Marla Frazee
Everywhere Babies
Every day, everywhere, babies are born. They're kissed and dressed and rocked and fed—and completely adored by the families who love them. An exuberant celebration of babies as they do all the wonderful things babies do best.
Written by Susan Meyers | 0-15-202226-0 | Harcourt
Awards
- Starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Horn Book, and Kirkus
- Horn Book Fanfare Book 2001
- A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
- Parenting Magazine Reading Magic Award
- San Francisco Chronicle's Best Reading of 2001
- Nominated for the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Non-fiction for Children
- Child Magazine Best Children's Books Award
Reviews
Horn Book ★
“Warm, funny, generous, this is a book that belongs in every library, and every lap.”
Kirkus ★
“The text and pictures make beautiful music together, and like babies themselves, this composition is irresistible.”
Publishers Weekly ★
“It's Frazee's uncanny wit that tips the work away from sentimentality to evoke a wide range of emotions. A charming paean to the adoration that families lavish on their offspring.”
School Library Journal ★
“Expressive, animated... paintings, depict a full range of infant motions and emotions that bring this ensemble to life.”
New York Times Book Review
“All the scenes depicted are utterly commonplace... but by their loving presentation, these ordinary scenes take on the glow of the extraordinary. Frazee wields pencil and watercolors with a child-pleasing realism and the knowing wink of a parent. Her vignettes are decidedly multicultural, with families of all types, ages, and races, including interracial.”
Riverbank Review
“Frazee's expansive definition of family mirrors reality with a refreshing lack of self-consciousness.”
