There's Going To Be A Baby

Subjects

Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after

Average rating

4 out 5

From two of the world’s best-loved picture-book creators, an absolute gem for new-siblings-to-be. When is the baby coming? What will we call it? What will the baby do? We don’t really need the baby, do we? As the arrival of a new sibling draws nearer, the questions that stream through a young child’s mind are followed with sensitivity and humour in this enchanting book. Exquisitely illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, these pages brim with love, excitement and reassurance as the child in the story imagines all kinds of colourful futures for the brother or sister he is waiting to meet. Full of warmth and promise, this is an instant and timeless classic. It is the first book-publishing collaboration of this award-winning husband-and-wife team. Oozing with loving interaction between parent and child, and with unspoken – yet palpable – reassurance.

I have read this book

The curious boy is very cute.

Lady Morgana Vampire 21.07.2025

It is all about that her son was Image what the baby was going to do when it came

Lord Chester Foxtail 13.08.2023

My sisters choice was funny

Ambassador Geronimo Cuckoo-Clock 06.09.2022

My Mummy chose this book because I'm going to be a big brother and she thought it would help explain things. The cover looks just like me and my cat Timmy.

Lieutenant Pablo Squirrel 18.07.2022

Star Reviewer

This is a fiction. I like the mum in the book and the way she answers the questions. The book is about a little boy and he is told that there is going to be a baby. So he asks a lot of questions about the baby. I think the boy is worried and feels that there should be no baby.

Princess Petronella Legend 22.07.2021

This is a lovely book, highlighting the possible anxieties of a first born young child. Very well illustrated and written from the child (soon to be older brother's) point of view of what their sibling might be like.

Anonymous 06.09.2019