Babies love books (pictures to look at, pages to flip through, corners to nibble). And babies love the beach (water to splash in, sand to dig in, sand to nibble…blecccch!). But poor babies – until now they’ve been denied the pleasure of a good beach read, since children’s books have a hard time standing up to sand and water (not to mention babies’ mouths).
Problem solved: INDESTRUCTIBLES – bright picture books that are printed on tear-proof, drool-proof, totally washable material – stand up to the beach the same way they stand up to babies’ sticky hands and curious mouths.
Deanna Niles McConnell, is the baby/toddler gear expert at Hawaii’s Examiner.com, and a mom whose geographic location means a lot of personal experience with babies on the beach. She praises INDESTRUCTIBLES as beach-bag favorites: “The pages are completely waterproof and can be wiped clean–beach sand falls off and water repels away.” Of course, palm trees and saltwater are not required: the books hold up just as well at the neighborhood pool, or in the backyard (no need to worry about that sprinkler).
My nephews Haldan and Quinn like these books for the lively pictures – 2-year-old Haldan likes to describe the scenes; Quinn, 6 months, prefers just to suck on the pages – and the fact that their dad will pack them for the beach when other books have to be left at home. Once they get to the beach, there’s no scolding about keeping them out of the sand: Haldan can even build a sandy barnyard for the chickens he finds in Wiggle! March! Now that’s getting into a book!
Click here for all of the books in the Indestructibles series
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