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The Baby Tree
  • Published: 23 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9780399257186
  • Imprint: Nancy Paulsen Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $35.00

The Baby Tree

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EBook
1 May 2014
Hardback
23 July 2014
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The award-winning Sophie Blackall's charming story of a little boy who asks where babies come from and receives some funny theories before getting the right answer.

Cleverly revealing the basics of reproduction in an age-appropriate way, award-winning Sophie Blackall has created a beautiful picture book full of playful details to amuse and engage readers.
 
Sooner or later, every child will ask, Where do babies come from? Answering this question has never been this easy or entertaining! Join a curious little boy who asks everyone from his babysitter to the mailman, getting all sorts of funny answers along the way, before his parents gently set him straight.
  • Published: 23 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9780399257186
  • Imprint: Nancy Paulsen Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

Sophie Blackall

Sophie Blackall has illustrated more than twenty books for children, including Big Red Lollipop, which was a New York Times Top Ten Picture Book, and the ongoing Ivy and Bean series, which has over a million copies in print. She won her first Randolph Caldecott Medal for illustrating Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear and her second for Hello Lighthouse. If You Come to Earth, her most recently published children’s book, has received wide acclaim. Her first book for adults was Missed Connections: Love, Lost and Found. She has created highly coveted limited edition holiday cards for the Museum of Modern Art, and her editorial illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Town & Country, and other publications.
portrait photo of Sophie Blackall

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Negative Cat
The Secret Janara
Runaway Rosa
Respect Your Ghosts
Beware the Clopper!
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Praise for The Baby Tree


Praise for Pecan Pie Baby (by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Sophie Blackall):
"This sweet universal story will have broad appeal. Blackall's full-spread illustrations . . . gently convey the sense of passing time, along with Gia's frustration and nostalgia regarding how things used to be and how they will change. A fine addition to the new-sibling canon."--School Library Journal
"Blackall's stylized ink and watercolor images, with their muted colors and slightly flattened perspectives, have a strong sense of style and calming warmth."--Publishers Weekly
"The ink-and-watercolor illustrations show mother and daughter telling silly stories, remembering good times, and snuggling up together. . . . Will touch kids dealing with sibling rivalry and spark their talk about change."--Booklist
"Blackall's apt watercolor-and-ink pictures capture the grounded serenity of a multiracial family (and community) with its priorities on straight."--Kirkus Reviews

BCCB Blue Ribbon, Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, Society of Illustrators Founders Award, Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books, Children's Book Sense 76 Pick, New York Times Top Ten Picture Book