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Geared to readers from preschool to age eight, What Makes a Baby is a book for every kind of family and every kind of kid. It is a twenty-first-century children's picture book about conception, gestation, and birth, which reflects the reality of our modern time by being inclusive of all kinds of kids, adults, and families, regardless of how many people were involved, their orientation, gender, and another identity, or family composition. Just as important, the story doesn't gender people or body parts, so most parents and families will find that it leaves room for them to educate their child without having to erase their own experience. Written by sexuality educator Cory Silverberg, and illustrated by award-winning Canadian artist Fiona Smyth, What Makes a Baby is as fun to look at as it is useful to read.… (more)
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Silverberg and Smyth offer an excellent answer to the perennial childhood question “Where do babies come from?” The book speaks very generally
Though the science is explained, it isn't over explained or overly simplified the way many books for young children will do. Overall, it's a great introduction for young children wondering where they came from or for families expecting more children along the way and wanting to prepare the older siblings. You could also use it as a teaching tool to show adopted siblings that we all did come to the world in the same scientific way, even if it wasn't through the parents who hold the baby now. Bright, colorful illustrations will easily keep a young one's attention to the story.