Baby Squeaks
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
A baby mouse says their first word, and their second, and then many, many more in this hilarious and relatable parenting moment by Geisel Honoree Anne Hunter.
Baby mouse has learned to squeak. And now it’s squeak, squeak, squeak all day long.
Baby chats with new friends and old friends, big friends and little friends, and sometimes just chats with no one at all. Poor Mama needs a break . . . but when Baby wanders off, Mama knows what to do: follow the squeaks!
Little readers will love this chatty baby mouse, and big readers will find Mama’s reactions very familiar . . . Anne Hunter’s delicate and lovely illustrations highlight the humor in this delightfully funny tale.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The gift of gab proves deeply funny in Hunter's (Where's Baby?) earnest portrait of early language acquisition. Baby Mouse starts out as a quiet infant, but after the diminutive mammal utters a first word, then a second, language flows suddenly and inexorably forth. Speech balloons of varying sizes, comically filled with typewritten lines that repeat only the word "squeak," emanate from Baby Mouse as the youth is fed, carried, and tucked in to bed. When Mama, seemingly in need of a moment's peace, places her child outside their tree home, the mouse is unfazed. "Baby talked and talked... and talked," encountering various animals who turn tail, and finally, a young fawn who simply conks out in the face of Baby Mouse's chatter. In a full spread, elegant ballpoint pen and colored pencil images—which follow finely cross-hatched, grayscale figures atop a sky blue background—show Baby Mouse relaxing upon the snoozing fawn's back, an enormous word balloon floating above them. When Mama Mouse awakens, panicked, from a nap of her own, Baby Mouse's squeaks lead her straight to her child's location—gently instigating a moment of silent succor, and a final image that honors, without judgment, both parties' realities and needs. Ages 3–7.
