When's My Birthday?
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
★"A gift of a picture book that's at once nostalgic and fresh."―Kirkus Reviews, starred review
In this enthusiastic celebration of all things BIRTHDAY, acclaimed author Julie Fogliano and award-winning illustrator Christian Robinson bring you the perfect birthday book! Join our excited narrator as she lists all the things that will make her birthday the BEST birthday.
when’s my birthday?
where’s my birthday?
how many days until my birthday?
i’d like a pony for my birthday
and a necklace for my birthday.
i’d like a chicken for my birthday.
i’d like a ball to bounce and bounce.
i’d like a big cake on my birthday
with lots of chocolate on my birthday
and lots of candles on my birthday
1,2,3,4,5, and 6!
Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Honor Award
When's My Birthday? is a School Library Journal Best Book, a Horn Book Fanfare Best Book, a Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book, an NPR Best Book, a Chicago Public Library Best Book, and an ALSC Notable Children's Book.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Birthdays are hard to wait for, but now there's a book to read while counting down the days. Fogliano (Old Dog Baby Baby) starts with a stomping beat ("When's my birthday?/ where's my birthday?/ how many days until my birthday?") and understands that, for young birthday hopefuls, excitement means movement: "Will we dance around and round?/ will we jump and jump and jump?" Using simple cutout forms, Caldecott Honor artist Robinson (Last Stop on Market Street) shows children with varied hair and skin colors indulging in birthday fantasies. One skates on a gigantic cake (would that be icing skating?), another contemplates an enormous gift, still another surveys a table laden with food. Robinson's collages play with scale, contrasting giant birthday props with a spread of insects and a snail celebrating the occasion atop a dandelion every living thing has a birthday. As the special day approaches, one child vows to stay up all night: "In the morning it's my birthday!/ I'm not sleeping till my birthday." (She falls asleep, of course.) Fogliano captures with uncanny skill a child's voice, enthusiasm, and spontaneity. Ages 3 6.
