Who's That Baby?: New-Baby Songs [Hardcover]

Sharon Creech (Author), David Diaz (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up

Who are you, baby
newly born
who's this little babe?

Baby burritoes . . .
are held very tight.
Banana babies . . .
are bundled up in the cold.
Leaky babies . . .
leak.

No matter what kind of baby they are, all new babies see, hear, think, and feel so many different things. But most of all they feel loved. Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech and Caldecott Medal winner David Diaz give beautiful voice to that love in this celebration of family and the joy a new baby brings.

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Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreS–In 16 songs, Creech celebrates a newborn's world from the infant's point of view. For example, in Football Baby: My daddy thinks/I am a football./I think that/he is mistaken./I hope that/someone will tell him/that I am a baby./his little sweet baby./…I am not/a little pigskin. Other selections tell of looking like a stuffed banana, of gazing at pictures of me me me! and of Blurping milk/on Mommy's clothes/and Daddy's clothes. Pearly Girl and Joy Boy are charming displays of self-confidence. As songs, the words do not really scan or rhyme, especially without actual music to move the rhythm along. Despite this, the imagery is lovely and babylike. However, the humor and sensibilities are clearly geared to new parents. With warm, muted earth tones and intriguing patterns, Diaz's gorgeous illustrations perfectly capture the love surrounding these infants.–Bina Williams, Bridgeport Public Library, CT
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From Booklist

PreS-Gr. 2. In this collection of Creech's original poem-songs about new babies, the wee joy-bundles leak, cry, or puke. They resemble a pigskin, stuffed banana, or even "a baby burrito / in a little quilt-o." They are also revered as "bella pearls" and "bello boys." Diaz's warm, melon-colored, pattern-filled paintings also exalt babyhood and its rounded, soft-skinned perfection. Rosebud-mouthed babes of all colors with wide-set eyes hatch from flowers, chew books, sleep, look at pictures, and drool while geometric stars and moons hover about and artfully stylized adults like "two big grandmas" and Bella Mom stand guard: "And this is where I like to be: / up snug close / to my warm, warm mom / where I can hear / her beat-beat heart- / a bella, bella Mom is she." The often-rhythmic, short-lined poem-songs are perfect for reading aloud to baby burritos, but it's the parents and grandparents of newborns who will most appreciate this sentimental celebration of love and babyhood inspired by Creech's own granddaughter. Karin Snelson
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins; First Edition edition (August 23, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060529393
• ISBN-13: 978-0060529390
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 7.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,022,794 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 'Read it again,' laughs my daughter, October 8, 2005

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Steve BooYa (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Who's That Baby?: New-Baby Songs (Hardcover)

Our four-year-old daughter loves this book, and so do we. My wife is an early childhood specialist, and was once the head of the children's book department at a major independent bookstore, so she has seen MANY children's books. I teach illustration at two colleges, so I have seen a LOT of children's book art. We both agree author Sharon Creech and illustrator David Diaz have cooked up something really special with 'Who's That Baby?'.
Creech's poems are brief but speak volumes. Her charming cadence rejoices in real-life details about parenting, babies, and 'Grandmas with not very big vocabularies' (who only say 'Oooh' and 'Aaah', and 'Awww', and 'Oh!).
I was a David Diaz fan long before he won the 1990 Caldecott Medal, children's book illustration's highest honor, for Smoky Night, a sort of 'The-Snowy-Day-meets-the-L.A.-riots' child's-eye narrative that is both fierce and tender. In this new book, Diaz's glowing watercolors halo infant faces so engaging I cannot look away.
Some may find the book short -- two of its sixteen poems offer only eight lines -- my daughter, for one, can't get enough of it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book, June 21, 2006

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E. Choi "Baby love" (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Who's That Baby?: New-Baby Songs (Hardcover)

I borrowed this book from a local library and fell in love with the short rhymes which are so sweet. My 8 month old son is enchanted when I read to him from this book at bedtime. I definitely want to buy my own copy for my son's personal library.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet and endearing., March 22, 2006

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Anna Maria Gardner "Dr. Gardner" (WA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Who's That Baby?: New-Baby Songs (Hardcover)

This is a beautifully illustrated book of poems, and my 26 mo old daughter loves them and really is enjoying me reading them to her every night before bed. It is a wonderful book for both adults and children.