Please, Baby, Please

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Summary: Love the illustrations!
Review: The artwork is fantastic in this book. The swirls in the little girls hair just make me happy! The text is simple and very familiar - mommy pleading with her toddler to behave - but in the end we love our little ones don't we? My 2 year old enjoys this book very much, and I am glad to have added to her books with people of other ethnicities.

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Summary: A Toddler Must
Review: The best illustrations in any baby book we own! Kadir Nelson(the illustrator) has depicted the toddler perfectly. From the teasing, to the resisting, to the fun loving humans they are. I recognized my own fair, red headed daughter in the main character, an African American child. This book is for anyone who has a toddler or toddler to be!
The words are pleadings from the parents of this little girl, who want her to eat her peas, to not eat the sand, and to not be such a tease, among all the other things our toddlers do and don't do.
The words flow from page to page with beautiful simplicity.

Rating:
Summary: A Toddler Must
Review: The best illustrations in any baby book we own! Kadir Nelson(the illustrator) has depicted the toddler perfectly. From the teasing, to the resisting, to the fun loving humans they are. I recognized my own fair, red headed daughter in the main character, an African American child. This book is for anyone who has a toddler or toddler to be!
The words are pleadings from the parents of this little girl, who want her to eat her peas, to not eat the sand, and to not be such a tease, among all the other things our toddlers do and don't do.
The words flow from page to page with beautiful simplicity.

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Summary: My toddlers love this book!
Review: They first heard the story on Nick Jr. They would get so excited when it came on! So I bought them the book. They are ages 2, 3 and 3. They will read the entire book themselves!! I highly recommend this book to all parents of toddlers!

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Summary: Again, Please, Mommy, Please?
Review: This book has sweet, rhyming text with an Afican American flavor (Keep off the wall, please, baby, please!). The illustrations are incredibly realistic, and I especially appreciate the endearing expressions on the toddler in this story. Her expressions of delight, stubborn defiance, and wonder are familiar to anyone who has ever loved or parented a one-year old. Best of all, my own children (ages 1 1/2 and 3 1/2) love this story and ask to read it again and again (Please, Mommy, please!). If your own library lacks quality literature featuring ethnically diverse main characters, I highly recommend this one.

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Summary: Beautiful and fun to read
Review: This book is one of my 22 month old daughter's favorites. The illustrations, as other reviewers have mentioned, are unbelievablely gorgeous. A couple of reviewers have complained about the negativity in this book. I really didn't see it that way at all. Every child is being taught(hopefully) appropriate behaviors. Toddler years are challenging for both parents and kids. This book without shouting "no" at the children, lovingly asks the child to do or not do certain things. I think this book beautifully relates a challenging day in the life of a toddler. How better to send your child to bed than to know that he/she is loved?