Infants Books

I love this book. I received it as a hand-me-down and read it after I had weaned my daughter, and I cried when I got to the part about breastfeeding. What a sweet portrayal of a special bond. The whole book is good - not just the breastfeeding part, so I hope no one is scared off by that. (The book does show the dad giving a bottle to the baby at one point.) The book is a great depiction of the life of a teeny tiny baby - I highly recommend it!

Amy Schwartz has captured precisely what it is like to be a new mom! Every mother who reads this will say, "My baby was exactly like that!" Adorable.

This book will ring true for every parent who has been there night and day serving every whim of their new baby. In those first trying weeks, we all need a big dose of humor which is sorely lacking in most post-natal reading material. Older kids especially love this book and will emphatically deny having ever been so demanding!

If only a baby could talk! This book protrays the life of an infant as seen through his eyes. It is humorous, sweet and I appreciated the reference in the beautiful illustrations to breastfeeding and attachment-carrying with the sling and Snugli. A new "must have" for baby shower gifts!

This is a must-have book for attachment parenting families expecting a sibling! It really helped my 4 and 2-year olds understand what a baby needs, and helped me remember that we've all been there before. Gently humorous, very baby-centered. I'm giving it as a gift to my sister struggling with her new teeny tiny one.

Nine years ago this was my son's favorite book. The first one was so worn, we had to buy another one. Now we have a daughter and she can't leave it alone either.

I bought this book when my middle child was 16 months old, and by the time he was 2 it was worn out. I had to buy a new one when the next child came along, and it's worn out too. The illustrations are delightful, and my children had endless fun pointing to and naming all the items in the margins of the pages. What a wonderful way to boost a child's vocabulary! Truly a MUST HAVE for kids 16months to 3 years.

The rhyming text, and wonderful pictures make this book a treasure; it was one of my son's favorites. The pictures in the margins of the book made it enjoyable even when he was too young to follow the story, because he could point-to and eventually name all of the items. I love that this baby is home with his father during the day, and mom comes home in the evening. Our family, like so many others today, uses a tag-team patenting system (I work days, my husband works nights), so this is true to life for our children. I highly recommend this for children up to 3 or 3 1/2 years old.

There is no better review than the smile on my one-year old's face when she sees this book. The adorable pictures of familiar items are a wonderful vocabulary builder. I finally found it in Amazon.uk after trying to trace it here for a long time.

Normal daily acitivities for baby. Children regardless of gender relate to the baby in the book. Gender sensitive.

I love this book! I've already made three hats out of the book and can't wait to make more. Yes, some of the designs are down right silly, but if you are a mom you know that's exactly what kids love. My two year old twins love the cow and cat hats. I loved the fact that I could make them in a few hours. The designs are easily adaptable too. I made the acorn hat in two shades of blue for a baby shower and it was a huge hit - not your same old baby hat!

What a great book! There are so many adorable patterns, something for every skill level. They work up super quick too! These patterns will be a very sweet addition to any baby shower gift. The cotton yarn most of the patterns call for is inexpensive too, and I have found the hats I have worked up don't look "homemade" at all.

This is perfect for little ones, especially the patterns on the cover. Although I can't make them for my granddaughter yet( she is still very small), you can bet that I will be, so many cute patterns that will be enjoyed by the babies.

This book is full of hats for babies (up to 24 months) with a few accessories like slippers, mittens and a purse.
The hats are mostly "costume" hats - there's a pointy elf hat with a fuzzy chin strap that looks like a beard, there's a pink poodle hat that uses eyelash yarn to make the curly hair of the dog, a chocolate kiss using silver yarn and a sweet strawberry with a green stem.
These are not the old crocheted items your great-aunt used to make...these are cute, hip, "new" styles that are sure to get lots of compliments.

The hats featured in this book are REALLY cute and clever. Unfortunately, however, some of the pattern sizing seems wonky (even though I made gauge swatches) and some of the patterns slightly unclear. Also, there are some small details not to my liking (the drawstring tie on the kitty hat), but nothing that I couldn't figure out how to change. Irregardless, I do highly recommend the book (especially if you're looking for something "different"), as does my two-year-old daughter who will spend hours just looking at the pictures! :)

This is a great book if you are having twins or know of anyone having multiples. I'm a parent of twins and unlike other books I've read, the author offers a lot of practical advice. Not just like what stuff to buy and what products to avoid, but also things to try if both babies are crying or how to warm up formula for both twins at the same time. The book is comprehensive and I like how everything is organized by task and each chapter starts with a checklist, so you can quickly find a good suggestion for any question you might have. Plus, she's funny. There's a lot of good natured humorous advice throughout. Really worthwhile and I highly recommend!!

I have 19-month-old twins (and a six-year-old) and I wish this book was around when they were born (or better yet when I was pregnant!). This book cannot be missed if you are a parent of twins. Tons of great tips in an easy to navigate format. This book will help you in so many ways --from preparing for their arrival to tips on getting through the night; from how to get your errands done (yes, with the babies!) to keeping the peace as they get older; plus lots of great resources! This book makes you feel like you can have control over the situation before you. Thank you to the author for finally writing a wonderful, helpful book for parents or caregivers of twins.

