HTML for Babies Board Book

Bedtime reading, but make it markup. HTML for Babies puts colorful HTML code and letter forms into a board book, giving little ones web symbols to look at instead of another lineup of farm animals. It’s the first volume in the Web Design for Babies series, and the joke lands especially well if someone in the family builds websites.

If you’re after something different, this is a baby-friendly book built around the visual patterns behind web pages. For a web designer’s baby shower, that’s a nicely specific gift with a bit more personality than another tiny outfit. Think shared page-turning and a parent explaining what those funny brackets are, not a shortcut to raising a preschool developer.

There is a reason to keep expectations modest: some of the markup contains errors. That makes this a better geeky gift than a beginner’s coding reference. Enjoy the colorful introduction; save the syntax lessons for something more reliable.