Look, Look!: A High Contrast Board Book

This book is magic. The high-contrast illustrations grabbed my daughter's attention as a newborn, and now at 14 months she has every page memorized. For example, when we get to the stretching cat? She stretches and meows. Every. Single. Time. 🥹 It's simple, bold, and perfectly designed for developing little eyes. No overwhelming colors - just clean images that let babies truly focus and engage. It's also been a wonderful, natural way to introduce basic words. Buy it. Gift it. We love it. ✅ Works from newborn through toddler, encourages interaction, teaches basic words ⚠️ Literally no cons. It's perfect.

Crazy as it may sound, young babies do seem to prefer these types of images. I have a great collection of children's and baby's books and I started reading to my newborn right away and showing him pictures. He didn't seem to respond too well even to the heavy, simple baby books. So I got this one reading up on the idea of high-contrast images and voila! He is definitely more interested in this than regular color books (he was 3 weeks old when I got this). I have my baby in my lap so I'm not going to check right now, but there are about 7 spreads inside (hands with a butterfly, sun shining on growing plants, a car, a cat, flowers growing, fish, and moon with stars.) A great alternative to purchasing what I personally consider to be overpriced "flash cards." You can just prop this book up and flip the pages or let them hold it when they're old enough. Seems durable enough. On that note, a parenting tip: don't let people play on your fear of not giving your baby the trendiest, most expensive thing because it's somehow "better" for them. This book is great and a reasonable price. Those flashcards are not any different for them to be $15-$20+ for like four of them and seem more of a hassle because you can't prop them up without some kid of holder. Spending time with your baby is the best thing you can do. All the accessories are just noise at the end of the day.

nice quality

Newborn likes high contrasting image. And this Look Look book is just right for our son. He loves looking at it, hence, the title of the book. This is his favorite book for the first 3 weeks or so. Buy one and you will not regret it.

My baby loves this book. We started showing it to him around 6 weeks, and he would just stare and stare at the different pages. He smiled more at this book than he did at us those first couple of weeks! We have propped it up for him to look at in the car on longer drives, sat it next to him when he’s doing tummy time for something to look at and propped it up on the changing table for him to look at while changing him (car seat, tummy time and diaper changes are things he is not a fan of, but this book and a few others like it have been a helpful distraction!).

My husband and I have purchased several high contrast books and toys for our son. This is the only high contrast book that we have purchased. It's not as successful as the high contrast toys (I've written reviews on different toys as well by the Manhattan toy company). I think it's because the images are great and visually stimulating but he gets tired of sitting in my lap in the same position. With the toys, he can explore with them on his own. That being said, it's a great book with images that definitely capture his attention. We keep it with us when we go out on a long trip to keep him distracted and it always works. Have a look at the Manhattan toy company toys, all of which are also great because they're high contrast. Of note, you can flip the cards around and they are of good quality (they won't rip). The clip is also very sturdy and Basically can attach anywhere you need it to.

I bought this book as a baby gift because it was an amazing lifesaver for me and others for whom I've purchased this book. The new mom for whom I purchased the book sent me a picture of her week-old baby enamored with the book already. I love the large pictures with plenty of contrast, and the use of red wording helps when they first see color. My children would stare at a page for minutes at a time, giving a tired mom much relief. I could set the book up next to them and move away for a time to take care of other needs. When we'd look at the book together, it was amazing to see their eyes glue to the images and show clear fascination. I will continue to buy this book for new moms as long as it's around.

My infant has a different reaction to every page which is really fun!

My 1,5 year old still enjoys looking at its pictures. :)

Il libro è in cartone molto robusto, di piccole dimensioni ma comunque comodo da tenere in mano. Le immagino sono tutte ad alto contrasto (in bianco e nero) per stimolare l'interesse dei più piccoli. Le immagini sono accompagnate da una frase (in inglese) per descriverle ma ci si può inventare sopra una storia. Il mio bimbo di 1 mese e mezzo ne è affascinato.

I had procured some other high contrast books before this one. As those were expensive and quality products, I was initially suspicious that this one may not attract my baby . But I was wrong. My baby has been mesmerised by this book. She looks simple and big pictures curiously for long time and really enjoys the whole book.....Value for money, I must admit.....

Gran libro para el neurodesarrollo del bebé debido a que tiene páginas con altos contrastes.

Even my 4.5 week old loves this book! She’s just starting to be able to track things with her eyes, and she likes looking at these images. Her favorites are the sun and the fish. She gets reallllllly big eyes when I turn to the fish page and she smiles when we’re on the sun page. She even reaches her hands out towards the book now. I’ll definitely be buying this book as a baby shower gift in the future.