Helen Plum Library

Baby loves playing during bath time

Shows how children get ready for bed, and the ways such animals as horses, chipmunks, turtles, and owls sleep

A young boy helps his mother take care of his baby brother

A duckling and all his family happily await the hatching of his parents' new egg

Counts all of the characteristics of a beautiful baby from one smile to ten sticky fingers

Rhyming text compares babies born in different places and in different circumstances, but they all share the commonality of ten little fingers and ten little toes

A child observes all the things that his new baby brother does and gives all the reasons why he loves being a big brother

When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating

A baby takes the happiness that he experiences at a birthday party home with him

The family poodle protests at first when the master and mistress bring home a new "dog" to share the household