Baby on the way by Karen English

Title: The Baby on the Way

Author: English, Karen

Illustration: Sean Qualls

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giraux

Comments

CIP info A young boy asks his grandmother if she was ever a baby; she tells him the story of how she was born..

This is a great book to get families started on talking about when people were born. This shows that people need to know and can get a program about collecting family history started. The illustrations are average, but the story is really the star here. The grandmother tells her grandson about the day she was born and all the people that came and some of the rituals her family had. The book ends with the boy wondering if anyone will ever ask him if he was a baby once. She assured him that yes someday they would. The book ends with the grandmother asking if he wants to hear the story of the day he was born. Lots of potential in this book. It could be shared within a family, in a storytime, or at the beginning an oral history project.