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4 ⭐ When our young kid gets told a new baby is coming, they wonder how do you get a new baby. This book explores the answer various people give until they get to the truth. This is a fun, tongue-in-cheek story, and I can see it being used for many seasons to come. One of the best things is that it‘s truthful and explores how colloquialisms can be confusing to children.

“When will I grow big enough to take up as much space in the world as everyone else?“

I genuinely enjoyed reading this picture book! This book would be well utilized in classrooms across elementary aged children in order to spark conversations about individuality. Discussing that everyone is made differently and there are always benefits to what makes you, you. It focuses on the importance of self-esteem as well as self-respect.

This illustrations in this story are colored using watercolors. Watercolors provide very low levels of intensity yet high levels of value and transparency. The images in the story also provide a great sense of perspective from the lifestyle of little Mimi. The size of various components in the illustrations are depicted as larger than life, as this is the way in which Mimi views them in correlation with her size.

“Pecan Pie Baby' by Jacqueline Woodson tells a sweet story of a young girl who is anxious and a little angry over the arrival of her new baby sibling. This book could be great when discussing what it may be or feel like when a new sibling arrives. It is important to discuss and validate students' feelings over a big change, but also to reassure them that a new sibling arriving is an amazing and exciting time, as they get to become a big sibling!

This picture book tells the story of a young girl feeling anxious over the arrival of her new baby sibling. She feels alone and worries that she and her mother will no longer have their time after the baby comes. The illustrations in this book do an amazing job at representing her feelings of anxious and loneliness with the element of perspective. For example, she is far up in the corner of the book while they are building the baby's crib.

“You were the first to teach us how to be parents“