I Kissed the Baby! is a classic that has been entertaining babies for 20 years.
I think I read this story to my own little one about a thousand times. He requested it basically every night for three years (which would equal a thousand nights of reading it).
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Why Read This Book
- The story is very 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 story – I eventually gave away our copy (because I was 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, the book I would buy is this one.
- This books contains one an Easter Egg. Easter Eggs show up in some children’s books and they can be really fun to discover. The Easter Egg for I Kissed the Baby! is that a darling font was specifically designed by the author/illustrator just for this book. You can read all about it in the copyright details.
School Library Journal gave this book a starred review and calls it:
“An ideal book for little eyes and ears.”
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.
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.
See Inside the Book
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