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    The Baby Tree
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    The Baby Tree
    Audiobook9 minutes

    The Baby Tree

    Written by Sophie Blackall

    Narrated by Chris Patton

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateMay 19, 2015
    ISBN9781681410401
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    The Baby Tree
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    Sophie Blackall

    Sophie Blackall is the illustrator of many acclaimed picture books, including Finding Winnie, for which she received the Caldecott Medal, one of the most prestigious children’s book awards in the world. Her artwork has also appeared in murals as part of the New York City MTA’s “Arts for Transit” program. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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    • 5/5
      The Baby Tree is about reproduction. A little boy finds out his parents are expecting a new baby, and he proceeds to ask everyone around him where babies come from. The book also provides advice for parents on how to inform young children when they ask this question.I loved the sensitive and cute way this story was told, and the pride the boy feels when he gets a true answer to his question.
    • 5/5
      A wonderful addition to the always-needed topic of where babies come from, The Baby Tree explains human reproduction in a young-child friendly way with both humor and great illustrations. I particularly appreciated that babies and children of all races were depicted throughout the book. This is a book that will give young children the information they are looking for in a way that won't make parents cringe.
    • 4/5
      When his parents tell him that a new sibling is on the way, a young boy begins to wonder where babies come from, asking a number of people in his life to explain. Olive, the teenage girl who walks him to school in the morning, tells him that they come from a baby tree, his teacher tells him they come from the hospital, the mailman that they come from eggs, and his grandfather that they are delivered by a stork. Confused, the boy goes to his parents for clarification, and learns the real story...An engaging story about a young boy who is attempting to make sense of an important piece of news - that soon there will be a new baby in the family - is paired with lovely artwork in a book that is both informative and entertaining. Although I really appreciated the incorporation of more fanciful ideas - that old chestnut about the stork! - in both story and artwork, because young people will inevitably run across some of these fantasies in searching for information about sexual reproduction and the birth of new human beings, I was happy that Blackall concluded her story with the real biological story. I also liked that a brief afterword is included, with age-appropriate information that parents and other adults can use to explain this topic to young children. I myself asked this question at age six, and was given the anatomically correct/biologically accurate story by my mother - a sign of respect that I have always appreciated. Recommended to anyone facing the age-old childhood question about where babies come from, as well as to the young children who are asking it.
    • 3/5
      Nice but I prefer the Robie Harris/Michael Emberly informational approach.
    • 4/5
      nice babies and where they come from (sort of) story.
    • 4/5
      Read on June 03, 2014What a cute and clever book to help parents answer the tricky question of where babies come from...Great illustrations and even a little humor.
    • 4/5
      This book tells a very funny story of a little boy about to get a new sibling. He doesn’t understand where this new baby will come from, however, so he asks everyone he meets during the day. Each person gives him a different, very euphemistic, answer.At the end of the day, he finally poses the question to his parents, and they give him the correct answer (which is very well done). The boy then supposes he’s going to have to fill in his grandpa on where babies really come from!Sophie Blackall is not only a good writer, but a wonderful illustrator. Using ink and watercolors she depicts the products of the boy’s imagination as he tries to envision babies coming from trees, nests, in the mail, and so on. She adds great subtle background touches in her pictures too, like the pictures on the refrigerator, the recognizable children’s books that the parents read the boy, a smartphone plugged in on each side of the parents’ bed, and the parents shown having more than two arms as they manage all the morning chores of getting themselves and their child ready for school. I love too how the little boy looks just like his grandpa. Well, I could go on and on, but really, it all comes down to: Sophie Blackall: what’s not to like?Evaluation: This book is the perfect answer (in more than one sense) for parents looking for ways to clue in their kids on the birds and the bees.