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How To be A Baby . . . By Me, The Big Sister |  | Author: Sally Lloyd-Jones
Creator: Sue Heap
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
List Price: $16.99
Buy New: $11.55
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Rating:  reviews
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 40
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 8.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 0375838430
EAN: 9780375838439
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 For reluctant or funny big sisters January 9, 2010
Christopher J. Deangelis
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is delightful. Told from the point of view of a not completely sold big sister, it explores what a new baby will be unable to do upon arrival. It also helps a two to five year old really celebrate all the things that will make her the "big" sister. Very excited to gift this to a two and a half year old who just found out, despite her ordering the doctor to make it a girl baby, she is having a new brother soon.
 AWFUL! October 5, 2009
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0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Would not recommend. The book is too long to keep the kids interest. My children were bored with this book because it seemed to be the same type of thing over and over. NOT GOOD.
I don't like this book at all. And it's possibly dangerous. May 11, 2009
I want the best for my kids
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
We just checked this out from the library. I really don't like it at all. The child narrator is a brat. The things she says are NOT things I would allow my older children to EVER say to my younger children. They are things that sometimes my older children do get off their chest to me, and I value that and think it's important. I respect their feelings and we discuss them. ALL feelings are valid. But not all feelings should be reinforced and reveled in and that is what this book is doing.
Also, the big sister proceeds to tell the baby that "when you go in the car... You don't even face the right way... I prefer to sit in a seat like a normal person." Extended rear-facing is safer practice. AAP states that babies should not forward face until 20lbs AND 1 year old, and I understand they are thinking of amending that to 2yo. Other countries regularly rear-face their children until age 4 or more. Most US car seats are capable of rear-facing to over 30lbs and Graco is soon debuting a car seat that will rear-face up to 40lbs. My oldest child happily rear-faced for over 4 years and my younger children are still happily riding the "wrong way" according to this book. Sadly, they have several peers that refuse to rear-face because of peer pressure, from the pre-school set, no less. Perhaps I should recommend this book to those peers, as it's right up their derisive alley.
Sorry to be mean to the authors, but I'm unhappy with this book's message.
Can see reason for complaints, but its good in context February 19, 2009
M. Bergin (Mississippi)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read the reviews before I purchased this book, just because there were other books out there I could have gotten. There were some folks that were absolutely mortified by some of the text. But, if you read the whole book, and not just excerpts, AND you have a talk with the prospective "big sister" about how they're different, it can be a very cute book. It won't answer all whoos of the big sis and it won't make the problems go away if someone is not adapting well. It's humor, not a self help book.
Enjoyable for Mom and big sisters December 11, 2008
A. Stooksbury (Nashville, TN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received this as a gift for my two year old when I had a new baby. My four year old daughter loved it. My two year old loves pieces of it (she can't sit still for a book so detailed). The first time I read it I cried I laughed so hard! The basics are that it details how babies don't have it made-- as it may seem. Most big sibling books focus on the babies have to cry, be held, etc. But this book takes a humorous slant and makes it seem that the big sister has it made (helps the child focus on all the great things SHE can do--and shows how babies need all these special things because they AREN'T big like her). It is written from a big sisters' perspective so some of the things are put in a way that a parent may have worded differently. For example there is something about babies having a special plug to stop them from screaming....of course loving parents don't usually think of it that way--and would explain it that babies sucking on a pacifier feel comforted and calm. So maybe that is why someone commented that it was "How to be a brat" but I really think the book doesn't use that tone. The big sister focuses on things that build her confidence in a time when they may not feel as secure in all the changes. I do think it is a good idea to talk to a child that make take things very literally- for instance about the "plug" just so they know the parents' perspective. It end with a focus on the relationship between the baby and sister when they are a little older and that is something other books often leave out too. I really think it is a great great- fun fun book! I only wish they had a big brother book like this I could get for my nephew! It wouldn't be too hard -just turn the princess stuff into something more appealing for boys...
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