Optical Physics for Babies (Baby University)

I just want to say that I bought these books for my 18 month old for a laugh (his dad is an engineer and I am a physical chemist) and now they are he only thing he will read. Until these, books were just toys he could be destructive with. My guess is the extremely simple illustrations in these books (white backgrounds with a single colored object) give him something easy to focus. He went from throwing books to pulling these off the shelf himself and pointing and “reading” to himself calmly. Lol!

I'm a meteorologist and my sister is a mechanical engineer, so when I came across this series of books while shopping for my new nephew, I had to grab them all. While the illustrations are minimalist, it doesn't matter because this is for an infant. They're solidly constructed to where a baby can't destroy them. They're honestly more about being a nerd and giving them to other nerd parents. My sister thinks they're great and these should last for many more nieces and nephews to come. Science!

I bought four of these books for my one yr old grandson. He's a little too young now but we look at the pictures and the scientific learning will seep in as he grows. I would suggest to the publisher that they take "baby" out of the title. Even when a child is five or ten, these concepts are valuable, but older children may be put off if the book is "for babies".

These books are great to teach kids a basic understanding of scientific topics. This book breaks down very complicated things into terms that a toddler can understand which is not an easy feat. I feel like every book in the series is a great buy for any parent with a kid under 7, not just for babies and toddlers. I like that my daughter is learning about things that really matter for once and not just about what Queen Elsa is doing or other garbage. The price point on Kindle is great which allows most families to buy and read these books. All I can ask is that more of them become available on Kindle so that we can add more to our collection. These books help build small scientists which is soo awesome.

VERY disappointing. Was hoping for an explanation of a complex topic simplified so a fairly cognizant adult would get a fairly good overall grasp of the concept not a book aimed at a 5 year old child

This is a fun set of books for babies. Our two year old has really taken to these books and will say things like "Newtonian" or "Gravity." Optical physics has great illustrations of rainbows, which resonates with our daughter and keeps her interested in the concepts.

My wife is an optometrist, so we ordered this book for our baby son. He likes the simple colors and text. We enjoyed it and have sent several copies to our optometrist friend with new babies.

Great book for toddlers. Pictures are overly simple, so I would only suggest getting it if you are good at "page talk" (asking questions about the pictures on the page and talking about it's contents). My two year old loves this book and calls it his Raindbow book. I think infants would also enjoy it because of it's simple picture would be drawing to a babies eye and not over stimulating like some books. We also have the rocket science for babies book and I perfer that one simply based on content.

As a disclaimer, I (and my son) have really enjoyed reading many of Chris Ferrie's other books. Many of them present the basic concepts quite nicely and, whilst they do bend the truth, I generally approve (and I say this as a Physics Teacher and someone who holds a doctorate in the subject).However, there are *so* many glaring errors in "Optical Physics for babies" that it has really made me question buying any more of the books in this series. A previous reviewer mentioned that the "rainbow" in the book comprises of 6 colours, not 7 - but this is only the tip of the iceberg. From about halfway through, there are big inaccuracies in the diagrams, to the extent that I'm considering using it as a "spot-the-mistake" exercise with my pupils (not Key Stage 4 or Key Stage 5, but 12 year olds in Key Stage 3).For example, when refraction is discussed the light exiting the block remains split into a spectrum. This should not be the case if the surface through which the ray has entered is *parallel* to that at which it exits - it should reform into white light.Prior to this, at a more fundemental level, when the light ray enters the block and refracts, it bends back on itself by a huge angle, past the normal; the ray should bend downwards, but only very slightly. You may think that this is trivial, but had the author just adjusted the illustration slightly to increase the angle of incidence, it would have been easy to draw correctly.Similar issues exist for the raindrop diagram: the angle of refraction as the ray enters the drop is greater than the angle of incidence, suggesting that the ray travels faster in water. This is simply not the case - the opposite is true (light travels more slowly in water).There are other oversights that may have been omitted for clarity, but I can see absolutely no reason to include the errors I have mentioned. Drawing the diagrams differently would have had no impact, other than making the book correct.(Please don't let this stop you from buying some of the other books!)

I read it from cover to cover and didn't really engage with the plot but one year old Ben loves it.

Not sure if my son is absorbing anything but it’s a good quality book to kick start early physics

I love these books but especially this one has been wonderful as the colours are really good

Don't delay, get this book for your child, it is pure brilliance.