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List Price: $16.99 | | Publisher: HarperCollins
Salesrank: 398528
Released: June 24, 2008 |
| Our Price: $3.35 |
| Used Price: $2.16 |
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| Media: Hardcover |
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Editorial Review:
Becoming a big sister is a big event! There's so much to share—and do—and celebrate!
Beloved actress, author, and mother Brooke Shields paints a warm and loving picture of the joys of sisterhood in this merry book with exuberant artwork by the talented Cori Doerrfeld.
Welcome to Your World, Baby Reviews:
very cute 
2009-07-09 - Very cute book, neat pictures and definitely makes my daughters want to read and read again. Highly recommend.
Great book for the older sister
2009-06-20 - I bought this book 2 months before i was due with my second child. I wanted to kinda prepare my daughter for a little one in the house. I think she totally got it with this book. She still loves the book now that her sister is here. I will hear her mumbling, "I love pink" That's a quote from the book.
Would definitely recommend this book. The illustrations were really good and colorful!
An excellent book
2008-12-04 - This is a wonderful book with beautiful illustrations. Essentially it describes all the fun things Big Sister has planned for the new addition to the family. That premise might seem like that this book is narrowly targeted for a particular audience, but our 2 and a half year-old son (who is NOT expecting a sibling any time soon) absolutely loves this book. He wants to read it for nighttime reading almost every day. And just the other day, he wanted to catch snowflakes on his tongue, just like the sisters in the book.
What really brings the book together are the illustrations. The fun the sisters are having is perfectly captured on each page.
Sweet, but Rhythmically Challenged 
2008-09-22 - Reviewed by Christina Wantz Fixemer
on 09/21/2008
This picture book is full of sweet sentiment and darling illustrations. It isn't a story so much as a promise of things to come between sisters. The excitement of having a new baby in the house is a big deal to older siblings, and this shines through.
As a read-aloud book, however, it is difficult to get into a decent rhythm. The prose is laid out to look as though it is rhythmic, so, while reading to my own daughter, I kept feeling off kilter. This may seem like a nitpicky thing to say, but try reading it aloud, and the difficulty will make sense. Brooke Shields is, without a doubt, an intelligent and soulful person, but that doesn't always translate into a gift for writing. The big sister's lines are full of heart but awkwardly written. Sometimes it rhymes, then it doesn't. This contributes to the stumbling I feel when I read this one aloud.
Awkward rhythm aside, this is a sweet book that would be nice for girls who are soon-to-be big sisters (or who already are!).
Note: My daughter became a big sister to a little brother last fall, but she still found this book delightful and relevant. But don't ask her what "relevant" means. ;-)
welcome to your world baby 
2008-09-15 - I was expecting a little more from this book, my granddaughter just have a little sister and I send it to her, and my son said she was not very interested
