50,000 copies sold!Welcoming Babies draws from experiences around the world to show the diverse ways in which the human family welcomes new life.
Its a powerful concept, exploring the routines and rituals of a childs first year in diverse cultures and traditions and introducing readers to babies from tiny Luke, who is spending his first days of life in an incubator, to Kasa, who is being introduced to the sunrise by her grandmother. Nontraditional familiesbiracial, adoptive, and single-parentare included. The ways in which babies are welcomed into the world are wonderfully varied yet strikingly kindred. Welcoming Babies is equally appropriate as a gift to new parents or grandparents and a read-aloud for babies.
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"A celebration." -- Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books "The obvious value and beauty of each type of welcome should expand childrens appreciation for and understanding of peoples other than themselves and of the joy that new births bring." -- School Library Journal
Margy Burns Knight is a childrens book author and educator. She received the National Education Associations Author Illustrator Human and Civil Rights Award and is a Peace Corps veteran. She lives in Maine, where she serves on the board of her local library and coordinates Lets Talk, a conversational English class for resettled refugees. ANNE SIBLEY OBRIEN has illustrated 31 books, including Talking Walls, and is the author and illustrator of the picture book Im New Here and the graphic novel The Legend of Hong Kil Dong. Annies passion for multiracial, multicultural, and global subjects grew out of her experience of being raised bilingual and bicultural in South Korea as the daughter of medical missionaries. She writes the column The Illustrators Perspective for the Bulletin of the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators and a blog, Coloring Between the Lines. The mother of two grown children, she lives with her husband on an island in Maine.
