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New Books for Newborns is where to start. With lilting lullaby text and lovely illustrations, the New Books for Newborns stories are the perfect first books for new parents to share with their little ones right from the start!
Start here. If only raising a child was that easy. It can be difficult in the first year to figure out what's just right for your baby. But with this new line of books--New Books for Newborns-- story time is really that simple. Designed as the first books to start reading with your baby, these just-right stories hit all the right notes with soothing texts, lovely art, and, most importantly, stories meant for sharing any time of the day. Start here. Snuggle up. It's story time!
In this lovely story perfect for sharing, animals and families celebrate blankets of love, from a blanket of flowers in a field to a blanket of kisses that soothe a baby to sleep.
Author Notes
Prolific children's book author Alyssa Satin Capucilli was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. She earned her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she has also taught writing. She was a professional dancer and dance instructor before her writing career began. Her first published book was a lift-the-flap work called Peekaboo Bunny, and she is well known for her series for beginning readers featuring the puppy Biscuit.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (1)
Kirkus Review
In soothing rhyming text, Capucilli wraps many different blankets around the young kids in this bookblankets of sun, of sky, and of snow, blankets of grass, of flowers, and of dreams. "There is a blanket of sand / by a blanket of sea, / and a blanket of wind / blows a kite high and free." The cheery illustrations by Hughes feature multiethnic infants and toddlers and their diverse families (including gay and lesbian parents) having fun together in a variety of idyllic surroundings: on the beach, in the park, or on the top of a hill. The babies and their parents have expressive faces, and animals and birds that appear in some scenes add to the overall gentleness; there is quiet action and overt affection on every page in this joyful board book. On one double-page spread, all the families in the book come together for a picnic in the park, and the book ends with a baby falling asleep in mama's arms. "When a blanket of moonlight / brings a blanket of sleep, / there's a blanket of love / hush, not a peep." Although newborns and toddlers may not understand all the text, the gentle and tender words and illustrations in this book will indeed wrap blankets of love around them. (Board book. 6 mos.-3) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.