Welcome to Your World, Baby
PreS—This sanitized description of being a big sister is well-meaning, but lacks tension and story. A girl goes through a laundry list of things that she can and will do with her new baby sister, and ends with, "We can even share cuddling with Mom./I love being your big sister!" Everything is positive, and lines like "…you smell so sweet—/especially your feet./I almost want to eat them, /but that would be silly!" have a distinctly adult sensibility to them. The illustrations are pleasant enough, with two cartoonish pixies with small blue eyes, oversize heads, and thin frames traipsing through the primarily pink-hued pages. Those who want a more balanced story may find Robie Harris'sHi New Baby!(Candlewick, 2000), Sally Lloyd Jones'sHow to Be a Baby—By Me, the Big Sister(Random, 2007), Jean Van Leeuwen'sBenny and Beautiful Baby Delilah(Dial, 2006), and Kevin Henkes'sJulius, the Baby of the World(HarperCollins, 1990) to be more effective.—Amy Lilien-Harper, The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CTCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.