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Christmas in 100 words by words&pictures is a picture book with lovely illustrations, which are child friendly, and is a fun way to get into the spirit of Christmas!

It's available as a board book, a normal book and also as a kindle book.  It's brightly coloured, and a lovely way to learn new words.

 Christmas in 100 words  was published on 15th October 2019 and is available from  Amazon ,  Waterstones  and  Bookshop.org .

I was given this book in exchange of an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Quarto Publishing Group.

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This Christmas book was very cute. It was a book that is simple and easy to read to very small children during Christmas time. For me it was a little to busy, but little kids love that so it's a win for them.

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Put some holiday cheer on learning with Christmas in 100 Words because learning never stops, but you can add to the fun with this cute book full of colors and festive words. It is a sweet way to learn about the holidays and reading with words such as snowflake, elf, chimney and cookies. The words and scenes bring the holidays to life and help you feel closer to the action with language skills. The illustrations are well done and each holiday scene includes a feeling word and an action word, which are color-coded with circles to indicate them. Even though some words might seem big for a first words book, this board book is nice for introducing holiday words with such sections as Christmas Decorating and A Festive Walk. It is a wonderful and thoughtful design helping youth better understand the words through the pictures. Another lovely element of the book is showing a variety of Christmas traditions around the world. This is a book we recommend for you and your toddler.

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I did not realize this was a series, but I am going to check out others in this set. This is an adorable book that teaches young ones new vocabulary surrounding Christmas. They are similar to a picture dictionary, but they concentrate on one topic. There are a few words on each page with wonderful accompanying illustrations. They are done in two page spreads with topics such as Decorating, Christmas morning, Nativity etc. Not only are nouns shown but also verbs, adjectives, and feelings. The child friendly illustrations are attractive to children and we had detailed conversations about what our family does at Christmas compared to the book. A great book for toddlers, but also for older children to use as a picture dictionary when writing about the season.

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What are the words that come to mind when you think about Christmas? You’ll find many of them in this bright and colourful board book, that is comprised of perfect flash-card-style Christmas scenes. From star to chimney, snowman and carrots, this book is perfect for little ones wanting to spot all their favourite Christmassy things.

Sophie’s illustrations are lovely and diverse!! Each page features 10 Christmas words that follow a particular theme, including action and feeling words. I loved the two Christmas dinner pages most, the second of which features traditional Christmas foods from around the world.

This is a lovely advent or Christmas gift for a baby or toddler. I particularly loved this board book because it features diverse illustrations which can be very hard to find in Christmas board books. Definitely a book we will be going back to again and again over the Christmas season.

I am very grateful to the publisher for providing me with an advanced digital copy via Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.

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Such a gorgeous book, I thought the illustrations were really sweet and eye-catching. This would make a great gift for any child in your life this Christmas season!

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The synopsis tells you more than you'll ever need to know about this short book of words. It's okay for very young children, I guess, but I found the illustrations a bit boring and I'm in no hurry to look at the book again. Setting off the action and emotion words is a nice touch, although I don't know if children from 1 to 3 are really ready to grasp the concept of verbs and mental states. My favourite page was probably the one showing Christmas foods from around the world; it might have been nice to see more regional variation in the rest of the book.

This was just okay. Decent, but nothing special.

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Another lovely addition to the series, this time centred around our favourite holiday.
I really like the idea behind these vocabulary booster picture books - focus on scenes/ routines and present most common words to help a child develop their communicative ability. The book also introduces feeling words such as cheerful, excited, cozy to build up emotional awareness and intelligence.
The artwork is charming and child-friendly with its bright festive colours and smiley faces.
Thereare only 10 words per spread, so the pages do not look overcrowded.
Thank you to NetGalley and QED publishing for the ARC provided in exchange for an honest opinion.

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This is a fun book touting words related to the Christmas season. The cover is shimmering with glitter and the pages are strong and resilient making it perfect for little hands to manipulate. It introduces wee ones to the fun and playfulness that they will experience throughout the festive season.

One hundred words are presented both in text and visually through holiday scenes that make the words come alive and enrich the mission of the book. The illustrations are vintage style and the characters are adorable. I like that there are diverse characters present and that the Nativity Scene is included. The author adds not only seasonal items throughout the book but also feeling words and action words that are related to the theme. Color-coded circles highlight them.

The book inspires a deeper knowledge of the world, introduces language skills, boosts vocabulary, and supports emotional intelligence. Kids will love this interactive book that is not only entertaining but educational. I highly recommend it.

