Everywhere Babies

Why It's On Our Shelf

This book takes the everyday activities of babies and turns them into something worth celebrating. Babies being carried, babies being rocked, babies learning to walk - it's all presented as important and wonderful, which is the right message. The rhyming is rhythmic without being sing-song, and the illustrations by Marla Frazee show diverse families in realistic settings. What works is the way it normalizes the baby experience - everywhere you look, babies are doing baby things and adults are loving them for it. It's affirming without being cloying, which is a hard balance to strike.