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100 First Words for Little Geeks
There's a TARDIS cookie jar in our kitchen. A Picard air freshener in our car. And we won't even mention Harry Potter in the bathroom. We're geeks and proud of it! But is there nothing for baby?ÌýInconceivable!
IntroducingÌý100 First Words for Little Geeks,Ìýa deliciously nerdy primer for kids learning their first words! ForgetÌýapple andÌýdog.ÌýLittle geeks are ready forÌýholy grail, warp core,ÌýandÌýintergalactic catastropheÌý(okay, forget that last one, but they'll learnÌýtribble and that's about the same thing). Packed with hilarious illustrations and 100 words every geek baby should know (before any others, of course),Ìý100 First Words for Little GeeksÌýis the perfect board book for geek families everywhere.ÌýGreat Scott!
IntroducingÌý100 First Words for Little Geeks,Ìýa deliciously nerdy primer for kids learning their first words! ForgetÌýapple andÌýdog.ÌýLittle geeks are ready forÌýholy grail, warp core,ÌýandÌýintergalactic catastropheÌý(okay, forget that last one, but they'll learnÌýtribble and that's about the same thing). Packed with hilarious illustrations and 100 words every geek baby should know (before any others, of course),Ìý100 First Words for Little GeeksÌýis the perfect board book for geek families everywhere.ÌýGreat Scott!
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Published May 1, 2018
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May 27, 2018
Great collection of words and the illustrations are very cute. But, almost all the images of people (ranger, captain, rebel, cosplay, LARP) show boys. Only a few images show girls in any kind of role: mutant, alter-ego, fairy, paranormal (with a librarian based on Ghostbusters). Plenty of the characters referenced are male, but at least some of the non-specific characters could have been girls!
July 19, 2018
So good I had to get one copy for my baby niece and another for my coffee table. There are sections on science, coding, video games, RPGs, superheroes, science fiction, monsters, high fantasy, and beloved movies.
Includes:
swallow (it's carrying a coconut; can't tell whether it's European or African)
inconceivable
dystopia
orc
wormhole
pi
settlements (pictured with roads and cities, booyah)
Fibonacci sequence
quark
truffle shuffle (ha!)
answer (42!)
Includes:
swallow (it's carrying a coconut; can't tell whether it's European or African)
inconceivable
dystopia
orc
wormhole
pi
settlements (pictured with roads and cities, booyah)
Fibonacci sequence
quark
truffle shuffle (ha!)
answer (42!)
June 28, 2019
So, this is totally written for parents, not kids, and I don’t even care. I checked it out of the library and read it myself even though my youngest is seven. 😂 Every geeky reference you can think of is covered in here. There is a ridiculous lack of diversity here, though - of the 100 pictures, FIVE represent women/girls: fairy, mutant, paranormal (the librarian in Ghostbusters), later ego, and I think brig, which was a picture I didn’t recognize the reference for. TWENTY-EIGHT (yes, I counted) are male, and that doesn’t include ones like orc and cyborg, where, really, is there a sex or gender, but they present masculine. I didn’t go looking for it, but how hard would it have been to make the figure for “cosplay� or “mainframe� a girl? I still liked this, but get it together, y’all.
January 4, 2020
I like when my mom and dad teach me fun, new words. But I also like learning about diversity and supporting girl babies, too ... and I think this book kind of had some missed opportunities there.
August 17, 2020
Dropped it down a star because of its lack of representation; c'mon, women and people of color like geeky things too!
Let's be real here; this book is for the parents and not for the children. I had a fun reading this to Mister. He pointed at the pictures (he's not really the target age, and once again I repeat that this is for the parents and not for the children), and I would tell him a shortened version of what it was. Some things we skipped altogether because I am not geeky enough to know what they are or how to explain them to him, and some things he just wasn't interested in.
Some of the pictures he recognized for himself and laughed at when he saw them. For some of these pictures, it was his understanding of what they might be, and I didn't bother to correct him. (Yes, the cabbages do like like Mickey Mouse's head. Big problem vs. small problem. Trying to argue logic with a 4-year-old would be a big problem. Letting him think that the arrangement of cabbages on one page in a book is Mickey Mouse's head is a small problem. We both win.)
All in all, we read together and he now knows the word "android" and wonders about taking off people's heads. Parenting for the win?
Let's be real here; this book is for the parents and not for the children. I had a fun reading this to Mister. He pointed at the pictures (he's not really the target age, and once again I repeat that this is for the parents and not for the children), and I would tell him a shortened version of what it was. Some things we skipped altogether because I am not geeky enough to know what they are or how to explain them to him, and some things he just wasn't interested in.
Some of the pictures he recognized for himself and laughed at when he saw them. For some of these pictures, it was his understanding of what they might be, and I didn't bother to correct him. (Yes, the cabbages do like like Mickey Mouse's head. Big problem vs. small problem. Trying to argue logic with a 4-year-old would be a big problem. Letting him think that the arrangement of cabbages on one page in a book is Mickey Mouse's head is a small problem. We both win.)
All in all, we read together and he now knows the word "android" and wonders about taking off people's heads. Parenting for the win?
May 14, 2018
Review originally published on my blog,
December 23, 2024
The 100 First Words for Little Geeks (board book) is part of a robust series for young readers, preschoolers, and toddlers. These books are CLEVER, CREATIVE, and fun for grown-ups to read, too!
Each one is unique and the vocabulary used reminds you that this is NOT your every day kids book!
ENJOY!
Each one is unique and the vocabulary used reminds you that this is NOT your every day kids book!
ENJOY!
April 4, 2019
What do you geek?
Be it Star Wars, Tolkien, Monty Python, D&D, Princess Bride, Back to the Future, Zelda, Mario, or any of a number of other geekdoms, we need to pass these loves on to little geeks!
Be it Star Wars, Tolkien, Monty Python, D&D, Princess Bride, Back to the Future, Zelda, Mario, or any of a number of other geekdoms, we need to pass these loves on to little geeks!
May 11, 2019
Another book that's really more for parents and fans. Still really cute though.
July 9, 2020
I bought this book for Finn. I wanted book that combined all my favorite worlds into one. He loves it!
December 31, 2022
Cute and covers a lot. I wished it told which show and movie it was from cuz I didn't know all of them.
February 24, 2021
The illustrations are great and the words are from all over geekdom. Probably not actually the first words for most kids but still great fun for the geeky parents.
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