Nine Months Paperback – Illustrated, 4 May 2021

This book is so good to gift to ur elder child.

Great way to introduce kids to baby before the delivery. Beautiful detail, facts and age appropriate descriptions. Highly recommend.

Livro fantástico para mostrar a gestação de um bebé a crianças. A minha filha com 4,5 anos adorou. As ilustrações são realistas e maravilhosas

Nine Months Before a Baby is Born is information packaged in delight. Each page spread covers one month in the development of a fetus while mirroring what the family is doing in preparation. It’s perfect for parents to explain what’s really happening in Mommy’s belly to an expectant big brother or sister. Paul’s sparse, yet joyful words, and Chin’s vivid illustrations are a fitting match for showing so much science and family dynamics in the constrained parameters of a picture book.Extensive back matter is included, which can help inform the more curious or older expectant big sibling of more detail that happens as a baby grows. Two pages are dedicated to each page spread in the text. For example, in the text for the second month the text says: “Arms, legs . . . tail too?” and the back matter associated with this page explains how the tail reabsorbs to become our tailbone.Further back matter lists Nine Amazing Things Most Babies Can Do Before They’re Born, a chart of human vs. animal gestation periods, and a page of What If . . .?, which includes a paragraph on when something goes wrong. A LOT of information is packaged into this picture book and it’s very well done.In every writing workshop I’ve been to, I’m told that a good picture book is a dance between the text and the illustrations. Nine Months Before a Baby is Born is a perfect dance. lisaconnors.wordpress.com

Absolutely beautiful book - realistic but still imaginative illustrations. My 21 month old son loves looking at the pictures and talking about them, but the book has many different levels so would equally appeal to a much older child.

I bought this for my 2 year old to help him better understand my pregnancy, and although he didn't care too much to hear any of the facts in the book (as I pretty much expected at this young age), he really enjoyed seeing how big his baby sister was at different stages of the pregnancy. Now that I'm closer to delivering and we have read it lots of times, he seems to understand that he will go to his grandparents' house, I will go to the hospital, and the baby will come out. So I appreciate that it is preparing him for that too!If your child is a bit older than mine (who was about 2 when we conceived) I imagine the book would be even more appropriate.Be warned that as the gestating parent it is occasionally a little terrifying to look at the pictures and think 'is this much baby actually inside me right now?!'