CRIB READY! Baby Animals (Indestructibles) by Stephen Lomp

THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF BABIES.

LIKE YOU, THEY LOVE TO PLAY.

Appealing puppies, kittens, elephant calves, ducklings, koala joeys, and turtle hatchlings--what little one could resist? With lively baby animals, portrayed in bright colors and playing under the watchful eyes of their parents, this little book comes with instant appeal for infants and toddlers.

But Steven Lomp's Indestructibles: Baby Animals (Workman Press, 2017) also represents one of the biggest advances in book publishing since Gutenberg first cranked up his printing press--a "crib ready" book that proclaims itself as rip-proof, chewable, non-toxic, and 100% washable. Book-loving parents who have cringed at what happens to the best-made of baby board books--used as chewing rings, tossed and ripped and dipped in the potty, and otherwise beaten up by babies who love them to pieces--will rejoice at the new Indestructibles series, even advertised as "dishwasher safe!"

With quite a variety of topics in this new series, such as Amy Pixton's Indestructibles: Baby Night-Night Kate Merritt's Indestructibles: Love You, Baby and Lomps' Indestructibles: Things That Go!,, these very inexpensive and indestructible books for the very youngest are a great choice for new parents and a boon to daycare centers where daily sanitizing for playthings is a major issue. Baby books that are the best thing since sliced bread? Maybe!