What's in There?

Clear, direct and anatomically correct; an excellent entryway for the many anticipated questions about childbirth.
—Kirkus Reviews

This book is suitable for young children who are just beginning to ask the question, “Where do babies come from?” ... [A] good first book to recommend to parents.
—School Library Journal

Correct terminology is used for body parts, but there’s nothing clinical about the down-to-earth writing... Creating a cheerful, easygoing tone on every double-page spread, the digital line-and-wash illustrations portray a biracial family within a diverse community. A helpful book for presenting information and opening discussions with young children who are curious about pregnancy and birth.
—Booklist

Westcott’s chummy, affectionate multicultural cast will once again successfully open parent/child discussion on building a family — whatever the family.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

In this introduction to pregnancy that is as charming as it is anatomically-correct, the story of an expectant family is interwoven with playful, cutaway drawings of the growing fetus — first the size of an apple seed, then a peach, then finally a sweet, swaddled bundle named Jake.
—Slate