A gentle, reassuring book that answers a child's first questions about how life begins. Follow this simple photographic story and discover the natural cycle behind the birth of a seedling, duckling, kitten, and baby.
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From Publishers Weekly
When inquiring young minds want to know the answer to this burning question, it can be all too easy for a flustered adult to offer either too much or too little information. Royston dishes up just the right amount. Here the focus is not on the reproductive act but on how the baby duck/kitten/human grows inside the mother and emerges. The details will eventually need to be bolstered, of course, but what's provided in this picture book is suitable for those first inquisitive forays. Royston's matter-of-fact presentation ("An egg joins with a sperm inside the mother to make a tiny kitten") is informative, reassuring and discreet. While readers see a newborn kitten emerging from beneath the mother cat's tail, people in the photographs remain fully clothed?a drawing of an unborn child in a fetal sac is superimposed on a casually dressed pregnant woman's belly?and readers are simply told that human babies are "pushed through a special passage between the mother's legs." DK's signature graphics work particularly well with this straightforward approach. Ages 3-up.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 1?Illustrated with excellent, bright, and dynamically arranged full-color photographs, all on full- or double-page spreads, this simple introduction to reproduction uses as examples a sunflower, ducks, cats, and humans. How the sperm reaches the egg in animals and humans is not discussed, but schematic drawings are superimposed on the photos to show the fetuses. The brief, clear text, easy enough for beginning readers, explains a bit about development and mentions that all the species, upon maturity, can become parents themselves. At the end, charming, lively multiethnic children are shown in growth stages from infant to adult. An eye-appealing and straightforward selection.?Patricia Pearl Dole, formerly at First Presbyterian School, Martinsville, VA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
good book for a simple introduction to reproduction,
By Penelope (Southern California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Where Do Babies Come From? (Hardcover)
This is a good book for a very beginning introduction to reproduction for young children. It will definitely need to be supplemented with more detailed text and diagrams, but it's an easy place to start when you don't want to go into too much detail for a first talk. It starts out with bees and plants and moves to ducks, cats, and then humans. It uses the terms "sperm" and "eggs" but does not use any male or female anatomical terms (other than "womb") or show any diagrams of anatomy except for a superimposed drawing of a baby inside the uterus of a fully clothed woman. There is also a photo of kittens being born. That's as specific as this book gets. A good place to start for a child of about 4.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It's a good ice breaker,
By Joanne Andres (South Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Where Do Babies Come From? (Hardcover)
I was looking for answers to that exact question from my 4 year old and the book covers how a baby starts with a sperm and an egg. It started out great explaining how a bee carries pollen on it's legs from flower to flower creating a seed, but then the explaination becomes vague as it gets into the animals and humans and how the male sperm and the female egg get together to create a baby. The problem is that it answers the question where, but leaves the child with the question of How. It's honest and written to a 4 year old level with terminology that works well. I think it will help you break into a discussion of how that sperm gets to the egg.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Where Do Babies Come From? (Hardcover)
Where Do Babies Come From? is a good book for children who are curious about babies and where they come from. This book includes real pictures of animals and people. Where Do Babies Come From gives general explanation of where baby animals come from and transitions over to people. Recommended to parents to read with their children 5+ years of age.
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