We Love Babies!

by Jill Esbaum

Overview

A wonderfully playful picture book showcasing adorable baby animals and celebrating their glorious diversity, from "paws and claws and little flippers" to "feet that look like fuzzy slippers!"

This hilarious picture book with rollicking, rhyming text reads like a crowd-pleasing call, pumping up readers' excitement for the cutest baby animals ever. Illustrated with lively National Geographic photography, We Love Babies! presents furred, feathered, and finned baby animals of all shapes and sizes. Whimsical cartoon cheerleaders add to the fun, popping up throughout the book to lead fans in the irresistible refrain: "We love babies, yes we do, we love babies, how about you?"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781426337482
Publisher:	Disney Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/31/2019
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	1,074,165
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD320L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Jill Esbaum is the award-winning author of several books for young readers. Some of her titles for National Geographic include Little Kids First Big Book of How, Cherry Blossoms Say Spring, and the Angry Birds Playground titles Dinosaurs, Rain Forest, and Animals. She is a frequent school visitor and conference speaker. Esbaum teaches writing for children at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival and the Whispering Woods Picture Book Workshop/Retreat. She lives on a farm near Davenport, Iowa.

Editorial Reviews

2019-10-13
Esbaum brings the littlest listeners an adorable and rollicking read-aloud about animal babies.

Bouncy rhymes and spot-on rhythms will delight little ears ("Paws and claws / and little flippers, / feet that look like fuzzy slippers. / Itty-bitty hooves and toes. // Webby footsies? / We love those!"), but inarguably, it is the photos that will attract and hold readers' attention; accompanying the quote above, these include a black bear, a manatee with a parent, a polar bear, an Indian rhino, a mountain gorilla, and a trio of domestic ducks. Whether taking up a single- or double-page spread or simply placed in circular vignettes whose borders they frequently overflow, these babies will enthrall. While the animals are not labeled on the pages, the backmatter "Meet the babies" includes a circular thumbnail of each of the 54 (identical to the photo from the text), its name, and the name used for the baby animal (calf, chick, foal, etc.). Throughout, children will spy Hanson's tiny cartoon animals with pompoms cheering about their love for babies of all kinds. Listeners will quickly catch their enthusiasm, though some rereads may be in order before they can chime in on the only thrice-repeated refrain: "We love babies! / Yes we do! / We love babies! / How about you?"

An eye-catching way to introduce older toddlers and preschoolers to the babies of our world. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews