Title: Your'e Getting a Baby Sister
Author: Sheila Sweeny Higginson
Publisher/Date: Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2012
IBSN: 978-1-4424-2050-2
Summary: Your'e Getting a Baby Sister by: Sheila Sweeny Higginson is about the comical, exciting, and serious joys about getting a baby sister in your family. It goes on basically coaching the reader through the things they need to know about getting a baby sister. It goes on about the emotional toll it may have as well both good, and bad.
Evaluation/Rating: I like how the book goes through the thought process of getting a baby sister in the mindset of a child. With some children getting a baby sister in there mind means they will get all the attention, and that there parents will forget them, and they get mad cause they were here first, and the books goes through that saying "It is okay." I also like how the books goes through how the baby will be positively and negatively. The book goes through saying how the reader will be the first teacher to there sister, and that the sister will look up to them so it is important that the reader knows that, and to embrace it in a way. The last page is cute too, and I like it because it allows the reader to write his/her sisters name in it and a line for them to fill in what they cannot wait to teach there future sister to do. The book also provides a space for a picture of the reader and there sister. It gives the reader a great way to get ready for that big event of getting a new member of the family, and I like how the books goes about that. I would give this book a 4 because I love the way the book is written, and it gives great advise, and pictures in each page in such simple ways.
I personally love this book. I think that it has so many important lessons within it. I love how the author used the beautifully illustrated book to teach the older sibling about things that will happen when he or she has a younger sister. It is also great that the author focuses on how that child is still very critical in that new baby's life; making the child feel very important. I agree with you Gina, this is overall an excellent book!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a topic that parents often have to discuss with young children. A book is a great way to ease into an important life event, especially when it is written from a child's perspective like this book.
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