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I'm Big Now!

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Being big is hard. Sometimes you want to do the baby things you used to do before! In this funny journey of discovery, one little girl decides to try out being a baby again, but discovers it is more fun being the big sister of the family.
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    • Kirkus

      January 15, 2017
      Rhyming text and exuberant art follow a little girl in an interracial family getting used to her status as big sister. The narrator has brown skin and tightly curled black hair in small braids with bows. Her mother and baby brother share her skin color and hair texture, but her father, her grandmother, and a friend are white. Race is unmentioned in the text, which introduces the girl's "baby big girl game," in which she playfully regresses and tries to wear her old baby clothes and squeeze into her baby bed. Her parents lovingly affirm her big-girl status, and while she seems a bit conflicted, other spreads show her decided enjoyment at doing things her baby brother cannot. Several British words and phrases ("Mummy" and "nappy," for example) are retained in the American edition of this picture book; this cultural specificity adds to its appeal, though there are times when the rhyme doesn't work particularly well, and it never seems essential to the book's success. A child's narration is often difficult to achieve without a sense of adult ventriloquism, and the rhyme makes this yet more fraught. A warm if at times stilted celebration of all things big girl. (Picture book. 2-4)

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    • School Library Journal

      April 1, 2017
      PreS-The addition of a new baby is life-changing for every member of a family and can be especially challenging for a sibling. Rhyming text and playful, cartoonlike illustrations tell the story of welcoming a new sibling from the point of view of a big sister. At first, she regresses and wants to wear her baby clothing and sleep in her old baby bed, but her parents lovingly encourage her to be a -big girl,- and she delights in the ability to do things that her baby brother cannot. Though this is incidental to the story line, the narrator is part of an interracial family and background characters are also diverse. Briticisms, such as -Mummy- and -nappy,- used throughout may cause a bit of confusion but will not deter readers. VERDICT Recommended for general purchase, especially for picture book collections in need of new baby and sibling-to-be titles.-Kristen Todd-Wurm, Middle Country Public Library, NYElementary

      Copyright 2017 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2017
      In mostly successful if oddly punctuated rhyming text, a big sister compares her "big girl" life to her baby brother's: "The baby's got his mushy / food, he gets it in his hair. / But I've got crunchy cereal / and I sit on a chair." The text is didactic but encouraging; cheerful, spacious illustrations show an interracial family gamely balancing its members' needs.

      (Copyright 2017 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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  • ATOS Level:2.9
  • Lexile® Measure:480
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:0-2

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