Happy Baby ABC

 This book is both terrible and wonderful.  It was lent to us by a family member, and it was exactly what I was looking for at the time.

Babies love pictures.  This a giant book of pictures.  They're selling it as an alphabet book, but your child won't learn anything useful about the alphabet with this book whatsoever.  They will happily look through the pictures, though.

The pictures they use are stock photos.  Some of them are terrible.  Also, why a picture of lightening?  Baby won't understand that.  And that picture of snow and clouds and scenery is "Mountains"?  It might seem straightforward to you, but that's pretty abstract for a 6 month old.

We still used this book like mad, and our daughter could point to any of the pictures when prompted even before she was a year old!  Pretty impressive.  I like using it alongside the Richard Scarry search-and-find books.

If you really can't stand this book, a cheaper alternative is the Sears catalogue.  But that's for another post.