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Moimoi--Look at Me!

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The Wall Street Journal's Best Baby Board Book of the Last Twenty Years

"Fanciful paisley-like shapes glow on colored backgrounds, with short nonsensical prompts ("moi moi?"). The combination is entirely winning: fun for adults to read aloud and 100% enthralling for babies."—The Wall Street Journal

What are moimoi? Playful moimoi have bold stripes and big, bright eyes. Babies find them captivating and will even stop crying to look. Parents in Japan swear by moimoi and have purchased over 800,000 books!

How do you say it? "Moi" is a fun nonsense word that rhymes with "koi." You can change how you say it to match what the moimoi are doing—as they dance, grow, and even sing . . .

Where do they come from? At the University of Tokyo "Baby Lab," Dr. Kazuo Hiraki tested many different high-contrast designs. Babies looked at moimoi for twice as long as the competition. Your newborn or toddler will love moimoi, too!

And don't miss Moimoi, Where Are You? for even more peekaboo fun with moimoi!
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    • Kirkus

      May 15, 2021
      Nonsense words and multicolored forms combine to appeal to babies. This vibrant board book from the University of Tokyo's "Baby Lab" purports to use lab-tested designs to help calm infants with a combination of colorful shapes and soothing vocalizations to read aloud. Each page includes two or more basic tadpole-like shapes with contrasting stripes and an "eye" on both the body and tail, offering plenty of visual interest for a baby to focus on as their vision is developing. The simple text reflects the changing figures, with larger lettering on pages on which the forms have grown in size, multiple iterations on the pages where many tiny shapes appear, and a stretched-out "moooooooi" on the pages on which the characters have long tails. Simple onomatopoeic words are interspersed and seem to reflect subtle changes in the shapes as well. While the jury is still out on whether a book of this type can truly console an upset baby, the interesting format combined with adult interaction will certainly appeal to many a tot. A QR code on the back of the book leads readers to a helpful recording of the correct pronunciation of moi moi, which rhymes with koi koi. Bright and engaging for the tiniest readers. (Board book. 0-2)

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