By Caroline Jayne Church
The mirror of the big-brother board book, for the toddler girl who's about to meet her new baby and needs to know she's still the center of something.
A small girl explains what's happening now that a new baby has arrived. The baby is tiny, cries, and needs cuddling around the clock. She was a baby once too, she remembers, and now she's the big one who can help feed and rock and love. It's the same gentle, steady book as its big-brother twin, just told by a girl, so you can hand your child the one that matches.
For the two- or three-year-old who's about to be a big sister, this does the one job that matters: it names the change in words she can hold and lands her firmly on being important, not pushed aside. It pairs perfectly with a stuffed animal in the hospital bag. Chunky pages, few words, endlessly re-readable when she asks for it again.