Your baby will enjoy the sounds and patterns of a familiar voice and snuggling close while your read.
"Igrew up in Houston, Texas, the oldest of three sisters. In our house on Mayo Avenue, we had a garage with unfinished Sheetrock on the walls. We each had our own section. As soon as we could hold a crayon, we were allowed to express ourselves in any color or form that we wished.
"If you stood back and looked at the wall, it was like a record of my growing up. Down at the bottom was just a lot of scribbling, but as I grew, the drawing took on new and clearer forms. You could tell the drawings that were done when I was happy, as well as the ones that I drew when I was angry. The garage wall was a perfect place for expression. Once I started actually writing, on paper, I no longer needed the wall. But I still think of it as the place where my earliest writing took place. It was like my first journal, a record of my feelings and experiences.
"I still keep a journal. Like the garage wall, it's a place for catching all my thoughts, and sometimes my dreams. It's often the first place that the idea for a new story or poem occurs. Because I don't have any particular rules about writing in my journal, sometimes I'm surprised by what shows up! I also get ideas when I walk. I enjoy taking long leisurely walks. They help me clear my thoughts, but they also give me an opportunity to take a good look at the world around me.
"I like to draw directly from my own life when I write, because that's what I know best and feel most strongly about. Sometimes I write about feelings of joy, as in my book The Thunderherd, which is about horses. I've loved horses since I was very young, and The Thunderherd was an opportunity to express that love. As much as I loved horses, however, I was afraid of bats. Because writing helps me overcome my fears, I decided to write a book about bats; this became Bat Jamboree. Writing that book helped me see bats differently and even to laugh about my fears. Now I appreciate and love bats almost as much as horses.
"I used to think that a real writer had to have lots of exciting, maybe even dangerous, adventures in order to have something meaningful to write about. Now I know that the best writing is about the people, places, pets, and objects that surround us and that we meet every day. I've discovered that writing about them is the absolute best way to really know them and in the process come to know ourselves and our own world a little better. I now know that writing is really a way of seeing. I'd like to encourage you to get out your old journal or start a new one and see what shows up.
"Kathi Appelt lives in College Station, Texas, with her husband, Ken, a schoolteacher, and their two sons, Jacob and Cooper. A graduate of Texas A&M University, she teaches creative writing to both children and adults. She's a frequent visitor in schools and at writing workshops. She is also the regional adviser for the Brazos Valley Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators."
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This review is from: Hushabye, Baby Blue (Harper Growing Tree) (Board book)
This book is great in that it shows a baby nursing at his mother's breast. I was annoyed that the whole premise of the story is for mom and dad to put the baby down in a cradle. They get frustrated that this baby doesn't want to be put down in a cradle. Stop trying to force him to sleep alone, carry him around in a sling and problem solved!Mama, mama is a much better board book featuring nursing mammals and the relationship between offspring and parents.
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These are the best baby books!,
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This review is from: Hushabye, Baby Blue (Harper Growing Tree) (Board book)
This is such a great book for baby! My 11-month old loves it and has loved it ever since we started reading it to him a month or so ago. He's mesmerized by the little "baby blue". All of the Harper Growing Tree Newborn+ books are favorites for our baby. I highly recommend them all! But especially this one, "Mama Mama", "How a Baby Grows", and "Cow Moo Me".
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Great "first book" for baby,
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This colorful board book is rhythmic and soothing--a wonderful "first book" for baby. It also features a baby breastfeeding which is nice to see and unusual for baby books which nearly always feature bottle-feeding. Your little one will love it and you'll like reading it.
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