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Baby, I Love You

Name: Baby, I Love You
Author: Karma Wilson
ISBN: 9781416919100

by Karma Wilson, Sam Williams

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Overview

Love my baby's everything,

You make my life complete, it's true.

Love my baby, dearest heart...

Oh my baby, I love you!

In this follow up title to 2006's bestselling Baby Cakes, Karma Wilson and Sam Williams team up again in this charming, original board book. Parent will love reading this reassuringly repetitive text aloud to their babies. Sam Williams's adorable illustrations make this title that promotes the special bond between parents and their babies complete. This board book promises to become an instant classic.

Synopsis

The bestselling team of Karma Wilson and Sam Williams is back in this charming original board book. From chubby faces to teensy feet, this adorable book tells babies why we love them so! It's a perfect read-alound to share with your favorite cutie-pie!

Publishers Weekly

In this sweet, genuine board book, a companion to Baby Cakes, lively babies hug and hold a pudgy stuffed dog, while a soothing rhyme weaves throughout with variations on a refrain (“Love my baby, little one./ Oh, my baby, I love you!”). The babies' personalities shine through their engagement with the dog. One baby's tummy pokes out just like the dog's does (“Love my baby's tummy-tum,/ love that belly button, too”), while another baby in diapers balances on one foot, hands outspread: “Love my baby's everything./ You make life complete, it's true.” Ages 1–4. (Dec.)

About the Author, Karma Wilson

Karma Wilson is the author of the bestselling BEAR books illustrated by Jane Chapman, ONE DAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOG illustrated by Joan Rankin, and many other award-winning picture books. She lives with her family in Fortine, Montana. She can also be found at www.karmawilson.com.

Sam Williams is the author, illustrator, and designer of numerous picture books for young children. Some of the books he's lent his talent to include the Bunny and Bee series, Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck by Lisa Westberg Peters, and Pea Pod Babies by Karen Baicker. He recently put down his paintbrushes and took up the challenge to climb Mount Blanc! Sam lives with his wife in Hertfordshire, England.

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Editorials

Publishers Weekly

Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot

The illustrations in this board book are delightful. Babies of various ethnicities and sexes fill the pages. While they are drawn without much detail—button like eyes and a line for a nose or mouth, the emotions being conveyed are quite clear and easily discerned. Each page declaims why the reader/author loves his or her baby. It could be those little hands and fingers, or teensy feet and toes, or a the big round belly with its little belly button, or a chubby face and checks. Each of these little charmers has a cuddly toy that appears in the large image as well as a decoration on the page with the text. All of the images and text are set out on crisp white pages which make for a very attractive and appealing layout. While the toddlers are not depicted in detail there are many items in the pictures that can lead to further discussion and interaction between a child and the reader. Reviewer: Marilyn Courtot

Kirkus Reviews

"Love my baby's / little hands, / love those / little fingers, too. // Love my baby, / little one. / Oh, my baby, / I love you!" To the rhythmic verse Wilson has perfected, a multiethnic cast of unabashedly adorable babies express their own love to a sweet beagle puppy in a green-and-white striped shirt. Williams's soft, smudgy pencil gently provides the outlines, which are filled in with pastel-hued watercolors. Text boxes are set against pastel, patterned backgrounds and feature vignettes of the puppy and various baby-related impedimenta (stroller, socks, blankie). The babies approach Helen Oxenbury-like perfection, lacking only the occasional wicked glint in the eye. Still, only Cruella de Vil couldn't love this book; everyone else will dissolve into baby-loving protoplasm. (Ages 6 mos.-2)