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Do you have a little baby in your family? Are you in need of a book that will fit them perfectly this holiday season?

Be sure to check out Christmas in 100 Words from QED Publishing.

Christmas in 100 Words is an easy book for the baby readers in your family. It features great vocabulary words centered around the holiday season. The vocabulary words are well-selected and many of them are also color-coded. The purple marked words represent action words, and the green marked words represent feeling words.

Each page of Christmas in 100 Words focuses on a new scene of Christmas. There is the holiday shopping scene, the Christmas dinner scene (complete with a snoring grandpa in the background), a manager scene, and many more festive views of the holiday. The scenes are designed in a very baby-friendly manner, and they are great universal themes for the holidays.

Other than the snoring grandpa scene, my favorite scene featured holiday foods from around-the-world. I love the inclusion of other country's celebrations within the book as well. I would have loved to have even seen more of this intertwined within the vocabulary choices.

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I loved this book and can't wait to read this with my daughter at Christmas! The illustrations were so cute and it was a great selection of words. I especially loved how they included things from different cultures and countries.

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"Christmas in 100 Words" is a lovely and festive holiday book for babies and toddlers. The illustrations introduce young readers to various words that are often associated with specific holiday events, such as "Christmas Morning" and "A Festive Walk." I liked the inclusion of action and feeling words being used in each scene (identified by the colored dots).

I absolutely adored the illustrations in this book! In addition, I appreciated that the characters were more diverse, and I enjoyed seeing the variations in popular holiday dishes from around the globe in the "Christmas Dinner" section.

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This is such a sweet book for children to learn new word associated with Christmas. Its a great book for parents/guardians and teachers to deliver these new words to children. For sure I will be using this book with my daughter when she is a bit older.

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RATING: 5 STARS
2019; Quarto Publishing Group/words & pictures
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What a great book for kids learning to talk or even read. I love the illustrations, and the words that are chosen. The book is divided into scenes and with regular words there are also action and feeling words (these have coloured dots next to them). This would be a great book before Christmas, or on Christmas Morning!

***I received an eARC from NETGALLEY***

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This is an adorable Christmas themed picture book for toddlers. The artwork is cute and colorful. There are action words and feelings words, and shows different ways people around the world celebrate. Just a sweet little book that would make a great stocking stuffing.

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Christmas in 100 Words is a lovely book for toddlers or young children. It is just as you'd expect, 100 Christmas words, but it is done in a very nice way. A lot of books like this tend to just have individual pictures for each word so I like how this book has some more thought out into it and has some pages with Christmas scenes and some with individual pictures. I think it's great this way as it makes it more interesting for the children to look at.

Each page has an action word, like eating, and a feeling which is a really nice addition to the book and it gives something to talk about with the children. The children liked trying to decide how they thought everyone was feeling on the page and what they were doing! I really liked how this book also showed some Christmas traditions throughout the world with the different foods as I think it's great to show children how all cultures are different and celebrate in a different way to them.

The illustrations in this book are gorgeous with so many lovely colours and a festive feel to the book. As always, the children were very excited to see Santa in the book. Whilst this book has no story it is great to get children talking about Christmas as so many of the pictures remind them of times they want to share with all their friends and gets them excited for Christmas and experiencing the joy of what's shown in the book. This is a brilliant book for toddlers, beautifully thought out and presented book that young children will love!

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This is an adorable book for babies first learning to talk and identify objects. It can also be used for early readers to gain some sight words. There are no sentences, just colorful vignettes of scenes from the holiday season. They're very bright and will hold interest. I'll be buying a couple of copies myself!

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A lovely simple book. Just 100 words to sum up Christmas. Lots of chance to evoke discussion with the children. Colourful pictures. A perfect stocking filler for little ones

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This was a cute and fun sight words holiday book that is great for emerging readers. The artwork is bright and there are familiar Christmas holiday themes. I loved that its showed the many ways that people celebrate Christmas. I loved all the words that are associated for all things Christmas, family tradition and holiday tradition. I definitely loved showing this book to my emerging readers. I think this is also a wonderful book with representation of a POC family. We don't always get to see this on sight word books so that makes this book even more special.

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Cute word book. I was hoping for more holiday feel type words, but simple words like "fork" and "spoon" were thrown in.
I loved the illustrations throughout the book. My favorite was the grandma.
All in all, was cute.

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