Baby Code! Reviews
Praise for the Baby Code! series
From Publisher’s Weekly
In a board book addition to the Girls Who Code franchise, Horning introduces the rudimentary concepts behind coding. In illustrations with a mid-century vibe, a baby in polka-dot pajamas plays with familiar toys and objects. Horning features lines of simple code that echo the baby’s activities. She employs language to tell a long-eared dog to sit, just as “Code uses letters and numbers to tell computers what to do.” When she uses a remote control for her toy robot, the rosy-cheeked bot announces: “robot.beep( ).” And when the baby needs to take a nap, “Code tells the toy’s computer when to sleep, too!” Horning provides a basic introduction to a complex concept. Ages up to 3.
There are 4 books in the Baby Code series: Baby Code!, Baby Code! Music, Baby Code! Art, and Baby Code! Play, all by Sandra Horning with art by Melissa Crowton. They have adorable illustrations and are all similar in basic content and style (baby’s everyday activities can be done digitally with code). The Baby Code! book is about everyday items in a baby’s life. The Music, Art, and Play books are focused specifically on each of those topics applied in the baby’s everyday life….My favorite thing about the Baby Code! books is how they explain that code makes our everyday digital electronics-filled lives possible in a very simple way. Things we take for granted, like printing something off your computer screen, or taking a photo on your smartphone, all is done with code. The books explain that concept and each page includes actual code. Even though my kids don’t understand the code yet, I’m glad it’s included in the book – selfishly because I want to learn more code, but also because I believe it’s great to expose my kids to code as young as possible.
