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High-Contrast Baby Books

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While newborns develop their visual systems, it can be hard for them to distinguish colors and focus on fine details. This is why books with high-contrast images are so important. Incorporating these books into your reading time can help with early visual development, brain development, and attention and focus. Plus, it’s a great way to bond with your little one! Here are a few of our favorites.

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    Baby’s Black and White Contrast Book

    by Tabitha Paige

    This high-contrast baby book features beautiful black-and-white fine art that is specially designed for a baby’s visual development. Plus, the accordion-style format means the book stands upright, making it the perfect tummy time book!
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    Hello, Bugs!

    by Smriti Prasadam

    A charming introduction to ten beautiful little bugs, featuring high contrast black-and-white illustrations. A glittering burst of colored foil brings a vivid splash of color to every page. With first words to join in with, this stunning book will captivate sparkly little babies everywhere!
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    Hello You!

    by Amelia Hepworth

    Babies will love to experience the appealing, black-and-white high-contrast images in this engaging board book. With a tactile die-cut cover and super-bright fluorescent inks on every page, which features simple black-and-white illustrations, this series has been specially designed to capture your little one’s attention. Babies will meet a host of friendly characters, such as Mommy smiling and Daddy waving, a tiger grinning, a monkey chattering, a lion roaring, and more fun animals and sounds.
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    Art for Baby

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    A collection of fascinating black-and-white images created by some of the world’s leading modern artists. Each one has been specially selected to help babies begin to recognize pictures and connect with the world around them. This board book also includes a stunning frieze featuring all the images used in the book — a perfect way to bring contemporary art to your baby.
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    Web Opposites

    by Rob Hodgson

    Spiders with personality use their webs to demonstrate opposites in this clever concept board book. Young readers will stretch both their imaginations and their vocabularies as they laugh along with our eight-eyed, eight-legged friends.
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    Babies Love Nature

    by Susanne König

    This wordless accordion-shaped board book is filled with twenty different nature scenes drawn in bold black-and-white art, perfect for baby’s developing mind. The book is meant to stand up on a baby’s play mat so they can lift their heads to look at the pictures. And once they’ve looked at one side, you can flip the book to give them ten new natural objects and vistas to enjoy!
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    I Like Your Chutzpah

    by Suzy Ultman

    The first in a stylish, current, and multifaceted series of Jewish-themed board books for curious young readers. I Like Your Chutzpah is a casebound board book that showcases and defines popular Yiddish words through a playful lens that will validate Jewish readers, and inform and entertain Jews and non-Jews alike!
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    Look, Look!

    by Peter Linenthal

    Striking and stylish, Look Look! is the ideal first board book for babies just beginning to look and learn and a perfect gift for little hands. A few words in curving red type on each spread describes the scenes — a car races, a cat stretches, flowers bloom — and extend the book’s age appeal so that it will be fascinating to older babies, too.
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    A Little Book About Love

    by Michael Wieder

    We know a few things about love we’d like to share! This is a little book about love. Love is something you feel inside you, and it’s something you share, give, and grow. It’s all around us each and every day. And love is so big that it never, ever runs out. This book was made to introduce little ones ages 0 – 4 to the important topic of love, starting the conversation early on a vital concept that inspires harmony and connection.
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    Hello Baby

    by Rebecca Weerasekera

    Learn first words with this fun, multisensory, high-contrast board book for little ones, with tactile pictures and a mirror. Babies and toddlers will love getting hands-on and exploring every sensory page and touching raised pictures of favorite animals such as a black-and-white sheep and a spotty ladybird. And at the end of the book when they turn the final page, they’ll be delighted by the shiny mirror surprise.
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    Baby Animals Black and White

    by Phyllis Limbacher Tildes

    This charming, bestselling board book introduces eight adorable baby animals, featuring high-contrast black-and-white illustrations perfect for babies from birth to age two. Up-close images of a playful Dalmatian puppy, a cuddly panda cub, a striped zebra, and other loveable animals grace each page. A final two-page spread completes this charming book with a clever surprise.
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    The Met Black and White

    by DK

    I went to the museum, and I saw … Each page features high-contrast black-and-white artwork from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, and the fun matching game at the end reinforces learning. Young readers can discover cats from 18th century China, 4,000-year-old shields from Egypt, and 16th century Incan clothing. It’s the baby art book series that grown-ups will love, too!
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    Toys: A Black-and-White Book

    by Ladybird

    Introduce your baby to all kinds of toys with this gorgeous black-and-white book that will engage your child’s senses as they discover all their favorite toys. Spot the stacking rings, striped ball, and cuddly teddy bear — with touch-and-feel textures for added interaction!
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