Before You Were Born - Hardcover

Davis, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761112006 ISBN 13: 9780761112006

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, 1998

Synopsis

It's the mystery of mysteries for soon-to-be older siblings: what's going on inside a pregnant mother's belly? BEFORE YOU WERE BORN, a joyful lift-the-flap book for children, that tells the parallel story of mother and baby during the nine months of pregnancy.

Illustrated with full-color whimsy by Laura Cornell, whose delightful work is familiar to readers of Jamie Lee Curtis's Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born and When I Was Little, BEFORE YOU WERE BORN is a month-by-month countdown written in rhyming verse.

Each page shows what's happening to the mother on the outside and then, under the flap, in the mother's belly to the baby on the inside. Children learn how Mommy is feeling and how the baby is developing, about hiccups, kicks, and umbilical cords, a first heartbeat, and the contractions that mark the beginning of labor.

For expectant mothers and curious little kids, and especially for kids with siblings on the way, it is an interactive storybook that delivers delight and information and reassurance, too.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Share the pleasure. Unveil the mystery. This joyous, innovative book about pregnancy tells the parallel story of mother and baby, from hearing the thumpity-thump of baby's heartbeat to that unforgettable first meeting.

About the Author:

Jennifer Davis, a mother of four, wrote Before You Were Born to answer the questions her older kids asked while she was pregnant. She lives in Beaufort, South Carolina.

Laura Cornell has illustrated all of Jamie Lee Curtis’s bestselling books. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0761112006
• ISBN 13: 9780761112006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 36
• Illustrator: Cornell Laura