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Summary
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. With so many decisions to be made when you have a baby, it can be difficult to figure out what's right in the first year. But with this line of storybooks, you really just need to open the book and start reading. Designed as the very first books to start sharing with your baby, these just-right stories have soothing read-aloud texts that are perfect for reading together. So start here. Snuggle up. It's story time!
In this sweet board book, a parent gently reassures a baby that they will be watching over them as they close their eyes for 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 (2)
School Library Journal Review
Baby-Toddler-"Hush a bye, my baby/Here's a song just for you." In this lullaby, fathers ready their little ones for bed. Muted colors and dreamy background images set a soothing tone. All the characters are apple-cheeked (yes, including some sleepily buzzing bees and a slumbering owl), lending the work a childlike flavor.-Mahnaz Dar, School Library Journal © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
This third title in the New Books for Newborns series features multiethnic dads getting their infants ready for bed. Each double-page spread shows a different child with their male parent engaged in bedtime rituals. Four lines of rhyming text, each time starting with the same first line, point out nighttime objects. "Hush a bye, my baby. / Can you hear the owl call? / Time to close your eyes gently / as night starts to fall." The text is for the most part simple and uses familiar vocabulary, but sometimes scansion falters. Although the hair and skin colors in this book range from pale to rich brown, most of the dad-and-child pairs seem to be racially similar, and no distinctly biracial child is depicted. Illustrations in a soothing pastel palette show a fair-skinned, red-haired dad carrying a tired, fair-skinned, brown-haired baby up the stairs; a dad with brown skin and brown hair holds a similar-looking baby wrapped in a towel; and a dad and child with dark hair and dark skin rock together in a chair, reading a book. Most of the dads are shown to be affectionate but not interactive with their infants. This series is meant for newborns, but the fine-lined, busy, and sometimes conceptually abstract illustrations may be more suitable for toddlers or even young preschoolers. This multiethnic title is not memorable enough to become a bedtime favorite. (Board book. 1-3) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
