Before You Were Born

It's the mystery of mysteries for soon-to-be older siblings: what's going on inside a pregnant mother's belly? BEFORE YOU WERE BORN, a joyful lift-the-flap book for children, 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 Curtis's 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 what's happening to the mother on the outside and then, under the flap, in the mother's 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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 05/01/1998
ISBN: 9780761112006
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.22h x 8.18w x 0.65d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 09/01/1998 pg. 190
Kirkus Review - Children 06/15/1998 pg. 893
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1998 pg. 26 - Marginal, Seriously Flawed
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1999 pg. 26 - Marginal, Seriously Flawed