Just a delight! Tells the story of a baby’s day with repetitive text to help you build your own baby’s vocabulary.
I Kissed the Baby! is a classic that has been entertaining babies for 20 years.
Easter egg: This books contains one of those magic Easter Eggs I like to talk about. Read the copyright details and you’ll learn that the darling font used throughout the story was designed by author illustration Mary Murphy specifically for this book.
Reviews: School Library Journal gave this story a starred review (that’s a very good thing for a book to get) and calls it “An ideal book for little eyes and ears.”
Our experience with I Kissed the Baby!: I think I read this story to my little one a thousand times. Every night for three years. Which would be a thousand nights of reading it. The story is so sweet! It features a lot of the words a baby or young child may hear people say. It’s a book that will grow with your child. We were still reading it five years later. Funny thing, I eventually gave it away (trying to keep the books from overrunning our house). In the end we missed it and bought another copy! If I was going to buy just one book for a baby this book is the one I would start with.
Get the Book
I Kissed the Baby! is widely available. You’ll find it at most of the places that sell new books and it also shows up at consignment stores on a regular basis. It was first published as a picture book, then as a board book – which means you could find this title in either format.
To buy the book online, purchase it new from Bookshop.org and used from Thriftbooks.com.
Book Facts
Author / Illustrator: Mary Murphy
Copyright: 2003
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Age Range: Babies to Preschoolers, Birth to Age 3
About the Book Art: Black-and-white illustration. The font was designed by Mary Murphy and is copyrighted as the Mary Murphy font.
See Inside the Book
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