Brown Baby Lullaby

by Tameka Fryer Brown (Author) Ag Ford (Illustrator)

Brown Baby Lullaby
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Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
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This lyrical picture book is a must-have for every sweet brown baby's bookshelf. From sunset to bedtime, two parents lovingly care for their beautiful brown baby: first, they play outside, then it is time for dinner and a bath, and finally a warm snuggle before bed.

This Parents Latina Magazine Best Latino Children's Book of the Year features warm and cozy art by New York Times-bestselling and NAACP-Award-winning illustrator AG Ford. Tameka Fryer Brown's Brown Baby Lullaby is the perfect new baby or baby shower gift.

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Starred Review
A perfect read-aloud for bedtime.

ALA/Booklist

Brown and Ford make an outstanding team, drawing together realistic illustrations, gentle words, and beautiful phrases often uttered by parents to communicate love and acceptance to their children.

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Chronicling the nighttime routine of a family, Brown has penned a bedtime story that is immediately warm and relatable for families with young children. With the rhythmic text and engaging illustrations, here's a book that could become part of yours.

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An Amazon Best Book of the Year
One of NPR's 100 Best Books for Young Readers
A Cooperative Children's Book Center Best Book of the Year
A Parents Latina Magazine Best Latino Children's Book of 2020
Anna Dewdney Award Winner

"The springy rhyme is sweet without being saccharine, and touches of Spanish and neat phrasing add verve. This has high baby shower appeal, but it also has vigor, snap, and charm, to suit the actual kid audience." —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 

Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374307523
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Publication date
January 14, 2020
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV010000 - Juvenile Fiction | Bedtime & Dreams
JUV011010 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
JUV057000 - Juvenile Fiction | Stories in Verse (see also Poetry)
JUV013040 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | New Baby
JUV011030 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
JUV074000 - Juvenile Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural
Library of Congress categories
United States
Songs
Lullabies
Children's songs, English

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