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The Little Big Book for Moms (Little Big Books (Welcome Enterprises)) [Hardcover]

Lena Tabori (Author)
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)


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Little Big Books (Welcome Enterprises)
The Little Big Book for Moms is packed with all the fun, magic, and wonder of early childhood in a beautifully designed, chunky little package. Illustrated throughout with early 20th-century work by artists like Jessie Wilcox Smith and Ida Waugh, this is a delicious treasure for the expectant mother to savor in anticipation, and for the new mother to share with her little ones.
Mother Goose, the brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, e.e. cummings, E.B. White, J.M. Barrie, Maya Angelou, Shel Silverstein, Ogden Nash and Lewis Carroll are like old friends bearing gifts of song, verse, and tales for the new child. Humpty Dumpty, Little Red Riding Hood, Peter Pan, and Goldilocks are but a few of the other well-loved characters who visit these pages.
And there's more! Mother and child will delight in activities like finger games and hand shadows. There are recipes for making play dough, soap bubbles, chicken soup, and applesauce. And, when the little ones are finally asleep and mom needs reminding of how adorable they really are, there are excerpts celebrating children and motherhood by such authors as Susan Cheever and Anne Lamott.


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"Filled to its silver gilt-edged brim with Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, Songs, Games and more, with adorable vintage art and 21st century style"
--Parenthood.com

"Filled with gorgeous vintage illustrations, fairy tales, recipes, nursery rhymes and games--the stuff moms really need to know--the silver-lined The Little Big Book for Moms, 10th Anniversary Edition, boasts classic treasures that will bring on a case of sweet nostalgia."
--Parenting.com

It's something you'll treasure forever!"
--Frugal Plus --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Lena Tabori has conceived and edited A Day in the Life of Hollywood (Turner), The Norman Rockwell Christmas Book (Abrams), Love: A Celebration of Art & Literature (with Jane Lahr for Stewart,Tabori & Chang), The Little Big Book of Love, and The Little Big Book of Christmas (both William Morrow). She has two grown daughters, Natasha and Katrina.
Alice Wong has edited various titles including Victoria: The Intimate Home (Hearst Books) and The Best of Mexico (Collins). She has three little daughters, Chi-Chi, Pheobe, and Sylvia.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Welcome Books (May 1, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 094180741X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0941807418
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 1.8 x 6.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #613,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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LENA TABORI is the founder of Welcome Enterprises and is currently Welcome's CEO and the Publisher of Welcome Books, the imprint under which the company publishes illustrated books.

She began her career in 1967 at Harry N. Abrams, leaving there is 1980 as their first female vice president (VP, Marketing and Special Sales). It was also the place she began her own editorial book development. At Abrams, she developed and edited MASAAI, by photographer Carol Beckwith, as well as putting together the NORMAN ROCKWELL'S CHRISTMAS BOOK. She also created a gift line called Abrams Artpapers and was responsible for organizing the hugely successful licensing program for GNOMES, a book which sold close to two million copies.

She left to create Welcome Enterprises as well as to co-found Stewart, Tabori & Chang, the illustrated book publisher (where she only remained until 1982). From 1982 to 1990, she largely devoted herself to creating books at Welcome and selling them to publishers, including Judith Levy's best-selling GRANDMOTHER REMEMBERS (Stewart, Tabori & Chang); the award-winning GLORIOUS AMERICAN FOOD by Christopher Idone (Random House); and LOVE: A CELEBRATION IN ART AND LITERATURE, which she co-edited with Jane Lahr (STC). She also produced for television an animated special for ABC television, Ziggy's Gift, based on the Tom Wilson cartoon character and directed by Richard Williams. For her role as producer and executive producer of Ziggy's Gift, she was awarded an Emmy in 1983.

In 1987, Welcome began packaging books for Turner Broadcasting and she was closely involved in the development of their publishing division, for which she negotiated a distribution deal with Andrews McMeel in 1989. For Turner, she personally conceived edited and produced Kisses and MGM: When the Lion Roars which was written by Peter Hay.

In 1991, Lena moved to San Francisco to become president and publisher of CollinsPublishersSanFrancisco. During the year and a half she spent there, Lena created fifty new titles, including A DAY IN THE LIFE OF HOLLYWOOD. In 1993, she returned to Stewart, Tabori & Chang as their president and publisher. During the next four years, she published more than 200 new titles; created a gift line of calendars, journals, and albums; and more than doubled STC's revenues, making it once again one of the most significant illustrated book publishers in the United States.

In 1997, Lena returned to Welcome full-time and she and her partner Clark Wakabayashi made Welcome Books their official publishing imprint. In 2005, she arranged for Welcome Books to be distributed by Random House. She also co-created the first two titles in the successful LITTLE BIG BOOK series: THE LITTLE BIG BOOK OF CHRISTMAS (with Alice Wong) and THE LITTLE BIG BOOK OF LOVE (with Natasha Fried), which were both published by William Morrow. Since then, Lena has been the co-editor of many of the subsequent LITTLE BIG BOOKS, including MOMS and DADS, all published by Welcome Books. There are now a total of 27, only a few of which are out of print.

A native of Sweden, Lena lives in East Hampton and New York with Frank Rehor. She has two daughters, Natasha and Katrina, both of whom left television careers to become partners at Welcome Books.

 

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Every Mother with young children should have one of these., April 2, 2000
This review is from: The Little Big Book for Moms (Little Big Books (Welcome Enterprises)) (Hardcover)
This book is just great. It has all the old classic fairy tales, lots of activities to do with you child, for instance how to make play dough, bubbles, paper dolls and many more. Great poetry and nursery rhymes. Very simple songs that all children should learn. It also has finger games and recipes for simple things. It is a great book that all mothers of young children should have!
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars little it isn't!, January 15, 2003
This review is from: The Little Big Book for Moms (Little Big Books (Welcome Enterprises)) (Hardcover)
I got this book for a new mom and she **loved** it. It was the hit of Christmas. It's full of wonderful illustrations, stories, poems, recipes, and songs.

This is one of those books that is a classic great gift. This book is just crammed with great stuff, and would take weeks for a mom to go through and pick out her favorites. I can't believe the amount of care and love that they editors put in gathering the contents and putting them together. I wish they would put out a "Little Big Book for Young Women Finding Their Way" so I could have one, too!

I've given "The Little Big Book" as gifts before, and everyone raves about them. If you are looking for a really special gift, or want to treat yourself to something that you will pass on to your children, this little book is the way to go.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Favorite!, June 11, 2000
This review is from: The Little Big Book for Moms (Little Big Books (Welcome Enterprises)) (Hardcover)
I received this book from my husband for my first mother's day and I love it! I was looking for a bedtime storybook that had all the favorites in it and this is definately the one! It has all the most loved songs, stories and rhymes. The recipes, poems and games are an added bonus! I recommend this book to all the new moms...and dads!
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Next morning when the first light came into the sky and the sparrows stirred in the trees, when the cows rattled their chains and the rooster crowed and the early automobiles went whispering along the road, Wilbur awoke and looked for Charlotte. Read the first page
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