The Bossier Baby: With Audio Recording

by Marla Frazee, Marla Frazee (Illustrator)

Overview

Two-time Caldecott Honor recipient Marla Frazee’s Boss Baby is back—but this time there’s a new baby sister CEO in town!

Change is in the air—the Boss Baby’s staff has stopped taking his direction! It seems that there is a new CEO in town; from the moment she comes home, Boss Baby’s little sister is extremely loud and is demanding all sorts of corporate perks he never got. Can the Boss Baby and his staff get used to the new corporate structure?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481471633
Publisher:	Beach Lane Books
Publication date:	11/01/2016
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
Lexile:	AD510L (what's this?)
File size:	66 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Marla Frazee is the recipient of a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book and a three-time Caldecott Honor winner. She has illustrated many acclaimed picture books, including All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon, Stars by Mary Lyn Ray, and Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers, as well as her own Farmer Books trilogy, A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, and The Boss Baby, which inspired the DreamWorks Animation film. She is also the illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Clementine chapter books by Sara Pennypacker. The mother of three grown sons, she lives in Pasadena, California. Visit her at MarlaFrazee.com.

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2016
PreS-Gr 2—This sophisticated sequel to Boss Baby provides comeuppance for the tyrannical infant, who is now a toddler. A new baby sister arrives with a Kewpie doll curl and a string of pearls, confident enough to usurp authority at every turn. Her organic catering demands (nursing), aromatherapy (diaper disposal), and afternoon spinning (turning in a jumpy bouncer) result in a media frenzy in which her brother, aka Boss Baby, is ignored. When his outrageous attempt to grab attention by stripping in public and weeing in a garden is ignored, he resigns himself to sulking in a corner at home. Bossier Baby is a wise CEO and extends hugging arms to her brother, creating teamwork and tranquility in the family. The comical pencil and watercolor drawings in mid-century style embellish the business lingo text. VERDICT Great fun for hip readers familiar with terms like stress management and social media team.—Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA

School Library Journal

A new baby sister has arrived to challenge bespoke-suited Boss Baby’s (first seen in Frazee's The Boss Baby, 2010) dominant position in the home. This infant executive, complete with a laptop and dressed in pearls and a ruffled onesie, has implemented a business plan to restructure the organization from the top down. With her promotion to CEO, her big brother angrily gathers up his toys and stumbles off, demoted and out-bossed. He realizes in abject misery that the staff (aka his parents) seem strangely delighted with the tantrum-throwing hellion. She is fed, cuddled, photographed, and entertained, and her private pram limo exceeds any perks the Boss Baby ever had. Furious, he tries outrageous antics, stripping his clothes off in the street and peeing on the flowers, but no one notices. Discouraged, he crawls into a corner, crying in abject misery. Sensing a breakdown in productivity, the Bossier Baby seeks him out and soothes him, and the company is back to business (at least most of the time.) Frazee’s hilarious artwork in black Prismacolor pencil and gouache captures the challenges and emotions experienced at the arrival of a new sibling. Her wry satire on parenting and family dynamics cleverly captures a child’s feelings in this comical blend of words and pictures. Sheer delight. — Lolly Gepson

Sept. 15, 2016 - STARRED REVIEW Booklist

★ 2016-08-17
A new baby sister hands the Boss Baby a demotion.Although this title introduces a new eponymous infant CEO, it, like its predecessor (2010), remains focused on Boss Baby himself. Frazee’s text employs a tongue-in-cheek corporatese, which is matched by the Mad Men–esque modern aesthetic of the pencil-and-gouache illustrations. Combined, words and pictures first convey that the Boss Baby’s diaper is in a twist over his black-pantsuit–and-pearls–clad baby sister’s arrival. “The staff” (their parents) “was strangely delighted” reads the droll text, and her many “perks” compound his misery. Accompanying illustrations show the white baby girl soaking up her parents’ adoration while enjoying “the organic catering service” (nursing), “aromatherapy” (diapering), and so on. After the ousted boss acts out and then retreats to sulk, it’s the Bossier Baby who literally reaches out to her big brother. After all, “she wasn’t CEO for nothing!” An excellent wordless spread shows her reaching up to a shocked Boss Baby, who scoops her up into his arms on the facing page. This snuggle gives way to a scene of domestic bliss with the siblings reading together on the next spread as “the staff” gazes at them adoringly. In a trademark Frazee final page turn, a satisfying conclusion rooted in reality shows that it’s not all bliss in the baby boardroom. Someone give Frazee a raise. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews