Welcome Baby - Pink

Inspired by the grand success of A Baby Blessing we offer this new title that is intended as a gift for a new child and his or her family. The text of this book welcomes a baby into this world and offers such blessing as a bed that is "a small world of comfort and delight" and a home that "will be a place of peace and caring nurture." Welleran Poltarness does his usual magic in pairing warm sentiment with appropriate imagery. Welcome Baby is grandly illustrated by artists such as Maud and Miska Petersham, Else Wenz-Vietor and Dyneovor Rhys. A unique feature of both Welcome Baby and our other new bay title, Baby's Own Book, is that both are available in two versions in which the cover and decorative elements are either pink or blue. This adds another element of personalization that we hope will please buyers and recipients alike.

WELLERAN POLTARNEES has a lifelong love of gardens. His first memory is falling out of his baby carriage and landing on a bed of odorous white flowers which not only kept him from injury, but made the experience a sensual delight. He collects books about, and pictures of, gardens — but there are few timeless things that he does not so honor. He uses a book called Great Gardens of the World as a guide whenever he travels, and, with the exception of the Boboli Gardens in Florence, which came highly recommended and which he found monotonous — the gardens have always refreshed him. His favorite time for gardens is night. His favorite garden music is Manuel De Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain," and his favorite garden poem is "The Garden" by Andrew Marvell.