(Where Is Babys Belly Button?) By Katz, Karen (Author) Hardcover on 01-Sep-2000

My baby loves this book but has torn out all the interactive panels. It is not a heavy board book designed for the age group it is written for. I took packing tape and tried to repair the damaged pages but this did not solve the problem. The illustrations are adorable and I am sure most babies will love them as mine does, but the design of the book should be rethought.

My 16 month old granddaughter LOVES this book. She is learning body parts so finding the body parts on the babies in the book, and then on her, has become such a fun learning game. Having the extra fun of lifting up the flaps on the book has just made it all the better for her. Its a simple easy read that holds her attention long enough. I bought another book at the same time

My babys favorite book. I read it many times every day. Now the baby already figured out where the belly button is. So cute!

This will make a very cute gift at the baby shower Ill be attending in a couple weeks. I like the fact that the book is in a cardstock form. I think this is a cute way for a baby to learn some body parts in a peekaboo format. I would just be wary of the flaps because those are not cardstock, so if a baby grabs ahold of it, it will not take much for it to tear off. The good news is that this book is inexpensive enough to repurchase a new one if that happens.

Where is Babys Belly Button is a literary powerhouse, and a masterwork of the visual arts. In Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov blurred the boundaries between art, audience, editor, and critic, weaving a supernatural web of between the lines storytelling that revealed a puzzle of horror, murder, and insanity between the lines of a mediocre long-form modern poem. Karen Katz achieves a similar effect with her milestone Where Is Babys Belly Button? As with Pale Fire, the reader is left in a state of uncertainty about what is real, what is the authors artistry, and what is the delusion/interpretation of a brilliant but mentally defective editor. As with Pale Fire, the narrative starts out mundane, almost boring. Where are babys eyes? Under her hat. Where is babys mouth? Behind the cup. Much like the fictional poet John Shade (one oozy footstep behind Frost...) in the shadow of the waxwing slain, so is baby an elusive, ephemeral, and ultimately unknowable avatar of the readers ultimate quest for a connection with reality. Katz, the author, takes on the role of Kinbote, asking obvious questions but coming to sometimes outlandish answers, spinning a delusional world where nothing matters except the location of babys body parts. Like a euphoric opium nightmare, Where is Babys Belly Button is a vision from a nihilistic future where nothing matters except the immediacy of bodily experience. Five stars.

The way the flaps are set up, its hard to lift even as an adult. My 18mth old has a hard time finding where to lift and to get the tabs to lift. That is my biggest complaint. Otherwise its a great book for learning parts of the body. I read the book and point to the characters in the book, ie see the babies toes?! And then touch/wiggle his toes so he starts relating what we are talking about. Cute book, just wish it was easier to lift the tabs on. You better have nails! I might have to rig the book so its easier for him to lift, since he likes to lift them up himself.

My 20 month son loves this books. Its great for helping to teach body parts and lift-the-flap books are always a hit. My only issues with the book are: 1. I wish it included more basic facial features (nose and ears); and 2. the large flaps go across the whole page and some open at the top, some at the bottom, which makes it harder for my young son to be able to open the flaps himself since its hard to tell which end to open.

It’s so important to teach your kids the correct name for their body parts and this is a fun way for them to learn! My son is 7 months old and like to do the flip part

My 15 month old twins have been really interested in showing me their belly buttons lately when I ask so I thought this would be fun for them. But I agree with the other reviews on here about the flaps. The boys tore it apart in after a month. Cute story and idea, just wish the flaps were a bit thicker and reinforced.

This book is so far holding up well. My 11 month old daughter ‘the book destroyer’ has pulled the flaps off and broke the spines of a few books so far but this one has lasted the longest! She currently has it as her high chair book so it gets thrown on the floor a lot and still it’s fine! She loves lifting the flaps and we point to her mouth and eyes and so on as the book goes on!