Book-o-Beards

By Capstone Young Readers
Price $7.99
Age 1-6 yrs

This is one fun, funny board book. Kids and parents get a huge kick out of its wordplay and big, bold illustrations and especially enjoy sticking their face in its pages. Book-o-Beards is one of several wearable books published by Capstone Young Readers and written and illustrated by Lemke and Lentz. With the book open wide, the top center of each pair of pages has a die-cut hole on which to rest your nose, forming a comical visual hybrid that adds a huge, colorful beard and mustache to any reader's face. Throwing in a bit of facial expression - furrowed brow, raised eyebrow, narrowed or smiling eyes - enhances the comical effect, evoking waves of laughter and silliness. Each of the six beards is formidable and familiar in its own way (Pirate, Cowboy, Sailor . . .). Each morsel of text rhymes jauntily and ends with a word or phrase highlighted in caps that young readers can call out interactively when the book is being read to them.