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32 pp.
| Candlewick |
April, 2010 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-4685-1$15.99
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Illustrated by
Brian Lovelock.
Holly's father explains how various animal moms care for their newborns ("If you were a baby owl, your mother would have fed you mice") before describing how her own mother cared for her when she was a baby. The book is a sticky-sweet treatment of an otherwise enlightening concept. Lovelock gracefully contrasts watercolor, acrylic, ink, and colored-pencil illustrations of the human father and daughter with images of the animal pairs.