Baby on Board: How Animals Carry Their Young

Baby on Board: How Animals Carry Their Young

by Berkes, Marianne, Morrison, Cathy (Ilt)

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**Gold — Moonbeam Children’s Book Award (2017) 

**Gold — Mom’s Choice Awards® (2017)

**Winner — Creative Child Magazine Book of the Year Awards (2017)

How do animals carry their babies? Not in backpacks or strollers, but tucked in pouches… gripped in teeth… propped on backs… even underneath!

In this wonderfully illustrated picture book, author Marianne Berkes presents rhyming verses that explore the many inventive ways animal parents transport their young. Illustrator Cathy Morrison’s realistic and engaging artwork captures the intimate moments of mother (and sometimes father) and baby across a diverse range of species.

Accompanied by factual expository text on facing pages, the book covers examples such as kangaroos, manatees, anteaters, alligators, emperor penguins, and more — each showing how the baby stays close or is carried to safety in the natural world. Backmatter includes a matching-game activity and STEM/STEAM-inspired curriculum starters for young readers, making the book especially suitable for families, classrooms, and libraries.

A rhyming description of many ways that animals, and people, carry and protect their young… The text distinguishes itself by including references to a broad diversity of animals… Accompanying expository text on facing pages provides factual information that serves the book well… A comforting, informative read even if the rhyme gets a bit carried away. — Kirkus Reviews

Vibrant illustrations and rhyming text … offer readers the chance to connect with our environment by comparing it to ourselves. Children will gain knowledge about many different species of animals and their habitats by making the fun and cute comparison of how we are cared for by our parents and how each of these animals is cared for. — OverDrive summary

Marianne Berkes engages young readers in learning about twelve familiar and more unusual animals in two ways. First, a sweet rhyming couplet … Then she expands on the information with a brief and fascinating fact or two about how the animal’s method of holding her or his young protects them, feeds them, or moves them from place to place. Little environmentalist in the making will be awed by Cathy Morrison’s realistic illustrations… — Celebrate Picture Books blog
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