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You Are My Perfect Baby

"You are a perfect baby / with perfect arms and perfect lips / and tiny fingers / and perfect hips." A wonderful board book invites warm, playful interactions with babies and toddlers while begin read aloud. In addition to celebrating "perfect feet and twinkling toes / with tiny ears / and a perfect nose," this marvelous offering showing an African American baby and mother is a celebration of love. Highly Commended, 2000 Charlotte Zolotow Award ©2000 Cooperative Children's Book Center

Illustrated by Nneka Bennett

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 14 months - 2 years
Age Range: Babies/Toddlers (birth – 3)
Format: Picture book
Subjects: Affirmation African Americans Babies Stories in Rhyme
Diversity subject: Black/African

Publisher: HarperCollins
Publish Year: 1999
Pages: 14
ISBN: 0694010960

CCBC Location: Picture Book, Thomas

You Are My Perfect Baby