Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA

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Overview

Your baby's first word will be . . .

"Dada!"

Right?

Everyone knows that fathers wage a secret campaign to ensure that their babies' first word is "Dada!"

But how does it work?

One of the most popular entertainers in the world and NBC's The Tonight Show host, Jimmy Fallon, shows you how.

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ISBN-13:	9781250009340
Publisher:	Feiwel & Friends
Publication date:	06/09/2015
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	12,865
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	NP (what's this?)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Emmy Award and Grammy Award winner Jimmy Fallon did everything in his power to ensure that his daughter's first word would be "Dada!" Yes, he has many other projects on his plate, like hosting NBC's The Tonight Show. But he was determined that his daughter would say "Dada!" before any other word. He worked very hard on this. Jimmy Fallon lives with his wife, Nancy, and their daughters, Winnie Rose and Frances Cole, in New York City. Winnie's first word was "Mama!"

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Editorial Reviews

04/27/2015
Ten years after Fallon’s Snowball Fight!, the Tonight Show host returns with a witty reminder that as much as parents may try to shape their children’s destinies, kids will do as kids will do. Ordóñez (Marina and the Little Green Boy) deploys a barnyard’s worth of father-child animal pairs, framed in square panels with fathers on the left and their offspring on the facing pages. In speech-balloon dialogue, the elder cows, sheep, bees, rabbits, donkeys, and other animals shout an encouraging “Dada!” at their children, whose responses are more typical to their species—a “squeak” for a triangular gray mouse or a “ribbit” for a squat green frog. The fathers’ expressions range from concerned to downright irate, but the baby animals couldn’t be more pleased with themselves. The comparatively loquacious closing pages round up all the animals (“Now everybody get in line, let’s say it together one more time...”), and the young animals finally make their proud papas’ dreams come true. A punchy and deceptively simple story that will make for some fun readalouds. Ages 1–3. Author’s agency: Creative Artists Agency. (June)

Publishers Weekly

"A punchy and deceptively simple story that will make for some fun readalouds."—Publishers Weekly
"Children of all ages can glean knowledge and enjoyment from this book."—Children's Literature

From the Publisher

This very simple book shows every father’s persistence to teach his babies “dada” as his or her first word. Comedian and father Jimmy Fallon also depicts how, when babies inevitably have a different first word, fathers still show unconditional love. Your Baby’s First Word Will Be Dada is more of a book than a story, and it presents many opportunities for a creative, enjoyable, and interactive reading. Each page has animal sounds, which can be expressed animatedly with all children, and even addressed with older children as onomatopoeias. The illustrations show a baby and father for each animal, leading to discussions about how children can tell the baby animal from the father. The intended audience for this book is very young and the vocabulary is incredibly limited, but through using creative thinking strategies, higher order questions, and discussion, children of all ages can glean knowledge and enjoyment from this book. Reviewer: Laura Dekle; Ages 1 to 3.

Children's Literature - Laura Dekle

2015-04-15
A succession of animal dads do their best to teach their young to say "Dada" in this picture-book vehicle for Fallon. A grumpy bull says, "DADA!"; his calf moos back. A sad-looking ram insists, "DADA!"; his lamb baas back. A duck, a bee, a dog, a rabbit, a cat, a mouse, a donkey, a pig, a frog, a rooster, and a horse all fail similarly, spread by spread. A final two-spread sequence finds all of the animals arrayed across the pages, dads on the verso and children on the recto. All the text prior to this point has been either iterations of "Dada" or animal sounds in dialogue bubbles; here, narrative text states, "Now everybody get in line, let's say it together one more time…." Upon the turn of the page, the animal dads gaze round-eyed as their young across the gutter all cry, "DADA!" (except the duckling, who says, "quack"). Ordóñez's illustrations have a bland, digital look, compositions hardly varying with the characters, although the pastel-colored backgrounds change. The punch line fails from a design standpoint, as the sudden, single-bubble chorus of "DADA" appears to be emanating from background features rather than the baby animals' mouths (only some of which, on close inspection, appear to be open). It also fails to be funny. Plotless and pointless, the book clearly exists only because its celebrity author wrote it. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews

…amusing…Ordóñez's pictures are goofy fun…

The New York Times Book Review - Maria Russo

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