The Baby Tree
by Sophie Blackall
Buy on AmazonCleverly revealing the basics of reproduction in an age-appropriate way, award-winning Sophie Blackall has created a beautiful picture book full of playful details to amuse and engage readers. Sooner or later, every child will ask, Where do babies come from? Answering this question has never been this easy or entertaining! Join a curious little boy who asks everyone from his babysitter to the mailman, getting all sorts of funny answers along the way, before his parents gently set him straight.
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"Thankfully, Australian-born, Brooklyn-based illustrator extraordinaire Sophie Blackall , who has given us such treasures as her visual love stories based on Craigslist missed connections and her illustrations for Aldous Huxley’s only children’s book , addresses that dreaded question with equal parts warmth, wisdom, and wit in The Baby Tree ( public library | IndieBound ) — an elegantly age-appropriate explanation of how reproduction works that neither talks down to children’s inherent intelli…"
Best Children's Books of 2014 · themarginalian.org