Ninja Baby
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- 7,99 €
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- 7,99 €
Publisher Description
From the day she was born, Nina was a ninja baby. She obliterated her applesauce. She concealed herself at bath time. And she was training herself in advanced infiltration (of movie night). Nina wants to do everything by herself, until the day her parents bring home a Kung Fu Master (a baby brother). Now with a sibling, Nina will face the one thing she cannot do alone: be part of a family. With verve and humor, David Zeltser and Diane Goode tell the story of an unusually gifted child, and the family that is more than a match for her. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version. Additionally for devices that support audio, this ebook includes a read-along setting.
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"When Nina was born, the doctor gently thumped her bottom to make sure she was breathing. Nina karate chopped her right back," writes Zeltser (Lug, Dawn of the Ice Age) in the opening of his first picture book. What follows is a funny and pitch-perfect story about independence (and its flipside, loneliness), girl power, and sibling rivalry. Nina, a wide-eyed redhead, continues to exhibit impressive ninjalike qualities as she grows: she turns diaper changes into "hand-to-hand combat" and "obliterate her applesauce" with an impressive flying kick. But when a second baby arrives, Nina is flummoxed: how is this "Kung Fu Master" able to manipulate her parents through sheer adorableness? Goode, whose balletic lines and zephyrlike washes of color harken back to her wonderful work in Founding Mothers and other titles, both amplifies the literate, wry text and applies her own visual humor (look at all those swaddling blankets littering the delivery room floor more of Nina's post-natal handiwork). A surprise ending proves that these apples don't fall far from the tree. Ages 3 5.
