Everywhere Babies
Every day, everywhere, babies are born. They're kissed and dressed and rocked and fed—and completely adored by the families who love them. An exuberant celebration of babies as they do all the wonderful things babies do best.
With an irresistible rhyming text and delightfully endearing illustrations, here is an exuberant celebration of playing, sleeping, crawling, and of course, very noisy babies doing all the wonderful things babies do best.
Awards
Starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Horn Book, and Kirkus
Horn Book Fanfare Book 2001
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Parenting Magazine Reading Magic Award
San Francisco Chronicle's Best Reading of 2001
Nominated for the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Non-fiction for Children
Child Magazine Best Children's Books Award
Reviews
★ “Warm, funny, generous, this is a book that belongs in every library, and every lap.”
–Horn Book, starred review
“The text and pictures make beautiful music together, and like babies themselves, this composition is irresistible.”
–Kirkus, starred review
★ “It's Frazee's uncanny wit that tips the work away from sentimentality to evoke a wide range of emotions. A charming paean to the adoration that families lavish on their offspring.”
–Publishers Weekly, starred review
★ “Expressive, animated... paintings, depict a full range of infant motions and emotions that bring this ensemble to life.”
–School Library Journal, starred review
“All the scenes depicted are utterly commonplace... but by their loving presentation, these ordinary scenes take on the glow of the extraordinary. Frazee wields pencil and watercolors with a child-pleasing realism and the knowing wink of a parent. Her vignettes are decidedly multicultural, with families of all types, ages, and races, including interracial.”
–New York Times Book Review
“Frazee's expansive definition of family mirrors reality with a refreshing lack of self-consciousness.”
–Riverbank Review