Blanket of Love

by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, Brooke Boynton-Hughes (Illustrator)

Overview

New Books for Newborns is where to start. With lilting lullaby text and lovely illustrations, the New Books for Newborns stories are the perfect first books for new parents to share with their little ones right from the start!

Start here. If only raising a child was that easy. It can be difficult in the first year to figure out what’s just right for your baby. But with this new line of books—New Books for Newborns— story time is really that simple. Designed as the first books to start reading with your baby, these just-right stories hit all the right notes with soothing texts, lovely art, and, most importantly, stories meant for sharing any time of the day. Start here. Snuggle up. It’s story time!

In this lovely story perfect for sharing, animals and families celebrate blankets of love, from a blanket of flowers in a field to a blanket of kisses that soothe a baby to sleep.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481489720
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	05/16/2017
Series:	New Books for Newborns Series
Pages:	16
Sales rank:	596,320
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 2 Years

About the Author

Alyssa Satin Capucilli is the award-winning creator and author of the Katy Duck series and the bestselling Biscuit series, which has sold over twenty-four million copies. A dancer as well as a writer, she lives with her family in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

Brooke Boynton Hughes is the illustrator of Baby Love by Angela DiTerlizzi and Trudy Krisher’s Bark Park. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. Visit her at Brooke.Boynton.Hughes.com.

Editorial Reviews

2017-06-14
In soothing rhyming text, Capucilli wraps many different blankets around the young kids in this book—blankets of sun, of sky, and of snow, blankets of grass, of flowers, and of dreams. "There is a blanket of sand / by a blanket of sea, / and a blanket of wind / blows a kite high and free." The cheery illustrations by Hughes feature multiethnic infants and toddlers and their diverse families (including gay and lesbian parents) having fun together in a variety of idyllic surroundings: on the beach, in the park, or on the top of a hill. The babies and their parents have expressive faces, and animals and birds that appear in some scenes add to the overall gentleness; there is quiet action and overt affection on every page in this joyful board book. On one double-page spread, all the families in the book come together for a picnic in the park, and the book ends with a baby falling asleep in mama's arms. "When a blanket of moonlight / brings a blanket of sleep, / there's a blanket of love— / hush, not a peep." Although newborns and toddlers may not understand all the text, the gentle and tender words and illustrations in this book will indeed wrap blankets of love around them. (Board book. 6 mos.-3)

Kirkus Reviews