How Are Babies Made? (Flip Flaps Series) [Paperback]

Alastair Smith (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Flip Flaps Series

Combining simple text and illustrations, the books in the Usborne Flip Flaps series explain to young chi ldren how different aspects of the world work. '

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 16 pages
• Publisher: Edc Pub (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0746025025
• ISBN-13: 978-0746025024
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,718,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but there are better titles. . ., July 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: How Are Babies Made? (Flip Flaps Series) (Paperback)

If you are considering purchasing this, some points to consider are: Cartoon-ish illustrations with talking eggs and sperm. Text refers to the uterus as a "womb", umbilical cord as a "tube" and navel as a "belly-button" without giving accurate labels. Also uses terminology such as "pees" and "poops." Describes the mother as being uncomfortable and "ready for the baby to come out" along with an illustration of an unhappy, 7-months-pregnant woman. Text also states the baby comes out of the "opening between the mother's legs" again, without giving proper name. Presumes presence of Doctor and Nurse at birth, and alludes to labor and birth process but does not illustrate or detail. To its credit, the book does a fair job of explaining role of sperm in determining gender, and that eggs come from the woman and sperm from the man. Does not address intercourse in any way, but shows fertilization with talking eggs/sperm. Illustrations are colorful and bright. Creative description of amniotic sac (without calling it such!) and comparison to a goldfish in a bag of water. Describes what baby might experience in utero. Shows breastfeeding mother but then shows bottles as well. Illustrations of fetal development are accompanied by "real-size" outlines. Not a bad choice if your interest is in explaining fetal development (consider Nilsson's "How Was I Born?" for photographs), but not a good choice if you want to discuss intercourse and birth. May be great for some families, but we prefer Joanna Cole's "How You Were Born" and "How Babies Are Made" by Andrew Andry.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very appropriate for a young child!, September 17, 2009

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Mona Osman "zolwica" (Pleasanton, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How Are Babies Made? (Flip Flaps) (Paperback)

My daughter is 5 and we are expecting our second child. She asked me lots of questions and I answered them, but at some point I wondered if I was giving her too much information. She know that some women have the baby vaginally and others have them through c-section. She knows that some women love being pregnant while others like her own mom hate being pregnant LOL She knows how the baby grows and the gender is determined, thanks to websites which show very realistic video about how baby grows. I thought this book might kinda give us a more visual illustration of the whole situation and it is the same every time we read it :)

She loved the book right away. Though it is true that this book does not call things by their proper names, but rarely do any books for young children. She was filling in the missing words :) When they talked about the tube that the baby gets food from, she said "I know what it's called, it's the umbilical cord". So in a way, it was just a nice addition to what we have already been doing. I think books are not a substitute to the parental input, thus I am satisfied with this book.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars So-so, May 3, 2005

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K. Seraydarian - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How Are Babies Made? (Flip Flaps Series) (Paperback)

My 5 year old daughter started asking questions about how babies are made. I bought this book hoping it would answer the questions that were difficult for me to try and answer. I didn't really think this book did a very good job. There's too much going on on each page, that it was confusing. And it didn't really answer her questions very well.