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Who's That Baby?: New-Baby Songs

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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.

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.

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.

This book is gorgeous! It would make a perfect gift for a family with a new baby but get your own copy too - you will want one.

This is a collection of illustarted poems all about babies.



The illustrations included babies of all races.



Most of the rhymes were short and they kept the attention of our young children well.

There are great books about -- and for -- babies and toddlers out there, with appropriate, enriching vocabularies and great humor. This isn't one of them. Try books my Mo Willems, Shel Silverstein or Anna Dewdney if you want fun stuff for kids this age...

This thing was given to us as a gift. Thank God, because man, I wouldn't buy it.