Description
With Oxenbury's warm illustrations and Cooke's rhythmic text, this cumulative story captures the joy of being a baby in a large, extended family. A "Child" Magazine Best Children's Book. Full color. Mom and baby are home alone when -- DING DONG -- Auntie and then Uncle and Nanhie and Gran-Gran and the cousins come to visit. And they all want to hug and kiss and squeeze and eat the baby right up -- because everybody loves the baby SO MUCH With Helen Oxenbury lending her characteristic warmth and humor to a most exuberant family party, Trish Cooke's rhythmic, cumulative story captures the joy of being the baby in a large extended family -- a baby who knows that he is absolutely, utterly adored.