Nita's First Signs: An Interactive ASL Board Book - Board Book

by Kathy MacMillan (Author), Sara Brezzi (Illustrator)

This first volume in the popular Little Hands Signing series teaches 10 key ASL signs for every parent and child to know: eat, more, hungry, milk, all done, ball, play, love, please, and thank you.

These practical and fun pull-tab board books introduce basic sign language. They were created by ASL expert Kathy MacMillan to help caregivers and children communicate.

Sign language makes it easy to communicate with your child, and Nita makes it fun!

With adorable illustrations by Sara Brezzi, Nita and her family learn 10 ASL signs throughout the day. A simple story about Nita and her parents teaches each sign in context.

Even better, each page slides open to reveal accurate instructions on how to make each sign, plus tabs on the side of each page make it simple to locate every sign for later reference.

The bestselling Little Hands Signing series includes:

• Nita's First Signs
• Nita's Day
• Nita's Food Signs

Author Biography

Kathy MacMillan is a nationally certified American Sign Language interpreter, writer, teacher, librarian, and storyteller. She is the author of the board books Nita's First Signs and Nita's Day (Familius), children's nonfiction book She Spoke: 14 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World (Familius), the young adult novels Sword and Verse and Dagger and Coin (HarperTeen), and nine books for parents, librarians, and educators, including Little Hands and Big Hands: Children and Adults Signing Together (Huron Street Press).

Sara Brezzi, Italian surface pattern designer and illustrator, was born and raised in the small town of Poppi, near Florence. She still lives there with her partner and their little boy. Her father was a librarian and her mother was a kindergarten teacher, so she grew up surrounded by beautiful books and images. This certainly influenced her imagination. She graduated from the University of Siena with a BA in preservation of cultural heritage and history of illustration, but she always preferred the application over the theory of art. Her designs are hand drawn and then scanned in for processing and color management. She loves creating colorful illustrations by combining cheerful and quirky elements to convey a positive vibe and spread joy!