Similar to his television appearances, Mr. Rogers creates in this book a gentle and calming tone. With honest word and realistic color photographs, Fred Rogers stresses the importance the older sibling as well as the role of love in a family. Available hardcover and paperback. When You Were a Baby. Words and illustrations are simple.
Uncrowded backgrounds help the toddler focus on the issue at hand.
It is a book that reminds a young child struggling with the issues of new sibling arrival that they can do lots of things a baby can't yet do, that they are big and accomplished. Available in paperback and hardcover. The difficulty of explaining a new sibling to a young child is helped by Emily Arnold McCully's New Baby. This is a wordless book whose pictures tell of the coming of new baby and the transition of the displaced young child. This book also presents a home birth.