You Are Two

by Sara O'Leary, Karen Klassen (Illustrator)

Overview

A baby’s second year is full of important achievements. Walking, running, understanding more words, speaking their names, and forming first memories are all exciting moments. You Are Two picks up where You Are One left off and celebrates these moments and more, inviting little ones and their parents to celebrate how much they have grown and discovered in the last year.



The second in a three-book series, You Are Two is the perfect gift for toddlers or caregivers who will enjoy looking back at the joys, challenges, and love in the second year of life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771470735
Publisher:	Owlkids Books
Publication date:	09/13/2016
Series:	Sara O'Leary's You Are Series
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD380L (what's this?)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

SARA O’LEARY is a writer for both children and adults. Her picture books include Owls Are Good at Keeping Secrets: An Unusual Alphabet, A Family is a Family is a Family, and This is Sadie.

KAREN KLASSEN is an award-winning freelance illustrator and painter, specializing in fashion, lifestyle, and portrait illustration. She lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Editorial Reviews

"Elegant in its simplicity."
—School Library Journal

"Two is human in this picture book, and the narration's direct address provides affirmation of toddlers' human complexity and dignity."
—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW

Praise for You Are One

"Here's a rarity in children's literature... endearing... delightfully textured... features babies of varying skin colors and ethnicities; it's truly inclusive."
– Julie Danielson, Kirkus column

"A warm and fuzzy read."
—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

"Both adults and children will enjoy sharing the books in this series to celebrate the milestones of early childhood."

Canadian Children’s Book News

09/01/2016
Toddler-PreS—Celebrating the joys and milestones that occur during a child's second year, this picture book is elegant in its simplicity. "First you could walk and now you can run. In the blink of an eye, you are up and down the stairs." Mixed-media collage illustrations offer a vintage feel to the story. One page depicts a blond, tawny-cheeked cherub of a toddler holding a black rotary phone to his ear. Klassen's characters range from Asian to white to African American. The concise text shows toddlers exploring and growing as they learn and have new experiences. "You know so many things now that you are two. What you know best is your own mind." O'Leary wraps the narrative up with the proclamation of never-ending love between parent and child. VERDICT Consider purchasing for medium to larger collections looking for picture books about toddlers doing what they do best: growing with a smile.—Lisa Kropp, Lindenhurst Memorial Library, NY

School Library Journal

★ 2016-06-22
A celebration of what it is to be 2!Toddlerhood often gets a bad rap—just think of the phrase "terrible twos." But in O'Leary and Klassen's hands, 2 is anything but terrible. Two is active, capable, vocal, compassionate, thoughtful, creative, determined…whole. Two is human in this picture book, and the narration's direct address provides affirmation of toddlers' human complexity and dignity from one spread to the next: "Now that you are two, you are learning about yesterday, today, and tomorrow. You are forming memories and making plans." Accompanying illustrations depict a diverse range of children, different ones on each spread, which nicely avoids having any one depiction of toddlerhood falsely stand in as universal, who engage in activities that echo or expand on the text. Playful industriousness gives way to contemplative calm or mischievous determination, embodied in the faces and postures of the children. The dialectic between art and text offers some surprises, too, as when the line "Wherever you go your baby goes, too" is paired with a picture of a child in the bathtub—not with a baby doll but with a sudsy toy T. Rex. Pick up a copy or two for the toddlers and toddler-fans in your life. (Picture book. 2)

Kirkus Reviews

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