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Before You Were Big (Hardcover)

Before You Were Big: A Lift the Flap Book. It's a subject kids love to hear about -- what was I like when I was little? It's also a subject parents can discuss to help prepare a preschooler for a new sibling.

With an instinctive sense of what matters to kids and the grown-ups who read to them, Jennifer Davis and Laura Cornell celebrate the extraordinary milestones of a child's first year.

Each spread tells, foremost, the story of what happens month by month, from minutes after birth to baby's first birthday. Then, under the flaps, young brothers and sisters see how far they've come since.

When the main image is about a floppy two-month-old being bathed in the sink, under the flap it's: "Now you've mastered the art of bubbly disguises, So tub time is filled with jokes and surprises."

A third layer gives facts about development, for example, how babies begin to prop themselves up in a catlike position by five months. Kids learn about soft spots and swaddling, first steps, parallel play and more.

Written in whimsical, rhyming verse with bouncy, brightly colored art.

Details:
Written by Jennifer Davis
Illustrated by Laura Cornell
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 36 pages
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; Liftflap edition (November 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN: 0761127321

$19.00

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