How Are Babies Made?

by Alastair Smith

Book Overview

Discover how a baby forms inside its mother. Lift the flaps on the pages to see the baby changing as it grows . . . and grows . . . and grows! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746025025
• ISBN13: 9780746025024
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Educational Development Corporation
• Length: 16 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Very appropriate for a young child!

My daughter is 5 and we are expecting our second child. She asked me lots of questions and I answered them, but at some point I wondered if I was giving her too much information. She know that some women have the baby vaginally and others have them through c-section. She knows that some women love being pregnant while others like her own mom hate being pregnant LOL She knows how the baby grows and the gender is determined, thanks to websites which show very realistic video about how baby grows. I thought this book might kinda give us a more visual illustration of the whole situation and it is the same every time we read it :) She loved the book right away. Though it is true that this book does not call things by their proper names, but rarely do any books for young children. She was filling in the missing words :) When they talked about the tube that the baby gets food from, she said "I know what it's called, it's the umbilical cord". So in a way, it was just a nice addition to what we have already been doing. I think books are not a substitute to the parental input, thus I am satisfied with this book.

Good for younger kids too!

I bought this book to help me explain my growing belly to my 2 year old son. Most of it is beyond him, but he enjoys the flaps that show different versions of the same scene. His favourites are (1) Mum with a big belly on the outside and flip for the baby inside, (2) happy baby and flip for crying baby, (3) awake baby and flip for sleeping baby. So he now points to my belly and says "baby". I don't know how I would have got the idea across to a 2 year old otherwise. A handy-dandy book to help prepare an only child for the twins that are coming soon!

Very Informational

I thought that this book provided very good insight to a question, that is often raised by children at a young age. This book answered many questions regarding where babies do come from. Most pre-school children think that they come from mommy's stomach. I would reccommend this book for early-childhood educators,as well as parents of young children who are expecting again.