponges, but so many children's books don't take advantage of that. This book actually taught my children about gravity and mass. My three year old has impressed people by casually using that vocabulary in several random conversations. I caught my children excitedly replicating the gravity "experiments" from the book. Finally, it also challenged me to be mindful about pointing out when my kids interact with gravity in their everyday life. 3: Format: It is difficult to find these topics in Board Book format. I liked that my kids can "read" the book on their own without fear of them damaging it. 4: Price: Very affordable! Consistent pricing across the series Cons: Overall, I love this book and am excited to buy more from the series. My only complaint so far is that there aren't any female main characters yet. Girls like science too!

Great early learning book for future scientists! Simple concepts for the youngest children.

One of my sons favorite books! Self professed science nerd here and I love this entire series- a welcome change of pace from all the “cow goes moo” farm animal books! The concepts are simply outlined and well illustrated, and even my very unscientific mother will willingly grab these!!! If you look closely at illustrations in the different books you can bridge the concepts together (ie: the methane molecule in the Quarks book re-appears in the Green Energy book). They all start with a baby and use an example a baby/toddler can easily relate to (in Gravity- the baby drops food from the high chair, then explains it falls down, not up). We enjoy every book in this series but if you’re trying to choose which to order- my least favorites are Coding and Quantum Physics, followed by green energy. Favorites are: Gravity, Thermo, Aerospace, Structural and Quarks. Another excellent series I highly recommend is the Hello World Series! It too contains great illustrations and simple facts!!! My son likes reading Space together with Baby Loves Aerospace Engineering because he can identify Saturn in both and now that he’s 3 is starting to draw other parallels, but we started with all these books around 6 months and he still loves them!!!

One of our favorite books.

This is a fantastic book. Why do toddlers like to drop food. They’re just little scientists testing Earth’s gravitational pull. Cute images and simple text to express big ideas. Our 19 month old loves this book and so do we!

The illustrations are eyecatching, and the narrative is easy to follow. It's already one of my kid's favorites -- and he's now recognizing pictures of the Earth (first seen here) in other books. I considered docking it a star for "encouraging" kids to drop their food on the floor, but my kid was doing that before he read the book. ;)

We have all of the Baby Loves Science books now and this one is probably my daughter's favorite because of the "Slurp" sound effect we make and the fact that it has a puppy. Like the others, the science is also sound and presented at a level that a kid can understand (and you can embellish with extra scientific detail if you want). We love that the babies illustrated are diverse and we've also noticed that Bird, Cat, and Apple from previous books in the series make a cameo in the background at the park, which our daughter also loves.

This is a really cool book. I like the way it looks at gravity for different objects. That said the foray into matter and mass was a bit too advanced and felt unnecessary to convey the point. I get why it was added, but that could have been another book - part 2 perhaps