It’s worth noting that this kind of humor is generally aimed at adults. After all, grown-ups are the ones who have to worry about the practical stuff. Tailoring this theme to a young audience is tough. Sometimes “Lazy Little Loafers” talks to New Yorker-reading parents, not their children. How many 5-year-olds, for example, will respond to the humor of babies who “go out for a three-bottle lunch and get a little tipsy”?

For over a decade Mem Fox’s Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, brought to life by Helen Oxenbury’s diverse cast of delicious babies, has been shared by parents and their little ones the world over.If you are looking for the very first book to read to a baby, Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes is just about perfect. Written in 2008 by Mem Fox, it features all sort of babies, from all around the world, but what they all have in common is ten tiny fingers and ten tiny toes. Each baby in this book may be “born far away” or right here “on the very next day” , We like this one as a bedtime story. Loved doing the actions especially at the end with the three little kisses on the end of your nose! Also great to teach baby about different cultures Beautiful book that my 9 month old son loves as a bedtime story. Each time we come to the 'ten little fingers' and 'ten little toes' I wiggle his fingers & toes, which always gets a big smile. Engaging students with global literature: The 2009 notable books for a global society". New England Reading Association Journal. EBSCO Industries Inc. 45 (2): 43. June 2010 . Retrieved 30 November 2016. [ dead link]

Tip: Touch the different body parts when they are mentioned in the song. You can also count the fingers and the toes! a b Rita Lorraine Hubbard (2012). "Diez deditos de las manos y Diez deditos de los pies / Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes bilingual board book (English and Spanish Edition)". New York Journal of Books. NYJB . Retrieved 30 November 2016.Even when Orlean’s prose wavers, Karas’s gouache, pencil, acrylic and photo­graphic collages build an appealing city­scape full of hilarious details and baby-coddling New Yorkers. His images also build the big sister’s bravado into a narrative journey: the story of a girl who comes to terms with her new baby brother.