Sweet, Sweet Baby!

by Javaka Steptoe, Javaka Steptoe (Illustrator)

Overview

Dream great dreams as you soar to new heights.

This beautiful board book by Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author and illustrator Javaka Steptoe (Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat) celebrates the joy, hope, and pride that a new baby brings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338788112
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	01/04/2022
Pages:	8
Sales rank:	297,327
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Javaka Steptoe is the award-winning artist of many books for young people, an NAACP Image Awards nominee, and winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. He is also the artist of the highly acclaimed books Do You Know What I'll Do by Charlotte Zolotow and A Pocketful of Poems by Nikki Grimes. Son of the late award-winning author/artist John Steptoe, Javaka draws inspiration from the multifaceted colors and shapes of Brooklyn, NY, where he lives and works.

Editorial Reviews

The cloth book Sweet, Sweet Baby!, illus. by Javaka Steptoe, shows a line of reassuring text on each cloth page and ends with a mylar mirror in which babies can see themselves, bordered with "petals" that squeak, crinkle and rattle. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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