Our Gorgeous Baby
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected Mar 18, 2025
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- $8.99
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- Pre-Order
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
This charmingly funny board book celebrates a family’s unconditional love for their slurpy, burpy, boisterous new baby. Baby’s eyes are not brighter than the sun. And she isn’t as light as a feather—she weighs a ton! Less princess than clown, with a voice a little more screechy than angelic, this baby may keep their family up at night, but no one could love baby more. With lyrical humor, Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Eve Coy reflect the routine chaos a new baby brings, showing that even the noisiest, smelliest, and messiest of babies poses no challenge to the bonds of affection that smitten families—older siblings included!—have with their gorgeous babies.
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"Our baby's eyes are/ not brighter than/ the sun." Allusive verse from Prasadam-Halls kicks off this clear-eyed board book tribute to babies and all of their quirks, as rhyming text establishes a truth-telling tone: "All day long people say that// she's a gorgeous sight.// But we don't think so when/ she wakes us up at night." Other examples detail the subject's uncouth behaviors ("Although we call her princess,// she acts more like a clown"), messy table manners, loud sounds, and stinky diapers. Coy's richly colored artwork has a painterly aspect with soft-edged depictions of the child and family as they go about domestic activities and outings. Scenes frequently center the figure's sibling observing with tender bemusement, amplifying the narration's collective we as it affectionately concludes, "We love our baby more than/ anyone." Characters are portrayed with various skin tones. Ages 2–5.
