By Caroline Jayne Church
The little board book you hand a toddler the day the new baby comes home, so they know their spot in the family is safe.
A small boy walks you through what it means now that there's a new baby in the house. The baby is little and cries and needs a lot of holding. He remembers he was a baby once too, and now he's the big one who can do the helping, the singing, the loving. Nothing scary happens. It's short, sweet, and built to be read at bedtime the week everything changes.
This is the reassurance book for the very youngest new sibling, the two- or three-year-old who can't follow a plot yet but can feel that the ground shifted. It says the one thing they need to hear on repeat: you are still loved, and you get to be the big one now. The board pages survive sticky hands, and it's short enough to read three times in a row when they ask.