...with perfect arms and perfect lips
and tiny fingers
and perfect hips.
In tender verse, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Thomas celebrates all that's precious about a new baby. Nneka Bennett's gentle illustrations interpret each line of verse with love and care.
You Are My Perfect Baby is the perfect warm welcome for newborns.
Joyce Carol Thomas is an internationally renowned author who received the National Book Award for her first novel, Marked By Fire, and a Coretta Scott King Honor for The Blacker the Berry and for her first picture book, Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea. Her picture book I Have Heard of a Land received a Coretta Scott King Honor and an IRA/CBC Teachers' Choice Award and was an ALA Notable Book. Her other titles include The Gospel Cinderella, Crowning Glory, Gingerbread Days, and A Gathering of Flowers. Ms. Thomas lives in Berkeley, California.
Joyce Carol Thomas was honored with the National Book Award for her first novel,
Marked by Fire, she also received the Coretta Scott King Award Honor for her collection of poems
Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea. She is also the author of
Gingerbread Days, and
I Have Heard of a Land. She lives in Berkeley, CA.
Nneka Bennett is a talented illustrator whose work includes Cherish Me by Joyce Carol Thomas. She lives in Boston, MA.