G is for #gluten, which Mom says is bad.

H is for #hipster, just look at your Dad.

With twenty-six Instagram-style photos accompanied by sharp and witty rhyming couplets, this sturdy abecedarian board book is baby’s first glimpse at the world they will one day grow up to inhabit—a world of hashtags, memes, manbuns, quinoa and organically sourced plaid. Forget learning to count or differentiating between farm animals—what modern babies really need to develop is a strong sense of irony. And E is for #eyeglasses, prescription or fake.

Like the wildly popular publishing phenomenon Go the F*** to Sleep, this book is not really for tots. Instead, Baby’s First Hashtag makes a perfect shower gift to amuse soon-to-be and new parents as they make the painful-yet-rewarding transition from skinny jeans and flights of craft beer to burp cloths and puréed yams.

Scott Feschuk is the author of two previous books, Searching For Michael Jackson's Nose (McClelland Stewart, 2003) and How Not to Completely Suck as a New Parent (McClelland Stewart, 2004, with Paul Mather). He is the two-time winner of the Gold Award for Humour at the National Magazine Awards and has written for Maclean's, Sportsnet, the Globe and Mail, National Post and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Feschuk was also chief speechwriter for former Prime Minister Paul Martin.

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Susan Allan is a dedicated volunteer, yoga teacher and hockey mom. She is also an award-winning journalist who now works for a non-profit that empowers kids and families to change the world. Feschuk and Allan live in Toronto, ON.

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“Here's a book that is as much fun for the parents as it is for their infant or toddler...with interesting photographs and entertaining rhyming couplets...infants and toddlers will enjoy seeing the faces of people while sitting on the lap of their favorite adults, who will be chuckling or maybe even laughing out loud. And that is what the young toddler will remember—the contagious joy of the adult reading the book, linking reading to fun. This gift book for babies and new parents will have both readers and listeners laughing.”

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