| Title | : | Hooray for Babies! |
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| ISBN | : | 1328528472 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781328528476 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 |
| Publication | : | Published March 26, 2019 |
Hooray for Babies! Reviews
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First sentence: I'm glad that I'm a baby. I love my baby face. Two eyes, two ears, one mouth, one nose, each in the perfect place. I love my tickly baby toes, my fingers big and little. I love my baby belly. There's a button in the middle!
Premise/plot: Hooray for Babies is a rhyming picture book celebrating BABIES.
My thoughts: If you find babies irresistible, then you might love this book. The illustrations are cute, sweet, adorable, precious, delightful, lovely--the expected bunch of adjectives that like to hang around together in books for this age group. Some people love and adore cutey-cute books. Some people don't. There is much to love in this one. The illustrations. The cutesy text. (To name just two.) I personally liked this one. The pages showing off belly buttons is a special favorite of mine.
We're babies making baby friends.
We love to play together.
We take our turns.
We share our toys.
At least until we don't.
Text: 4 out of 5
Illustrations: 5 out of 5
Total: 9 out of 10 -
3.5 stars
Hooray for Babies! by
Susan Meyers, with illustrations by
Sue Cornelison. A happy and optimistic baby-filled delight, Hooray for Babies! is a true celebration of everything baby, and featuring (exclusively) a parade of cuter than cute babies. From honoring perfect baby fingers, toes, and bellies, to marking the milestones of scooting, crawling, and standing, as well as highlighting the joys and little bumps that go hand in hand with making friends, learning to share...and getting cranky!... Hooray for Babies! features it all. Susan Meyers' rhyming text is light and fun, making for a smooth and joyful read aloud experience, while Sue Cornelison's illustrations are such an appealing mix of being both realistic and dreamy. As with Lucy Knisley's lovely You Are New, discussed above, Hooray for Babies! is another terrific picture book of celebrating the wonder of babies, and celebrating all that they can and will experience. Readers looking for newer baby-centered picture books to explore with their little ones, and/or readers who have previously read and enjoyed titles such as Susan Meyers and Marla Frazee's popular Everywhere Babies, All of Baby, Nose to Toes by Victoria Adler and Hiroe Nakata, or Karen Katz's much-loved Ten Tiny Babies might especially adore how sincerely darling and positive Hooray for Babies! is.
I received a copy of this title courtesy of Raincoast Books in exchange for an honest review. All opinions and comments are my own. -
This book looks old fashioned, and not in a good way. I appreciate the thick pages, but the cutouts on the cover are a librarians worst nightmare! Dirt tends to stick to the material the cover is made from as well. I personally like the feel of the cover, I just know it doesn't hold up well in a library. I did get a chuckle out of the babies raising their sippy cups for a toast.
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Fun for babytime.
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A super cute, sweet rhyming text celebrating babies
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Very sweet and fun!
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I really enjoyed the illustrations and the story. Good read-aloud for older baby/toddler storytime.
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Storytime: Baby and Me
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Nothing really stuck out to me about this one. It was okay, but nothing really struck me as "ooh, I need to borrow this again," XD
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This is a cute book for toddlers. It's a full size picture book with a board book feel. Heavy paper for easier page turns. Toddlers will see all kinds of babies in this story as they experience the day. The babies are realistically painted, reminiscent of the old Gerber baby food campaigns with added diversity.
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Bright and colorful book, but out of all the babies, possibly 100, why couldn't there be any that don't have "two eyes, two ears, one mouth, one nose, each in the perfect place"?
