That's What I'd Do [Hardcover]

Jewel (Author), Amy June Bates (Illustrator)

Book Description

Release date: September 18, 2012 | Age Range: 1 - 5 years

From an award-winning singer-songwriter, this book and CD package delivers a gentle lullaby that celebrates the limitless love between mother and child.

There’s no stronger bond than the love a mother has for her child. Morning, afternoon, and night, a mother and child’s day is filled with love. In this touching lullaby, a three-time Grammy nominee celebrates her newborn son. Lyrical and lovely, this soothing lullaby, accompanied by tender illustrations, is perfect for bedtime sharing.

     This package includes a hardcover book along with a CD of the lullaby being sung aloud.

“What I’d Do” music and lyrics by Jewel and Patrick Davis, from the album The Merry Goes ’Round (Mood Entertainment/Fisher-Price Music Series).

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreS-The award-winning singer has taken one of her songs and created a gorgeous picture book to accompany her voice on the CD included. The rhyming text could also be read to children. This recording is taken from the lullaby CD, The Merry Goes 'Round. In the song, she proclaims what she would do if she owned the sky and had the power to remove the clouds, leaving only the blue. Or if she were a rabbit or a fish or a carpenter or the rain, she would profess her love for her child in equally compassionate gestures. If the text is read without the music, some of the stanzas seem a bit awkward, but children will love the richly hued artwork that perfectly complements each phrase. Using watercolors and pastels, Bates portrays human and animal mothers and their offspring in gentle, loving scenes. Because of the lofty quality of the lyrics, the youngest listeners could have difficulty recognizing some words on the CD but fans of Jewel and her music will adore the combination.-Diane Antezzo, Ridgefield Library, CTα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Review

The award-winning singer has taken one of her songs and created a gorgeous picture book to accompany her voice on the CD included. The rhyming text could also be read to children. This recording is taken from the lullaby CD, The Merry Goes ’Round. In the song, she proclaims what she would do if she owned the sky and had the power to remove the clouds, leaving only the blue. Or if she were a rabbit or a fish or a carpenter or the rain, she would profess her love for her child in equally compassionate gestures... children will love the richly hued artwork that perfectly complements each phrase. Using watercolors and pastels, Bates portrays human and animal mothers and their offspring in gentle, loving scenes. Because of the lofty quality of the lyrics, the youngest listeners could have difficulty recognizing some words on the CD but fans of Jewel and her music will adore the combination. (School Library Journal)

A mother’s love song is presented with appealing, appropriate illustrations.

Country singer Jewel composed and recorded a series of songs before her son Kase was born in July 2011. Most were released on the album The Merry Goes ’Round, but this one didn’t fit. Instead, it’s the basis for the new mother’s first children’s book. Bates has fancifully recreated song scenes using watercolor, gouache, pencil and pastels. A variety of objects—rabbits, goldfish, play house, rocking chair, hats and jewelry and the sun—appear in various iterations, inside and outdoors and, toward the end, together in baby's room. The mother paints the sun for baby's amusement, rocks him while giving him his bottle, and plays with him in a boat that looks much like a bathtub. They dance to bird song and admire themselves in a mirror. After a final rock in the chair, mother and baby end the story nose to nose. Butterflies flit through the pages, but the poem’s rhythm limps. Mothers who hope to share this tender sentiment with their own children would be wise to listen carefully to the accompanying CD. Rather than reading, it’s much easier to sing, “That's what I'd do, do, do, do, do. / ’Cause I love you, you, you, you, you..." (Kirkus Reviews)

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Product Details

• Age Range: 1 - 5 years
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books; Har/Com edition (September 18, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1442458135
• ISBN-13: 978-1442458130
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 10.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,411 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful words and CD is included of the song September 25, 2012

By Harwa Frank

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

Jewel is amazing!! This book is essentially the lyrics of a song that is included with the CD on the inside of the book jacket. The words when you read them make you tear up as a first time mom. I think this book's audience is really for the mom and her child as the book shows how much you love your baby. The words are so beautiful and her music--as always--is refreshing and makes you want to listen over and over again to learn the song by heart. The pictures are so expressive in pastels and show different poses of mom with child with the words fluidly curving across the pages.

Jewel is admirable as a singer-songwriter and has taken different career paths with starting out folksy, then popular, then back to her roots, into some country western stuff, and finally into childrens' music with her two albums, Lullaby and The Merry Goes 'Round. Her Sammy the Spider tune is my daughter's absolutely FAVORITE song ever and has prevented us from having to learn any other childrens' tunes. So Jewel's delving into book-writing is really another great avenue of her singer-songwriter abilities.

To share a personal aside, I saw Jewel in 2002 and again in 2008 in D.C. and Fort Worth, TX, respectively. She is hysterical (made my husband--who's a fan of Irish punk rock--laugh out loud many times). Jewel saved my daughter's mental state during a major surgery she needed recently at 7 months of life. So like all naive adoring fans, I feel a connection and feel that I owe the woman quite a bit.

So here's to you, Jewel Kilcher, and thank you for your life-saving talents!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book, sweet song October 22, 2012

By L Cooper

Format:Hardcover

As others have said, the words of this book match (almost exactly) the lyrics of a song Jewel wrote and recorded. There is a CD of the song included with the book. The book is beautifully illustrated with the adventures and daydreams of a mother and child, and I loved it from the moment I opened it. I loved it even more once I heard the song that accompanies it - it's cute, not too slow or sappy, and the lyrics are inventive, fun, and well-written. My 3-year-old daughter loves for us to listen to the song and follow along with the lyrics in the book, and I do too. It's a catchy song, too, so sometimes we find ourselves singing it to each other even outside of our reading time. "That's what I'd do, do, do, do, do... cause I love you, you, you, you, you!" ...All in all, a great purchase - definitely recommend!

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Children's Book May 9, 2013

By RORI

Format:Hardcover

love this book by Jewel! it's such a good story and the illustrations are beautiful!! love it!! Great Buy for sure. kids will love this book.