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  • I Am a Baby

I Am a Baby

Author
Bob Shea
Illustrator
Bob Shea
Publication Date
June 14, 2022
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  K − 1st
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
I Am a Baby
Description

From the creator of the mega-popular Dinosaur vs. series comes a hilariously deadpan look at new parenthood--from a baby's point of view.

I am not sleepy.

I am not sleepy because I am a baby.

Mommy is sleepy.

Mommy is sleepy because I am a baby.

With humor and sympathy, Bob Shea looks at the chaos of life with a baby as amiably narrated by the new arrival. Repeating the mantra (and blithe explanation) "because I am a baby," the tiny narrator leads us through scenes of exhaustion, grumpiness, squishy diapers, spilled milk, cowering kittens, and chubby overfed pups (oopsie!). Playing against the simple, matter-of-fact text are freewheeling illustrations of mess and mayhem, in which the grown-ups' exaggerated body language is sure to send older children into fits of giggles. With its endearing, unabashedly self-pleased star, I Am a Baby will find a place at showers, in nurseries, on parents' shelves, and in the hands of appreciative big siblings, as it celebrates the changes a little one brings, at once challenging and full of love.

Publication date
June 14, 2022
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781536218329
Publisher
Candlewick Press (MA)
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV013060 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Parents
JUV013040 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | New Baby
Library of Congress categories
Parent and child
Babies
Infants

Publishers Weekly

Shea offers a slyly humorous take on life with a newborn in this wry picture book, pitched as much to parents as to kids. Clad in a blue sleeper and narrating via simple observations, a goldenrod-skinned baby obliviously repeats self-centered explanations of cause and effect. "Mommy is sleepy/ because I am a baby," reads an early line as an exhausted mother, also portrayed with goldenrod skin, narrowly keeps the child from falling headfirst off the bed. "Daddy is clumsy," is the announcement as the tan-hued father slips on a toy car. Similarly, Kitty's "hiding" status, Mommy's thirst (quenched with water and wine), and Grandma's smiles are all reasoned as resulting "because I am a baby." Digital drawings with a retro vibe contrast the infant's gleeful disruptions with the haggard expressions of the beleaguered parents--humorously, if accurately, picturing the mixture of exhaustion and joy that defines early parenthood. Ages 2-5. (June)

Copyright 2022 Publishers Weekly, LLC Used with permission.
Bob Shea
Bob Shea has written some of your favorite stories like Chez Bob, Who Wet My Pants?, Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great and the Dinosaur vs. ... series. He lives in Madison, CT and you can visit his website at bobshea.com.
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