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This book deals with babies, and what it is like for different animals when they are born. It's a random assortment of animals from cats to seahorses to porcupines. I didn't like it much. The images are nice watercolor paintings with a nice touch of realism and a warm pervading mood, but the text left a lot to be desired. Each page had a different animal and had one sentence (no more than two, I think) about that baby animal. So, it was about one fact about each animal baby. The baby snake uses a tooth to open his egg. The baby porcupine makes a noise but the adult does not. The baby bears are born while mom is hibernating. It tells brief facts, but on such a superficial level that it isn't really helpful. You don't really learn about what baby animals are like, that they are blind and wet and helpless. At the very end, the book compares a baby human to the baby animals, but all of the comparisons it made could have been made between just a human and a kitten, so I think the book would have been much more effective and educational if it had only talked about what baby kittens were like, and hadn't tried to fit in so many different animals. Also, I did not care for the diction. I know that birth is a gross, messy event, and the author tried to make it sound as nice as possible, but even "the kitten slipped out in a silvery sack" is kind of gag-worthy. This book could be used about a lesson on reproduction, or biology and the growth of living things.
