Before You Were Born

English

ISBN: 0761112006

EAN: 9780761112006

Category: Health & Fitness / Pregnancy & Childbirth/Medical / Embryology/Juvenile Nonfiction / Family / New Baby/Juvenile Nonfiction / Health & Daily Living / Sexuality & Pregnancy/

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated

Release Date: 06/30/1998

Age Range: 2-6

Synopsis: Its the mystery of mysteries-whats going on inside a pregnant womans belly? Thats what Jennifer Daviss older children wanted to know while she was expecting the younger. So to explain, she wrote BEFORE YOU WERE BORN, now with 102,000 copies in print, a joyful lift-the-flap book that tells the parallel story of mother and baby during the nine months of pregnancy. Illustrated with full-color whimsy by Laura Cornell, whose delightful work is familiar to readers of Jamie Lee Curtiss Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born and When I Was Little, BEFORE YOU WERE BORN is a month-by-month countdown written in rhyming verse. Each page shows whats happening to the mother on the outside and then, under the flap, in the mothers belly to the baby on the inside. Children learn how Mommy is feeling and how the baby is developing, about hiccups, kicks, and umbilical cords, a first heartbeat, and the contractions that mark the beginning of labor. For expectant mothers and curious little kids, and especially for kids with siblings on the way, it is an interactive storybook that delivers delight and information and reassurance, too.

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Before You Were Born

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Lift the Flap Book

Height: 0.63 inches

Width: 8.28 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 14.11 oz

Pages: 36