This celebration of new life will allow for tender bedtime cuddles everywhere as the book relishes the shared family pleasure of a newborn baby. This perfect first board book will encourage children to either think about their own arrival into the world or prepare them for the arrival of a sibling, as the words and pictures combine to create a world at peace with itself.

 

There are 26 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

Anna Currey had a wild bohemian upbringing. She lives in a rambling house in Corsham, Wilthsire, with her family and lots of cats. Gillian Shields was born and brought up in Yorkshire. She read english and Cambridge and then trained as an actress before teaching acting and becoming director of a London drama school. She now lives in the country, and teaches drama and English, part-time, in a local school