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Making a Baby Hardcover – June 22, 2021

by Rachel Greener (Author), Clare Owen (Illustrator)

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This inclusive guide to how every family begins is an honest, cheerful tool for conversations between parents and their young ones.

To make a baby you need one egg, one sperm, and one womb. But every family starts in its own special way. This book answers the "Where did I come from?" question no matter who the reader is and how their life began. From all different kinds of conception through pregnancy to the birth itself, this candid and cozy guide is just right for the first conversations that parents will have with their children about how babies are made.
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  1. Reading age
    4 - 8 years, from customers
  2. Print length
    32 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Grade level
    Kindergarten - 3
  5. Dimensions
    9.5 x 0.37 x 11 inches
  6. Publisher
    Dial Books
  7. Publication date
    June 22, 2021
  8. ISBN-10
    0593324854
  9. ISBN-13
    978-0593324851
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Horn Book says An authentic and honest celebration of babies, families, and diversity.

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A 2022 NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books List Selection

"This babymaking primer takes a decidedly inclusive approach to the topic, steering clear of rigidly gendered language and featuring a wide range of family members and configurations. Using a muted color palette, Owen's cleanly rendered art has a retro aesthetic and includes people of different races, genders, shapes, and abilities—happy-looking families all . . . An authentic and honest celebration of babies, families, and diversity." —Horn Book

"A book that really tells it like it is, from the sex act to birth, without shying away from topics such as male, female, and intersex genders, egg and sperm donations, and C-sections, this should be available in all public and school libraries." —School Library Journal

About the Author

Rachel Greener is a children's books editor from London who has edited fiction, nonfiction and picture books about everything from the ancient Egyptians and ocean plastics to teenage detectives and zombie goldfish. She wrote this book because she thinks it is important that all children have a chance to see their family story reflected in a book about where babies come from.

Clare Owen graduated from art school in 2009 and has been working as a freelance illustrator ever since. She works on a big variety of fun projects, creating pictures and patterns for home products, stationery, picture books, magazines, and packaging--all influenced by her love of color, nature, and mid-century design. Originally from Cornwall, she now lives in Bristol with her boyfriend and two cats.

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Rachel Greener

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Born and raised in London, England, Rachel works at multi-award-winning independent children’s publisher, Nosy Crow, and is both the publisher across the business as well as the author of the award-winning Making a Baby and its follow-up, Growing Up.

Following a degree in visual arts and French, Rachel started her career as a journalist, writer and editor for an independent rock music magazine. Over fifteen years later, she has successfully forged a career in children's publishing, despite having no relevant qualifications or the ability to spell complicated words without a dictionary. (The answer is, always use a dictionary.)

Her goal in life is to write and publish books that educate, inform and inspire a love of reading, because by building more empathetic, honest and open readers, she genuinely believes we can build a better world.