Hello, friends! Our books today are Happy Face / Sad Face and Little Face / Big Face by Bill Cotter, two adorable board books that help little readers learn their opposites.

In Happy Face / Sad Face, each page shows a different little boy or girl demonstrating opposites with their facial expressions: Happy/Sad, Up/Down, Asleep/Awake, etc. In Little Face / Big Face, the subjects of the faces are animals, showing more opposites like Short/Long, New/Old, and so on. At the end of each book is the favorite face of all: a mirror showing the little reader themselves, of course!

These were lovely! Bouncing rhyming text paired with simple yet cheerfully colorful art makes for fun baby-to-toddler aged reading. The opposites covered are classics, with the added bonus of teaching children about faces and animals as well. The length is what you would expect from a board book, and each can be read in under a minute. JJ loves these, especially the mirror at the end of each. A great staple for a bookworm’s first library, and we can definitely recommend them! Baby Bookworm approved!

(Note: Copies of these books were provided to The Baby Bookworm by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.)