My Baby Loves Christmas

by Jabari Asim (Author) Tara Nicole Whitaker (Illustrator)

My Baby Loves Christmas
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade

Celebrate all the lovely things that Baby discovers about Christmas. This board book, the perfect gift for a new baby, features rhythmic poetry from Jabari Asim and adorable art from Tara Nicole Whitaker.

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In this stylish board book, a baby with big eyes, brown skin, and little pearl earrings delights in the classic hallmarks of Christmas, including "our tall, sparkling tree/ with gifts underneath." With easy rhymes and straightforward, friendly illustrations, Asim and Whitaker present spreads full of traditional holiday cheer. Accompanied by a playful tawny cat, the child enjoys carols with her parents, hangs a stocking with her mother, and makes gingerbread cookies with her father. The anaphora "Baby loves" repeats throughout as the book builds toward a merry family present-opening scene and the conclusion: "Baby loves holly decking the halls./ Baby loves Christmas most of all!" Ages up to 4. (Sept.)

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Jabari Asim
Jabari Asim (therealjabariasim.com) is an accomplished poet, playwright, and writer, and has been described as one of the most influential African American literary critics of his generation. Asim has served as the editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine--the NAACP's flagship journal of politics, culture, and ideas--and as an editor at The Washington Post. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts and is the author of many award-winning books for adults and children, including Preaching to the Chickens (art by E.B. Lewis), which was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. He is an Associate Professor of writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

AG Ford (agfordillustration.com) is a three-time New York Times bestselling children's book illustrator and recipient of two NAACP Image Awards. He has illustrated picture books by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sharon Robinson, Ilyasah Shabazz, Martin Luther King III, Nick Cannon, Jonah Winter, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He lives with his family in Frisco, Texas.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780062884626
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
HarperFestival
Publication date
September 17, 2019
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV039090 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience
JUV013040 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | New Baby
JUV017010 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Christmas & Advent
Library of Congress categories
Stories in rhyme
Babies
Board books
Christmas

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