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I love this precious pooch as it moves through its day! The illustrations are so engaging, and also simple enough that my students will be able to understand, name, and describe the vocabulary, concepts, and interactive skills modeled in the words/pictures. I look forward to matching up my story props and mini objects for students of all skill level and enjoying this story again and again.

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Thank you to Holly Rosensweig and NetGalley for this ARC!

What a tremendous resource this will be for the development of speech and language in children! Following Puppy through his day with the cutest illustrations will keep young minds engaged. I loved the resources in the front of the book for parents/guardians/educators/therapists.

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I will be nannying for a 1-year-old over the summer, so I've been requesting different picture books that would be great for the baby. This book is perfect. The illustrations are great, and I love the page instructions that are helpful for caregivers. This book is great for first words and helping babies get comfortable with hearing sounds and pronunciation. The common phrases that the baby would probably here daily, and the pictures will promote sounds in the child. I will recommend this book to other baby and toddler caregivers and use it when nannying.

Thank you, Netgalley and this publisher, for this arc.

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This book is designed to help babies engage with their early words. The text on each page is extremely simplistic and repetitive (understandably so) and the illustrations are clear.

I'd have preferred a few more things in each illustration, to give a little more to talk about (find the duck, where's the bird etc) but I'd be very happy to use it with my friend's 8 month old boy :)

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What a sweet book! I'm a prek teacher so I think this book is for younger children. But the illustrations were great and the story was cute! And I liked how it included simple teaching instructions for younger children.

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Beautiful illustrations and very accessible for young readers! This is a great book for babies but also to assist younger readers with identifying words. Would absolutely buy this!

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Let’s Go Puppy by Holly Rosensweig is a clever and charmingly illustrated board book that young children will certainly enjoy. Written from a speech and language pathologist’s perspective, parents will become acquainted with baby’s first important sounds and how to cultivate early interactive speech, using the cute storyline and author’s suggestions. . Early educators and slps alike will find this an invaluable resource. I would also recommend purchasing this book for any new parents-to-be., I hope to see continued future works by this author.

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Let's Go, Puppy! by Holly Rosensweig is a fun imaginative board book that is perfect for parents of babies and toddlers as they introduce their children to new words and sounds. This beautifully illustrated story offers endless opportunities for parents to interact with their children as they read about the exploits of an adorable puppy from it's morning routine through bedtime. The story is simple, yet each page provides ample ways to work with children to teach basic speech sounds. The first page includes a guide on how this book can be used in various ways to help teach early nouns, verbs, adjectives and prepositions. I think this book is a must-have for any new parents, as well as for teachers and speech therapists.

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What a super adorable book!
I liked the page at the beginning that provided suggestions on how to approach reading the book with a child, from repeating words, pointing to objectives and encouraging the baby to point, gestures, describing what is happening on the page, etc. As a result, it takes the book from a basic book of just reading the words on the page to a more engaging book that can be scaled up and re-read as the child continues their language development.

The story itself is really simple and straight forward: a day in the life of a puppy as it wakes up, eats, walks, plays, digs, makes a mess, has a bath, and then goes to bed.

super cute. I would gift this book to people who have babies.

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Adorable! This little puppy is so cute and so relatable. From eating, playing, getting dirty and taking a bath this puppy's day gave my kiddo and I an opportunity to relate to the story and practice some very simple and useful words.

I loved the illustrations and the flow of the book. This is one I would include in a baby shower gift basket!

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This cute story is perfect for little ones to learn some early words. The repeating of words is a good way to encourage early speech. And who can resist a puppy? Thanks #NetGalley

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Simple book, yet full of great resources and adorable pictures! My son loves puppies and saying more, so this book is a perfect learning tool. I can’t wait to use this book to add to his vocabulary.

Thank you, Netgalley and Ninewise Publishing, for the ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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An adorable book following a puppy through his day! This is a great book for babies! The book uses simple, common words and phrases that babies and toddlers would hear on a daily basis. There are some great tips on communication and early speech for caregivers in the books that are developmentally appropriate. The story is a simple story that uses repetition. The illustrations are cute and simple as well.

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I wasn’t sure about this book when we first looked at it. I thought the illustrations were too simple and I would have preferred brighter colours…

I was wrong! My 21 month old really enjoyed it. She repeated a lot of the words after me and insisted on us reading it twice in a row. My 4 year old also joined in and was able to describe the story to her younger sister. Of course, they both enjoyed the puppy getting dirty the most!!

Definitely recommend for under 2’s.

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This was such an adorable read and should be on every expecting parents list of to buy. Let’s Go, Puppy is a fast paced and fun read for both parent and child ! The illustrations on this were phenomenal as well super sweet and really immersed the reader into the story !

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This is a very simple book for young babies. The repetition of simple words and sounds is great for helping babies learn to talk. The pictures are adorable and the simple situations the characters participate in are fun.

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WOW! I did not anticipate what a great resource this book would be!

My three year old is currently in speech therapy and I actively look for picture books with little words so I can tell the story with simple first words that we are working on. This book already uses those simple first words in a way that encourages your child to repeat them.

I really appreciated the first page of instruction on how to utilize the book for speech and the early speech sounds and letters to go over with t=your child in a more fun way!

I cannot wait to see what else this author comes out with. I would love to see this exact style book made telling a ton of different stories. I will buy and utilize every single one.

This will be an easy first birthday present buy for our friends as well.

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This was such a cute book! As a speech and language pathologist, I appreciated the simplicity of the story and how many of the words target the early 8 phonemes- /n, p, m, d, w, h, b, j/ and vowel combinations. It also uses or allows the use of many core vocabulary words (up, eat, more, go, down, stop, no, all done, etc.). The illustrations are so cute and the puppy as the main character is sure to be a hit with the little ones. The first page also encourages readers on how to add to the story to increase use and understanding of language. I can't wait to purchase this book once published. Kudos to the author!

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It's a sweet book with lovely illustrations that can help children aged 4 to 6 learn new words. I loved it!

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This was a cute board book. I found the art to be very endearing and nice to look at. It gave me a little bit of Bad Kitty vibes for some reason. I liked how the story was prefaced by ways a parent/adult could use the book to help a child learn to speak/read and the also pointed out the different sounds that the book aimed to help teach children. It seems really helpful if you are trying to decide if this is the correct level of book to use with a child.

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