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Excellent book for helping children adjust to the birth of a sibling. It really promoted discussion and understanding while providing a parent with support in dealing with this issue.
I'm buying this as a gift; we loved it when our 2d and 3rd children were born. Kids understand that different families do things different ways, if they even notice the illustrations that closely. Very gentle, very nice modeling of appropriate behaviors in response to a new baby, and helps the big kids understand that they can be nice helpers to a baby who loves them very much. I quibble with the negative reviews: yes the baby takes a bottle, eats toast w jam, but I disagree that this makes it a poor choice if your family doesn't do those things. To wit, my 3 yr old nurses her dolls all the time, and has never mentioned to me that the baby in the book takes a bottle. I just don't think it matters.
I also did not appreciate how baby does not like all kinds of things such as bath, stroller, etc. This book depicts baby receiving a bottle, sleeping in a crib, watching TV, and eating toast and jam ()., all things which in our family we do not do. If you are a breast feeding, cosleeping, no-TV before age two family this is not the book for you. I feel this is a fairly negative book and am sorry I ordered it. Will now have to return it.
I purchased this book, along with several others, to prepare my 4 year old for the arrival of his little brother. It really helped emphasize that he was going to be the BIG brother and the BIG boy and the baby's special needs. He is now 5-1/2 and his baby brother is 6 months and he still gets this book out to read at bedtime.
Not a good book. It doesn't engage my toddler nor doesn't have good pictures.
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