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Ma! There's Nothing to Do Here! A Word from your Baby-in-Waiting (Picture Book) (edition 2008)

by Barbara Park, Viviana Garofoli (Illustrator)

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A baby still waiting to be born describes the boredom of living in a small, cramped space where there are no toys and no one else can be "it" during a game of tag, then considers how life will change when Baby joins Pop and Ma in the outside world.
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Title:Ma! There's Nothing to Do Here! A Word from your Baby-in-Waiting (Picture Book)
Authors:Barbara Park
Other authors:Viviana Garofoli (Illustrator)
Info:Random House Books for Young Readers (2008), Hardcover, 40 pages
Collections:5th-6th Grade Readers
Rating:*****
Tags:Baby

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Ma! There's Nothing to Do Here! A Word from your Baby-in-Waiting (Picture Book) by Barbara Park

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This is another board book that would have worked better as a picture book.

A baby complains about how boring it is inside his mom and imagines all the things he could be doing. Finally, he realizes he needs some more time to grow but promises he'll be coming out soon.

The drawings are dominated by the baby with its giant head. Most of them are fanciful, but the baby has an umbilical cord more or less and the final picture shows him sliding down a twisting chute to be born.

It's very busy and text-heavy for a board book and is likely to raise questions about the birth process, if that's a concern for your parents. I can see older kids and adults finding it very funny, but it's all wrong for a board book audience.

Verdict: This should never have been adapted to a board book - it's a picture book story both in complexity of text and illustrations and in subject matter. I seem to be seeing more and more picture books adapted to board books when they don't work in that format at all. I don't know if this is something mainly done by Random House or if I just review more of their books.

ISBN: 9780307982193; Published 2008 by Random House; Review copy provided by publisher; Donated to the library prize box
  JeanLittleLibrary | Jun 26, 2015 |
this is a book about a baby and what the baby might be thinking in the womb and its really cute
  legendsscc | Mar 8, 2013 |
This story is essentially a somewhat comical message from an unborn baby to his mother. The baby complains about multiple aspects of his current state, from the cramped conditions of his current location to its lack of recreational options. By the end of the book, the time has nearly come for him to be born, and he mentions the various things that he will need once he arrives.
  ALossing | Dec 11, 2011 |
This amusing book is told from an unborn baby's perspective as it waits impatiently to be born. The rhyming is cute and the illustrations are fabulous. Though listed as a young children's book, it seems more suited as an expectant mother's book. I thought at first it could be used as a concept book to explain or answer questions a young child might have about a new baby sibling, and it actually might be a book kids would enjoy, but it's more of an entertainment than an actual "education." It is mighty cute. ( )
  tlwood | Mar 15, 2011 |
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