As a pediatrician, I am often asked for parenting book recommendations. I have always been at a loss when my busy and overwhelmed parents of multiples would ask for suitable resources. Thank you Mrs. Scalise, for creating this excellent book full of common sense solutions. I know my parents will thank you, too!

When people discover they are pregnant with twins their first reaction is often shock. After a short time, they begin to search for resources. Twin Sense is a no nonsense book for parents searching for tips and tricks from "seasoned" parents of twins. Ms. Scalise (mother of 3 including twins) has successfully condensed words of wisdom from various sources into this book. The chapters are very organized making the book easy to navigate. Even if a parent only has a few minutes to read; while caring for their babies, they will find helpful and practical tips.

I received this book as a gift and may I say it is so clear and practical. The first thing I thought was that I wished I had it when I was just having my first child, not my second and third! Excellent advice for any new mom, but probably moreso for moms of multiples, just because it is so daunting.

My kids (3yrs & 5yrs)just love this book. We've checked it out multiple times from the library and renewed it again and again. They love to listen to it over and over again and delight in the pictures and the repetition. This is one for your personal collection.

I borrowed this book from the library for my almost three year old, and we read it so much, and renewed it, that finally I had to buy my own copy. Toddlers love reading stories about babies! It is also very rhythmic, and eye catching illustrations.

Suitable for a wide range of lower age groups. Delightful, full colour pictures, and plenty of them. Both my kids (2 and 5) request this book over and over again. Full of animals, relatives, and some nonsense words to keep them laughing.

My 4 yr. old daughter, 5 yr. old son and I love reading this book. They love to immitate the baby crying and are facinated with some of the "made-up" words. They love to be asked, "Is that what baby wants?" and get excited because they really know what the baby wants. This book made me feel like a kid again.

My 5 year old son and I love this book. He is just starting to read and at first "read" the Waaaaah parts while I read the rest. He has started to read more of the book and is using memory and his site reading words to read with me. He also identifies with the little boy as he is the brother to a 4 month old sister. The boy should be called a big brother instead of little though.

This is by far the best book for older siblings who are about to have a new baby in their house. Great pictures and wonderful text make it a fun read, and it really touches your heartstrings. Especially the part when the older sibling helps comfort the baby, I see it so much now between my two kids. I highly recommend this book to anyone is about to go from 1 to 2. My son still wants me to read it to him and his sister is almost a year and a half.

This book is adorable. I got it for my son when his little sister was born, and have gifted it to several friends when they have their seconds. The older child will relate to the little tiger and parents will laugh at all the descriptions ("Yuk! Take a look / it isn't cooked!..."), the illustrations wonderful and the ending is very sweet. For those wondering, it is not "technical" or "religious" as to where one comes from. Just a very sweet (and secular) conclusion to the question.

A delightful tale of the experiences of a new sibling. The older child thinks of all the ways to send the new baby back but in the end realizes that a baby is not such a terrible thing to have around the house! A nice book to share with a new older brother/sister.

The tiger familyhas a new baby and the older sibling is curious as to where it came from. "Did you buy it from the store? Please don't buy any more!" This hilarious tale of the quest to figuring out where the pooping, crying, new baby comes from and how to take it back. The ending will leave you with warm feeling inside!

The main character in the story a cute tiger cub. He has just gotten a new baby in his house. He wants to know where it came from so he can take it back. He's upset by all the attention it gets. He also says all it does is cry, pee and poop, and spit up! He's had it with this baby. That is until one day when the baby is crying and he goes over to it to try and calm it down. The baby smiles at him and he starts to like the baby.

The pictures were fun to look at. The story moved at a fast pace as well.


We would recommend this book to families who are getting ready to have babies. This would make a great story to read and discuss with young children about the way they feel about having a new baby in the home.

This book is gorgeous! It would make a perfect gift for a family with a new baby but get your own copy too - you will want one.

This is a collection of illustarted poems all about babies.



The illustrations included babies of all races.



Most of the rhymes were short and they kept the attention of our young children well.

I borrowed this book from a local library and fell in love with the short rhymes which are so sweet. My 8 month old son is enchanted when I read to him from this book at bedtime. I definitely want to buy my own copy for my son's personal library.

This is a beautifully illustrated book of poems, and my 26 mo old daughter loves them and really is enjoying me reading them to her every night before bed. It is a wonderful book for both adults and children.

Our four-year-old daughter loves this book, and so do we. My wife is an early childhood specialist, and was once the head of the children's book department at a major independent bookstore, so she has seen MANY children's books. I teach illustration at two colleges, so I have seen a LOT of children's book art. We both agree author Sharon Creech and illustrator David Diaz have cooked up something really special with 'Who's That Baby?'.
Creech's poems are brief but speak volumes. Her charming cadence rejoices in real-life details about parenting, babies, and 'Grandmas with not very big vocabularies' (who only say 'Oooh' and 'Aaah', and 'Awww', and 'Oh!).
I was a David Diaz fan long before he won the 1990 Caldecott Medal, children's book illustration's highest honor, for Smoky Night, a sort of 'The-Snowy-Day-meets-the-L.A.-riots' child's-eye narrative that is both fierce and tender. In this new book, Diaz's glowing watercolors halo infant faces so engaging I cannot look away.
Some may find the book short -- two of its sixteen poems offer only eight lines -- my daughter, for one, can't get enough of it.

