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The New Baby (Paperstar)

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This book is tremendous! Rogers does an excellent job showing that love and affection can be shared with both children. He also lets the older child see how they can be a big sister/brother and help Mom and Dad with the new baby's needs too! I buy this book for everyone I know who has a 2nd baby!

We received this book as a gift when we were expecting our second child. It is a great book for parents to read to very young children who are expecting their first siblings. The only drawback is the dated pictures. If they were updated, it would be flawless!

The New Baby is a book that discusses the feelings that older siblings can have toward a new baby. In the typically simple, direct style that Mr. Rogers uses on Mister Roger's Neighborhood, Fred Rogers helps a child understand that both the baby and he/she are special. He also offers the assurance that parents have enough love for every child in the family.

The book has warm photographs of family members interacting with babies. These are useful in discussing what it will be like to have a baby in the house. I think this is an excellent book to read with children who are soon-to-be brothers or sisters.

Mr. Rogers creates a great book for young children who've recently become big sisters or brothers. There is a fair representation of some of the things big siblings might be feeling especially about sharing their parents. The color photos are good, but the clothing everyone wears is dated, fortunately little ones don't mind when you read it with them. This is a really good book for new big siblings.

As one might expect from a book authored by Fred Rogers, this is a sensitive and frank account of changes a family undergoes with the arrival of a newborn.

This book is a wonderful way to help an older sibling prepare for, and adjust to, a new baby. And as the baby gets older, she or he too will enjoy the interesting photgraphs of family members working and sharing together. It's a great book.

This book is a wonderful way to help an older sibling prepare for, and adjust to, a new baby. And as the baby gets older, she or he too will enjoy the interesting photgraphs of family members working and sharing together. It's a great book.

To the people who are concerned about the 'dated' clothes in the book, please remember the kids having this book read to them are going to be too young to know that. Besides, lots of classic children's stories feature Victorian or even Renaissance Era clothing, so just think of this as classic 70s vintage style.

As for the pages that focus on feeling left out because of the new baby, that is what is great about Mr Rogers: He sees things from the child's perspective, and the truth is that nothing is more important to a child than him- or herself, and it IS a bummer no longer being the 'baby', no longer having all the attention from the parents, etc. Through the text and photos, it is acknowledged that those feelings exist, and then shown that there are positive things about having a younger sibling also. To get this message across it is essential to meet children where they're at, developmentally speaking, and Mr Rogers always knows where that is!

it is a nice book; not really modern. the bottom line is it help t me to help my daughter understand that a new baby is coming.

I got this book for my older son when I was pregnant with my second child. He loved it, and it helped him feel very confident about what was going on with all this new family member stuff :)

Then, since the pictures are so real and precious, my youngest son ended up enjoying the book too!

Any book we look at and discuss over and over again is a winner! This one fits that category easily.