There's A House Inside My Mummy
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- £2.49
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- £2.49
Publisher Description
A funny and tender picture book about waiting for a new brother or sister to arrive.
There's a house inside my mummy,
Where my little brother grows,
Or maybe it's my little sister
No one really knows.
Waiting for a new brother or sister to arrive can be a confusing and worrying time for young children. Sharing this simple rhyming story together is the perfect way to reassure your little one and involve them in all the excitement. Told with humour and warmth by Giles Andreae, the author of much-loved family favourite Giraffes Can't Dance.
'A great book for sharing with your first born while your second is still in the 'tummy house'' - The Times
A note from the author:
'When my wife became pregnant for the second time, I was talking to Flinn, our 2-year old son, about what was going to take place and how exciting it would be for him to have a brother or sister. I started to think about it as though I were a young child myself ... 'There's a house inside my mummy' was a phrase that just popped into my head, and from then on the book was a joy to write.'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A preschooler reasons that his pregnant mother's growing body contains an actual domicile for his sibling-to-be: "My daddy says I lived there too/ When I was being made/ But I don't remember very much/ About it, I'm afraid." Andreae and Cabban (previously paired for Love Is a Handful of Honey) opt for a tone of maximum reassurance the boy expresses no anxieties about being displaced and gets plenty of unharried attention and snuggling from both placid-looking parents. But Cabban's warm-toned watercolor cartoons still have a bit of realism: Mommy is seen grazing at the refrigerator and conked out on the sofa, and, as he and Mommy take a bubble bath together, the boy runs a toy car over her belly. Andreae's rhymes about "Mommy's tummy house" veer between soothing and precious. (Reporting that sometimes Mommy "feels so sick," the boy concludes, "If I had a house in me,/ I'd feel all yucky, too.") While some readers will likely find the tone and cadences condescending, very young children looking forward to the birth of a sibling will probably enjoy seeing their enthusiasm reflected here. Ages 4-8.
