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Baby's Got The Blues

Author: Carol Diggory Shields. Lauren Tobia, illus.

Baby's Got The Blues

Author: Carol Diggory Shields. Lauren Tobia, illus.

$16.99 $4.98
Item #: D23187
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 2014
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 9780763632601
Wouldn't it be grand to be a baby? No worries, no woes, the whole world doing everything for you. That's not how it is, suggests this sly backward glance at babyhood for readers up to 7. "I'd like to eat some pizza, macaroni, or beef stew, / But I haven't got a single tooth, so I can't even chew." This tale of soggy diapers, mushy meals, and sleepin' behind ... More
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Wouldn't it be grand to be a baby? No worries, no woes, the whole world doing everything for you. That's not how it is, suggests this sly backward glance at babyhood for readers up to 7. "I'd like to eat some pizza, macaroni, or beef stew, / But I haven't got a single tooth, so I can't even chew." This tale of soggy diapers, mushy meals, and sleepin' behind (crib) bars features a sweetly hapless tot, and Lauren Tobia's charming ink and pencil illustrations of a baby's everyday world contain a few subtle homages to the blues.


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