This is such a wonderful keepsake for any new parents! I stumbled upon this at a local bookstore after having read the companion book "On The Night You Were Born." It's basically a ready-made scrapbook with pages to be filled in for all of baby's firsts, as well as info about the world baby came into, like the cost of milk, gasoline, president, etc. One of my favorite pages is the "Glad You/Mad You" page, where the parent can fill in their likes/grievances :). If you're looking for a sweet gift that'll induce tears, this is it.

Absolutely darling book - planned to give it to my son for his little one year old, but when they announced the upcoming birth of a second grandchild, I'm holding it to send to them in Kentucky once we know if it's a boy or girl - will add to the package to be mailed of pink or blue and trucks or baby-dolls.

Perfect - highly recommend.

The Christmas Edition
This April I will be a first time grandmother...so I purchased this and gave it to my daughter. We reviewed the book together and both of us love it. It will help build happy memories of the baby.

A book to remind us how special we all are!!! Just perfect for my first grandchild!!!
Fast shipper...perfect condition. :)

I liked this album in tandem with the book 'On The Night You Were born".
It is sweet. The only problem is finding the time to write in the information.

This story of a wriggly, wriggly baby is one that any mother of a wiggly, busy baby can identify with. In this cute and fast-paced picture book, the author, Jessica Clerk, leads us on a day-long adventure with a baby who just won't sit still; not for kisses, not for cuddles and certainly not for grandma! Throughout the hilarious rhyme, baby checks out the zoo, stops for lunch, and even waltzes with the wales! But when the stars come out and baby finds himself all alone, he wants to go back to that wonderful safe place. . . home. A must have for every family with a baby. Whether it is a wiggly one or not.

Children between two and five years old will love the get-up-and-go of the wriggly baby character, particularly if they have a younger cousin or sibling. Kids get a kick out of imagining a squirming baby wriggling right out of dad's arms, ducking out of grandma's way, staying just out of mom's reach and toddling along to all the local hotspots (the firehouse, zoo, diner, fairground and beach). They also love the action words used in the text (skedaddle, bobble, slither and shimmy). Though the wriggly baby tires out in the end, my son and daughter rarely tire of hearing this lively and sweet story around bedtime.

This "wriggly" baby crawls, flips and laughs his way on a cleverly crafted journey. With vibrant colors and beautiful, rhythmic prose, children and adults alike will want to 'clap their hands and tap their feet'! The energy alone makes this book a pleasure to read and a must buy for the home library or a fun gift.

It's a good thing the writing in this book is so exceptional, because kids will ask that it be read to them over and over and over yet again. All of you parents out there know how that can be. Wriggly Wriggly Baby is a pleasure EVERY time. There's lots to look at in the pictures, too.

It's the drawings that make this book. There's one scene of the wriggly wriggly baby yodeling with a yak on a mountain top. I think I'll remember that image always. The book is for kids but these drawings are little works of art.

We loved this book and read it cover to cover in the beginning and reverted to it over and over again for its insightful tips that first year. Dr. Orenstein's book contains tips that are not contained in other leading first-year baby treatises. We recommend it highly. We are now well on our way trough the Toddler version and think it is exceptional as well.

This is definitely not a know all, do all guide to babies but it definitely is very handy. There are tips in here on everything from diapering to soothing to taking baby out. These quick tips were a perfect read for those short trips I had to take on the bus while I was pregnant. It was also a book my husband didn't mind reading. Most of the 'guides' I have are huge and you could easily overload on information. This one is perfect to add to your own common sense. A handy, lil book I'm sure you'll enjoy.

As background material for this book, the reader is referred to "The Scientist in the Crib" (Dr. Gopnik, et al; Perrenial, 2001). It offers a fresh and detailed evaluation of the language acquisition process by infants. At about 6 months of age, a critical change seems to occur. The specific pronunciation patterns of the language(s) heard begin to be retained in a very focused manner. Also see "The Monday Tape" (The Snow Water Corporation) at Akilo.com for more insight into this process. This audio tape, one of a series, provides multilingual speech patterns for infants. These tapes are available exclusively through Amazon.com (not available in stores). It appears that they should help an infant (birth to age 2) gain good pronunciation skills for many widely used languages.

A five-star follow-up to "Crying Baby!" The 365 Tips saga continues as Dr. Julian, now conscripted into the ranks of the soldiers of Titan, devises plan after devious plan to trip up the evil Toddler. I can't wait to see how it all turns out in "365 Ways to Stifle Your Teen's Individuality and Keep Him Tied to Those Apron Strings!"