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PRESCHOOL
Hunter, Anne

Where's Baby?

40 pp. | Tundra | January, 2020 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7352-6498-4 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-7352-6499-1
(2) PS "Have you seen Baby, Mama Fox?" Mama Fox feels certain Baby is "somewhere," and so Papa Fox begins the search, like a game of hide-and-seek. "Ba-by! Are you indoors? Maybe Baby went out." Fine lines and crosshatching done with ballpoint pen and colored pencil accentuate patterns and detail while small pops of orange in the pale settings allow readers--unlike Papa--to keep up with Baby. Baby follows behind Papa throughout, with the little fox's entertaining expressions anticipating potential tension as Papa bumbles into amusing or even precarious situations. Papa sticks his head in an old log and finds an annoyed skunk instead of Baby. Papa dips his head in the water and finds an ominous sharp-toothed fish rather than Baby (the animals' refrain: "I am not your baby"). By the end, Mama kindly suggests Papa try looking behind him. Savvy readers will have noted that Mama Fox and Baby exchanged a wave before this adventure commenced and that everyone was one up on Papa Fox all along. Baby's final question--"Hi Papa! Can we do that again?"--calls for repeated readings and, fittingly, the endpapers suggest that keeping up with Baby will be a recurring challenge.
Reviewer: Julie Roach | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2020

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