The Baby on the Way
  • Published:
    Oct-2005 (Hardcover)
  • Formats:
    Print
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    32
  • Age Level:
    03-06
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By the Coretta Scott King Honor author
In an urban rooftop garden, a young African American boy named Jamal initiates an intriguing conversation with his grandmother when he asks her if she was ever a baby. Turns out Grandma was even once ?the baby on the way,? and she proceeds to tell the story of her birth, the tenth child in a poor farming family. As she discusses the events and traditions that accompanied her welcome to the world, from the fetching of the midwife to a folkways ritual of drinking water from a thimble, vivid, expressionistic paintings from a talented new illustrator evoke the past.

A gentle and satisfying book that will inspire young readers to gather other stories about being the baby on the way.

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    • First Edition
    • Oct-2005
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0374373612
    • ISBN13: 9780374373610



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