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This is the perfect book for introducing a young child to the concept of how babies grow. Every month the life-size drawings give parent and child a fantastic opportunity to explore how big the baby is in comparison to everyday objects, along with providing information about the umbilical cord, the womb, and the baby’s developments each month.
The flexible paperback binding allows for the book to fold gently across a mother’s growing tummy, helping to show a young child where the new baby really is. The final spread uses a giant fold-down flap to reveal the fully grown baby ready to be born and greet the world. A wonderful book to help everyone prepare for a new addition to the family.
Talk about interactive: first-time author/artist Cocovini has designed this oversize guide so that "if the mommy holds the book up to her belly, you will see what the baby looks like (actual size) inside her every month!" (For Weeks 37 to 40, a womb-shaped gatefold enables readers to visualize how the now upside-down baby "is getting ready for its birthday.") Undoubtedly anticipating kids' misgivings about a new sibling, this book is warm and nonthreatening to the max, its crayoned and watercolor spot illustrations and hand-drawn timeline lending it a homey, scrapbook/journal feel. The five or so factoids on each page are shaped around easy-to-grasp, domestic concepts, e.g., comparing the baby's size at Month 8 with that of a pumpkin. And without getting pushy, Cocovini also suggests cool ways for readers to shed their bystander status: in Month 6, for example, they can shine a flashlight on the pregnant tummy and, perhaps, watch the baby turn toward the light. This book may not entirely defuse nascent sibling rivalry, but its inviting, demystifying approach gives it all the earmarks of a Mommy's-expecting must-have. Ages 2-8. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.PreS-K- This "nine-month guide for parents and kids to share" has a playful tone, a few unique features, and some serious shortcomings. Readers follow the progress of a fetus through life-size drawings and a calendar by which they can count down the days until the infant arrives. Factoids alternate between cute, complex, and confusing (what does "almost as big as a pumpkin" or "the size of a carton of milk" mean?). For adults who prefer to skirt the topics of sex and anatomy, this book will be easier to tolerate than Heidi Murkoff's What to Expect When Mommy's Having a Baby (HarperCollins, 2000) or Dori Hillestad Butler's My Mom's Having a Baby! (Albert Whitman, 2005). However, those books contain a healthy dose of joy and warmth along with the facts and invite children to participate in the growth of their families. There's no similar invitation in this strangely impersonal offering. It seems as though the infant has taken the sibling's place already, which is just what this type of book strives to avoid. The cries of "Hip-hip-hooray" and "Welcome, Baby!" at the book's end have a hollow ring-and worse, the author presents a mini-lecture about being careful with the new baby, being quiet when it sleeps, and being aware that it will cry a lot. This is not sounding like a whole lot of fun. While some of the facts are intriguing, and many of the illustrations are simultaneously playful and instructive, the tone and overall message here are not reassuring.-Susan Weitz, formerly at Spencer-Van Etten School District, Spencer, NY
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This is the perfect book for introducing a young child to the concept of how babies grow. Every month the life-size drawings give parent and child a fantastic opportunity to explore how big the baby is in comparison to everyday objects, along with providing information about the umbilical cord, the womb, and the baby’s developments each month.
The flexible paperback binding allows for the book to fold gently across a mother’s growing tummy, helping to show a young child where the new baby really is. The final spread uses a giant fold-down flap to reveal the fully grown baby ready to be born and greet the world. A wonderful book to help everyone prepare ...